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Harry Brundage @airhorns.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

As an industry we kinda deserve to be automated away in some ways — we’ve spent decades rehashing the exact same ideas 18000 different ways and made so little progress in actually wrangling complexity

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Gabe Braden @thepianokid.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

It's too hard to build a Discord bot. Anything where YOU have to worry about hosting and scalability is too hard. Here's the solution: dev.to/gabeb03/buil...

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Build a Discord support bot from scratch

Demo I always found it annoying when I was following a tutorial, and they didn’t show you...

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Harry Brundage @airhorns.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

For colour, there was The Wizard of Oz, for AI feature length films, there will be ... ? And will there be riots or rejoicing?

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Harry Brundage @airhorns.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Did you know that abstraction is bad actually for performance

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Harry Brundage @airhorns.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Spent a lot of time developing a high-throughput, durable, distributed semaphore at Gadget Can you guess what data store we ended up using

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Harry Brundage @airhorns.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Anyone who’s used inngest or trigger dot dev in depth — how do you change workflow definitions after they’re already running? Is is hard to do safely?

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Harry Brundage @airhorns.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

All the cool new high throughput systems I use contend over node-local locks for writes -- no distributed consensus like Raft or Paxos Consensus is out on consensus amirite

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Harry Brundage @airhorns.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

One time I think I made someone quit by saying that no, global variables are good actually.

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Harry Brundage @airhorns.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

🧵 JS perf nerdery I always get tripped up on: generic wrapper functions really kill performance hard because they create megamorphic call sites. Fun word, unfun impact.

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Harry Brundage @airhorns.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

The entire software dev industry was built when code was scarce and expensive to create. Scarcity is over, now it’s about trust -- whole industry needs to change.

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Harry Brundage @airhorns.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

App dev has been set back 10 years by a simple confusion between app dev and web dev. next.js / remix have to play the make-e-commerce-sites-fast game instead of the make-building-the-next-figma-fast game and it really shows.

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Harry Brundage @airhorns.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

What’s your favourite rich filtering UI? For the demon index view in your app with 9 different possible attributes that can be filtered in tandem 18 different ways? The best I’ve used is Postico but … there has to be a better way

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Harry Brundage @airhorns.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

What are your favourite patterns for enqueuing up backend work items that need to then be processed in batches for efficiency? Think like batch submission of inventory updates to a poopy low rate limit api such that you need to debounce, but on the backend statefully

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Harry Brundage @airhorns.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Last time I felt as giddy as I do when vibe coding was my first ever visual basic app. Seismic shifts afoot people, seismic.

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Harry Brundage @airhorns.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

The edge lords were wrong - turns out RTT to the database matters more than RTT to the user

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Harry Brundage @airhorns.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Claude 4 is very good -- yes indeed. They RLHF’d a little too close to the sun and every third statement has a try/catch around it now

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Harry Brundage @airhorns.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Gonna livestream building a AI-powered Discord bot using Gadget tomorrow at 10:00 AM EST here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTH... Swing by if you wanna nerd out!

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Building a Discord bot fast with Gadget's AI

Gadget's CTO Harry builds a Discord bot using Gadget to help out in Gadget's discord. What fun!

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Harry Brundage @airhorns.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

What human-out-of-the-loop AI systems have y'all seen that are actually in production? Or mostly out of the loop -- that long trajectory promised land. Who's actually pulled it off?

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Mo @hashemito.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

"Hey Gadget, build me a CRM. " A single prompt in one end. A fully hosted, well designed internal tool out the other end, in under 4 minutes. Full code accessible and editable with further prompting (or by hand). Beta opens in weeks. Waitlist at application.new.

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