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Mikio Braun 💎 @mikiobraun.com · 7h

OAuth is the one tech I didn't know I needed to know so much about apparently. 😅

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Mikio Braun 💎 @mikiobraun.com · 11/09/2026

Don't need an iPhone Duo if you're dual wielding a private and a work phone.

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Mikio Braun 💎 @mikiobraun.com · 04/09/2026

Agent platforms right now be like

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Mikio Braun 💎 @mikiobraun.com · 02/09/2026

Man, first I was really annoyed by how the newer Opus model talk. "Let me push back", "X is load-bearing", "X shaped", "Three things landed, two made it worth". And now find myself using "X shaped" myself... 🫣 Still haven't figured out if people really talk like that.

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Mikio Braun 💎 @mikiobraun.com · 28/08/2026

I have this Macbook Pro M1 Max which I barely use but that is around to occasionally run local models. I wondered why the disk is so full and then realized I apparently once installed Cyberpunk 2077 to see how it runs and then forgot about it! 😂

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Mikio Braun 💎 @mikiobraun.com · 14/06/2026

"I haven't checked what the AI said but wtf if true" is something I'm thinking way too often these days. 😓

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Mikio Braun 💎 @mikiobraun.com · 13/06/2026

I'd really like to know where Opus 4.7 and 4.8 got these verbal tics from. It constantly says stuff like "load-bearing" (instead of just saying it's important), or "X-shaped" instead of "looks like X". Do people really talk like this somewhere (I'm assuming in Silicon Valley?)

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 09/06/2026

Microsoft: we're finally gonna release the fourth Fable game next year Anthropic: FABLE 5 AVAILABLE TODAY

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Mikio Braun 💎 @mikiobraun.com · 19/05/2026

Someone asked me whether it's OK if we order the authors alphabetically on some strategy document we're writing, and I said "I used up all my energy to care about author order in my time in academia, I don't care." 😅

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Mikio Braun 💎 @mikiobraun.com · 15/05/2026

So when I started using Claude Code more I learned neovim, and now I let my discounted yearly all products subscription from jetbrains run out 😅

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Mikio Braun 💎 @mikiobraun.com · 30/04/2026

So I told Claude "help me impulse buy a domain" and when we got to the point to close the deal I got this 😂

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Mikio Braun 💎 @mikiobraun.com · 21/04/2026

Last week I wrote about agentic memory and how it was underdeveloped. A lot of people send me pointers to projects, so here's the follow-up with what I found. blog.mikiobraun.de/2026/04/agen...

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Agentic memory the follow up

[Last week I wrote about agentic memory](https://blog.mikiobraun.de/2026/04/building-ais-that-grow-with-you) and I got a lot of responses, in particular many people pointing me to existing...

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Mikio Braun 💎 @mikiobraun.com · 19/04/2026

Google Gemini is really the worst at "engagement prompting". Always that follow-up question. Like a salesperson suggesting articles even after you said "just looking" for the 3rd time.

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Mikio Braun 💎 @mikiobraun.com · 08/04/2026

I've recently been on Ben Lorica's Gradient Flow podcast speaking about agents, teams, and using a coding agent for data science tasks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=poif...

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Your Coding Agent Is Lying to You About Your Data

YouTube video by Gradient Flow

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Mikio Braun 💎 @mikiobraun.com · 08/04/2026

In other news, I finally fixed the custom handle - turned out for whatever reason I had double quotes around the DNS TXT value 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Mikio Braun 💎 @mikiobraun.com · 26/02/2026

Maybe the most positive public space on the Internet I've come across in the past months is r/bald, where men who are balding encourage each other to shave their heads 🥰 www.reddit.com/r/bald/s/DEJ...

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Lose your hair, not your head.

Welcome to r/bald! Our philosophy is simple: embrace bald and strive to make the world a more bald-friendly place. We’re often sold the idea that bald is bad. That’s bullshit. As we grow and matu...

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Mikio Braun 💎 @mikiobraun.com · 18/02/2026

Wow, the raspberry pi 5 with 16GB costs 200€ now? Wasn't that like 150€ last year?

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Mikio Braun 💎 @mikiobraun.com · 09/02/2026

Can't believe it but after years of being a jetbrains guy, I started using neovim with lazyvim and I haven't opened it in weeks! 😅

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Mikio Braun 💎 @mikiobraun.com · 22/01/2026

OK, one last tweak, crawled all links to add OpenGraph data to show proper link cards, like the one below. (also did you know, that chucknorris is a color?!) mikiobraun.de/twitter/stat...

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@mikiobraun on Twitter

RT @oldJavaGuy: Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color? http://t.co/PQjvrvAd4l

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Mikio Braun 💎 @mikiobraun.com · 20/01/2026

Remembered I got an archive with all my tweets before I deleted my Twitter account in 2024. Now you can read them again: mikiobraun.de/twitter

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Twitter Archive - Mikio L. Braun

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Mikio Braun 💎 @mikiobraun.com · 12/01/2026

Introduced my 18yo daughter to the works of Michael McDonald. Such a range, from Doobie Brothers to collabs with Jacob Collier and Thundercat!

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Mikio Braun 💎 @mikiobraun.com · 29/12/2025

I came across this essay the other day: www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-c... And I think AI coding agents completely changed the game on these ones, more true than ever before. You can just code any small to medium sized app on the side if you want to!

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An app can be a home-cooked meal

I made a messaging app for my family and my family only.

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Mikio Braun 💎 @mikiobraun.com · 26/12/2025

Alright, time to clean up my domains and unify my content 😓😅 It's just 12 domains and - a jekyll based blog - two (?) wordpress sites - a handrolled static site - a substack - an experiment I did on vercel years ago across a couple of registrars and DNS servers 😅

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Mikio Braun 💎 @mikiobraun.com · 20/12/2025

Someone shared with me how they beat Sven by challenging him to a game of rock paper scissors 😂 but he didn't expect their last move!! sventhebouncer.com/t/b683c550

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Sven the Bouncer

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Mikio Braun 💎 @mikiobraun.com · 19/12/2025

So I was playing around with prompts to create more engaging, live like agent personas, and somehow accidentally created this: running off of llama-3.1-8b, 7 turns, vibe-based scoring. No scripted answers. Curious what weird approaches people find! sventhebouncer.com

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Andrea Lathrop @cabernet.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I have asked this, before, but is there anywhere else online that good Cog Sci/AI/ML discussions are ongoing, where I can at least eavesdrop academically? Twitter/X and Bluesky both feel kind of... sparse... and I might like a more concentrated topic focus, anyway.

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Mikio Braun 💎 @mikiobraun.com · 21/11/2025

My side project tech stack these days is Termius on iPhone > raspberrypi 5 running in my living room with tailscale > tmux > nvim, claude code > Gemini Flash

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Mikio Braun 💎 @mikiobraun.com · 15/09/2025

Did you know you can put an LLM into test mode?

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Mikio Braun 💎 @mikiobraun.com · 11/09/2025

I should give back this compliment by also indicating that Paul is the best partner if you need to derail a meeting - with best intentions, of course!

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Mikio Braun 💎 @mikiobraun.com · 11/09/2025

Alright, I just legendaried all Duolingo Japanese units. No celebration, no badges, that was a bit of a letdown. Ask me anything :)

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Mikio Braun 💎 @mikiobraun.com · 27/06/2025

OH: "I don't know about AI, I like to do things manually. I mean, I use Arch Linux FFS!"

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Mikio Braun 💎 @mikiobraun.com · 20/06/2025

Summer is for iced coffee beverages

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Mikio Braun 💎 @mikiobraun.com · 19/06/2025

TFW you fire up duckdb to do some quick arithmetics. It used to be irb...

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Gradient Flow @gradientflow.com · 03/06/2025

Why Block Built Their Own AI Coding Assistant (And Open-Sourced It) 👩‍💻 goose combines LLM reasoning with tool integrations to automate complex engineering tasks from start to finish 👉 gradientflow.substack.com/p/can-a-sing...

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Can a single agent automate 90% of your code fixes? Block thinks so

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Mikio Braun 💎 @mikiobraun.com · 03/06/2025

Found a book in Japan about why German working culture is so great, and the first thing they mention is that everyone gets up at 6 and start working at 7 and I'm like, sure... that's me... every day 😅

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re:publica @re-publica.com · 20/05/2025

Schlummern bei euch noch alte Handys in den Schubladen? Bringt sie mit zur #rp25! Unser #Partner Berliner Stadtmission sammelt diese für wohnungs- und obdachlose Menschen. 📍Wo? Sammelbox am Info-Point 📱Was? Smartphones & Handys, die funktionieren. Gern mit Ladekabel, aber ohne Daten oder PIN.

Foto einer Plastikbox mit der Aufschrift "Smartphone-Spenden für die digitale Teilhabe von Menschen ohne Obdach". In der Box liegen gespendete Handys.

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