are devs on this platform?

spoiler alert: it is

Italian lessons, tool calling, and the rise of cheaper AI upsetting the big-tech hold on expensive AI platforms.

All this and more in the latest @getpieces.bsky.social AI productivity podcast where I chat to @iamdaniele.bsky.social.

youtu.be/weThkMjWkKg?...

oh wow

a story in three acts

hey 👋

GitHub - iamdaniele/claude-tool-use: A framework to create custom tools that can seamlessly interfac... A framework to create custom tools that can seamlessly interface with Claude - GitHub - iamdaniele/claude-tool-use: A framework to create custom tools that can seamlessly interface with Claude

Tool use is a powerful technique to turn your code into AI functions. I built a Python module to transparently enable this. Check it out! github.com/iamdaniele/c...

Do what only you can do.

— Edsger W. Dijkstra

4:58am landing. 3h18m layover 😵‍💫

A tuxedo cat hiding in a box under a bookshelf.

A tabby cat hiding beneath a sweater.

They’ll come out eventually

title: the swag museum
type: podcast
description: every middle manager thought they could get employee morale up by gifting their teams a $5 cotton tee. it actually worked.

👋 from the API

happy Halloween!

happy halloween!

GitHub - iamdaniele/domo: A simple, reactive component state management library A simple, reactive component state management library - GitHub - iamdaniele/domo: A simple, reactive component state management library

throwback to when I tried to build my own React. lessons learned:

1. never build your own react
2. if you want to learn, focus and go deep
3. you’ll learn a lot more than you’ll think you’ll learn

check out the project: github.com/iamdaniele/d...

have you ever been in a job that the more impact and results you drove, the more you felt you were doing it all wrong?

the ongoing development and adoption of decentralized protocols (activitypub, atproto) signals that better social media is possible. eventually, the battle will be over content, not tech. the platform with timely, relevant, easily discoverable content will win.

during my last week we also tried to salvage the ecosystem. i asked some people in my team if they wanted me to push for a monetization project. it would have probably meant sleeping in the office for 2 weeks to buy developers some time. everyone was exhausted and disenfranchised. that's why I left.

devrel reflections from one year ago:

our pitch to developers was straightfoward: nobody can build the everything app by laying off thousands of engineers. we meant it. obviously it didn't go that way, but when we exited, developers were really grateful that we tried to build that for them.

know thy enemy