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I build dev tools and write about them. Cofounder & Shapeshifter @grandeurdev —Simplifying IoT dev; now building

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Even your heroes are equally miserable.

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@arcinternet has ruined browsers for an entire generation. No browser will ever be able to scratch the itch Arc is leaving behind. That's the kind of devotion we builders dream of.

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Gemini 3.8 flash is such a hate-hate relationship.

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Hitting a baseline usage of 19GB of RAM is diabolical!!

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Powerful storytelling can easily mask the truth. To see the reality, you must break the narrative down to its raw, verifiable facts. Emotion blurs; first-principles clarify.

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Ambiguity begets insanity.

Ask anyone who’s maintained a codebase they didn’t write.

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Heads up if your company runs on Jira or Confluence:

Starting Aug 17, Atlassian will use your customer data to train AI for all customers, not just your org.

On Free & Standard plans it’s ON by default. Only Enterprise can opt out of metadata.

https://t.co/0ASwiLOGlQ

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The biggest unlock with AI isn’t better prompts. It’s giving the model crystal-clear success criteria it can check its own work against, so it knows when it’s actually done.

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"don't do it yet, just answer my question" whenever you are asking "why" behind a change AI did to keep it from starting to remove the change without any explanation.

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I miss @arcinternet more than I enjoy @diabrowser.

I really wish they’d just add Dia’s AI to Arc and call it a day.

Or open source it. Or sell it to someone who’ll give it the love it deserves.

I know ADK is their sweat and blood. But we miss Arc.

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How I Automated Product Updates: From Git Commits to a Polished “What’s New” Feed

Building an agentic AI pipeline that turns daily git commits into user-facing release notes.

https://t.co/wM7ki5TyFr

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AI prompt engineering tip that cut my hallucinations by 99%: I end every prompt with “use common sense.” It ignores this completely, but I feel better.

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New website is live: https://t.co/ECf9d5wmhL

More cool things to come soon!

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Here is why you cannot trust everything AI puts in your code:
https://t.co/m8olri5XlA

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Having an engineering background is its own curse when you are in the startup industry. It feels easier 2 learn all the foundation of building LLMs from a 1000-page book than to learn sales.

What path would you recommend 4 learning enough sales 2 take my company off the ground?

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Thoughts on HTTP’s new QUERY method?

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No better model to do justice with a codebase audit than Claude Sonnet or Opus.

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When life gives you lemons, make shikanji

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@ImLunaHey - scape (like landscape, cityscape, seascape)
- scope (a magnifier like the one that mounts to a rifle)
- rove (like to roam)
- range browser

It depends on what makes your browser special, but these are some generic lighthearted options.

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@jonathan_wilke I personally have a Mac and anyone using one knows it’s designed with trackpad at the core. But windows isn’t always great with trackpad (machine dependent). Linux is primarily CLI with GUI as an add-on.

Keyboard and hence CLI is one thing everyone agrees on.

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@jonathan_wilke I think because it’s simpler to develop for, consistent across OSes (mac, windows, linux), looks the same everywhere, and just works as good as on a windows machine as on linux.