Coding was never the slow part.
That's why we built Modem, your dev team's auto-triage PM.
It listens to user signals 24/7, finds problems before you do & does the in-between work – filing tickets, pinging teammates, closing the loop.
And it's not vaporware! You can try it out today at modem.dev
Man I just haven't had time / split brain on all these platforms
I think a major factor is it's not a one-shot LLM prompt, it's an agent firing up and making repeated tool calls and making reasonable choices.
It has guidance on what's importance (reflected in the top, e.g. "omitted so and so").
I'm sure it misses some things. But that's okay.
Modem's auto-generated release notes are getting really good
How I vibe-eval new model releases:
- Am I spending more time building because it's more fun?
- Can I give higher-level guidance than before and it works out?
Only a few days in, Opus 4.6 clears both. 🤷
🇨🇦 Devtools Toronto #6 – the version where we just hang out – returns Tuesday, Feb 17th at Mascot Brewing
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3 people in focus in the foreground, backs to the camera, facing the presenter
Wide shot of a presenter facing a large audience
Boris Cherny addressing the audience (pre-recorded)
A close-up of a presenter on the stage
Scenes from last night's Claude Code meetup in Toronto
🇨🇦 Devtools Toronto #6 – the version where we just hang out – returns Tuesday, Feb 17th at Mascot Brewing
👇 RSVP below
At Modem we've gone all-in on database branching to accelerate our development – sanity testing migrations, making sure preview builds work end-to-end, and more.
👇 The folks at Neon thought we were pushing the envelope enough to merit writing about it. Worth a read!
neon.com/blog/behind-...
Weekend thoughts on Gas Town, Beads, slop AI browsers, and AI-generated PRs flooding overwhelmed maintainers. I don't think we're ready for our new powers we're wielding. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...
It was a good year:
1. Started a company (modem.dev), raised some money, hired a great team
2. Hit 1.9k GitHub stars on Counterscale (w/ @stordahl.dev)
2. Hosted DevtoolsTO 3x
4. Invested in some great 🇨🇦 startups
5. Visited Japan & Austria
6. Took some pics 📸
Silksong was also amazing. But fwiw, I had very little time for games this year and didn't play much else.
Blue Prince was my GOTY and I think nerdy programmer types here would enjoy it.
Also it plays well on Linux via Steam's Proton compatibility layer.
"make a picture of a cool S"
Nano Banana Pro vs ChatGPT vs Midjourney
Doh, of course 🤦
Yeah, that's a good tip. Looks like people are actively scanning specific keywords just to harass them (already got one).
bsky.app/profile/gofo...
I want to dork around with new technology and talk about it the way I always have. That includes AI, LLMs, etc.
But the response to Armin's post here illustrates why that feels kind of hard on Bluesky. So my posting here has dropped a ton.
The soundtrack for deep, focused work
I made a Chrome plugin that converts your typing speed to tokens/second (TPS) so you can compare your output to LLMs.
150 WPM = roughly 3.3 tokens/sec
(🔊 Sound on)
Any startups/companies looking for a good TypeScript + JS developer?
I have someone in the US, remote, has a strong GitHub portfolio + OSS contributions. Let me know!
Curious if any Counterscale users are against this being enabled by default? tl;dr, we run a daily cron to backup the previous days analytics into an R2 bucket using the Apache Arrow file format
Feels like the demand for OSS hasn't felt this low in a while:
1. People can just codegen what they want
2. Companies will use whatever gets them to market faster to capitalize on AI – if it's a black box so what
Touched on this on the Hard Part podcast.
Tronto is how the locals say it
