I hired my first full-time AI employee, it's Clawdbot. It’s free:

don't have a mac mini? i created a guide to set up via VPS for less than $5/mo claude.ai/public/artifac…

Fuck it, tips and tricks thread, stream of consciousness style. Every time I learn something, I'll add to this thread Because while it's super hypey and amazing, it's still brittle as fuck, and there are rough edges all over. If this helps someone, amazing

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The "you need a Mac" narrative is misleading. Apple ecosystem exclusive: - iMessage integration (macOS/iOS) - Menubar companion app (macOS only) If you're using WhatsApp/Telegram/Discord, you don't need Apple hardware. People in the Discord are running it on: - Raspberry Pi

This is why is taking the world by storm. In this video, Alex Finn breaks down how it works, and why the Mac mini is the perfect backbone for this! 🔥 → a real 24/7 AI employee → simple local infra → scary-effective in practice

GREEN FLAGS IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERS: 1. Can explain complex stuff in simple words (if a new joiner gets it, they actually understand it) 2. Writes readable code, not clever code (good names, small functions, boring patterns) 3. Thinks in tradeoffs, not absolutes (they will say

Big announcements from NativePHP at Laracon India. NativePHP mobile is now free and open source

Serialization is killing your API performance (and you don't even know it) As a backend engineer, serialization and deserialization are fundamental concepts you will use constantly. Spent 6 months wondering why our API was slow; it turned out we were JSON-serializing the same

RESIGNATION LETTER Reasons for Leaving 1. Work-Life Balance ❌ Don't say This job is ruining my personal life and health ✅ Do say I'm seeking a role that allows me to better balance my professional and personal commitments 2. Toxic Workplace ❌ Don't say This place is full

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Hiring thing I’ve noticed: if someone is recommended to me as ex-really-successful-company I don’t know if they were correlated with success or causative of success. In shipping we trust.

The open-source RAG stack (2025):

You've been scammed. AI course sellers are making $50K/month repackaging these 3 free Anthropic resources: > Anthropic Academy (Free courses from source) anthropic.skilljar.com > Official Skills GitHub (115 active issues, 412 PRs) github.com/anthropics/ski… > Claude Code

How to build AI agents: A great cheat sheet (bookmark for later). Here's how to use it:

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oh wow - i went to the sold out Open Claw meetup in NYC last night. let me tell you what i learned. 1) not a single person thinks that their setup is 100% secure 2) one openclaw expert said he has reviewed setups from cybersecurity experts and laughed. his statement to me

claude code has a hidden setting that makes it 600x faster and almost nobody knows about it by default it uses text grep to find functions. it doesn't understand your code at all. that's why it takes 30-60 seconds and sometimes returns the wrong file there's a flag called