Jesse Freeman is on Bluesky

It’s a huge honor for my 3 year anniversary of working at @Akamai to see my team, with the help of @HowardAttias’s team at FMC, grow the @akamaidev @YouTube channel to 1m subscribers. Thanks to Andrew Stebbins’ hard work, I can now hang this up on my wall!!!

Check out an early preview of RavenBrain, a local-first MCP memory bank for AI agents that provides an interface to review, save or archive memories in Markdown as they accumulate. Inspired by one of @natebjones's videos. Any LLM that supports MCP or a CLI can use it.

For those of you who knew Sandy Duncan (@lordoftheyoyo) or are interested in learning more about the man, the myth, the legend who ran Xbox in the EU and YoYoGames, I wrote a eulogy on Medium about his passing - @jessefreeman/why-i-dont-drink-water-b6b260fc1068" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@jessefreeman/…

Just a few thoughts from someone who’s been in #DevRel a while. Congrats on the new NYC office! I use @n8n in my own projects & would love to see events showcase its true potential. @JanOberhauser would be glad to consult if you ever want a hand building community in the city 😉

The space would have benefited from @n8n demo stations grouped by verticals to show off community workflows. I would have run a contest leading up & invited winners to speak. Let people scan to grab copies or unlock exclusives just for attendees. Make the space interactive!

Stopped by @n8n’s NYC event tonight for a bit to check it out. After years running #DevRel events, it got me thinking about a few ways it could have been even more engaging. The energy was there, but it could’ve been dialed up to 11 with a few tweaks.

The most frustrating thing about @lovable isn't the slop output, it's the lack of support even when you are spending over $250 a month. File a bug & you get an AI generate response, no way to recover credits after hours of failures, & a community left to fend for itself. 👎

I'm going to write up my thoughts on how these #VibeCoding tools are just slot machines designed so the house always wins. Also wanted to share some of the better workflows I've figured out after spending lots of time, money, and resources into figuring them out. Stay tuned.

Finally ditching @lovable. After spending hundreds of dollars & watching quality/cost plummet, I can’t justify it. It's yet to create anything shippable without LOTS of manual coding/fixing. @GitHubCopilot is far superior at a fraction of the cost. It's not me, it's 100% you!

Made huge progress on #ReaperboyGB’s level editor. The level code now handles all platform layouts and the player, but enemy layouts are still giving me trouble. Missed my #ScreenshotSaturday stream, but I’m live this morning working on my #gbcompo25 jam: jessefreeman.tv

For #ScreenshotSaturday, I’m live streaming day 9 of my #gbcompo25 game, #ReaperBoyGB. I’m past my 7-day deadline but making progress. Built a custom C function to rebuild the level from the tilemap faster than @GBStudioDev's scripts. Watch live: jessefreeman.tv #gamedev

Day 2 of my @GBStudioDev #GameDev stream. Made solid progress on #Reaperboy enemies yesterday. Today I’m diving into lower-level scripting to test tile IDs for collision detection & automate enemy and level setup. Watch live: jessefreeman.tv #GBStudio #IndieDev #RetroDev

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I don't understand why these preorders are so bad. This is a really easy problem to fix outside of trying to keep your site up. Just have open pre-orders, 1 per person, don't close when more preorder than initial stock, & just let people know what their backorder window will be.

Not a great day for people looking to preorder a @Nintendo #Switch2 and be working on @gamestop's website or at @Cloudflare. It's one thing to not be able to keep a site up but it's another to plaster your company's name all over the error page so everyone knows who to blame 🤔

@evilmikedg @Nintendo @nvidia @BestBuy @Walmart @Target @PayPal No dice, none of these are going through. I even tried @BestBuy's overpriced bundles but I'm "still in line" and I rather go to sleep at this point. I have stacks of the original Switches laying around - one day these will be cheap door stoppers too.

@evilmikedg @Nintendo @nvidia @BestBuy @Walmart @Target @PayPal I'm trying. Waiting in line. Was about to go to sleep but I'll wait a little longer to be disappointed again by @BestBuy

Who ran @Nintendo’s preorder, @nvidia? Don’t think @BestBuy even went live, in a queue at @Walmart for 20 mins for nothing, & @Target let me put one in the cart but crashed a dozen times trying to pay. Even @PayPal was down. I’m too old for this. Just wanted one for my boys 🤬

Well @ReaddyAI is not ready for primetime. Still can't get it to work. It said errors don't cost credits but it didn't generate anything & told me I'm out of credits. There are so many tools popping up that a first impression like this is not good so I'll try something else.

Giving @ReaddyAI a try this morning & can't get it to create a single design. Failed on the first two tries, now it's just stuck showing me their logo animation while nothing happens. Has anyone had any luck with this?