Robin-Manuel Thiel

@robinmanuelthiel.bsky.social

Cloud Native & AI Architect at Microsoft by day, tinkerer of all nerdy things at night. Brings things to life at https://spaceblocks.cloud. 🎙 Developer Podcast (🇩🇪): http://todocast.io

Security and distribution are what keep these apps from taking over. As an industry, we should build reliable ways to detect implicit and hidden security flaws in vibe-coded apps. Once we achieve that, citizen and community apps will go mainstream. techcrunch.com/2026/01/16/t...

The rise of 'micro' apps: non-developers are writing apps instead of buying them | TechCrunch

A new era of app creation is here. It's fun, it's fast, and it's fleeting.

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My favorite thing to do with AI in coding at the moment: Documentation drift detection. All the time I have Claude constantly review Code, Terraform, and Confluence docs to see if they still match. Each Pull Request gets checked if it could silently invalidate existing documentation.

🗓️ 🔄Local Calendar Sync is now on mobile. Between the years is nerd time for me, so I finally ported it from desktop. Mobile just makes more sense as it's always online. The app keeps calendars in sync. No cloud, no subscription. Private. Let me know what you think!

Local Calendar Sync - Privacy-First Calendar Synchronization

Sync your calendars locally on macOS, iPhone, and iPad. No cloud, no data collection. Complete privacy and control.

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Agents.md fixes the chaos of AI coding agent configuration. Project-specific AI instructions have been fragmented: CLAUDE.md, .cursorrules, ... The future: A universal spec, already adopted by over 20k open-source projects. Let's all migrate to Agents.md and leave the mess behind!

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My friend skipped our meeting. His AI didn’t. Whoops, I trash-talked to the note taker, which now thinks he runs an airline cleaning crew. As a result, it added some very disturbing tasks to his to-do list. Consider it payback for leaving me hanging. Sorry, Mike! 😘

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The success of LangChain, an open-source framework for building AI applications, is wild! In Python, LangChain is now downloaded more often than the official OpenAI SDK. That’s more than a stat, it’s a signal: flexible, open tooling wins the heart and minds of developers. ❤️

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One of us had to change the name. As you can see, LinkedIn is still called LinkedIn, so my Browser Extension is now "Make Social Media Great Again". As a result, the Apple Gods now allow me to publish it as a Safari Extension. Safari users, your timeline is now 💩-free too.

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Apple's App Store Review keeps on being a frustrating shit show! 😡 To bring my free(!) "Make LinkedIn Great Again" browser extension to Safari, I need to change the name, replace the "Buy me a coffee" button with In-App Purchases (= -30%). Each of my questions get ignored...