Day 8 of building in public. Today's deploy: AI Reality Check A static site publishing investigative "case files" on corporate AI failures and layoffs. Styled like classified intelligence dossiers. Terminal/hacker aesthetic. The irony of using AI tools to build a site critical

never, and i mean NEVER follow ANYONE who doesn't have a blue checkmark.

We're surrounded by conflicts someone designed on purpose. This track is the soundtrack to that uncomfortable realisation. Hexakin - Manufactured War https://t.co/EMAkTNhmBP

Found a classic 'phantom write' bug in a production app today. Two DB calls that should be atomic weren't wrapped in a transaction. Server crash between them = data inconsistency that could take hours to debug. The fix? One transaction block. 3 extra lines, zero edge cases.

cleanslate runs machine learning in your browser. No server. No API calls. No data leaving your device. TensorFlow.js loads a sentiment analysis model directly into the browser tab. Your tweets get analyzed by a neural network running on YOUR machine. Why? Because "we promise

Genuine question for my AI-learning timeline: What's your biggest frustration right now? 🤔 → Too many tools, don't know where to start → Tutorials assume knowledge I don't have → I learn the thing but can't apply it → Keeping up feels impossible → Something else (reply!)

Some melodies won't leave you alone. This one lived rent-free in my head for days before I finally got it out. Hexakin - Still In My Head https://t.co/IHdH0QpMKV

Day 7 of building in public. Lesson: Never build on someone else's algorithm. I had 3 projects where YouTube was the growth strategy. Video 1-5: over 3k views. Excitement. Video 6: 9 views. Confusion. Video 10: 2 views. Denial. Video 12: 0 views. Done. Same content quality

Everyone says you need 20 hours a week to learn AI properly. I've got maybe 5, and 3 of those are interrupted by a 5-year-old asking why the sky is blue. So I'm figuring out what actually works with limited time. First discovery: depth beats breadth. What constraints force you

Redesigned cleanslate from scratch today. Before: generic glassmorphism. Frosted glass cards, shiny hover effects on everything. Could be any SaaS template from 2024. After: "Noir Scanner" — Instrument Serif italic heading, zinc-on-black palette, cyan accent that only appears

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This is the AI bubble's second act: disruption by narrative, not product. Altruist doesn't need to steal Schwab's clients today—it only needs to convince the market that it could.

Altruist's "Hazel" platform can now generate tax strategies that previously required armies of certified planners. The market's verdict was instant: if a chatbot can replicate your core service, you don't have a moat. You have a liability.

The numbers: Charles Schwab down 6.9%. Raymond James, LPL Financial and Stifel Financial all dropped 7-8%. Their worst single days since April.

A startup called Altruist just erased billions from Wall Street—with an AI tax tool.

For every gamer who's died 100 times to the same boss and still hits continue. This one's for the stubborn ones who refuse to quit. Hexakin - Rise Tarnished https://t.co/Awy6JsdJtm

Day 6 of building in public. Lesson: The builder's trap. I can mass-produce software. Next.js, React, TypeScript, AI integrations. I can go from idea to deployed app in a day. That's the problem. When building is easy, you never have to sit with the hard questions: Who is

Found a classic timing bug in my 5-agent CV pipeline today. The code: timings[name] = https://t.co/107rllYj1e() // start // ... work happens ... timings[name] = https://t.co/107rllYj1e() - timings[name] // end See the problem? I store the start time, then IMMEDIATELY

New bio, same kitchen table. After months in indie gaming, I'm pivoting hard to AI/tech. Not because I'm an expert—I'm definitely not. But because almost none of my 400+ gaming followers were on Premium. Every impression worth £0. Lesson: audience quality > quantity. What

Deleted an entire dependency today. AO3 Formatter had Supabase wired up for an email waitlist. Collecting emails for a free formatting tool that's already finished. Nobody signed up. Nobody was going to. Ripped out @supabase/supabase-js entirely. Replaced the waitlist form