Justin Bennett

Alrighty folks, I've renamed my twitter account from @zephraph to @just_be_dev. Got a placeholder for the old one.

@inkandswitch has been *cooking*

I think I found a way to get models to actually implement Figma designs without spending infinite tokens and fucking it up

@mitsuhiko @threepointone He's just got that presence

I have a 100% hit rate of meeting @threepointone at the recent conferences I went to. Are we sure he doesn’t have clones?

@SocketSecurity this behavior of spin-rs looks suspicious: crates.io/crates/spin/ve…. WDYT?

10/10 city

@yzuyr congrats!

Starting my "married man in his 30s" arc

@yzuyr Will do!

@just_be_dev If you'd ever be going slightly east, to Poland, let me know. I live 3h away from Berlin

Berlin is such a good time

Introducing Domain SDK A simple open source SDK to easily let your customers add custom domains to your app. - Multiple providers: Vercel, Cloudflare, Railway, Render, Netlify - @shadcn ready components - AI Agents skills to make it easy to integrate - Open source, MIT licensed

Nano ID 6.0 is out. We made it 4x faster, and our JS implementation now beats the native C++ crypto.randomUUID(). github.com/ai/nanoid Orhan Aydoğdu came up with the trick for nope-id and let us port it to Nano ID. github.com/ai/nanoid/pull… How it works ↓

@InsiderPresider @threepointone Yes

@threepointone thats actually kind of unhinged but maybe berlin audiences just have zero standards. is clapping for tweets the new bar for intellectual discourse now

in berlin, they clap when you tweet on stage

We continue with our talks! Now up: Brendan O‘Brien talking about "Iroh: syncing terabytes of data, peer-to-peer“ and sharing Iroh 1.0 as a local-first success story at scale 🤩

The idea of "AI employees" feels so short-sighted to me - both disrespectful to humans and a complete misunderstanding of what these tools can do and how to best put them to work You may as well start adding Excel spreadsheets to your org chart

People of Pi ! It's 2:05 AM and the code mode extension with a plot twist is ready. The tool is a 1:1-ish Codex implementation: exec + wait tools. But it adds one big thing: you can define tools via toml files. Dynamically. For example, if you want a subagent tool that wraps your claude code or whatever around a simple claude -p but with fancy arguments, but the agent will only see it as, idk "reviewer_subagent", and never have to think what is hidden behind the tool... Yeah you can do that. You just create a toml file and a script that wraps your claude cli around it. Want dual mode so you can call claude/codex using a single "spawn_subagent" tool with a "mode: reviewer|explorer" exposed? You have a nasty bash tool call that you dont want your agent to reconstruct every time? I've gotchu, just look at examples. Tools can be deferred, as in the agent has to specifically call exec to find them, or they can be bundled into the pi system prompt. Deferred tools are rediscovered with every exec call, so you can have an agent in an entirely different session create a tool that an ongoing sesion can use. pi install npm:@howaboua/pi-dynamic-tools This should all be working, but do let me know if it somehow doesn't. It's where Pi-codex-conversion is going. I was trying to figure out how to add extra tools to PATH mode so I don't have to include full schemas with all my extra tools. But I didn't want to bloat the extension for y'all. So I designed an extension system for an extension. Pure inception. Coming soon. Don't need to tell you I will be creating tomls+js files from now on instead of tool-based Pi-extensions. Happy Clanking! github.com/IgorWarzocha/h…

@SaviorCthulhu Just visiting

@just_be_dev Perma or vacation?

Feels so good to be back in Berlin

introducing dither-kit a library of gorgeous dithered charts built from the ground up, no dependencies, they're built on top of a tiny <canvas> engine install it today at tripwire.sh/dither-kit

🎉 Using agents to build local-first apps? We have a new `build-with-tinybase` skill! More details at skills.sh/tinyplex/tinyb…

@thdxr Holy shit. Well how does that feel?

forgot to do this for a bit june was 13,200,000 monthly actives

@devinjameson @vanilagy Aye, that’s how I feel too. Projects often failed because folks would bundle learning something new with building something new and often those are at cross purposes.

I think we need to start decoupling “get the result” from “learn the thing deeply.” Both have their place. And I kind of like that “get the result” is way easier now, without needing the deep understanding. Historically, I’ve been prone to wanting to understand the thing perfectly before achieving the result, which can be self-defeating.

One thing I really dislike about agentic coding is how learning is disincentivized now; you can achieve good results in a new area you've never done things in. Useful sure, but I also find it kinda sad. If I no longer learn or grow through my work, it feels less meaningful to me.