Craig Campbell built Pastmaps: 450,000+ historical maps overlaid on the modern world. Drag a slider and watch it reveal what used to be there. Started as a metal detecting tool. One Reddit post later he knew it was bigger, and he's been solo on it since. New episode of The Task at Hand.

🎵 Music to My Ears v2.1.0 is out. Three things you asked for in Spotify song requests: 🎯 Smarter search, so !sr stops queueing the wrong track 🚫 Global blocklist for artists, tracks, or terms you don't want on stream 🌍 Country of Play to match your Spotify region github.com/thecodedrift...

Going beyond static analysis means running code, and running code means trusting code. So the generated check runs in a sandbox with nothing to steal, passes fixtures, then gets signed. Your machine runs only what it can verify. www.taskless.io/blog/the-sec...

One idea from the episode: AI "got thumbs." Once tool use let models actually do things, the whole game moved. youtube.com/shorts/l32Uy...

Greg Pstrucha on the productivity-tool glut: no one's building for users anymore, everyone's building for their own productivity. youtube.com/shorts/Vnuws...

First flight of the day I was able to listen to @codedrift.social on the Unfinished Business podcast. Always enjoy listening to Jakob’s thought process 👍 Next up @rtbenfield.dev on @prisma.io podcast and then I’ll finally listen to @cmgriffing.bsky.social on @freecodecamp.bsky.social podcast!

AI buried code review. The diff that was 200 lines is now 2,000, and a senior engineer still says "don't use inline styles" for the hundredth time. Taskless makes the rule catch itself so it never comes back. Jakob Heuser and the Rise of Taskless open.spotify.com/episode/2BU6...

Be honest about how often you swear at your coding agent. Greg Pstrucha on dev rage and what it says about where the tools really are. youtube.com/shorts/JQdSD...

Sunday Jul 19 6p PDT: I've been "talked" into a game of Cursed Companions with friends. We're on MAIN, so expect code shenanigans. This time chat gets their own "cursed" word. Say it too much and you perish. Can you guess your word before there's nobody left? 😈

Is the AI moment a bubble? Greg Pstrucha's read: it rhymes with the early web. Worth a minute if you're trying to place where we actually are. youtube.com/shorts/I2m6E...

Here's a rule your linter can't write: every env var you read with process.env has to be documented in .env.example. Your linter can't check your code against a config file. Runtime rules can, and they shipped in Taskless 0.10.0. taskless.io/blog/introducing-runtime-rules

Music to My Ears 2.0 is out, my script for @firebot.app doing Spotify song requests on Twitch. New: jukebox protection so one viewer can't hog the queue, plus errorText, a ready-to-send reason whenever a request fails. github.com/thecodedrift/firebot-script-music-to-my-ears

Greg Pstrucha on the shebang (#!) exploit: how a line at the top of a script turns into a way in. One of those "oh, that's bad" clips. youtube.com/shorts/-Nvbr...

Agent skills look harmless. Greg Pstrucha explains why one bad skill on your machine means you're already owned. A quick, sharp clip on agent-skill security. youtube.com/shorts/Eo4Sk...

New Taskless episode: Greg Pstrucha (Sentry, Seer) on agent-skill security, the AI-bubble-as-early-web read, and determinism as the actual answer. ➡️ taskless.io/blog/greg-pstrucha-on-practical-ai-episode-3

Nobody gets upset when the computer tells you you're wrong. The same note in code review stings. As a red squiggle on save, you just fix it. That's the case for shifting left, and what Taskless automates. Jakob Heuser and the Rise of Taskless open.spotify.com/episode/2BU6...

Cloudflare Containers are Durable Objects with extra steps. Those extra steps cost me ~18 hours building Taskless's sandbox on them. My thoughts: www.codedrift.com/blog/safe-co...

Well, this was cool

I went on Unfinished Business to talk Taskless, determinism in AI, and the everyday tools I use to manage the chaos as agents get more capable. Listen: Jakob Heuser and the Rise of Taskless open.spotify.com/episode/2BU6...

Let your Twitch chat run the music. Music to My Ears wires Spotify into Firebot: viewers request songs, you control playback, and it handles search, moderation, and queueing. Spotify Premium required. github.com/thecodedrift...

"Context Rules Everything" - JP. You want one of those AI "Sales Development Reps" that you see on billboards? Well, where is that AI getting its information? JP argues that this context is always the same, across all surfaces. youtube.com/shorts/jYgww...

The AI SDR Context Problem - Interview with JP on The Task At Hand - Episode 2

An AI version of a Sales Development Representative still needs context, but why should that context be different than the one your engineers use? from Episode 2 - Context and Wire Containers

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Celebrate people making things.

Ah sharing context. The one thing Claude, ChatGPT, and every other frontier model will never do. We had JP on the Task at Hand this month, and he shares why that's a problem worth solving: youtube.com/shorts/eVU1k...

Frontier Models Won't Share Memory - Interview with JP on The Task At Hand - Episode 2

Frontier models aren't motivated to solve the idea of a shared memory. from Episode 2 - Context and Wire Containers

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Time for the semi-annual ask. Has “For You” / “Discover” improved far enough that you can use it to cultivate your feed with new voices? Or are we still at “people you follow liked this” levels of signal.

It's a bit of a trope, that your agents "know nothing". JP had a good take though. He said if you treat your Agent like a new hire, you'll both fix your employee onboarding, and give your Agent a better shot at success. Guess it's time to clean up some wikis over here. youtube.com/shorts/AUs1k...

Treat Your Agent Like a New Hire - Interview with JP on The Task At Hand - Episode 2

If you treat your agent like a new hire, you're going to set it up for success. It's about giving your agents the information they need when they need it most, and how to find the rest of what they…

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What's better than auto-generating static analysis rules? When Taskless sees you've already got a favorite tool and helps you write rules for that system too! v0.9.0 comes with our first version of tool detection, spotting more than a dozen of the most common code quality tools. npx @taskless/cli

Taskless Now Works With the Tools You Already Have — Taskless

Starting with Taskless CLI v0.9.0, Taskless skills work with your repo, find the tools you're already using, and helps you write better static analysis rules in more ways.

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I've falled in love with Git Town www.git-town.com not only does it do Stacked PRs correctly, it actively syncs the stacked information into the PRs themselves so you can see where a given review is. Smaller reviews = happier seniors devs

I had to go through and scrub away all of Twitch's "AI Auto Clips". It was only about a 20% success rate in finding moments & the subtitles it burned in were so wrong it hurt the performance of future clips. Good reminder that if the tool you're given doesn't let you polish, you'll just ship slop.

Can you imagine writing code without your IDE? JP does it daily. Here's his daily coding stack... you'll be surprised what is and isn't in there. youtube.com/shorts/5PG0a...

No VS Code in the Stack - Interview with JP on The Task At Hand - Episode 2

JP doesn't keep VSCode in his daily driver stack. He's all-in on CLI tooling, and here's why. from Episode 2 - Context and Wire Containers

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Schedule for this week! We're streaming 3 days in a row! (hopefully lol) ✦ Mon - first playthrough of Gunfire Reborn with @codedrift.social 🔫 ✦ Tue - finishing the demo for The Witch's Bakery 🥖 ✦ Wed - trying the new demo for Fires Out with Barbie! 🔥 twitch.tv/foxwithtacos