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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I'm experimenting with a new transcript layout on talat.app Left: current view - new paragraph per utterance Right: condensed view - color coded utterances Thoughts?

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I wrote (Claude wrote) a little app I can invoke with a hotkey and type any number into, and it'll bring up GitHub issue numbers ranked by relevance and recency. Enter gives me a preview inline in the window, enter again opens the link on GitHub. Saves me a ton of time over the course of a day

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Notifications CTAs are better in the next release of talat. Today, the "Dismiss" button carries equal weight with the secondary CTA ("Stop recording" in the second shot). The danger CTA state ("Delete recording") is completely new - a glaring gap in today's notifications 🫣

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

If you use talat - how would you vote? In fact, why not go one better and answer directly on discord? discord.gg/EZfV9yHzXR

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

We have thousands of unit and in-memory database tests on talat, but the stability of our end-to-end suite - which drives the real desktop application we ship to users - has suffered recently. Not anymore. Pleased to get this one green again 🟢

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Another talat dictation feature coming soon (built purely to scratch my own itch): refocus the *last* app you dictated into. Great when you're having e.g. an ongoing conversation with Claude and don't want to have to manually refocus your terminal to resume it

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Looking forward to shipping this one. I can't count the number of times I've absent-mindedly hit escape during a long, rambling dictation and accidentally cancelled it. The next version of talat gives you two seconds grace to undo a cancellation and pick up dictating where you left off.

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Yesterday: one of our worst days ever 🔻😭 Today: our best day ever 🔺🥳 Indie life in a nutshell

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I selfishly snuck in a new @talat.app feature purely for ME. My home office is upstairs, my wife's is downstairs, and if we're both on a call with our doors open (summer - it's hot), speech from her room could occasionally leak into my transcripts. Well, not anymore 😎

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I'm aware that the @talat.app pricing page is... awful. Each pricing tier is basically just a different way of paying for the same thing: there is no feature gating on different plans, so I can't do a classic plan vs. feature comparison table. Roasts in the thread, please 👇

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

We built a tool for @talat.app where AI agents can upload screenshots with context (branch, commit, description, etc), and humans and AI can search the 'gallery' I love it. It's a durable, visual evolution of the product, and lets agents attach and 'see' screenshots on GitHub PRs

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Seriously - when did this become okay? When did we get this lazy? Over 600MB just for the download 1.4 gigabytes when installed wtf

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Just how fancy is this bloody nest going to be?

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Pfft, and my wife says I'm not cool 😎

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Hands up if you're happy to see those rate limits reset this morning 🙋

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Get this shit to the very TOP 🔺

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

...unless you go on to win the dispute. This was my first ever chargeback in *years* of online biz, and I knew it was baseless. On principle, and mainly to try and learn from the experience, I gathered my evidence, and contested it, not expecting much. Today, we won that dispute. (2/...)

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Wait, doesn't *everyone* start their day like this?

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

New month, new me. I promise all diffs will be like this for the entirety of July. Honest. 🫡

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

June talat highlights: - Dictation mode - File import mode - Better multilingual support, especially for non-latin and right-to-left languages - Improved capitalisation and punctuation during real-time transcription - A more capable MCP connector that writes to talat as well as reading from it

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Final preflight checks for @talat.app 0.12.0 are underway

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Woohoo! No more bumping into ultra-conservative Claude design limits. Might not be celebrating if/when Claude Design chews through my quota faster than usual, but for now, awesome.

"Claude design now shares uage limits with Claude.ai and Claude Code."

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Oops. We don't talk about what happened there. Everything went perfectly smoothly.

a screenshot of a woeful release process

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

It's no bun rewrite, but we're exploring a really exciting spike which would open up a load of new possibilities on @talat.app

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Product Of The Day! 🥇 @talat.app scoops first place on Fazier - thank you all for the support 🙇🏻‍♂️

an image showing the top three products of the day on fazier, 21/04/2026

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

We've listed @talat.app on fazier this morning - it's nosed ahead into an early lead but we could really use your support by way of an upvote as the day rolls on - registration only takes a second and it would help us out a lot 🙏 fazier.com/launches/talat

talat taking an early lead on fazier.com

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

We're more conservative with our release schedule on @talat.app than I'd like to be. I'd love to be releasing every day. But the risk of bricking a desktop app install is real. I received this error when trying to auto-update my favourite push-to-dictate app, FluidVoice, just now. Desktop is HARD.

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Delighted to get this one out in the wild! The diff from 0.5.1 to 0.60 is ridiculous - it's way too big, making the release a little more scary than it needed to be, but I'm relieved we got there and excited to get it into the hands of our early adopters. Check it out at talat.app

a chanloge between two versions of talat.app showing 259 commits and 286 files changed

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Happy renewal day, kurai.co.uk! 🎈 22 years and still going strong. Probably been offline for half of those, but still. Here's to another 22? (gulp)

Domain name:
kurai.co.uk

Data validation:
Nominet was able to match the registrant's name and address against a 3rd party data source on 18-Feb-2025

Registrar:
123-Reg Limited t/a 123-reg [Tag = 123-REG]
URL: https://www.123-reg.co.uk

Relevant dates:
Registered on: 03-Mar-2004
Expiry date: 03-Mar-2027
Last updated: 04-Mar-2026

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I... was not expecting to learn *that* about Claude Code's internals

"Most people's mental model of CC is that "it's just a TUI" but it should really be closer to "a small game engine". For each frame our pipeline constructs a scene graph with React -> layout elements -> rasterize them to a 2d screen -> diff that against the previous screen -> _finally_ use the diff to generate ANSI sequences to draw. We have a ~16ms frame budget so we have roughly ~5ms to go from the React scene graph to ANSI written. You're right that in theory we shouldn't have to do much work, but in practice that's required optimizations at every step.

For the GC pauses specifically, what mattered is predictable performance. More allocations == more GC == more frames where the VM is locked up seemingly doing nothing. On slower machines we were seeing this be in the order of seconds, not ms and when somebody is typing all they feel is the 1 character that's stuttering. Honestly, I was surprised about this too as GC in JS is often not something that's too impactful."

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Looks like it's going to be one of those days, internet

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Ah, status pages. The greatest lies ever told. Supabase is most definitely down. Happy Monday everyone!

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

If this caught your eye or your interest, both offers are now publicly listed on each site: use BF2025 on DeskVault.app or BlueskyInbox.com for an additional 30% off :)

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Black Friday deals are now live on both DeskVault.app and BlueskyInbox.com - use BF2025 to get 30% off either or both 💰

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Looks like it's my bsky bday - Happy Birthday to me! 🥳

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

By the way, you can get an early Black Friday deal on a perpetual Bluesky Inbox license - 30% off with code 'BF2025' It's an absolute BARGAIN

a screenshot showing bluesky inbox on sale for less than $14 with code BF2025

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Bluesky Inbox now works on mobile! Go take a peek at blueskyinbox.com and let me know about all the awful things that are still probably broken

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I finally got around to implementing a feature which has been 'coming soon' for 6+ months... Sentiment analysis on every post in your inbox on blueskyinbox.com All functionality still 100% in-browser. Sentiment analysis leverages the incredible transformers.js: huggingface.co/docs/transfo...

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

btw, if this DM notification is real, and not just a meta-notification about the fact I apparently need to verify my age in order to *keep* using DMs... then I'm really sorry to whoever it is who's been waiting months for a reply. I'm not ignoring you. At least, I'm not ignoring you on purpose.

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

My 2025 gitbox so far. It's been a busy old year...

@makeusabrew's 2025 gitbox contributions

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Speaking of blueskyinbox.com, you can now selectively mute notifications for individual search terms, rather than having to globally enable/disable notifications when they get a bit too much. Still only $19 one-time. Absolute steal.

a screenshot of blueskyinbox.com showing mute notification functionality

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Woops. Why didn't anybody tell me my changelog dates on blueskyinbox.com were off by a whole year? 😳

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I built DeskVault last year because while I have multiple distinct Stripe accounts (one for each SaaS/product I sell), I want one joined up view of their performance. If that sounds like something you need, I'd love for you to check it out.

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Claude code for web: - connects directly to your GitHub repositories - creates a sandboxed environment in which to conduct its work - lets you open a PR once it has finished Working totally "blind" isn't going to fit a lot of the time, but for some smaller tasks, this could be awesome.

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Oh Claude, what have you learned from us...

an image showing two AI generated docs, one suffixed INITIAL, the other FINAL

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