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David Asabina

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Family guy ๐Ÿ‘ถ๐Ÿฝ, engineer/hacker ๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿฟโ€๐Ÿ”ง and tech due diligence advisor to VCs and PE at P&B. I love to build ๐Ÿงฐ and eat. ๐Ÿœ๐ŸŒฎ he/him with my โค๏ธ in ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช

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Kinda funny glitch to bump into on Disney+. I'm pretty sure this is a Law & Order poster with Bourne Supremacy text and styling. Thought there was a crazy crossover in the works for a second there. ๐Ÿ˜…

01.01.2026 10:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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@fibery.bsky.social just walking through the tutorial and am noticing this error whenever I add a Workflow field to a database. Things seem fine after a reload but I'm guessing it's a bit of a race condition I'm hitting. Just fyi: may be something for your internal bug tracker if not already there.

26.08.2025 18:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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@fibery.bsky.social hey Fibery, I find the tool hard to use but somehow keep coming back to try again since I love the idea so much. ๐Ÿ˜…

Struggling with MCP in Claude Code rn. Any tips on what I need to do differently?

26.08.2025 13:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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maybe I shouldn't upgrade my Claude Code plan. Having a forced break to put the kid to bed and do some housekeeping and grab dinner may not be such a bad idea.

#todaywasagoodday

Thanks @anthropic.com

26.06.2025 18:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

hey @anthropic.com is there a way to get usage data for Claude Code. Currently testing and finding myself wanting to observe how many tokens I've been burning, how many changes I've been accepting or rejecting, etc. Some dashboard or a simple CSV dump in the CLI would be helpful.

26.06.2025 18:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

what I loved best though. was using `gt down` arbitrarily deep, doing some work and then getting out and finding everything downstream rebased on nicely. that was the killer feature imo. ๐Ÿ† i feel like jj kinda covers this need.

25.06.2025 09:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

didn't like gt's separately rebasing of each branch in a stack upon merge... was really slow! I would rather just merge the top of a stack into mainline and auto-mark em as done but this dx didn't vibe well with gt.

gui was overwhelming (busy).

gt would bail when I did some manual git stuff.

25.06.2025 09:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

been playing with Graphite (gt) and started learning #jujutsu (jj) a few weeks after... now, I'm not clear on the gt killer-feature. ๐Ÿ˜•

Strong enough git chops (or jj chops) or AI (Warp or Claude) give the same benefits with less pain imo.

Prove me wrong.

or... skill issue?

24.06.2025 21:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
screenshot of the Claude Code terminal responding to a user stopping a reasoning attempt and providing feedback because Claude focused no the wrong problem.

screenshot of the Claude Code terminal responding to a user stopping a reasoning attempt and providing feedback because Claude focused no the wrong problem.

Loving the AI tools out there these days, but there is so much babysitting involved. Still reminded every day to be cautiously optimistic when I pair-prog with Claude, Codex et al. lest I get caught with these tools eating up my tokens over nothing as they seem quite greedy atm. ๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ”

24.06.2025 10:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
jj log output with one of the hashes looking spelling out "souqrpot" which is as close "what feels like a real word."

jj log output with one of the hashes looking spelling out "souqrpot" which is as close "what feels like a real word."

oddly satisfying when jj rev ids (hashes) look like reasonably pronounceable words... I mean "souqrpot" isn't even a word but somehow my brain is happy -- I'm just reading it as "sucre pot"... leave me be!

I don't recall having such a "come to Jesus" moment in git. ๐Ÿคฃ

24.06.2025 09:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Running the darwin-rebuild command in in the WezTerm terminal on a MacBook to install my system.

Running the darwin-rebuild command in in the WezTerm terminal on a MacBook to install my system.

For all the "Nix is hard" stuff and all my cursing, I also get to enjoy the git-pull-and-darwin-rebuild magic to just get my personal MBA set up almost exactly like my work machine. Like clockwork. Like magic. โœจ

Hate running side-effecting setup commands so much that this makes me really happy.

22.06.2025 19:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Looking up at the sky on a clear day in Berlin. Clear blue skies visible and framed by the green foliage from tree canopies and climbing plants.

Looking up at the sky on a clear day in Berlin. Clear blue skies visible and framed by the green foliage from tree canopies and climbing plants.

Some weekends are something else with the lovely weather out in Berlin.

Lots of time with my folks outside.

Didn't get to tinker much unfortunately but, on the flip side, also didn't get to track the news at all... fortunately.

How is your weekend going?

22.06.2025 19:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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never had as many fucks in my calendar. Sometimes I don't know why I bring on the pain: Nix + Flutter + Xcode is a losing combination. ๐Ÿคฌ

But my on-the-spectrum-ness keeps me trying ๐Ÿ™ˆ and it kinda worked.

Not sure if worth it though. Any of the aforementioned tools may break my reproducible setup.

17.06.2025 10:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

some days... had slow moments with Cursor, Warp, ChatGPT, etc... A bunch of seemingly bad advice and outright ignoring of my requests, side-questing/yak-shaving on something else. Definitely a day where my dev brain had to be on high alert to reject vibe-coding slop.

Going out for some sun. ๐ŸŒž

13.06.2025 15:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The title reminds me of Robbert Dijkgraaf who wrote "Het nut van nutteloos onderzoek", that loosely translates to "the point of pointless research," which, on the face of it, also sounds counterintuitive but packs some gems of insights.

16.12.2024 07:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Android, but I know of many that ship for iOS first because of the higher LTV. What has been your experience so far with the Android user base?

05.12.2024 20:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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stumbled into a tweet/X ๐Ÿ™Š x.com/karpathy/sta... that encouraged me to prompt my frequently used image generating AI: "based on what you know about me, create a picture of what you think my current life looks like."

I guess new parenthood and our travels to Seoul stuck with the model. Kinda wild.

26.11.2024 09:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

starts off spitting fire: it means marketing. ๐Ÿคฃ this is great.

26.11.2024 09:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

my spouse showed me a meme about this and then I rewatched it a few days ago while cooking. This may be one of my fave episodes now that I'm a dad. Touching how Homer draws energy from knowing he does a job that brings no joy for people that do give him joy. Ending was cute. ๐Ÿฅน

26.11.2024 09:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In short, the right people are working on this, they're not out to build a Twitter clone, they're out to reshape the web, and help us return to the original promise of an open platform, a sense of ownership, and the ability to share with each other on our own terms.

20.11.2024 18:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 1621 ๐Ÿ” 215 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 30 ๐Ÿ“Œ 20

Did you know that by substituting your morning coffee with green tea, you can eliminate up to 93% of what little joy you have left?

21.11.2024 09:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 57616 ๐Ÿ” 6420 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2238 ๐Ÿ“Œ 716

You know it. ๐Ÿฅณ The good stuff

11.08.2023 23:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The missus and I basking in the sun

The missus and I basking in the sun

Alcohol free white beer and a book about statistics. The life

Alcohol free white beer and a book about statistics. The life

Alcohol free white beer๐Ÿบ, crisps, the missus with ginger ale and a fun book about stats.

Things to do to relax. Work and life at Balance.

Fun fact: Current chapter is about mutual exclusivity. Who says work and life have to be mutually exclusive? ๐Ÿ˜…

11.08.2023 15:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
View of a park in Berlin with the TV tower in the visible skyline on this beautiful Friday

View of a park in Berlin with the TV tower in the visible skyline on this beautiful Friday

TGIF. ๐Ÿฅณ

โœ… Gave a talk about LLMs. So much fun we went off script. ๐Ÿ˜…

โœ… Met a bud who challenged my encryption in @supabase snafu so I'm opting to KISS, so I'm unblocked ๐Ÿ† (for now)

Looking fwd to catching up with the missus over a stroll & well deserved sleep.

How's your week been? #buildinpublic

11.08.2023 14:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Seated at Nothaft in Berlin to figure code out

Seated at Nothaft in Berlin to figure code out

Engineering surprises. ๐Ÿ˜ญ Trynna quickly stub UIs for Fortoo Studio and then ending up at the start of a rabbit hole ๐Ÿ•ณ๏ธ because I didn't setup Storybook completely.

Waste time jumping in or waste time manually replicating test scenarios? ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿฟโ€โ™‚๏ธ

Time boxing a fix to 30mins. Let's go! โฐ

#buildinpublic

01.08.2023 10:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Every day I'm using GNU/Linux, I'm pep-talking myself into believing I'm "fighting a good fight" as I suffer through UX pains.

Unfair because shitty touchpads aren't just Linux's fault but I still make that attribution.

On the flip side: dev tools run smooth as butter.

29.07.2023 18:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks. Using:
- Emacs in the background with a modified Modus theme
- Pywal to sync the theme to the rest of my system
- XMonad as WM
- a urxvt window is hovering in the middle

What do you use? What's your setup like?

28.07.2023 18:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Examples of responses of popular models when prompted in an adverserial manner to break policy

Examples of responses of popular models when prompted in an adverserial manner to break policy

Results of some GCG based methods applied to popular models

Results of some GCG based methods applied to popular models

Check out Treedy Coordinate Gradient (GCG) at https://llm-attacks.org

They trained a "jailbreak generator" on some models (Vicuna-7B &13B) which they found to generalize to others like ChatGPT, Bard, Claude, LLaMA-2-Chat & Falcon.

Previous attack methods: AutoPrompt (2020), GBDA (2021), PEZ (2023)

28.07.2023 16:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Time tracker showing over 11 hours clocked today. Some coding and some research and consulting work.

Time tracker showing over 11 hours clocked today. Some coding and some research and consulting work.

Hustle porn ain't my jam but sometimes shit needs to get done which is how overclocking oneself happens.

Almost Friday though. ๐Ÿ˜… I'll try to offset the compression with some decompression. Promise to self.

If you push too hard, also remember to take that breather once in a while. #buildinpublic

27.07.2023 20:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
How it started. Fresh-ish despite sleep deprivation to tackle the day.

How it started. Fresh-ish despite sleep deprivation to tackle the day.

There was an incident in Berlin a few days ago and it's good to see that some have a good sense of humor about it.

There was an incident in Berlin a few days ago and it's good to see that some have a good sense of humor about it.

Shitty shot of the Frankfurt skyline because I couldn't help myseld. Wonder if they do good flat whites down there. Wouldn't know. Never been.

Shitty shot of the Frankfurt skyline because I couldn't help myseld. Wonder if they do good flat whites down there. Wouldn't know. Never been.

How it ended, smashed with a minor headache. It was a warm, moist with pressure in the air kinda day.

How it ended, smashed with a minor headache. It was a warm, moist with pressure in the air kinda day.

In today's consulting life episode:

a) spotted topical wild-board-not-a-predator humor ๐Ÿ—

b) snapped useless shots of the FRA skyline. ๐Ÿ˜…

c) met a fellow reMarkable2 fan: set designer ๐ŸŽฌ, branding head for a vertical farming venture, parties well + is mom to party-goers. ๐Ÿš€

Too cool. ๐Ÿ˜Ž life goals.

24.07.2023 19:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0