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Nic

@fastchicken

Here for the AI talk.

 Waiheke Island
Joined August 2025
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absolute cinema from @soleio
First of Kind (@firstofkind) profile pictureFirst of Kind
@firstofkind10h
Can a designer-founder win the VC game by ignoring all of its rules? Season 3, Episode 3 is here: How @karrisaarinen built @linear to win through quality above all else – now available on 𝕏, YouTube, and Instagram Powered by @framer @noondesign @bot @tryramp @vercel @meetgranola @profound 00:00 Winning by Your Own Rules 03:12 Quality Is Directional 06:24 Do You Design in Code? 15:45 Owning the Problem 22:45 Beyond the Issue Tracker 26:36 The Bull Case for Design 28:45 Do We Still Need UI? 33:02 The Car Designer of Software 37:37 School Feels Fake 40:59 Never Build the MVP 43:56 Clarity of Scope 45:37 Linear Recalibrates the Palate Hosted by @soleio and coproduced with @Room3NYC
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You can now create service accounts in Amp! ampcode.com/news/service-acc…
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Bullish on Andy Yen and Proton. He gets it. The culture war, or rather the loss of identity some engineers feel as AI redefines our jobs is difficult; I sympathize. Also understand that he runs a business and might has limited patience when we now had two years to process, learn, change and grow.
Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) profile pictureJoseph Cox
@josephfcoxOct 29
Replying to @josephfcox
Here is Proton CTO's AI manifesto, that I obtained multiple copies of 404media.co/manifestos-fear-…
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There is just no good way to bring that news. The old times are not coming back. I don't envy anyone though who has a workforce who is not on board with the changing times. xitter.gq/steipete/status/211612…
Peter Steinberger 🦞 (@steipete) profile picturePeter Steinberger 🦞
@steipeteOct 30
Bullish on Andy Yen and Proton. He gets it. The culture war, or rather the loss of identity some engineers feel as AI redefines our jobs is difficult; I sympathize. Also understand that he runs a business and might has limited patience when we now had two years to process, learn, change and grow.
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Ah yes. Fridays. AWS have an outage with API Gateway in us-west-2 Wait a bit. Little comms from AWS. Take app/etc down. Export API from us-west-2 Import into ap-southeast-2 (same lambda backends in west-2) Switch Cloudfront over Back in business.
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Latest (and probably penultimate) Building Slack post is up: buildingslack.com/salesforce… What it's like being eaten by the whale
Salesforce – Part Two

Salesforce – Part Two

I needed a keyboard.  I stood at my reserved desk on the 7th floor of Salesforce’s tower in Vancouver around 9am. There were a pair of monitors mounted to the desk, a power strip, and a chair. Even a...

buildingslack.com
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Ok. Set up @AmpCode on my homelab so my wife can restart Plex if needed. Turns out she’ll likely use it for Claude personal knowledge base stuff. Which is fine It also found a misconfiguration … cos of course it did. Pucks happy to restart and watch things tho
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(She uses Claude way more than I do for work (head of product) let’s see if I can get her moved to the amp Mac app….)
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This basically means, if I get the spare Mac BT keyboard out, I don’t need to buy a personal laptop. I can do it all from my iPad, and leave my work laptop in the studio Finally. No thanks to Apple, mind. Their story for doing things like this on an iPad is 💩
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How long before AWS move NodeJS lambda off 24.21.0 I wonder.
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Been doing this the other way. Start in amp. Puck investigates (yay honeycomb MCP!), makes a ticket with info it finds, makes a PR to fix, I review PR and merge (or update etc) Then close ticket. But... I see the value of this. Esp for our designers + pm's
Karl Clement (@karlclement) profile pictureKarl Clement
@karlclementOct 19
For those who are addicted to Linear, now you can assign tickets directly to Amp orbs Everything is handled remotely
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This is absolutely someone at Tesla shaking the keys to distract Elon from fucking up something important.
Tom Warren (@tomwarren) profile pictureTom Warren
@tomwarrenOct 16
flying Tesla 🫨
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Nic retweeted
Quinn Slack (@sqs) profile picture
Quinn Slack
@sqsOct 12
The only moat is understanding your customers' needs and future tech capabilities better
Nikita Bier (@nikitabier) profile pictureNikita Bier
@nikitabierOct 12
Technical moats are mostly over at this point. If you’re building something that is meant to be durable, the only moats now are: • Proprietary data • Network effects • A physical component
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getting remarkably good results doing this. Just ask amp (@PuckOfAmp / @AmpCode ) to spin up an orb to look into this error. It can get to Honeycomb, and our code. time to make our error channel 😶
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One of them also followed the "all graphql must be codegen not the old way" rule (agents.md) and moved that mutation to the new format, without me asking. Bigger PR - it was otherwise a 2-3 line change, but Double Win.
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Replying to @fastchicken @AmpCode
For me I used a tailscale tunnel to expose a single port on a machine, that could be a remote machine or local network machine, and then it’s accessible at the tailscale magic dns name. Similar could be done with cloudflare and other tunnel services, but I use tailscale a lot.
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New Zealand Startup Exit Claxon
Ben Mullin (@BenMullin) profile pictureBen Mullin@BenMullinSep 24
News -- among the handful of suitors who have expressed interest in acquiring Letterboxd: A24, Sony and....The New York Times Company! Bidding starts at $300 million. w/@LaurenSHirsch nytimes.com/2026/09/24/busin…
Letterboxd Considers a Sequel Under New Ownership (Gift Article)

Letterboxd Considers a Sequel Under New Ownership (Gift Article)

A24, Sony and The New York Times Company all registered their interest in acquiring the cinephile’s paradise.

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. @PuckOfAmp x bird if the year (takahe)
🤖 Made with AI
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Finally watched How I Prompt Sooooo worth watching. youtube.com/watch?v=HegqGzD-…
Think Harder: How I Prompt | Thorsten Ball at Laracon US 2026

Think Harder: How I Prompt | Thorsten Ball at Laracon US 2026

Amp (ampcode.com) is 99% written by AI, and there's no secret sauce...

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Thorsten Ball (@thorstenball) profile pictureThorsten Ball
@thorstenballAug 26
Replying to @thorstenball
Here it is: thorstenball.com/talks/how-i…
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… while amp was adjusting and reviewing a honeycomb beeline to Otel conversion on our backend… on my laptop in another building.
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