Liam Butler-Lawrence

Co-founder & CEO of Candle Finance (@6andle).

[Liam Butler-Lawrence @liam_apps]

I built an MCP for LinkedIn with @NikolaiWotton! It uses their own APIs and runs on your Mac so it’s super fast + reliable.

Get Claude to analyze your biz ops strategy, it can even send messages & connection requests for you. Grab the beta here: https://t.co/7LyB2UkZD3

[Gary @f6ary]

Qwen 3 is live in Agent. TestFlight’s open, link below!

[Gary @f6ary]

Agent now supports GPT 4.1 nano

TestFlight link below (few spots left) ↓

[Gente por la Defensa Animal (GEPDA) @DefensaAnimal]

👉🏻🚨 Ni arte, ni cultura... ES TORTURA.

#NoALasCorridasDeToros
#MaltratoAnimal
#PlazaDeToros
#CDMX
#TodaVidaVale

[Gary @f6ary]

Two months ago we announced a new direction for Candle. Today I'm excited to share our SDK is in early preview!

Learn more:
🌐 https://t.co/tyhi9l6Knc
📚 https://t.co/DLcUygmIVv

If you're building agents or applications that need programmatic access to internet services, please reach out to me or @liam_apps for a demo.

More to share & demo soon.

[Liam Butler-Lawrence @liam_apps]

The only question left is whether Assad can still execute his escape plan... will Iran or Russia take him or will they leave him to be executed when Damascus falls?

[Liam Butler-Lawrence @liam_apps]

@f6ary @6andle Excited to be on this journey helping developers & creators directly! We're selecting a small number of beta testers now so sign up on https://t.co/tTI6MT0APG

[Liam Butler-Lawrence @liam_apps]

I wish I could say I’m surprised.

This was yet another short-sighted decision caused by a lot of selfish, foolish people prioritizing their own (perceived) interests above the good of the nation and human rights everywhere.

[Candle @6andle]

This week, we're excited to announce that you can now connect your Apple Savings, Cash, and Card accounts to Candle!

What's new:

• New connection: As mentioned, we've added Apple Wallet to our lineup of connections.
• Redesign: We've tweaked the app's design by moving account activity to a separate tab, and Wallet now has a new card-based interface.
• Orders and transfers: The action menu lets you make stock or crypto orders and transfers without switching between apps.
• Performance: We made some performance improvements to the app, so it should run smoother than ever, and we are working on more improvements.

You can download the latest version of Candle (v2.6.17) now from the App Store: https://t.co/wQF3nQM5JX.

[Liam Butler-Lawrence @liam_apps]

Biden needs to go. We cannot allow the damage Trump will cause to our country, our democracy, and the world.

If Biden doesn’t bow out gracefully, he will be remembered not as a great president, but as the man whose ego let Trump win.

[Gary @f6ary]

We need more real-time UX on mobile

[Candle @6andle]

✅ Issue Resolved: App could not upgrade accounts from Candle v1.6.16 to v1.7.26.
⚠️ Symptom: On app open, "Error: something went wrong" would appear.

No app update required. Just open Candle and the app should work normally.

[Liam Butler-Lawrence @liam_apps]

@aheze0 Would love to get TF access, this looks amazing.

[Liam Butler-Lawrence @liam_apps]

@bananachain_ @f6ary @CandleFinance Actually all our connections are 100% on-device (creds/tokens stored locally in keychain). So there’s no server to hack :)

[Gary @f6ary]

Hello world, meet:

📦 npm i react-native-openai

[Liam Butler-Lawrence @liam_apps]

5/6 of the metrics listed are US-specific, and the last one is just blatantly wrong. How can any conclusions be drawn about “the world” from that?

[𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞 🇺🇸 @creation247]

3 years ago the world was a better place...

Agree or disagree?

[Liam Butler-Lawrence @liam_apps]

An example of the free market working as it should: the incentives to sell/license this breakthrough tech are higher than incentive to keep it proprietary. Huge win for society if true.

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

“Toyota claimed it had made a ‘technological breakthrough’… that would allow an electric vehicle powered by a solid-state battery to have a range of 1,200km and charging time of 10 minutes or less.” https://t.co/8ATbufDTSv

[Liam Butler-Lawrence @liam_apps]

👌 I make this utility in all my projects! Although I call it fatalError as a nod to Swift. Also works great in fp-ts.

[Matt Pocock @mattpocockuk]

Tired of writing if statements every time you need to check if something's defined?

Make a little 'raise' function to throw an error, and inline it with a nullish coalescing operator.

Thanks to @heyImMapleLeaf for this one.

[Liam Butler-Lawrence @liam_apps]

This is why “export all my user data as JSON”, although crude from a UX perspective, is so important for every SaaS to support.

[kepano @kepano]

File over app

File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you this freedom.

File over app is an appeal to tool makers: accept that all software is ephemeral, and give people ownership over their data.

In the fullness of time, the files you create are more important than the tools you use to create them. Apps are ephemeral, but your files have a chance to last.

The pyramids of Egypt contain hieroglyphs that were chiseled in stone thousands of years ago. The ideas hieroglyphs convey are more important than the type of chisel that was used to carve them.

The world is filled with ideas from generations past, transmitted through many mediums, from clay tablets to manuscripts, paintings, sculptures, and tapestries. These artifacts are objects that you can touch, hold, own, store, preserve, and look at. To read something written on paper all you need is eyeballs.

Today, we are creating innumerable digital artifacts, but most of these artifacts are out of our control. They are stored on servers, in databases, gated behind an internet connection, and login to a cloud service. Even the files on your hard drive use proprietary formats that make them incompatible with older systems.

Paraphrasing something I wrote recently:

> If you want your writing to still be readable on a computer from the 2060s or 2160s, it’s important that your notes can be read on a computer from the 1960s.

You should want the files you create to be durable, not only for posterity, but also for your future self. You never know when you might want to go back to something you created years or decades ago. Don’t lock your data into a format you can’t retrieve.

These days I write using an app I help make called Obsidian (@obsdmd), but it’s a delusion to think it will last forever. The app will eventually become obsolete. It’s the plain text files I create that are designed to last. Who knows if anyone will want to read them besides me, but future me is enough of an audience to make it worthwhile.

[Liam Butler-Lawrence @liam_apps]

@SandroMaglione @EffectTS_ Need to make this move for our Node/RN library that’s 95% pure fp-ts. Looking forward to the post!