Tom Langridge

Builder, father, thinker. Cofounder @MediaFire - helping 100M+ people share their work every month. New: @Fastdotio

[Tom Langridge @tlangridge]

@helenaeverley How did i not get that sooner... 😆

[Tom Langridge @tlangridge]

In the past week my young family has dealt with a serious family medical emergency overseas, purchasing a home, renovating said home, moving out of our rental, school ending, startup launching, single parenting - all at once.... it's super overwhelming, tbh.

This has to be one the most stressful times of life that I can think of. We're deeply in "the midlife squeeze" from all sides...

One of the only silver linings in all of this was that I jumped on the @openclaw bandwagon weeks ago - and now it's really paying dividends.

Since this all started to ramp up about 3 weeks ago, my wife and I have been able to have it coordinate all of this so much more efficiently across many emails, phone-calls, and planning docs - all driven by OpenClaw across timezones and via email and voice phone calls in English and Chinese.

I can't think of a time where a technology has so changed my life.

I can't recommend more strongly that you experiment with this yourself if you haven't already.

My personal set up is:

- Mac Mini M4 running:
- @openclaw (for personal) / @NousResearch Hermes Agent (for work)
- @OpenAI Pro subscription using GPT5.5 via Oauth for OpenClaw
- @twilio for phone number (domestic and international calls + SMS)
- @ElevenLabs for voice agent
- Gmail accounts via gog CLI
- @browser_use for well... browser use
- @fastdotio + Google Drive for documents, voice recordings, knowledge, and memory

I know there are people on here with much more elaborate configs, but if you need this I'm happy to share advice or setup tips.

[Tom Langridge @tlangridge]

In the past week my young family has dealt with a serious family medical emergency overseas, purchasing a home, renovating said home, moving out of our rental, school ending, startup launching, single parenting - all at once.... it's super overwhelming, tbh.

This has to be one the most stressful times of life that I can think of. We're deeply in "the midlife squeeze" from all sides...

One of the only silver linings in all of this was that I jumped on the @openclaw bandwagon weeks ago - and now it's really paying dividends.

Since this all started to ramp up about 3 weeks ago, my wife and I have been able to have it coordinate all of this so much more efficiently across many emails, phone-calls, and planning docs - all driven by OpenClaw across timezones and via email and voice phone calls in English and Chinese.

I can't think of a time where a technology has so changed my life.

I can't recommend more strongly that you experiment with this yourself if you haven't already.

My personal set up is:

- Mac Mini M4 running:
- @openclaw (for personal) / @NousResearch Hermes Agent (for work)
- @OpenAI Pro subscription using GPT5.5 via Oauth for OpenClaw
- @twilio for phone number (domestic and international calls + SMS)
- @ElevenLabs for voice agent
- Gmail accounts via gog CLI
- @browser_use for well... browser use
- @fastdotio + Google Drive for documents, voice recordings, knowledge, and memory

I know there are people on here with much more elaborate configs, but if you need this I'm happy to share advice or setup tips.

[Tom Langridge @tlangridge]

$1.3M in api fees for one person…. Holy sh*t… I’m not thinking big enough.

[Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete]

The latest CodexBar update renders API costs wayyyy nicer. https://t.co/lJ4dxNHwzG

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

The biggest alpha leak of 2026 is that you can tokenmax $10k/mo with OpenClaw/Hermes + GBrain and get the AI that everyone will have in 2028 for $100/mo, but you can get it now, and that is the biggest single unlock you can have vs your competition

[Nick Dobos @NickADobos]

$1.3 million in tokens in 1 month from 1 person.

[Tom Langridge @tlangridge]

@MarioNawfal That's because these aren't cars anymore... they're wheeled robots.

[nader dabit @dabit3]

This is crazy. The hacker installed a dead-man's switch that will wipe your computer if you revoke the GitHub token they stole from you. Revoking the token is what triggers the wipe.

[Tom Langridge @tlangridge]

@dereklabian Surprisingly, openclaw & hermes did pretty well with this task, sent out a bunch of inquiries, we'll see how the results come back.

[Tom Langridge @tlangridge]

Family friend in the USA has a relative in Taiwan who needs to find a long-term care center. The problem is that an available room in these places is extremely hard to come by and you have to call them to find out.

Is there a technology solution that would make automating calling these places feasible?

[Tom Langridge @tlangridge]

Want!

[Space and Technology @spaceandtech_]

Flywing has developed the X-WING, a compact VTOL FPV aircraft that combines vertical takeoff with fast fixed-wing flight.

It can take off vertically, hover, and switch to forward flight with a single command for smooth and stable performance.

With long flight time and a foldable design, it blends the advantages of both drones and airplanes.

[Tom Langridge @tlangridge]

@Cloudflare The agent-first tech market is taking shape:
Infrastructure: @Cloudflare
Payments: @stripe
Browser: @browserbase
Memory/Storage: @fastdotio
Email: @agentmail
Search: @ExaAILabs
Communications: @twilio

[Tom Langridge @tlangridge]

@tmaiaroto That’s really cool Tom. I’m gonna try it out today. I’m wondering if you see any synergy with @fastdotio or see if there’s any way to integrate a cloud option with your memory system based on it? “Company brain” is one of the themes were exploring with our product.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

This is the the quote I've been citing a lot recently.

[Tom Langridge @tlangridge]

@harshactually @Cloudflare @stripe @browserbase @fastdotio @agentmail @ExaAILabs @twilio @pravapayments Nice

[Tom Langridge @tlangridge]

@mrramibanna This is bad-ass. How do we get @fastdotio added to that list of providers? We already let agents signup and provision their own cloud storage and agent-workspaces via web, MCP, and CLI, and we're big Stripe fans/customers too :)

[Tom Langridge @tlangridge]

@bentossell Would love to know how you think it compares to @fastdotio - just had a customer upload ~17k files which were also automatically ingested into RAG for them.

[Chris Camillo @ChrisCamillo]

Today’s tech earnings are meaningless. An F5 AI tornado is about to touch down and investors are fixated on next quarter guidance, margin noise, and CapEx timing