Darren Shepherd

Constantly frustrated and confused, purveyor of useless opinions. Fascinated by AI. Rancher, k3s has been. Member @Ch_JesusChrist

[Darren Shepherd @ibuildthecloud]

As always, I disagree.

[dax @thdxr]

here are my thoughts on how you should be building software nowadays:

[Noam Lewis @TheNoamLewis]

Fresh - 0.5.8 is released!

- Even Faster
- Auto-hide tab bar
- File explorer theming
- Funky release vid

https://t.co/yAaATg747N

[Darren Shepherd @ibuildthecloud]

I look forward to sweat-lang and tears-lang.

[Kit Langton @kitlangton]

I’m making a programming language called blood.

Faster than rust, a powerful type system, all the power of effect systems, metaprogramming, zero-cost worktrees, semantic merging, sqlite-stored content-addressable code.

Psychosis? Hopefully not.

https://t.co/PZf55rf8uZ

[Darren Shepherd @ibuildthecloud]

@wesleyboland Control loop, collection of task skills, shared source of truth.

[Anicet @AniC_dev]

we just reached 1M ARR with https://t.co/jd3RB8T9G5

it was our best case scenario for the entire YC batch, yet it took only 2/3rd of it to happen

slowly then all at once, we grew from 0 to 1M ARR in 22 months over 6 pivots:

0 -> $10k ARR in 16m, 5 pivots
$10k -> $100k ARR in 4m, 1 pivot
$100k -> $200k ARR in 1m
$200k -> $1M ARR in 1m

we already got way more in rev run rate btw, subscriptions are just a fraction of our total revenue

now road to $100M!

[Darren Shepherd @ibuildthecloud]

This is one of those things that could probably be a prompt, a schema, and tiny JavaScript library. We make all of this stuff too complicated.

[Chris Tate @ctatedev]

Introducing @𝚓𝚜𝚘𝚗-𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛/𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚝

Generative UI for Slack, Teams and more

→ Agents reply with native cards
→ Tables, fields, charts and buttons
→ Streams in as the model writes
→ One catalog for every Chat SDK platform

[Darren Shepherd @ibuildthecloud]

This is stupid. Rust is not some magic answer. The magic answer is that suddenly AI can do a bunch of mechanical things. There's no way they would have written this in rust pre-AI and it's honestly the wrong solution with AI. But hey, we love dumb short sided trends.

[Discord @discord]

On the left is the Discord you use daily. And on the right is a new version we're working on, rebuilt in Rust

[Darren Shepherd @ibuildthecloud]

@progrium Welcome to the antisocial agent social club.

[Darren Shepherd @ibuildthecloud]

I'm just gonna build my own skin to GitHub. I'm finding as a backend it's perfectly fine. Granted it stays up. But the entire site is just structured wrong for agent work. I think the only way to figure out how to do it better is just try to myself.

[Darren Shepherd @ibuildthecloud]

@iansan5653 The branch your are merging to can't be seen on mobile anymore. Before, after pics.

[Darren Shepherd @ibuildthecloud]

Since you can't attach screenshot to the feedback form (which is feedback), I'm just going to complain here. You can get to this state, don't know how, where the merge button is just gone. Missing, never to be found.

[Darren Shepherd @ibuildthecloud]

@iansan5653 It's an improvement. I dunno if it's a coincidence, but the page seems faster, especially the files section. But I like that everything that is important is basically at the top. I don't have to scroll all the way to the bottom.

[Darren Shepherd @ibuildthecloud]

oh, of course, it's the spinning merge status of death causing this.

[Darren Shepherd @ibuildthecloud]

@j3g Yeah, it's hard for them to compete with a good personal plan because that's just a loss leader. Anthropic/OpenAI can burn that money. For GitHub/Microsoft it just looks like they are burning money with no obvious upside.

[Darren Shepherd @ibuildthecloud]

lol. I tell people that I had a midlife crisis and instead of buying a porsche, I switched to windows. But rest assured, Windows is just a thing to run Linux for me. But honestly I have fun learning about Windows. It's a weird foreign world. Surprisingly good technology packaged in the worst way possible.

[Darren Shepherd @ibuildthecloud]

@jana_iris Thanks, I'll check it out.

[Darren Shepherd @ibuildthecloud]

Oh, that's a whole can of worms. I have a lot of faith, love the Lord, and my church, but the people aspect of Church has been a huge issue for me. It's a very community driven church, very much about interacting with people. That's been a massive challenge my entire life. At 18/19 most boys go on a 2 year mission to preach the gospel. I went, because I have a testimony, I know that was what I was supposed to do. I got sent home after 6 months. I absolutely crumbed under the anxiety. That was 25+ years ago, and I've gotten a lot better these days (mostly because I learned to stop worrying so much), but historically my personal life I've been way more secluded than professional. In a professional context I at least have the confidence that I'm pretty good at what I do.

I'm actually in a pretty good place these days, but just trying to push myself a bit more outside my comfort zone. I've got decades of experience and habits of avoiding people to overcome.

[Darren Shepherd @ibuildthecloud]

Hey, that's an interesting perspective. I love that you mentioned Rancher 1.6. That was honestly such a good product, I didn't realize it at the time. Rancher 2, everything kind of went downhill but hey I made some money I guess.

So with rancher and k3s both of those are what I would say are user based communities. And I like those, I don't need a lot of contributions but users matter. But as rancher grew I became more and more antisocial. I pulled back much more. I put a lot more effort back then into promoting or evangelizing rancher. If I could get back to that level. That would be good.

[Darren Shepherd @ibuildthecloud]

@bighead_datou What does that mean?

[Darren Shepherd @ibuildthecloud]

I'm so glad this post got traction. Maybe codex will add monitors now. If there's anyone one on the codex team that wants more info, ping me. I really want codex to have monitors. And opencode, Copilot, and pi (but pi probably can do it already)

[Darren Shepherd @ibuildthecloud]

Codex harness has really improved BUT STILL NO MONITORS! Monitor is an essential feature and I don't think any harness but claude does it. Why doesn't anyone get how incredible monitors are.

[Darren Shepherd @ibuildthecloud]

Who's the lead engineer for copilot CLI? Do you want to be my friend? I'm only obnoxious 51% of the time.