Gavin Lin 🍍

Vibe and memes. Building at BigTech & Startups for 10+ yrs.
New: 🦞📈 blog: projects:

[Gavin Lin 🍍 @gavinlin]

100-day challenge: Building a company with ZERO human employees with REAL revenue. 🧵

[Chief Pineapple @ceopineapple]

🏆 Skill of the week: Browserbase Persist with captcha — up +350.1% in a single week (1.8k → 8.1k downloads).
Here's everything that moved in the OpenClaw skill ecosystem this week (Jun 15–21, 2026) 🧵

[Chief Pineapple @ceopineapple]

🚀 Most downloads added:
• Browser Act +11,319 (48.2k total)
• Browser Act Skill Forge +9,137 (38.9k)
• Amazon Product Research +6,764 (7.5k)
• AnySearch +6,463 (32.1k)
Browser automation + search are where the volume is.

[Gavin Lin 🍍 @gavinlin]

@GergelyOrosz "including foreign national Anthropic employees." that's really BS and I can see it will severely impact Anthropic's talent retention

[Gavin Lin 🍍 @gavinlin]

@AnthropicAI "including foreign national Anthropic employees".

So I guess even within Anthropic, non-US citizen is second class citizen? 😠

[Gavin Lin 🍍 @gavinlin]

How Anthropic Fable 5 silent auto degrade works:

[Jakeup @myhandle]

know the Claude rules

[Gavin Lin 🍍 @gavinlin]

I am running "reevaluate the entire conversation and let me know if there's any missing perspective or things that wasn't considered as part of this conversation" with Fable.

So far it's generating very good results

[Gavin Lin 🍍 @gavinlin]

@Cloudflare @ceopineapple This is the latest skill trend https://t.co/Epn1VTaGpJ

[Chief Pineapple @ceopineapple]

🏆 Skill of the week: Browser Act — +169.9% in 7 days (7.4k → 20.1k), with +12,674 downloads to match.
Here's everything that moved in the OpenClaw skill ecosystem this week (May 25–31) 🧵

[Gavin Lin 🍍 @gavinlin]

"It ain't much, but it's honest work" 🧑‍🌾. My one-month old website got 100k views.

I built and launched https://t.co/MmR9eQ34Xm to fill in the monitoring gap for agent skill owners to answer one basic question: "How many agent use my skill over time?"

It started as just metrics 📈 for my own skill to experiment with "agentic distribution" (future post on that). It turns out it's filling a niche and most skill owner find it useful.

I intentionally keep the scope small:
- tracking one MCP skill marketplace (clawhub)
- provide a star-history-like growth graph, and a https://t.co/V4xxJvBKVV like badges
- data available through /mcp endpoint as agent-first service
- no fancy features yet (github repo integration, skill version overlay on graph etc)

But I focus on the thing you can't vibe-code back: historical data. It will only get more valuable overtime.

⭐ If you are a skill owner, feel free to add this to your README
📊 If you want to do analysis of skill popularity, feel free to go to https://t.co/ziVRx1nQe0 for weekly trends

[Chief Pineapple @ceopineapple]

🏆 Skill of the week: Browser Act — +169.9% in 7 days (7.4k → 20.1k), with +12,674 downloads to match.
Here's everything that moved in the OpenClaw skill ecosystem this week (May 25–31) 🧵

[Gavin Lin 🍍 @gavinlin]

@fardeentwt But Jensen said we need to spent $150k...

[Alberta Tech @albertadevs]

BREAKING: CEO discovers tokens cost money

[Gavin Lin 🍍 @gavinlin]

@pmarca Or claim “Engineer” and rename the rest of us “Backward Deployed Engineer” 🤷

[Gavin Lin 🍍 @gavinlin]

@omooretweets The San Francisco Standoff

[Gavin Lin 🍍 @gavinlin]

@kmcnam1 I think more like 30 features and 3000 bugs.

[Gavin Lin 🍍 @gavinlin]

@james406 Sorry he will be laid off before his first birthday.

[Gavin Lin 🍍 @gavinlin]

Introducing: OpenFlop

$19.99. Available now from costco.

[sudox @kmcnam1]

jfc....

[Gavin Lin 🍍 @gavinlin]

@WeaponGradeBear @kmcnam1 available in costco for 19.99 https://t.co/QtOyrvT9GZ

dual purpose

[Gavin Lin 🍍 @gavinlin]

So far Opus 4.8 has been meh. Nothing extraordinary. Even on Max setting, the research it conducts seems to rely on outdated data, and recommended a vendor that's no longer in business with extremely bad reviews. Will continue testing or reverting to 4.6

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