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Guido X Jansen @gui.do · 17/08/2026

If you are enjoying a tool someone else is building by themselves or with a small team: tell them you like it (and maybe even provide some feedback) Hardly anyone does and I promise: you'll make their day! 🫶

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Martin @mgarcia.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I recently experienced a surreal moment at work. We had a project slipping down the backlog for weeks because the estimated effort was too high. We spent days in meetings debating the approach. Then a coworker just... did it. Used AI to scaffold the whole thing in one day.

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Martin @mgarcia.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Just published: "Breaking the QR Limit." I wanted true serverless P2P sync between phones, but WebRTC requires signaling servers. Doing it via QR codes usually fails because SDP payloads are huge (2.5KB+), resulting in dense, unscanable QRs. I fixed it by designing a custom binary protocol (QWBP).

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Breaking the QR Limit: The Discovery of a Serverless WebRTC Protocol — magarcia

A user's simple request led to an intensive AI-assisted protocol design session. I shrunk WebRTC signaling from 2,500 bytes to 55 bytes—a 97.79% reduction—by questioning every best practice. This is…

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Martin @mgarcia.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I've been building custom skills for Claude Code (Anthropic's CLI) but hit a wall: managing third-party libraries. JavaScript usually demands a package.json and a massive node_modules folder, which is too heavy for simple agent skills. I wanted something like Python's "uv run" but for TypeScript 🧵

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Martin @mgarcia.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Two years at @buffer.com. Time flies. When I joined from a corporate environment, everyone seemed too nice. Too welcoming. Too open. I kept waiting for the catch. 🧵

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Martin @mgarcia.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

How’s your week going?

Comic of Tintin talking to Captain Haddock, who looks exhausted. Haddock says ‘What a week, huh?’ and Tintin replies, ‘Captain, it’s only a major AWS outage on a Monday.’

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Carlos M. @cmunozgar.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

The new BIBE environments is a simple shift which has made a big difference for me this last month: No big overhaul — just one tiny adjustment to my workflow with great results. Learn more here: lnkd.in/dDCRcS8f

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Louis Chenais @lucho.cool · 25/02/2025

This new project from Dan Hollick makes me want to share with you all the content I've been gathering as great "teaching". These usually involve visuals and tailored interactive components to help explain complex topics. #1 makingsoftware.co by Dan Hollick

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MAKING SOFTWARE

A reference manual for people who design and build software.

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Martin @mgarcia.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Your 20s: "Commitment, effort, involvement" Your 30s: "I'm delivering this shit as it is and going straight to the gym" #LifeGoals

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Martin @mgarcia.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Managing technical debt is fundamentally changing: AI agents are quite good at understanding legacy code and executing directed refactoring faster than humans, making previously impossible debt reduction viable in resource-constrained teams.

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Diego @diegosanchez.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Have you ever wanted to work 4 days a week with full pay? Fully remote. Fully transparent (even salaries), values-driven company? This role pays between 141K-163K USD. You can work from anywhere in the world. We're looking for someone to join our Marketing Team at Buffer. Read more buff.ly/gU6JHk7

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Carlos M. @cmunozgar.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Most people misunderstand how AI Agents are designed to assist us in our everyday activities. There's a common fear that AI will take over human jobs.

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Martin @mgarcia.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

You don't always have to review GenAI code - it could be the other way around! Ask AI to review your own code instead. Use Copilot as a reviewer on GitHub, or ask Claude Code to review your PR content. It can give you really good insights and catch those small, subtle bugs you could easily miss.

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Martin @mgarcia.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

When I worked as a sysadmin 10+ years ago, Mutt was my go-to email client. After moving away from it, I never felt comfortable with anything else... until I found Mimestream 2 years ago. Been using it since beta and it's simply the best: elegant, fast, and feels like it truly belongs on the Mac. 🙌

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Due to the Coriolis effect, loading spinners in the Southern hemisphere spin the other way.

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Rob Palmer @robpalmer.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

This is my favourite performance-enhancing JS feature ⚡ It allows ES modules to achieve laziness similar to inline require() in CJS modules, and adds safe handling of Top-Level Await 👍 It's an easy way to speed up existing codebases without introducing the async virality of dynamic import() 🦠

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Martin @mgarcia.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

🧵 Want to share a technique I've been using with generative AI for coding that's been really helpful When you ask AI to make large changes across a codebase (like migrations), it often struggles - uses lots of tokens, makes mistakes, takes forever. But there's a better approach

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Birgitta B @birgitta410.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

In the past few weeks, a new surge of "background" coding agents came out. I wrote down an example of using OpenAI's Codex, this will hopefully help you understand better what they do under the hood, and which agent category they fall into. martinfowler.com/articles/exp...

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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 04/06/2025

It’s not new but I just discovered this @theoatmeal.bsky.social post and I think it may well be my favorite of his. “Sometimes going down the wrong path isn’t a mistake — it’s a construction line” Amen to that! theoatmeal.com/comics/creat...

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Erasers are wonderful - The Oatmeal

An eraser is not a highlighter of mistakes. An eraser is a tool.

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 03/06/2025

I want my code to be understandable to idiots with limited context, because that's also future-me.

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Martin @mgarcia.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

9 months of Palabreja.com growth captured in one chart. The ups and downs tell the real story, but that upward trend? That's what happens when you keep showing up and iterating. Slow and steady feels pretty good.

Line chart showing Palabreja.com revenue growth from September 2024 to May 2025. The blue line starts low and trends upward over 9 months, with some fluctuations including a notable dip in January 2025, but overall demonstrates consistent growth with the highest peak in April 2025.

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Darcy Peters @thedarcypeters.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

$22,384,596 may seem like a random number, but it's oh so meaningful for us at @buffer. This number marks the transition from ARR recovery, which is essentially a continual look backward at our previous all-time high, to a bright and beautiful launch forward into *everything* that is to come.

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Jen Gentleman @jenmsft.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

async await async await async await async await in the function, the mighty function, the child thread sleeps tonight 🎵

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Joel Gascoigne @joel.is · 28/05/2025

Wow, we did it! We have officially achieved a new all-time-high ARR at Buffer 🎉 Our previous all-time-high was $22,384,598 on February 6, 2020. Today, our ARR stands at $22,395,427. This milestone has been 5 years in the making for us, it's going to take a little time to sink in for me personally!

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 27/05/2025

One interesting thing I've learned when talking with GitHub CEO @ashtom.bsky.social last week is how GitHub is hiring *more* early-careers devs (interns / new grads) as before. I asked: why? Given lots of companies are hiring less assuming AI might be at the level of a junior dev (cont'd)

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Martin @mgarcia.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Another milestone: 22 weeks of posting this year alone! The Palabreja.com journey has been documented for much longer, but I love hitting these consistency markers. Nothing beats showing up regularly and watching it all unfold. @buffer.com

An image of a plant growing into a 22-week posting streak with Buffer

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Martin @mgarcia.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I'm building a date-time picker with timezone support for Buffer. What date pickers have you found that actually work well with timezones and good #a11y?

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Eric Khun @erickhun.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

. @buffer ‘s “default to transparency” value was the #buildinpublic 10 years ago - @joelgascoigne

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

A code generation tool that gets you 80-90% of the way there is like a boat that gets you 80-90% of the way. You'll need to be a strong swimmer.

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Addy Osmani @addyosmani.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

New in Chrome DevTools: Accurately emulate CPU performance of a low/mid tier phone with Automatic CPU throttling calibration! 📲 This feature calculates slow-downs for your specific device. Wanted this for years! We just shipped it.

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Addy Osmani @addyosmani.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

"10 Google engineering practices your team can adopt" Free to read: addyo.substack.com/p/applied-so... My new post breaks down our software engineering practices into actionable steps you can implement in your own team. From smaller teams to larger orgs, there are key takeaways here for everyone.

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Applied "Software Engineering at Google"

Practices worth adopting for other organizations

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Amanda Marochko @marochko.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

⭐️ Today marks my 5 year anniversary at @Buffer.com ⭐️ This is also my longest tenure at a company. Usually after about 3 years, I would start to look for my next opportunity. So why have I decided to stay? For me, it's a mix of Product, Personal Growth and People.

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Buffer @buffer.com · 30/01/2025

Gentle reminder: Consistency beats perfection every time. 💙

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HiThereJoe.bsky.social @hitherejoe.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I just published "Migrating to the Compose PullToRefreshBox" 👉 buff.ly/3Cx0uKf #AndroidDev #JetpackCompose #GDE

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Buffer @buffer.com · 29/01/2025

We're making habit-building a whole lot happier. 🥳 Introducing: Streaks! ⚡ The concept is beautifully simple: share a post in Buffer every week and watch your streak count grow. 🪴 Miss a week, and your streak resets, gently nudging you to stay on track. 😌

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Martin Fowler @martinfowler.com · 12/12/2024

NEW POST Design tokens are fundamental design decisions represented as data. Andreas Kutschmann explains how they work and how to organize them to balance scalability, maintainability and developer experience. martinfowler.com/articles/des...

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Design Token-Based UI Architecture

Describing established patterns for organizing design tokens and practical approaches for automation

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Diego @diegosanchez.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

We hit $20M ARR at @buffer again, with just 73 team members! I joined in 2019 when the decade-long growth was slowing. Bouncing back was one of the toughest challenges of my career. What a comeback! Here are some of the things I've learned as part of the Product Team:

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Amanda Marochko @marochko.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

For @buffer.com's December All Hands, I presented about our growth on Bluesky. Our daily Bluesky connections (by unique users) have increased by 528% 🤯 I'm deep in 2025 planning and I'm excited to focus more on Bluesky features in the coming months! Keep sending your suggestions my way 🙏

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Aleix Morgadas @aleixmorgadas.dev · 07/12/2024

As we see more LLM adoption on producing/helping to produce content in products like Buffer, Miro, and alike, it would be awesome to understand the similarity of the content it is generated.

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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · 03/12/2024

Naming things is hard. If you don’t know what to call a component in your design system, you can start by looking at what other teams are doing. Component Gallery is a great resource for this: component.gallery/components/ …But don’t assume that something is correct, just because it’s popular.

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Lloyd Jones @lloydjones.io · 26/11/2024

I made a Chrome Extension to bring Bluesky comments to any URL :) Get it here: github.com/joneslloyd/b... Credits to: - @emilyliu.me - @coryzue.com - @louee.bsky.social Any feedback and/or PRs are welcome. I threw this together in 1.5 errors, so expect bugs etc.

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GitHub - joneslloyd/bluesky-comments-chrome

Contribute to joneslloyd/bluesky-comments-chrome development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Hailley Griffis @hailley.co · 23/11/2024

So proud of the amazing @buffer.com team! We have been so focused on this turnaround for the last few years. And we still have so much more we want to do and build. 😄 🎉

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Jhey ʕ·ᴥ·　ʔ @jhey.dev · 23/11/2024

3D split-flap display ✈️

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Nathan @nathan.riftgate.com · 21/11/2024

Want to tease something my team has been working on over @buffer.com !

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Amanda Marochko @marochko.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Over the last few days, we've seen a bunch of new people join Bluesky and also connect their accounts to @buffer.com As the Product Manager for the Bluesky <> Buffer integration, I would love to hear more about how we can improve this experience for you. Feel free to comment below or send me a DM!

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