Alvin Bryan

It's Monday and...

Monday is down

Sorry couldn't resist

_sigh_

browsing ElevenLabs voices and...

I know the feel, I tried all the tiptaps and milkdowns editorjs of the world and... yeah they're not good

@proton.me launched an encrypted AI chatbot!

I was curious about the underlying LLM, my first thought went to Llama.cpp, but it turns out it's Mistral

👀 is this prosemirror ?

As a coder I can also give you the reasons

- why it *used to be* a problem
- why it's no longer a problem
- why this is inexcusable

I've been quiet here on the work front, and never made an announcement

🥁

But this year I joined Yoto!

It's an audio player for children that aims to entertain without the need for screens.

Why does an audio player need a developer advocate? You'll find out soon 😄

can't argue with that 🎨

kleur > chalk 😛

👀 Can you share a code snippet? cc: @crabnebula.dev @tauri.app

This is amazing!

I just wish more companies dared do this

You can use emojis as import aliases. Here's a snippet from macos-web. app

Hello city centre

All of these let you download what you buy

Kindle -> Kobo
Audible -> @libro.fm or xigxag
Goodreads -> Literal.club

Back in the day, Twitter used to be really good if I set up a thread to connect freelancers with clients. Let's see if Bluesky can do it.

Clients: if you're looking for freelancers/contractors, get in the comments

Freelancers/contractors: get in comments

Everyone else: boosts appreciated

I have to use a vpn when I'm abroad for that reason, it's so dumb

" • Node.js 18.20.0+ supports both `assert` and `with`
• Node.js 18.0.0 - 18.19.x only supports `assert`
• In Node.js 22, the `assert` keyword was completely removed, so `with` is required."

Do open-source, they said, it will be fun, they said

@philhawksworth.dev 👋 can I DM you?

🚨 PSA for everyone that Ebay uses your *personal* data for AI training

Opt the hell out (and probably use another platform)

It's used widely enough that I often find myself accidentally downloading avif files and trying to drop them into Figma, which doesn't work

Final reminder that you have a chance to win a free ticket to Devoxx UK 2026!

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Good luck!

I think this was one of the first podcasts I ever listened to back in 2014 ish

Oh absolutely, 3.5 is still the best for me

The latest in AI weirdness, Claude decided to replace my Math.PI with 3.14

ok then 🤷‍♂️

For people who tried it, how's Claude 4 ? Is it good ?

3.7 wasn't an improvement for me

I always use 😄 for this reason

Cursor just shipped yet another UI update there too

This is an extremely slippery slope, and this probably should be regulated as hell (even if I hate regulations as much as anybody else)

I used a ton of these services as an early remote employee and most of these are sketchy af. Happy to talk about this.