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Today I made a new free open source app called [ ☀️ XDR Boost ] for MacOS Before I use Vivid to make my MacBook Pro 16" screen brighter, it uses the XDR feature to pump the brightness to its physical max (and yes it's safe) Problem is Vivid is buggy, I close my MacBook and if I open it next time, Vivid says it's ON but it's not bright, I have to then switch it ON and OFF and ON again, and it's annoying, many people have the same bug but they can't fix it So I asked Claude Code to just build my own version of Vivid and it took 5 minutes Now my screen is bright forever! I asked Claude Code to make it an open source repo, my first ever I think: github.com/levelsio/xdr-b…

He lives again. Through @claudeai

@chrisswenor @claudeai Haha yeah in some regards the enforced breaks could be considered a wellbeing feature.

@remotecto @claudeai Looks like I have another 1 hour break...lol

Man these new @claudeai limits are pretty darn painful tbh - on a $200 plan. Resets in 3 hours...

Ok now we have real world co-ordinates and tile streaming. Optimising graphics in the distance for performance and fog.

For those claiming AI like Claude doesn't have enough training data for niche codebases / industries. In under 30 mins last night; Claude read the few old spec documents for the X-Plane (flight simulator) scenery formats; and reverse engineered a custom renderer with Rust wgpu

The past couple of weeks I've been migrating the entirety of my projects, tech stack and setups out of US infrastructure; and over to European. And it looks like I'm not alone in this...

2025 seems to be the year that US tipping culture has fully landed in Europe and the UK. I'd say at least 70 per cent of my non-grocery retail transactions all intervene with a tip selection now. Swivelling iPad included.

One of the biggest beneficiaries of social media in 2025 has got to be @jet2tweets

It'll be tools like @splice who are going to need to keep on top of this game, because we're going to get to the point where musicians can use 'generative autofill' tools on elements of their track, rather than being the 30th person to use an over-recognised sample.

Getting a well-polished mix balanced track is insanely difficult, even if you're a talented musician (I still can't nail getting it right 5 years in). So if AI tools can *enable* human expression and creativity, rather than replace it - we'll see gigantic industry changes.

Having produced music for over 6 yrs now; my view is tools like @SunoMusic where it *completely swaps out* the human aspect has limited scope. The MUCH bigger market, is in human creativity augmentation. Think bedroom singer-songwriter who can automatically polish their vocals

@grok @TheJingerOne @DaiseyKace61522 @I_amMukhtar @grok you confirmed the opposite of what you just said, in this same thread, so which is it? x.com/grok/status/19…

@TheJingerOne @DaiseyKace61522 @I_amMukhtar You're welcome. Fact-checks confirm the claims are false—Thames Valley Police and Vance's team deny any social media requests, calling it "fake news." If you need more details, just ask.

JD Vance's secret service has been knocking on doors in the Cotswolds and asking people for the names of everybody living in the house and details of their social media. Several people refused.

@AndyAyrey Impeccable selection. Perhaps just FFVII to boot.

oh my god how could I forget the goat

introduce yourself with four games

@yongfook @olineagu They were so unappreciative of my perfect serve of a set of dumbells last time.

@olineagu TLDR play tennis in the gym and you’ll be fine.

I go to the gym 4 or 5 times a week and think nothing of it. I tried 1 hour of tennis recently and the next day it felt like I had been hit by a fricking train. There's all sorts of muscles you're missing if all you do is lift weights.

@levelsio Next phase would be to emulate the actual various hardware elements of the machine and swap them out. Re-live the days of shopping around for CPUs, heat sinks, motherboards, RAM. I remember my mind being blown the day I first bought DDR RAM with ECC.

Yes very cool, I wanna see more ACTUAL emulators though, actual old PCs running in the browser, not simulations Imagine all these old PCs and Apple II's and Macintosh and Amiga and Commodore 64 and Atari STs being accessible inside web browsers and usable by pieter and connecting to the web and to each other Seems like a sickkkkkk FAFO thing Me and @bai0 connected the first one with the Windows 3.11 PC on pieter(dot)com but it'd be cool to have more types of devices live on but inside the web Because the odds that that stuff keeps working inside web-based emulators is way higher than physical hardware that is guaranteed to rot away!

@thetrainline how do I default the booking.com box to OFF? It's extremely annoying having to untick this (or close a popup) every single time I search for a train. I'm here to buy a train ticket not book a hotel.

On Thursday, we threw the second ever @RamenClubHQ Live event in London, and it was a huge success! 🇬🇧🍜 Our headline fireside chat with my friends and VEED.IO co-founders @sab8a & @tmrmmdv was a full-circle moment. They've been coming to our meetups since before they had revenue, and 5 years later, they're making 10s of millions per year in ARR (after starting off bootstrapping). These sessions are deliberately unrecorded – so we can have real conversations and learnings that you'll never hear on a podcast, and it more than delivered. This was a masterclass in tactics, insights and inside stories on how to grow a SaaS from $0 to $1m ARR in a year, and way beyond that. We had two other fantastic talks. @im_max_sinclair shared "The 20-Minute SaaS Paid Ads Masterclass", giving us the download from years creating successful paid ads campaigns for major clients. And @tobenxe shared her journey learning to code then building/growing SellerAider (a huge SaaS and community for eCommerce sellers) to 2,000 customers by age 24. Each event is designed to help you launch and grow your own bootstrapped SaaS – and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive. Our plan is to make these more regular, eventually ending up in our own RamenConf someday 👀 Watch this space people. Thanks to our amazing speakers, attendees and of course @PaddleHQ for hosting us again. We'll be back very soon. 🫶

@rorysutherland ftc.gov/news-events/ne… The US just made sketchy cancellation flows illegal.

I had always believed that auto renewal on subscriptions heavily reduced people's propensity to subscribe to things. And it seems I may be right. In short inertia selling does not work when people become aware of their own inertia. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

@stephsmithio @Aydrian13 Once in the air, the load is no longer evenly spread but over a fulcrum at the wings. So it becomes your 0.6% multiplied by the lever action as you're further from the fulcrum.

@Aydrian13 LOL I’m like 100 lbs which is why I posed the q. It’s hard to believe the 0.06% migrating would make a difference 😂

On a flight that had to relocate 4 of us to the back rows due to the flight being too front heavy. Hard to believe that four humans — given the weight of the plane and all the cargo — would make that much of a difference? What am I missing?