I only recently learned I can get Claude CLI instances on the same computer to talk to each other. I have had two project instances talk to each other about the API one has to implement for the other and they both work on making it work for both. Neat.

After more than a year of labor, my book 𝘏𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘔𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘴 has launched! It's all my best ideas -- and best writing -- on how to grow your company with your existing budget and team. And yes, I read the audiobook myself. :-) (1/5)

Yay my little travel app got approved - I had issues remembering where I went when I was journaling about the day. Turns out my camera roll knew quite well so built an app around it with my agents. Pirate explorer themed obviously…

New Podcast! Since I’ll be doing more episodes of Smart Bear Live, like the one just done with the great @dmytrokrasun.com, I’ve created a podcast as well as the YouTube channel. It should be everywhere: Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc.. Weee!

How can PaymentWorks who handles where a ton of money flows only accept SMS as a MFA? Even banks have realized that’s not secure enough. Clients choose us because we are the secure version of what they want for their customer data so why doesn‘t procurement care about security as much?

I‘m on a nice cycle streak everyday through the heatwave so far. The secret is leaving at 6:30 and which saves me from the worst heat although I get in today at 11 where it’s already 36 C/97 F. But today is peak day. Been able to watch these grow amazingly fast - feels like two weeks to this size.

Bought a wireless scanner Brother DS-940DW so I can use it with the phone to quickly scan something. Turns out the scanner can only be charged via computer USB port. Charging brick isn’t enough. Needs that data line to charge. Would love to chat with the engineer that signed off on that decision.

I switch between Linux, Mac and Windows daily multiple times for work and spend way to much time trying to remember to use the right CTRL, SUPER or ALT key for Copy/Paste (among other shortcuts). Any folks doing that with some tips on how to harmonize this or do you just power through?

Can we make @aaronfrancis.com an offer he can't resist to release a linux version of Solo soon(er)? Just saying ...

How a customer reacts to "Your account was locked due to a chargeback" greatly influences what hoops I make them run through. If they apologize/explain, I unlock, ask them to create a new sub. Just costs me the chargeback fee. If they don't, teaching them a lesson is priceless.

A future where your agents are negotiating with a suppliers agents all without human interaction sounds like nightmare until you try getting prices for corporate insurance policies (for a 1 person company mind you) and realize nothing can be done online and you're going to waste hours on the phone.

Today morning started with: rise and shine, ready for a full day of demo video recording. Today evening ended with: damn you Safari and your little quirks that I have to make exceptions for. So tomorrow: Groundhog Day again! (Well actually cycling first… but then recording!)

I'm torn on submitting an LLM created GH issue against an O/S project. On the one and I understand they're getting swamped by automated issues, but at the same time the issue is real enough that I got hit 3 times yesterday alone so it deserves whatever info I can provide event if it's from an LLM 🤷‍♂️

Poor Hippos! I mean Puzzles, sure I get it, they attack, but what's a Hippo ever done... In more serious news: buy the book, mine is on it's way. Deciding what to build in the age where features are just a prompt away needs a good framework.

Steve McLeod@steveofmcleod.com · 7mo ago

It's newsletter time! This week's newsletter is the big announcement: after 1 year and 9 months, Kill the HiPPO is now published! Kill the HiPPO is my book on how bootstrapped software companies decide what feature to build next. killthehippo.com/posts/kill-t...

I've been challenged by the SO to provide a local LLM (ultimately with a Cowork like harness) for use on our private docs etc and was wondering what hardware/model combos are actually using at the moment? Will a top Mac Studio do or no way around 4090 for smth slower but close to frontier perf?

Waiting for the print edition but ebook is available already. In the AI age deciding WHAT to build is even more important than ever.

Steve McLeod@steveofmcleod.com · 8mo ago

Well, look who has a book published and on Amazon? Me!!! It’s me (and Siew Ann, my co-author) www.amazon.com/dp/B0GTHJ3Y6D/ Print version and full announcement coming soon.

The „agentic engineering“ founders finding out they were hacked don’t realize they are the lucky ones. It’s the ones being exploited in secret and continuing to do so for long time that are the ones I’d worry about. In an age where data is worth so much, finding a leak = gold.

London, missed ya.

Today in Hamburg: Kebap shop wanted 5% extra charge because I was using a business credit card (N26) to pay. Different card was fine. I mean I don’t like the surcharges for international/business cards either but it’s the first time I’ve seen it passed on to the customer.

Zero Human Businesses… isn’t that just arbitrage while the masses catch up to using AI? Maybe you can make some money in the meantime but won’t every AI builder start trying to build one of those and quickly saturate the market? Won’t personally bet on that one but it’s wild what’s being created!

Almost a decade into a SaaS 99% of the "bugs" reported are documentation issues, user errors etc... But it's the 1% actual bugs that always leave me asking myself: how on earth has no one encountered that case in all this time!? Especially when it doesn't feel like an edge case.

My new end of day routine is to ask Codex to suggest improvements to the test suite, refactoring for maintainability/reusability and reviewing/simplifying code comments. With the test suite I haven't had a refactoring go wrong (so far) and the code comments are also vital (past decisions/fixes).

OMG leandomainsearch.com is gone - I mean it's still there, but @automattic.com seem to have removed the whole word + prefix/suffix functionality or am I just to dumb to find/see it? Does anyone have an alternative?

Lean Domain Search

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I've added a special "Copy LLM prompt" to my error messages (when I run in dev mode) which not only has a basic "replicate this in e2e then fix it" prompt but also appends a bunch of technical data, breadcrumbs for my last 10 steps etc. Quite a productivity boost...

Stripe's Managed Payments just went public 🥳, but am I doing the calculation right that as a EU company (with EUR account) charging a customer in USD is going to cost me 8.75% + 25c? 3.25% for the international card + 2% currency conv. to EUR + 3.5% for managed payments Where's my mistake?

Yay for any European alternative, but I don't understand is why we don't build on what's already there. SEPA Instant is free AFAIK and supported across Europe (and chargebacks are left to the courts not a card processor). But let's see: europeanbusinessmagazine.com/business/eur...

Europe's $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard

A 130-million-user payment system backed by 16 major banks just launched to challenge Visa/mastercard

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I’m spending about as much time getting in Claude Code fixing Openclaw as I am using it. Running it on a VPS is definitely less out-of-the-box awesome than a Mac mini. Using oxylabs proxy definitely unblocked a lot of things. See my fork if you’re interested: github.com/aduggleby/op...

GitHub - aduggleby/openclaw: Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞

Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞 - GitHub - aduggleby/openclaw: Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞

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Codex 5.3 is "feeling" and definitely more Zen than me 😆 "There's no rush, so maybe waiting a moment isn't a big deal. I’ll proceed to pull the image on the server now using Docker Compose. It feels good to have a clear plan to follow"

TIL ~/.claude/CLAUDE.MD is lost after a conversation is compacted. So that's why it goes off the walls after it compacts and tries doing dangerous things. There is a fix though using hooks: github.com/anthropics/c...

[BUG] CLAUDE.md instructions completely ignored after context compaction · Issue #19471 · anthropics/claude-code

Preflight Checklist I have searched existing issues for similar behavior reports This report does NOT contain sensitive information (API keys, passwords, etc.) Type of Behavior Issue Claude ignored...

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Will people in the future look back at the introduction of LLMs and think "probably alien tech" just like we do when we look back at the pyramids because we don't understand how it was possible?