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CTO Flourish Health. React/React Native/TS/Node | Prev: SonarMD, Triggr Health, Rackspace, OpenStack | Making the world better w/ code and kindness.

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#491 – OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet – Peter Steinberger Podcast Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · February 12 · 1 sec

The Lex Friedman podcast with the OpenClaw founder is really good. Kinda figured it'd be like a lot of YOLO but he's very thoughtful. Really fun hearing from someone using agents so heavily and about workflows etc podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

07.03.2026 23:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’d get the remarkable on Amazon and use the return policy to test it out. The Boox I probably wouldn’t have actually used consistently if that’s all I had.

27.02.2026 18:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Boox was very mid. Felt exactly like what I'd expect an Android tablet to feel like. Slow, unrefined, all the apps were meh. Doesn't feel nice at all.

22.02.2026 17:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I've been trying out ePaper tablets for the past few weeks, mostly journaling and taking notes. Remarkable is hands down the best. I wanted to love the Kindle Scribe but it's heavier, slower, pen feels worse, writing feels worse, just all around worse minus the Kindle catalog.

22.02.2026 17:20 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Boris Tane The research-plan-implement workflow I use to build software with Claude Code, and why I never let it write code until I've approved a written plan.

This is a really good run down of the actual steps to get Claude to work well. My implementation planning process is similar, but I updated it with some tips from here. I should probably write a post about mine!

boristane.com/blog/how-i-u...

22.02.2026 14:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Cleaning up merged git branches: a one-liner from the CIA's leaked dev docs | spencer.wtf How to delete all merged git branches locally with a single command. This one-liner has been in my zshrc since 2017 — I found it buried in the CIA's Vault7 l...

Think of all the wonderful aliases we could have if the CIA had to release them! FOIA anyone?

spencer.wtf/2026/02/20/c...

20.02.2026 18:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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[AINews] Why OpenAI Should Build Slack a quiet day lets us answer a Sam Altman question

www.latent.space/p/ainews-why...

YES PLEASE. Actually, a whole bunch of companies should try and replace Slack. Google Chat isn't even close and missing so many features. Zoom Chat is closer, but not there.

14.02.2026 21:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm having a lot of fun reading all the things people are doing with OpenClaw. But working in healthcare, no way I'm setting it up for any of my data or tooling...

But something similar, using my local LLMs, proper security? Definitely interesting. Anyone have experience with NanoClaw yet?

05.02.2026 19:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

> Your turn, Josh 🏆
> 22 connections already solved LinkedIn puzzle games

Today must be "LinkedIn created a new category of emails that you're automatically subscribed to" day! It's a near monthly holiday!

03.02.2026 03:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Only took like 3 years, but Spotify finally has what I thought DJ was going to be: prompting for a playlist. Yay!

29.01.2026 19:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I swear half my job is copying questions into ChatGPT and copying the answer to whoever asked. Some day I'll convince them to go to GPT first...

27.01.2026 15:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You've got this! What's left?

25.01.2026 17:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

A lot of my days are now a split between managing a whole bunch of agents (Cursor/Devin/Claude) and code review (assisted by AI more and more). I'm so *so* much more productive, but I miss coding a whole feature some days. On the high side, it's let me scratch my side project itch again!

25.01.2026 17:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Other than git haha

25.01.2026 17:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In the past couple years I'd moved a bit away from dotfiles, but having a few projects and couple machines, I've had to get back to using them more. Having Claude to do things like "fix the shell prompt to look like this" has made them sooo much nicer to work with.

Any good strategies for syncing?

25.01.2026 17:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Just noticed with Chrome/Safari next to each other with Slack behind...

macOS Tahoe has some rough edges:

19.01.2026 17:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Told a vendor today to cancel our account and hopefully refund us. Salesperson oversold, engineer says the features we need might be there Q2, so I tasked Claude to replace it. 2 days of on and off prompting and I have a working alternative. This is what SaaS is gonna be up against going forward.

16.01.2026 14:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yuuuuup, that's where I've wound up every time so far! Bun has finally made workspaces *mostly* work, but still TBD if it'll do everything I'm hoping.

16.01.2026 02:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I was using an M1 Pro and recently upgraded to an M4 Pro. Day to day I don't really see much difference. I've used an M4 Air and didn't notice a ton of difference between either until I had a lot of stuff going at the same time, then it felt sluggish (when it got hot).

12.01.2026 16:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It really is. How do you share the code?

12.01.2026 16:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I miss native dev instead of just React Native, but RN is just so dang productive. I really miss writing Swift, probably my favorite language I've used.

12.01.2026 16:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I love when a company selling software write a blog post about 5 best XYZ and puts themselves at the top. Yay SEO game.

12.01.2026 16:03 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I'm Boris and I created Claude Code. Lots of people have asked how I use Claude Code, so I wanted to show off my setup a bit. by @bcherny(Boris Cherny) | Twitter Thread Reader I'm Boris and I created Claude Code. Lots of people have asked how I use Claude Code, so I wanted to show off my setup a bit. My setup might be surprisingly vanilla! Claude Code works great out of th...

Super interesting thread on how the creator of Claude writes Claude with Claude: twitter-thread.com/t/2007179832...

04.01.2026 01:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Kasava - The Agentic Platform for Product Engineers Kasava is the AI-native platform purpose-built for product development. Plan, build, and monitor with AI-powered workflows.

Fun reading this as I'm moving our PRDs and implementation plans into our monorepo so AI has better context:

www.kasava.dev/blog/everyth...

30.12.2025 22:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

#bun #reactnative

29.12.2025 19:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Some context: we try to open source a lot of our code at Flourish, including our UI/UX library ferns-ui (rebrand coming soon). So that lives in another repo from our main mono repo. But for DX, we want to be able to see changes in the main repo as we change ferns-ui, rather than merge/tag/install.

29.12.2025 19:26 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Working on converting all of our repos to Bun. Holy shit, it's so fast, so nice, and I wish I did it years ago. Plus compiling the backend down to a single executable and tossing that in Docker is so nice.

Anyone have any good tips for linking in libraries to React Native with Bun?

29.12.2025 19:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

My toxic trait is putting ketchup on tacos 🌮

29.12.2025 19:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How to Speak
How to Speak YouTube video by MIT OpenCourseWare

If you ever need to present at work or give a talk, this was a fabulous talk on giving a talk. I might submit a few presentations for 2026! It’s been nearly 10 years since my last talk, wow. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc...

16.09.2025 13:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I'm PhD in graphic design and Cracker Barrel's REAL problem is they didn't go *far enough*

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