@GroundControl

Startup founder: https://nitter.cf/t.co/1Ew4UQ67Sz, a next-gen software company. Our first product: https://nitter.cf/t.co/pjzP7c2I0h. MIT grad. React Native, AI, conference speaker.

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Joined April 2008
While I was traveling to Poland I kept making improvements to Firehose, and I ended up with a huge branch. I'm now breaking that huge branch into 9 smaller PRs and automating the process with an orchestrator. I asked it to make me a dashboard so I can keep track of the progress.
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I've been thinking a lot about whether breaking and orchestrating a large PR into smaller ones should be a first class feature on Firehose, or whether Firehose should provide you with the legos to build that workflow yourself.
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C. S. lewis with maybe the greatest paragraph ever written on love
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the best founders i know are ok looking stupid they dm strangers, post unfinished work, ask dumb questions ego is the bottleneck
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THIS IS ALL JAVASCRIPT WTF. Even the music. I asked Opus to make me a 5 minute video based on my blog post about our 2025 Japan trip raf.dev/blog/japan-trip-spri…
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I'm so blown away y'all. You should stop whatever you're doing and ask Opus 5.5 to make you a visualization. I was telling @Bostonasian about the new models, and decided to try making one about Japan's hot summer. I asked it to also have audio. It's so good! Prompt below 🤯
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Claude explains how it was built: It's built with Vite and TypeScript, as nine scenes on one 3-minute timeline. Every frame, a 2D canvas redraws each pencil stroke from scratch as several slightly offset, wobbly passes. These are re-randomized 12 times a second, so the lines shimmer like hand-drawn animation. A WebGL shader then adds paper texture, grain, a vignette, subtle chromatic aberration, and heat haze that grows as the story gets hotter. The charts plot real data: JMA summer temperatures back to 1898, plus 2026 records from JMA releases and news reports. There are no recordings at all. Every sound is synthesized live in the browser. The koto is a plucked-string simulation, the wind chimes use FM synthesis, and the flute, shō and taiko are built from oscillators and noise. Cicadas, rain and wind are filtered noise, and even the reverb is generated. The music plays from a written score, and the audio clock drives the animation, so sound and picture stay in sync.
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wtf it synthesized the sound of cicadas
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hi Jamie, @birch_js, I wanted to connect you with my good friend Jimmy @Bostonasian, who has been building an Expo app. I've been trying to get him to go to a React Native meetup in Tokyo. Do you know when the next one is?
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There's not enough talk about how SaaS engineers + AI are going to wreak havoc on the video game industry. Web games are going to be competing a lot more for our attention in 2027
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Veep above 30 Rock? Nooooo
The New York Times’ final list of the 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century is now complete. What do you make of the final ranking? Which placements surprised you the most?
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Twitter finally figured out that I'm from Boston and is showing me Boston content, which I don't hate
they really cooked with this
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Massachusetts absolutely cooking right now. Hub of the universe.
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Still buzzing after Agent Conf in Warsaw. A sold-out workshop, our Agents FC speaking session, and a closing panel on the future of software development. Thanks to everyone who connected with us on site. Keep building: amzn.to/4xCYvdP
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I think @maker__mark has the best argument for why React Native is the most operationally efficient choice for building mobile apps. Over the air updates help @Chime maximize their internal dogfooding They have over 250 OTA channels 🤯
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I'm in NYC for the @Chime @expo @infinite_red AI meetup, hosted by @maker__mark
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Introducing our company twitter account, @okthinkai, by me and @watchful_toast. We're excited to share what we've been working on, and we hope you like it. We would really appreciate a follow (and an RT :) )
Hello world! We make delightful tools for software teams that want to go dangerously fast. We're making Firehose, an coding agent manager that frees you up to work from anywhere. 🌴🌳🏖️ Sign up for early access here: okthink.ai
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Hey! You should come hang out in Mexico City on Thu Oct 29 for a night of AI, React and the Future of Software development. It's during Mexico Tech Week and Day of the Dead season. You know you've always wanted to see CDMX. Here's your chance! luma.com/dqd68d26
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Man I really wish there was a shinkansen between Boston and New York.
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