Writes software, working on something new. Previously @poolsideai, @plaid, @github, @heroku, @gocardless ✌️
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I said goodbye to @poolsideai last week.
I’m super lucky to have spent the last few years with the most excellent group of people, a career highlight for sure.
Next for me is something brand new with a few old friends and a few new ones, more on that another day!
I’ve been testing this for the last month and trust me you want it
We like Rex, our new terminal multiplexer, so much that we wanted to share it with you. We’re admitting testers from our waitlist starting today.
superlogical.com/updates/pub…
Astra is totally willing to remove a photo watermark when Sol refused. Remember when prompt hacking was this easy?
Could be a good day to try the Poolside macOS app - full support for your OpenAI subscription alongside any other model provider.
poolside.ai/get-started
Look at that subtle off-white linen effect background. The tasteful depth of the lettering. Oh my God, it even has a letterpress effect on the 2013 copyright notice.
It's been 13 years, time to update my website.
appleton.me
Really want to like @beeper but it seems quite buggy. LinkedIn messages keep reappearing and Facebook login is just broken.
A big thing in my mind working on the (Tauri aka not-Swift) Poolside desktop app was how to make it as "mac-assed" as possible. I've been really unsatisfied with the big labs' GUI apps in this regard and wanted to do better.
Accepted wisdom seems to be that you can't build a mac-assed mac app inside a cross platform wrapper and I wanted to see if that's actually true or if, as I suspect, the main difference is just whether you care or not.
Poolside desktop weighs in at a ~70MB download (and 50MB in the latest nightly) and tries to stick closely to platform native idioms. I'm not claiming perfection but I think it's a pretty good example how you don't have to let your app framework be an excuse for your UX.
If you're wondering what I'm talking about here's @gruber daringfireball.net/linked/20…
And more recently @atpfm atp.fm/atp-dev-mac-assed-mac…
(and shout out to github.com/bartreardon/skill… which really helped!)
It’s been a really fun 7 days since launch seeing all your feedback and how you’re using Poolside desktop.
We snuck out a bug fix release already but this one adds some nice new features (plans, goals, sub agents, elicitations).
As always please keep the feedback coming!
Poolside Desktop Assistant has been out for a week, and we’ve received so much great feedback!
Today we’re releasing version 1.4.0, with a bunch of new features and fixes based on your bug reports:
- Native steering and queueing where supported
- Proper plan mode and agent Q&A
- First-class subagents, with full transcripts for Claude and better status reporting for Codex
- Much faster inference for local models
- A whole load of smaller bug fixes
More below!
iOS 27 continues to surprise and delight with wife as thomas the tank engine style easyjet plane search results.
The first stable update for Poolside Assistant is out, thank you so much for all the feedback and bug reports, can you spot yours?
(if you're wondering why 1.2.0, we have a preview channel that claims the odd minor versions, then bump to an even minor version for the next stable).
👉poolside.ai/get-started 👈
It's a small thing but my favourite feature of Poolside desktop is agent handoff - Claude has elevated errors right now but Codex can finish up for me
Andy Appleton retweeted
So excited to share what I've been up to... We're building a new multiplexer for what's coming next and started a company to do it. Hyped to be hacking again with @mitchellh @dizzyup
superlogical.com
Andy Appleton retweeted
for the billions of knowledge workers, you can now use @poolsideai models right from a familiar macos app!
excited to have rigorously tested the app before it shipped ;-)
and if you're too afraid of leaving claude or codex behind, you can use those agents through the app too!
Andy Appleton retweeted
Congrats to @poolsideai on launching Poolside Desktop Assistant.
Their Laguna models power an ACP agent that runs in any client, Zed included, and now their desktop app is an ACP client for any agent in the public registry.
Awesome to see Poolside taking full advantage of ACP!
Andy Appleton retweeted
honestly, blown away by how polished this looks and how many features are supported at released. I am seeing very little here that isn't already setup exactly how I would want it myself.
This has been a long time in the making and I'm so happy to see it out in the world.
From @almonk and @dizzyup's work before I joined @poolsideai through all the iterations as we've learned together what an AI coding tool should be.
It's been a real team effort timr.co/ github.com/cryizzle @Johan_Lajili @pemsbr github.com/Evgeny- @mrncst @oyaaaaaaaasumi @glennui @prekesh and loads of others too🙏❤️
