Akash 🇬🇧/🇮🇳

My first public outage (which got customers emailing me!!) Here's the conclusion of the story

opencode 1.3.0 will no longer autoload the claude max plugin we did our best to convince anthropic to support developer choice but they sent lawyers it's your right to access services however you wish but it is also their right to block whoever they want we can't maintain an official plugin so it's been removed from github and marked deprecated on npm appreciate our partners at openai, github and gitlab who are going the other direction and supporting developer freedom

@star_yutish Yo that edit is fire! How'd you record it? Is part of it llm generated or all artistically recorded?

i almost missed my meeting with a16z today.

@zivreichert @localglobevc Lovely! Thanks for the share!

@thewritingdev Just by King’s X station. The @localglobevc office. Join us: luma.com/99q8u9kc

Can’t think of a better spot to hang and build. Again next Wednesday.

@isnit0 Video editing on point ☝️ What's the link to sign up to these hacks?

Working at ElevenLabs is awesome, in part because I get to do things like this.

@GeorgeJeffersn The app looks well built! Congrats on the launch!

You can vibe code an app in a day. But can you build a business? Introducing Revnu.

[explaining the baghavad gita to a16z] so it’s kind of like a podcast, but they’re on a chariot

@YagyanshB @twachalabs Looks great! Congrats Yagyansh!

well took the jump and now we have an official X handle for @twachalabs; made a small adjustment to own bio too haha

@simeonGriggs Give them away - or watch a ton of movies 😂

Booked my Project Hail Mary tickets only to find I have 8 more free movie tickets to use before the end of the month 💀

@cljack They are indeed doing that! Ex-meta employees are hunted down by their contracting recruiters all the time!

At this point Meta should just switch to hiring everyone on fixed-length contracts. Impossible to run a functioning company like the Squid Games

Most Global Talent Visa rejections come down to one thing: poorly structured evidence ❌. You can have incredible achievements, but if the assessor can't follow your evidence in 30 seconds, it won't land 😥. Every piece of evidence in your application should follow the same 3-part structure. No exceptions. Here's the framework 👇 📄 Page 1 - Self-Documentation Your written explanation of what this evidence is and why it matters. State the criterion it supports, what YOU personally did (not your team), the measurable outcome, and why it matters in plain English. 🔍 Page 2 - Third-Party Evidence Proof that what you claimed on page one is true. Analytics dashboards, conference screenshots, press articles, award certificates. Never internal Slack messages or self-published blog posts. ✉️ Page 3+ - Letter of Reference A short letter from someone who can independently verify this specific evidence. Conference organiser for speaking evidence. Customer or investor for product evidence. Programme coordinator for mentorship. A few things people get wrong: - Writing two or three pages of explanation, leaving no room for proof - Describing what the company achieved instead of what you achieved - Placing images side by side (Tech Nation counts each image as a separate page 😬) - Adding Google Drive or YouTube links - assessors will not click them Every evidence document. Same structure. Every time. If you're preparing your Global Talent application, try running each piece of evidence through this 3-part test before you submit 🎯 And of course, I'm always here for help in case you have questions 👋

this is actually insane > be tech guy in australia > adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live > not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4 > pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA > feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold > zero background in biology > identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets > design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch > genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own > need ethics approval to administer it > red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine > 3 months, finally approved > drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection > tumor halves > coat gets glossy again > dog is alive and happy > professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?” one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline. we are going to cure so many diseases. I dont think people realize how good things are going to get

@cooperx86 no. please share 😅

@thewritingdev Have you seen the alternate video for that

you really just need 1998-2003 UK dance music to be happy

@gustojs I would hope so too!

@thewritingdev I'd assume they're at least changing the specializations?

This is troubling. When I was at Meta in 23, they had about 85k employees. They're down to about 65k employees now. Now they're trying to get to ~50k It seems like even though they layoff people - they don't really slow down hiring - which means they have to keep laying off. What a sad cycle to be in.

@Polymarket x.com/thewritingdev/…

BREAKING: Meta reportedly planning to lay off up to 20% of the company to offset rising AI costs.

@MattBidewell 😂😂 the last one was just one I found funny

@thewritingdev One of these photos is not like the rest which is it

Is this for real. Is Spring really in the air?

@gustojs Yup they're still quite active in India, more active in UK tbh!

Would you say local meetups for developers in India are still popular? Because after the pandemy, I think they've never fully came back in Europe. There are some showing up for a short while or being organized regularly, but in much smaller amounts. Unless it's just my impression because I moved away from dev community activities.

I remember when I was in India back in 2019, my "give me your Twitter handle", even among web developers, was so often met with "we don't really use Twitter here". So many people wanted to share their Instagram instead. Now, removing probably a third hundred of (inactive) followers from India already, I realize that even back then it was still a huge number. And look at India now, it's like half of X.😅 Honestly it's so good to see.