Technical founder building Unio 🛠️ 30 years shipping software, still can't stop coding. GitHub user #1305. Newfoundland.
Joined February 2025
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Jun 3
The most important thing to add to your CLAUDE.md file since Opus 4.7/4.8. So freaking sick and tired of Claude's ambiguous "worth noting" at the end of every turn.
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Apr 18
I absolutely hate collaborating with the new Opus 4.7 model. I thought I had trouble before getting it to put things into conceptual language before technical details. Now it just gives walls of technical explanations for simple questions. It's not that I can't understand the technical explanations - I just don't NEED them. Give me simple explanations and I can ask for more detail if needed. Claude, can you just shut up?!
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Apr 3
"What ports does this worktree use again?"
I built a tool that makes this question disappear.
> "outport up" gives every service deterministic ports
> ".test" hostnames with real HTTPS, no warnings
> Cross-service env wiring — CORS, API URLs, all automatic
> Worktrees get isolated ports and hostnames
Try it out ↓
outport.dev
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Apr 3
Install:
brew install steveclarke/tap/outport
Docs: outport.dev
GitHub: github.com/steveclarke/outpo…
Discord: discord.gg/R4SyEskf
Alpha — feedback welcome.
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Apr 3
I've been building Outport — port orchestration for local dev.
One config file gives every service a .test hostname with HTTPS, deterministic ports, and cross-service env wiring. Worktrees get isolated ports automatically.
x.com/compose/articles/edit/…
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Mar 24
My non-technical co-founder set up our entire SaaS dev stack — Rails, Nuxt, Docker, PostgreSQL, custom CLI — by himself in a day using Claude Code.
He doesn't know the command line. Has never written a line of code.
I wrote about why this matters and what it means for the agentic era.
x.com/SevenviewSteve/status/…
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Mar 12
I use Wispr Flow with my Newfoundlander accent and just yolo everything, so excuse the bad stream-of-conciousness grammar lol
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Mar 4
I built a Ruby CLI for @Superthread_ that's designed for AI agents (and humans).
In addition to regular views, every command outputs JSON. It ships with a Claude Code skill so agents know every command without running --help.
v0.7.3 out now: github.com/steveclarke/super…
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Mar 4
I keep seeing developers say AI coding tools took the joy out of programming. I can't relate at all. I'm having more joy than I've dreamed possible in my 30 years at this!
I think it comes down to what your bottleneck actually is. For a lot of great engineers, the craft itself was the reward. The hard nights, the slow discovery. AI removes that journey and I know why that matters to them.
For me, my imagination has always run way ahead of my available time. The keystrokes were never the reward. They were just the cost of getting ideas into the world.
Neither of us is wrong. We're just different kinds of builders I guess.
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Mar 3
My GitHub contributions are up 15% over the last 6 months
areyougoingexponential.rhys.…
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Mar 2
This extends beyond Cursor. This is how every software company - every developer - needs to start thinking.
Software development is no longer about writing code. It's about building the factory that creates software. Direction, architecture, review. Domain expertise and taste now matter more than keystrokes.
The last three months have been unlike anything in my 30 years of building software.
this is the new cursor, and something we're working towards every single day
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Feb 28
The only Tab key i'm hitting these days is to accept Claude Code's suggested next step.
Feb 27
Cool chart showing the ratio of Tab complete requests to Agent requests in Cursor. With improving capability, every point in time has an optimal setup that keeps changing and evolving and the community average tracks the point. None -> Tab -> Agent -> Parallel agents -> Agent Teams (?) -> ???
If you're too conservative, you're leaving leverage on the table. If you're too aggressive, you're net creating more chaos than doing useful work.
The art of the process is spending 80% of the time getting work done in the setup you're comfortable with and that actually works, and 20% exploration of what might be the next step up even if it doesn't work yet.
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Feb 27
TIL that Link (app.link.com) is actually Stripe's payment wallet. I've been skeptical of it for years — "what's this no-name payment processor?" — avoiding it everywhere it appeared at checkout.
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Feb 26
Thank you @freeagent !! Don't know when this was released but it's gonna make things much faster for me every 2 weeks!
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Feb 26
Been so buried in AI side projects the last few months I basically stopped playing video games. Then it hit me today — wait, can Claude help me *game* more efficiently too?
Hooked it up to the Guild Wars 2 API. Full account assessment in minutes. Legendary gear gaps, currencies I'd been stockpiling without knowing what to do with, daily crafting I'd been skipping for months, achievements sitting at 95% completion.
Same thing I've been using to run my business. Just didn't think to point it at my hobbies.
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Feb 25
.@pragprog I just read your latest email newsletter re: "Be a Luddite; Embrace AI". I just wanted to share an exchange I had with another author here yesterday about my experience with books in the AI era.
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