brian briscoe
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engineering lead @ unicorn, evenings and weekends working on side projects // 🇮🇪
amsterdam
Joined March 2020
the hardest problems in computer science. - cache invalidation.- naming things.- getting IaC configurations right on the first try
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billion dollar idea. an MCP for Cloudflare/Namecheap domains so LLMs can confirm a given domain is available before suggesting it as a name for your project.
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I can't believe OpenAI psyop'd us into paying them for basic tasks like generating text summaries and embeddings you can when do the same thing in Python for free
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Abusing Postgres `jsonb` columns because I’m too lazy to design the schema correctly . Just as god intended.
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The thoughts of a man free now free from the Next.js dev server.
Agents updating code and the UI fast refreshing is a magical feeling.
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I think these “you are an expert at…” style prompts are artefacts from the GPT ~3.5 era when these models weren’t half as capable as they are now. The idea of having to manually instruct current-gen Claude to act as a “frontend expert” is hilarious.
people with setups like this always manage to ship absolutly nothing of value . it's kinda impressive
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Don’t show this to @AvgDatabaseCEO.
ethereum has been online ten years straight with zero pauses and zero maintenance windows. in that time:. - facebook went down for 14 hours.- aws kinesis froze for 17.- cloudflare dropped 19 datacenters.- alt L1s…well, you know. every centralised giant blinks, they rely on
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I'd love some sort of solo dev product management suite for Claude Code. Something that could read/write tasks, roadmap, docs etc. as markdown files in the repo and also augment MCPs for things like Posthog and Sentry to better manage the product end-to-end. Anyone building this?.
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Adding “no code, just chat” to every Claude prompt so it doesn’t start building a React app while I’m asking it about medieval architecture.
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previous winners include.
Tried to search for something in my Dutch neobank (Bunq) and it turns out this input on the home screen is an LLM chatbot. Very reminiscent of the blockchain era of a few years ago where people tried to shoehorn it in everywhere to catch the hype wave
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the new Firefox sidebar is the of the most egregious LLM shoehorning plays I've seen for a while
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Its crazy that Gemini is the only main LLM provider to implement a “fork/branch this conversation” feature. With deep research ideation I find myself so often wanting split one of the response points into its own chat while preserving the original discussion.
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It’s time to retire the phrase “Cursor for x”. All meaning has been lost.
i built cursor for dating. feat @eunifiedworld . (spent my life savings on this cinematic launch video bc i have no vc money to burn)
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AirPods Pro battery life is goated. Had them in since I left my hotel in London 5+ hours ago and there’s still ~10% left as I arrive back to my apt in Amsterdam.
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In 2025 there is zero excuse to be deploying directly to prod from your own machine without automated tests. GitHub Action .yml files and unit tests are so trivial for LLMs there’s basically zero upfront cost and in return you get huge time save + reliability upside.
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Two thing I’ve learned from LLMs. - what an em dash (—) is.- that I’ve been using hyphens wrong my entire life.
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The bar for TUIs is so high these days and it feels like things are just getting started
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This guy is the GOAT of overemployment. “How to get a job in Big Tech” course bois in shambles
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