Neil Roberts
@pottedmeat
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🇧🇸🇺🇸 TypeScripter (formerly @Automattic, @sitepen), LLM enthusiast, Tabletop playtester, 👍 Theme parks, Sports Racer, Nerdfighter, 8w9
Des Moines, IA
Joined August 2007
🔥 Shoutout to @jordanurbs for creating an incredible 1.5-hour deep dive on installing & mastering Agent Zero! In this video Jordan shows why Agent Zero delivers. No vendor lock-in, no subscriptions, just raw capability you control. Video below 👇
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Required Reading: @profplum99 has pulled together a tremendous essay that helps to explain why so many Americans feel financially stressed today. Maybe it is because, as he shows, the annual family income "Survival Line," as he calls it, is $140,000. https://t.co/iKXniPXIE7
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How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
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A screen-free audio player we love as a gift for toddlers and older kids, the Yoto Player (3rd Generation) is down to $82 (from $105) https://t.co/PzG60Cr4Yc Buy:
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It’s a new day for independent play. Open up a world of audio adventures with the smart speaker that kids control. The latest generation of our Yoto Player comes with a longer battery life, stereo...
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Show what you’ve been creating at the Holiday Show & Share on 12/8, 6:30-8pm at Source Allies. Connect with/ other makers, enjoy food & drinks, and try your hand at screenprinting a Web Geeks shirt. RSVP: https://t.co/D7TQDDnPvn
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Handy validation utilities landed in @convex 1.29: v.object({name: v.string(), age: v.string()}) .pick("name") .extend({id: https://t.co/KsYsHoB04M("users")}) .partial(); I'll be working on the core API in addition to convex-helpers & components
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There's one world where AI spits out code no one understands or looks at... slop. And then there’s another world where AI tools spark curiosity, helping people learn how to code instead of ignoring it. I'm trying to help create the second world!
How to use Cursor (with no coding experience)
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Kurt Vonnegut on buying an envelope
order your groceries. saves an extra 1-2 hours a week. compounded, thats 50-100 hours a year. a whole week work of work you gain. i promise that time is more important then the $10 delivery fee
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Flounder Mode @zebriez spends the day with @kevin2kelly in his Pacifica studio and reflects on what “great work” looks like Only in @ColossusReview
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Kevin Kelly on how the most interesting technologies serve as platforms that enable other people’s creativity
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The AI Engineer World’s Fair just dropped the full video of the workshop I led with @nicknisi on building real AI systems in pure #TypeScript using @mastra_ai for @WorkOS We build a production-grade agent that turns your workplace frustrations into original memes 😂
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We just sent out Reader's 12th Public Beta Update, with a ton of new features & improvements: 📚 ePubs v2 📜 PDF Clean View v2 💬 Chat with Document Preview ✒️E-Ink Mode ⚡️ Faster Document Opening 🎧 Audio Reviews 🧠 AI Themed Reviews and much more! Let's get into it...
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On the latest Optimist Economy podcast, we talk about the classic economic case for work requirements and how it falls apart in the reality of the low-wage labor market. Bonus content: at several points during the episode I clarify that I'm a human person. https://t.co/MSxfxUfTY2
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Here’s what work requirements rarely accomplish: Getting more people to work or lifting them out of poverty. They are, however, very good at driving people off public benefit programs, which was...
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This is the most efficient Cursor workflow I’ve used. If you’re building MVPs fast, this combo is unbeatable: TaskMaster + Cursor + CodeRabbit Bookmark this.
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just shipped taskmaster v0.17 🚀 → multi-context task management via tagged lists → `research` MCP tool with interactive CLI → get-task/show upgrades & batch ops → --append for update-task → save research to docs → multi-status filters follow + bookmark + dive in 👀👇
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Most endearing political advertisement I’ve ever watched.
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Tanner Linsley is the creator of @tan_stack, the wildly popular open-source webdev tool ecosystem. He joins the podcast with @nicknisi to talk about the project, SSG, type safety, the TanStack Start full-stack React framework, and more. @tannerlinsley
https://t.co/1sSs91m9FE
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TanStack is an open-source collection of high-performance libraries for JavaScript and TypeScript applications, primarily focused on state management, data fetching, and table utilities. It includes...
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I wrote like 6000 words on the new season of THE REHEARSAL for @the_point_mag: https://t.co/vrgMpBhcww
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In the fall of 2023 my first television show entered that bone-chilling process known as development.
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