Robin-Manuel Thiel

What to do in between two jobs? Start another side project, of course! So I started a weekly tech newsletter! https://whatdidimiss.io

Every Friday, I send out a handpicked list of news articles on AI, tech business, software development, and industry breakthroughs. Unexcited, no fluff, jargon-free.

You asked the 1% at Microsoft that are not on Windows and don’t have a German keyboard.

But to be honest: Do you really need it? I can‘t remember the last time I cycled through the code completion suggestions. I either accept the default or deny and continue coding myself. There’s goes to the chat.

Haha no. I don’t use Visual Studio nor do I have a German Keyboard to test with, sorry.

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!

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! 😘

Ey @sonarqube.bsky.social, you should protect me from security vulnerabilities and not become one!

„AI Powered“

starteve.ai. Let me know, if you need to know more. I am involved with them.

🔴 🎙️ In der neuesten Folge erklären wir, was Vibe-Coding ist, zeigen ein spaßiges Setup mit VS Code, Live-Server und Audio-Input und diskutieren Tools wie MCP Server, Claude Code und Playwright MCP für autonomen Frontend-Workflow.

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. ❤️

AI is the new Low Code.

Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.

Agents are cool. But agents that talk to each other? That’s where it gets interesting. Google’s new Agent-to-Agent Protocol (A2A) promises exactly that.

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.

🔴 🎙️ In Folge 114 haben wir über unsere ganz persönlichen KI-Workflows gesprochen: Vom Podcast-Cutting bis zu automatisierten TikTok-Videos.

👉 Zur Folge: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/todo-cast/episodes/Folge-114-Wie-wir-KI-im-Alltag-nutzen-e32bvhs

Microsoft made an ad with generative AI and nobody noticed Can you spot the AI shots?

Your next video ad might cost 90% less.

🎬 TD;DR: In Folge 103 vom Podcast geht's um gRPC, einem hocheffizienten Kommunikationsprotokoll, was REST und GraphQL in einigen Fällen den Rang abläuft.

👉 Zur Folge: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/todo-cast/episodes/Folge-113-gRPC-e31fv5r

When I am back on my Laptop after using a colleague's machine for 10 minutes.

When I return back to AI-Assisted Coding after being offline for 2 hours.

The most frustrating part: After each rejection, they write: "If you have any questions, we are here to help. Reply to this message in App Store Connect and let us know." Guess who keeps ignoring any of my follow-up questions and just keeps on sending the same standard text blocks? 🤡

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...

New Update for Local Calendar Sync in the making. Get ready for filters! ☕️ 🥐

I created a Custom GPT for @todo_cast - and I should’ve done this sooner. It helps with recurring tasks like formatting episode descriptions or turning notes into scripts, all with our context baked in. Game-changer!

Device mockups are dead.

🔴 🎙️ Neue Folge: MCP (Model Context Protocol) mischt die AI-Welt auf und verspricht noch mächtigere KI-Anwendungen. Wir besprechen, was Developer wissen müssen.

👉 Zur Folge: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/todo-cast/episodes/Folge-112-MCP-Model-Context-Protocol-e314u6e

Update is out: What started as a joke (lnkd.in/djTETw8X) is a real feature of Make LinkedIn Great Again now! 🐣

YouTube video by Robin-Manuel Thiel Model Context Protocol (MCP) explained for normal people: What is it and what should you know?

Model Context Protocol (MCP) explained for normal people: What is it and what should you know? #mcp youtube.com/shorts/iBNgj...

A new version of Local Calendar Sync is out. For those who don't know: It keeps work and personal calendars in sync.

- Support for different event availabilities
- Faster, improved sync algorithm
- Optionally hide the Menu Bar icon

What should I add next?

I added this to my ChatGPT personalization after seeing it on LinkedIn the other day, and it helped to have less of a „Yes Man“.

Soon, Copilot will be able to play the whole game for me and I all have to do is sit on the sofa and insult my teammates when their Noob AI Assistants play worse than mine. I don‘t know…

We need to agree on a global standard, that Shift+Enter should *never* send a message, but *always* just adds a new line. Violating that results in a one-week internet ban.

It drives me nuts that this is different with every app!