John McBride

I got 99 problems and they’re all because of code.

@ahmetb Congrats!! Huge effort! 👏👏

finished in one piece, epic! (i didn't know i could do this)

@07bobbin Yes 🐖

@johncodes Animals

Best Pink Floyd album?

@ruggerogargiulo True. I think it still matters - just no one seems to care. These workflows usually are what defines HOW a project ships.

@johncodes Agree - though I’m nervous when it silently makes a worktree…then you think it’s on main but actually it sits locally. Mostly happens when running many parallel threads

The rise of agents and LLMs, people seem to care alot less about how their git operations work. Rebase? Squash? Forks? Branches? Tags? Who cares: the agent can handle it

btw, @pidotdev is the official account for pi on this hell site. go give it a follow.

Not really: I’ve run into the “new Ghostty tab” issue before where it'll split in a weird way but I know since it’s using the accessibility APIs, not much to be done. I’m using zellij for terminal multiplexing anyways so not a problem for me. You also might find it interesting I have aerospace integrated with my darwin nix config and it works wonderfully: github.com/jpmcb/configs/…

@johncodes Thanks! Any issues encountered? (besides support for native tabs, I am slowly tailor the architecture here and there to hopefully support them in the future)

lemme glaze AeroSpace from @nikitabobko abit. It is one of the greatest pieces of productivity software on macOS. Unlocking i3 like keyboard-centric navigation and window management alongside the ease of use on mac is 👨🏻‍🍳 and it's easily config driven! github.com/nikitabobko/Ae…

@ruggerogargiulo @aiDotEngineer @swyx It was a pleasure jamming! 🤘

Didn't expect to end up playing drums at @aiDotEngineer world's fair and jam with @swyx singing and @johncodes on the bass. Great vibes though, thanks guys. Had not played in a while...tempted to buy a drumkit again

On episode 40 of @opensourceready, @bdougieYO and @johncodes sit down with Orhun Parmaksiz (@orhundev) to explore Ratty, his experimental GPU-rendered terminal emulator that combines traditional command-line workflows with interactive 3D graphics. Tune in! hubs.ly/Q04nNfXJ0

@zeu_dev Lmao 🤣

someone said it looked like r/malelivingspaces and i’m crying at the accuracy lmao

Today @vermilionfund closed our $25M second fund. Still backing technical founders building for technical users in AI infra, security, and dev tools. 95% of my Fund I investors came back for Fund II. That's the number I'm most proud of. @DominicMadori from @TechCrunch wrote about our story techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/sol…

@ashl3ysm1th @vermilionfund @DominicMadori @TechCrunch Congrats!! 🎉🍾🎈🎊 👏👏

Real ones have been using software factories for like 10 years

@samlambert What sector are they coming from? There are still many domains where AI is just bad. Recently talked to some forward deployed engs who where helping an enterprise modernize some super nasty legacy lisp using AI and their clients where having a very bad time with it.

We had a talented engineer apply to PlanetScale but they told us they are ethically opposed to using AI. How do people think this is a possible stance in 2026?

I’m a researcher now huggingface.co/bdougie/smollm…

On episode 40 of @opensourceready, @bdougieYO and @johncodes sit down with Orhun Parmaksiz (@orhundev) to discuss Ratty, an experimental terminal emulator that reimagines what the command line can become. The conversation covers AI-powered development workflows, terminal innovation, open source security, and why the terminal may be more relevant than ever in the age of AI. hubs.ly/Q04n6hVF0

@dreamsofcode_io Yes, I’ve been saying this for almost a year johncodes.com/archive/2025/1…

“He who controls the spice, controls the universe” I’m have a very cynical viewpoint on this, but I believe it’s a way to get developers and companies so dependent on using these tools to the point that they can’t hope to modify or understand their codebase without them.

@zeu_dev Super interesting. Want to give it a go: it’d be cool if there were some incentives to join/be a provider on the coop. Electricity is expensive 🥵

@johncodes have you seen cocore.dev? curious on your take

An incredibly high value week at AIE. My 3 biggest take aways: 1) sovereign and free (as in freedom) AI is on the precipice. Soooo many enterprises, startups, and individuals care about owning their data and running their AI stack - likely a reaction to the Mythos rug pull and AI labs clearly having only their own interests at heart. 2) there are still soooo many hard problems we need qualified and curious builders to tackled: everything from the application layer down to the networking protocol. Everything must be re-evaluated and/or re-built from AI native first principles. What an incredible time to be a builder. 3) the research to implementation gap is collapsing and AI ideas are accelerating. We have frameworks, SDKs, services, and models where the research goes from paper to implementation extremely quickly. Never a better time to try new approaches and ideas.