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sharing my collection of claude skills here: github.com/melvinmt/skills
install with: npx skills add melvinmt/skills
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Melvin Tercan
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I actually saw Garry Tan at a grocery store in San Francisco once. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn't want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, "Oh, like you're doing now?"
I was taken aback, and all I could say was "Huh?" but he kept cutting me off and going "huh? huh? huh?" and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like "Sir, you need to pay for those first." At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When he took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually "to prevent any electrical infetterence," and then turned around and winked at me. I don't even think that's a word. After he scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
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First day in SF and already met Garry Tan at Chipotle on his birthday
Told him what I was building and the guy invited me for an interview
SF is truly the greatest city on Earth
Garry Tan@garrytan
It's my birthday and on my birthday I want to recognize all my haters. Haters do the best marketing. Love your haters.
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@juliarturc @TechCrunch at this rate, it’ll be on LinkedIn next week
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Delve accused of misleading customers with ‘fake compliance’ techcrunch.com/2026/03/21/del…
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@reet416 ik heb het tegenovergestelde probleem: elke dag is er wel een nederlander die automatisch engels met mij begint te praten, en vaak blijven ze ook engels praten nadat ik in het nederlands antwoord
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A situation that happens multiple times a day: you’re chatting with your Dutch coworkers. An expat (who only speaks English) starts sitting with you. Out of politeness the conversation switches to English as well, even though the expat contributes nothing to the conversation.
Porkchop Express@Porkchop_EXP
Just to be clear - I don’t think this is a good thing. The Dutch have only themselves to blame - if the Germans can force their über-complicated language even on the lowest IQ foreign workers, so could the Dutch, but it’s just easier for them to switch to English. Now you end up in a situation where even in highly professional organizations entire departments have to work fully in English because of one or two foreign employees, not to mention that in Amsterdam a waiter addresses everyone by default in English. Entire universities are switching to English as their primary language. This is all too much.
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@arvidkahl @levelsio I already built this (instabooks ai) but turns out people are not interested (yet) in reading 200+ pages of ai generated content no matter how personalized it is
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You could even personalize parts of the book with the name or, hear me out, social-media-enriched insights for that particular reader.
Imagine: I buy your book, an agentic thingy of your figures out, I'm running Podscan, and with the full insight of your book behind it, generates a checklist with 25 low-hanging fruit improvements, linked to the chapters where they're mentioned. Right in the introduction.
What's your position on this kind of stuff?
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More AI-coded fun things
📕 Yesterday I asked it to build an ePub and PDF generator for my book readmake.com
I still update and write on it, but every time I had to print the book (it's HTML) as a PDF, and then open it in Calibre (a very annoying app) to export it to ePub (the format Kindle uses), super annoying process
So I asked it to build something that would just generate it hourly, so it's always fresh, but it was so fast to generate, that then I thought, what if I just generate it on-the-fly when people download the book, and then what if I add a personal watermark with their name and email (kinda like copy protection), and it did that too
This would have taken me days to build and perfect it but now this was just a few hours
I'm really just racing through my todo list with AI, it's great
Myro on Tech@myroontech
Bought kindle specifically to read book called "make" wrote by @levelsio about Indie Hackers, as I want to become one. Kidding, I just saw that "Make" available for Kindle and decided it's right time to purchase this device, and try to growth on books again. Since I can't read normal one
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serious question, if everything goes api first what’s the actual business model for many companies?
yah you can charge for usage. but over time, what durable value are you providing beyond being a glorified database + some endpoints?
the value will almost always accrue in the layer above you which is the agent / product that composes your api into a full experience. & if more people rely on your api indirectly (through agents), that just increases the odds you get disintermediated.
obviously there are categories where the api is the product cuz it sits on real business logic, regulated rails, or state you can’t easily replicate.
but in a lot of software, especially with ai collapsing business logic into prompts + tool calls, api first feels less like a moat & more like a fast path to commoditization.
Aaron Levie@levie
In a world of openclaw, codex, claude code/cowork, manus, and other agentic systems, it’s becoming clear that the future of software has to be API-first, but also enable human interaction for verification, collaboration with agents and people, and working on the output. It’s generally been the case that software was built for people first and foremost, and then APIs are exposed for other systems to connect into that tool or data. But if we imagine a world where AI agents are doing 10X or 100X more work with software than people, then this paradigm is flipped. Software becomes API-first, with ways of having humans be able to work effectively with the agent, either through a UI as relevant, or chat. If you’re not API-first, then you’re nearly DOA to agents.
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@morganlinton this works so well that I decided to sleep through the day as well
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@pulkit_mittal_ I’m just gonna copy this message and send it to Claude
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So you say you are a software engineer.
Have you ever downloaded actual binaries like Kafka, Postgres, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, Redis, or something else, and tried running them locally while exploring what those bin, lib, data, and logs, etc directories contain?
And then did you understand why they expose specific ports, what exactly gets written inside the data directory, and why in that particular format?
Did you then write your own client to call their APIs and bombard the server with requests, just to observe when CPU becomes the bottleneck, when RAM starts limiting scale, and how the system degrades under pressure?
After that, did you run the same systems inside Docker or Podman and experiment with controlling memory, security and disk limits to see how resource isolation affects behavior?
Did you go one step further and install Minikube locally, to orchestrate multiple instances of your container, simulate a multi-node cluster, and understand ingress and load balancing in practice?
And then maybe, did you spin up a free AWS EC2 instance and repeat everything on a real remote machine to understand how ssh works and how distributed systems behave outside your laptop?
Or is your definition of backend engineering still limited to APIs plumbing?
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I don't really understand devs who jump back and forth between LLM providers. Claude, Codex, Claude, Gemini, back to Codex, then Claude.
What marginal improvement can be worth the massive context shift every single time?
Pick one and build. You won't have time to switch.
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Maybe this is just normal levels of npm package stupidity, but I don't love that Vercel's skills package silently goes digging for a Github token to use.
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excuse me, up to $225 per million tokens?!!
is this the most expensive model option ever?
Claude@claudeai
Our teams have been building with a 2.5x-faster version of Claude Opus 4.6. We’re now making it available as an early experiment via Claude Code and our API.
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Anthropic doesn't plan beyond 90 days.
No waterfall. No specs. Just vibes.
Claude Cowork shipped 10 days after the first idea.
When there's more work than people, nobody fights. Everyone just builds.
The hive mind = engineering minus ego.
steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-…
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Here's a link to the books that I bought: singaporemath.com/collections/di…
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The Singapore method is almost the opposite. By the time a kid sees 3 + 4 on paper they already know what that means because they’ve seen it drawn out and visualized dozens of times.
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I liked this toggle (and insight) so much, I turned it into a skill and applied it on our entire company's website
github.com/melvinmt/skill…
Guillermo Rauch@rauchg
This ◉ ʜᴜᴍᴀɴ ○ ᴍᴀᴄʜɪɴᴇ toggle by @p0 is brilliant. It's a beautiful illustration of what the web will "look like" to agents. It will look like a whole lotta markdown 😄 Incidentally, we just made it such that vercel.com/changelog links automatically render as markdown when agents consume it (we do the same for /𝚍𝚘𝚌𝚜). Page went from 500kb to 2kb. The web for agents will be very efficient! Try: curl -H 'accept: text/markdown' vercel.com/changelog/tag-…
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@chatgpt21 well not the actual research yet, he basically came up with 700 new hypotheses that he now has to research
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First OpenAI employee to admit he’s automated his research with 5.3 Codex
Karel@KarelDoostrlnck
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