Ryan J. Shaw

I'm creating a local newsletter covering weekly events and happenings along the Dolphin Coast in South Africa. Human-edited, completely free, no politics or drama. Building it in public here. The core challenge is gathering event data cost-effectively. My plan is to use AI to automate most of that process. Distribution will be word of mouth.

@marclou Come on Marc, this is AI, we all know you don’t own any tshirts

I own 3 shorts, 5 t-shirts, 2 socks, 5 undies, 1 sweater, 1 trouser, and 2 pairs of shoes. My wife owns just a little more than that. Our closet fits in a backpack. It's been a game-changer for travelling the world in the past 2 years.

@peterpme I never understood the appeal, thought there was something wrong with me

Its becoming extremely clear to me that using AI through CLIs is a much worse experience than using AI through a macos desktop app

> My colleague just lived with me in Vietnam for a month with her 11yo and he’s being homeschooled Mine was homeschooled originally, but she's extremely social and needed to be around other kids. But at the same time, traveling through other countries could make up for it! I think I will ask her 🙂

@RyanJamesShaw Well there are some people that do nomad with kids, depends on your preference My colleague just lived with me in Vietnam for a month with her 11yo and he’s being homeschooled

Being a digital nomad is amazing Anyone should try it at least once in their lifetime Although its dangerous, you might like it too much and never come back

@thekitze It's only a safari if they keep the cheetahs in the same cage as the zebras... do they?

did you know you can go on a safari in the Netherlands?? my daughter loved it lol

@enjojoyy My job is already full-time remote, but kids need stability - it takes a long time for them to make good friends, it's not fair to move them around regularly 🙂

@RyanJamesShaw Get your kid with you, make your job online and go

@MichaelDBrandt L-Theanine

A drink that clears caffeine from your system.

@ng_thanh8 @burkeholland Source: clickbait

@burkeholland source ?

This Fable decision will be reversed inside of 48 hours.

@enjojoyy I'm a solo dad with a full-time job 😅

@RyanJamesShaw You didn’t miss it, it’s still on

@WIRED This week on Scheduled Posts Gone Wrong

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@jfkcyrus Do you have any idea why you were reported?

That’s a relief

@lenatron33 @DanielSmidstrup I was going to disagree, but I think you're right. Just made me realize we need a new kind of coding course that distills the experience of hand coding into something for vibe coders not to make a huge mess... *added into my ideas backlog*

@DanielSmidstrup Absolutely, but not to the extent it used to. Understanding why something is happening, and what you can do differently, can save you a lot of tokens.

Be honest devs, Is coding still worth learning in the AI era?

@stemonteduro Hey, there's a couple of top level ads in there 😅

@RyanJamesShaw Look. I just recorded it. Only replies. Crazy.

My feed is full of replies. I only see people I follow replying to other posts. It's literally 8 out of 10. Is it only me?

@buildwithmaya @darekgusto Weekends are the only time I have to really get anything done!

@darekgusto haha yes, its so important to take time off on the weekends tbh. its very refreshing

build update 14/90 > completed the #hotappsummer challenge by Netlify > finished writing the first newsletter post for NewbieMarketer, need to review and get ready to send it out next week > continued working on LaunchReel. I wanted to make the video quality better and not look just like a basic remotion video, so a lot of iteration there > dropped the free idea of the week for @getideapanda, and decided to drop an idea every single saturday learnings of the week: > X engagement and growth Friday-Sunday is quite slow > Tuesday-Thursday is the most engagement and should focus on launches and stuff on those days (these are from my observations > taking a break from building and X helps a lot, my husband and I got dinner with a good friend and it just helps clear your mind and reset <3

@Jacobmalherbe21 @X I'm building an AI-powered events extraction pipeline for a local newsletter, might be interesting 👋🏻

Hey @X Algorithm 👋 It's Saturday and I've got my coffee, my notes app open, and a list of people I want to meet. Looking to #connect with: → Builders → Founders → Writers → Creators → Digital Nomads → Anyone doing their own thing I'm specifically after distribution — let's trade audiences and actually grow together. Drop a 👋 and tell me what you're building. I reply to everyone.

@EchoraContinuum @Pulkit_Meen @X Sure 🫡

@RyanJamesShaw @Pulkit_Meen @X Ryan..wanna be friends??

Hey @X, Trying to build a circle of developers, founders, students, and builders who support each other and grow together. Into AI, startups, coding, web development, or building on the internet? Let's connect. 👇🚀 #TechTwitter #BuildInPublic #AI #MachineLearning #SoftwareEngineering #Coding #Startups #IndieHackers

@buildwithmaya > if anyone can build any product false premise: I'm building an AI-powered local newsletter, and I've gone through hundreds of iterations because the models still don't understand problems from the perspective of humans, they lack genuine creativity (for now)

serious question: if anyone can build any product, other than marketing/distribution, what other moats can a product have to be successful from its clones

@Devius_Maximus Still a WIP 🙏

@RyanJamesShaw sick man drop whats the link?.. followed bk

Weekend warriors, Let's connect 🤝 Especially if you're in: 💻 SaaS · 🚀 Tech · ⚙️ Automation · 🧠 AI 📱 Product · 🔥 Web apps · 🛠️ Dev Reply with what you're building + your link. I'll check it out 👇

@emonuxui A lot of people like about this, though, and present their development process in an idealized way. I favor the truth: it's a mess!

@RyanJamesShaw Every production AI app has a phase that's held together by optimism and TODOs.

How the articles tell you to build AI-powered software: > features backlog -> evals -> ralph loop -> loop of loops -> fancy AI workflow designer -> 100 subagents -> perfectly working app How you actually build AI-powered software: > build lots of little experiments -> make a really long techdebt.md about potential evals you could build -> glue all the experiments together -> hope nobody notices, release