Mark

Full Stack Developer, Consultant and Small Business Owner

[Mark @markbarton]

@joelhooks I thought we were going with XML 😂

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@mattpocockuk A tool to build and deploy from your desktop. Has a UI, point to a project, extract tech stack (node / react etc), build config have target servers etc

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@joelhooks Things like deployment, queues, notifications, source control, hosting, failover, security, logging, observation. The business cost vs risk. Buy vs build. Information Silos.

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@joelhooks What are you thinking Joel? Less about code and more about foundation’s? I was thinking if you had a small company say 1000 people and you were building IT systems to support it what foundations would you use. These are the requirements you would feed to AI.

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@AIandDesign @LinusEkenstam Brillant

[Mark @markbarton]

Confusion reigns with @PayPalUK - someone has added my email with a dot in between first and last names to there account - as primary email - Google see it as the same email - Paypal do not. Now cannot get it removed - unsure if its a scam.

[Mark @markbarton]

@mattpocockuk A data dictionary - goes back to what your saying about foundational systems skills Matt. I had similar yesterday when designing a queue system and Claude chose Job for both a definition and an instance - defining Worker, Job and Task helped the mental model for both.

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Learning a lot by building my own version of @inngest - sometimes the fastest way to learn what a product provides is to try and solve the problems and architecture yourself.
Managing batch and scheduled processes across multiple services is a critical foundational tool.

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Agentic coding is adding value in all directions - at the bottom with batch upgrading legacy code and the top with polish and stretch features along with the accelerated speed of development. I am loving it!

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@kentcdodds @jamonholmgren Reading your MCP pages Kent you have convinced me to build a POC MCP server for a Travel Company.

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@getifyX Agreed - this is probably from someone who has never had to deal with muilti channel communications - aka old school.

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@wesbos @syntaxfm I want some form of dashboard - where each instance is a collection of Browser, terminal, VS Code instances, current work context- then when Claude needs attention - a control flashes and that set of tools opens - ideally works remotely as well.

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@devagrawal09 @tannerlinsley Yes that’s exactly how they use it.

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@tannerlinsley @devagrawal09 Firebase is working for me. I have a luggage tracking / inventory application that has to work in a lot of places without a connection

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@joelhooks @einarvollset We are doing this already. There’s always a balance between buy vs build and that scale has shifted a lot. But I think it’s more about not looking for prebuilt but knocking out a POC, so less friction.

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@kentcdodds Not sure about taste as such but I was also thinking about approach to requirements - so given a requirement document from the business / customer what are the steps to break it down to be able to feed it to the AI. Less about specifics more about outcomes.

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@PalmerLuckey @grok add a fury paint job, include a screaming eagle

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@samjulien @Narretz I guess more like RCS than SMS.

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@swyx @tanayj Or lets be honest any of us using Claude

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@wesbos So is it a form of accessibility enhancement for Agents?