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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 12/11/2025

I had a great time talking at the Callstack AI meetup!

Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 15/08/2025

this is cool, I made myself a webapp to help me manage and combine styles and characters to use with gpt-image-1. It's like my own personal midjourney

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 04/08/2025

Gave a talk at Boston Code & Coffee on How to Get Hired in Tech in 2025. Opinionated advice on leveling up, being discoverable, and adapting to AI. Slides + vibe-coded visuals by Claude Code + DALL·E: getting-hired.raf.dev

getting-hired.raf.dev

Getting Hired in Tech in 2025

Nurture your skills, become discoverable, and get prepared for the AI paradigm shift

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 12/07/2025

Tomorrow I'm giving a small talk about how to get hired as a software eng in 2025. I built my self a slide presentation webapp, and I can get Claude Code to automatically generate images for the slides for me using the OpenAI API. This is so much better than Keynote.

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 03/07/2025

Software development in 2026

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 28/06/2025

Turns out you can animate the Ender's Game book cover

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Generic_Soda @genericsoda.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

i made a chart

a detailed chart breaking down what counts as a "blowjob brothers." The top row has a "purist" section labelled "the blowjob brothers must be a pair of males," a "neutral section labelled "the blowjob brothers may be any gender," and a "radical" section labelled "the blowjob may be any conceptual pair."

The left column also has "purist," "neutral," and "radical" sections, labelled "the blowjob brothers must be explicitly aligned in some way," "the blowjob brothers are unaligned but may cooperate on a shared objective," and "the blowjob brothers may be enemies or rivals who frequently clash" respectively.

Each intersection contains an example image and text, detailed as follows: Purist/Purist contains Bulk and Skull from Power Rangers, Neutral/Purist contains Shin and Noi from Dorohedoro, and Radical/Purish contains Spectacle Rock from The Legend of Zelda.

Neutral/Purist contains Ryo Saeba and Umibozu from City Hunter, Neutral/Neutral contains Q and Kathryn Janeway from Star Trek Voyager, and Neutral/Radical contains the Namco and Capcom, as detailed on the boxart of the crossover game Namco X Capcom.

Radical/Purist contains Kazuma Kiryu and Daisaku Kuze from Yakuza 0, Radical/Neutral contains Natsuo Ishidou and Yuzuko Mawatari from Teppu, and Radical/Radical contains the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox.

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 20/06/2025

I recently switched from Cursor to Claude Code and I like it way more. I'm a terminal person who uses Vim, and I didn't want to go back to VSCode for AI coding. Let me tell you what I like about Claude Code. 🧵

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 19/06/2025

This is going to be our main coding workflow next year

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 15/06/2025

lool, I'm watching Mountainhead. "If you bust a b-nut into this app, it will give birth to a unicorn"

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 05/06/2025

I've been thinking a lot about the future of software developer jobs. I wonder what's going to happen. On one hand there's going to be a lot of pressure to produce more. But on the other hand, AI gives developers a lot of power and freedom to build whatever they want.

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 01/06/2025

This is a really good idea

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 29/05/2025

nice shout-out at App.js conf for @coolsoftware.dev !

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 29/05/2025

I have a preposition for

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 26/05/2025

Guess who I just ran into the flight to Krakow

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 26/05/2025

Amazon developers saying that their work is starting to resemble warehouse work. I think that's going to be a sad outcome of AI tools, and I hope people recognize they can go towards more fun and creative programming careers now. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/b...

nytimes.com

At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun to Resemble Warehouse Work

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 26/05/2025

Vibe coding over the Atlantic. Neat.

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 25/05/2025

On my way to App.js Conf!! See you in Krakow 🇵🇱

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 22/05/2025

Digital physical therapy provider Hinge Health raised $437M in its US IPO, after the company and its backers sold 13.7M shares at $32 each, the top of its range (Anthony Hughes/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 22/05/2025

These are the stickers I'm going to give out at App.js Conf. Say hi to me if you want one!

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 20/05/2025

Every software company should have a weekly "what sucks" meeting on Friday, where you look at the product and list out the things that suck. Then you fix them first thing on Monday

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 20/05/2025

I was hoping to practice my AppJS talk on Saturday at a local tech event, but I was just told they can't do it for some reason. Hmmm, what to do.

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 19/05/2025

I know there's a lot of uncertainty about whether software jobs are going to go away. But do developers understand how much more empowered they are?

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 16/05/2025

Niiiiiice. The latest ridiculous thing I saw on Boylston St: a moped riding on the bike lane almost running over a girl on a bike going the wrong way on that same bike lane 🤦‍♂️

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 16/05/2025

I predict a generational divide: As we see more and more AI avatars that look like a real person, older people will find that offensive, while younger people will find that perfectly acceptable. For some reason I think AI generated voice is fine but a fake AI person is gross

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 16/05/2025

I updated my sticker for AppJS conf. Hopefully it gets here in time before I leave. See me at the conference to get one!

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 12/05/2025

If anybody is looking for React native developers, I have some buddies that are looking

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 04/05/2025

I accidentally stayed up all night hacking a side project that uses the new open ai image model. I've been wanting something that helps me explore art styles.

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 04/05/2025

I've been making myself a UI to generate images with the new gpt-image-1 model. This feels way faster than using it through the ChatGPT app. This model requires personal verification. I had to take a picture of my drivers license and scan my face in order to use it 😳😳😳

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 03/05/2025

I don't know if I know anyone at Facebook, but after logging into my account I get a 500 GQL error on a `/checkpoint` page. Because I can't get past this page, I don't even have access to support, so how does one even get this fixed?

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 03/05/2025

It's crazy how quickly you can get things done with Cursor. This took me like half an hour of voice dictating into cursor to build. I did a lot of iterations on the design

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 02/05/2025

Unsure what made me make this sticker

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 20/04/2025

I watched the first episode of Lazarus on Max. It's so good but why doesn't it have Japanese audio?

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 18/04/2025

I haven't done a single MCP thing yet. And that's probably because I just tell the LLM agents to run CLI tools. You can get an LLM to do anything if it can run commands on the CLI

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 15/04/2025

sometimes I miss the i and hit o instead

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 10/04/2025

I got to visit Kumamon today

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 10/04/2025

Last year at conferences I mentioned that AI is going to make software development move to the web, which actually has a lot of advantages for standardizing development environments across large teams. No one believed me. Anyway this is what future development is going to be like firebase.studio

firebase.studio

Firebase Studio

Firebase Studio is an entirely web-based workspace for full-stack application development, complete with the latest generative AI from Gemini, and full-fidelity app previews, powered by cloud emulator...

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 10/04/2025

I think once Open AI adds the ability to create a database, that's going to open up a huge new type of consumer-made apps.

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 07/04/2025

In my happy place, having a Horoyoi on the Shinkansen

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