Tomislav Maricevic

Continuing a series of bangers, a short blog post on 80/20 approach for documentation. tmarice.dev/blog/on-usable…

@borna_perak We’re 6 months in in being 3 months away from replacing designers.

Must feel like a groundhog day at Figma’s office

@borna_perak He dropped out to start a Fraud-as-a-service company 😂

Still don’t get all the school dropouts brag without any success later on. It’s just a shorthand for not following through on anything.

@borna_perak * with curlftpfs and SVN. Things are usually free only if your time is worthless.

Same people calling today's tools "just an LLM wrapper" are the ones who would've said the world doesn't need Dropbox when there's FTP

After rediscovering in 2020 that server-rendered pages are better, we're in the middle of the hype cycle rediscovering window managers. Just wait until agent wranglers discover there is this text editor that allows you to type very efficiently using modes and shortcuts.

@bbenko When I worked on agentic video classification, Opik was 🔝 for tracing these kind of issues.

I asked the same question twice using OpenClaw + Codex + my custom skill and got two different answers. First run it picked the wrong day for today, so the output was for the wrong date (tomorrow). Second run, same query, and it was correct. It picked the right date for today. I then tried to reproduce the error multiple times so I could fix it, but couldn’t reproduce it. That’s the reality: custom skills help, guardrails make LLM automation dependable.

@borna_perak You need to be agent-maxxing -- Claude for coding + Codex for review in parallel. Antigravity only if you want wrong answers, but really quickly 😂.

At this point I keep Codex and Antigravity installed just in case Claude is down

@bbenko Just add tropes.fyi/tropes-md to the instruction set

Unpopular opinion: As a non-native speaker, I use LLMs like an editor, not a ghostwriter. The ideas are mine, always. I use the tool to tighten wording, fix grammar, and make sure the message lands the way I intended. Agree/disagree?

Reminder: Interview once a quarter - even if you love your job. Here's are a few observations of what regular interviewing does for your career:

@bbenko @openclaw Do you run into captcha issues when submitting forms?

These are the 5 things I use day to day in my @openclaw setup: 1) Cron schedules (briefs, reminders) 2) Google Suite automations (email, calendar, docs) 3) Browser chores (portals, bookings, forms) 4) Coding agent automation (fixes, scripts, glue code) 5) Research trends (what’s popping right now) 6) Research deep dives (a topic you care about, summarized, best ideas, tools, and takeaways)

@denibertovic youtube.com/watch?v=iPoL03… Might be relevant, might not, but I enjoyed learning that Anthropic uses Nix internally

Everybody's writing their own sandbox and I'm no different :D denibertovic.com/posts/slopbox-…

@bbenko Forward those emails to a Claude Code instance to build out a landing page, in exchange for 50% equity.

Been contacted latelly by a lot of people to build with them the next unicorn startup. Ideas looks like pivotgpt.ceo and specs are this "idea" pasted into ChatGPT.

@bbenko Privacy is for the political elite. The proles have nothing to fear if they have nothing to hide.

The irony: Europe, the home of GDPR, on the verge of mandating mass surveillance with #ChatControl. What happened to prioritizing digital privacy?

@bbenko Google groups. Business people love email.

After the Hack Club x Slack drama, I’m looking at alternatives. What do you recommend? Options I’ve seen: •Zulip •Mattermost •Matrix/Element •Discord •Teams / Google Chat Any strong favorites or warnings?

Some thoughts on the silliness of AI mandates, when lower hanging mandates exist tmarice.dev/blog/vim-manda…

Something I just told a founder: Stay as small as you can for as long as you can. People who come to visit your office should always be surprised that such an important company has so few employees.

Google Sheets now have AI function - I open sourced a similar functionality 2 years ago. You can still use it if you want to call OpenAI instead of Google AI. github.com/bbenko/chatGPT…

@CroDoc A balanced diet is very important!

Coffee -> Monster -> Vibe

@bbenko It’s a form of UBI

It saddens me as a European, but EU startup funding just doesn’t work. Unless you’re already connected, you get nothing. Endless bureaucracy, slow timelines, and a focus on safe bets mean new ideas get ignored and money stays with insiders. ioplus.nl/en/posts/europ…

@bbenko Cool kids use tuple.app for pair programming these days

Pair‑programmed with a junior today and realized half my ‘best practices’ are just habits wearing fancy names. Mentorship = free refactor of your own brain.

@bbenko Vim motion mandates >> AI mandates

Companies face fear and resistance to AI adoption. Solution: no mandates—build trust: explain why AI helps, offer hands-on demos, provide training & support, listen & adapt, reward early adopters. Trust beats force.