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Robin-Manuel Thiel @robinmanuelthiel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The animation capabilities of the latest AI models are crazy. I asked Opus 5.5 to make my side project whencanwego.net look a little bit cuter with hand-drawn animations purely in HTML, SVG, and CSS. Look at the magic it did!

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Robin-Manuel Thiel @robinmanuelthiel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The new Swiss Air time travel technology is crazy!

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Robin-Manuel Thiel @robinmanuelthiel.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

„Not a single sentence of this article has been written by AI.“ We now live in a world where this sentence makes me 10x more likely to read it.

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Robin-Manuel Thiel @robinmanuelthiel.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

As a Microsoft Loop user, who mentioned myself, I want to receive an email telling me I mentioned myself, so I don't forget, I mentioned myself. Bonus: No setting to turn this off.

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Robin-Manuel Thiel @robinmanuelthiel.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Security and distribution are what keep these apps from taking over. As an industry, we should build reliable ways to detect implicit and hidden security flaws in vibe-coded apps. Once we achieve that, citizen and community apps will go mainstream. techcrunch.com/2026/01/16/t...

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The rise of 'micro' apps: non-developers are writing apps instead of buying them | TechCrunch

A new era of app creation is here. It's fun, it's fast, and it's fleeting.

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Robin-Manuel Thiel @robinmanuelthiel.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

My favorite thing to do with AI in coding at the moment: Documentation drift detection. All the time I have Claude constantly review Code, Terraform, and Confluence docs to see if they still match. Each Pull Request gets checked if it could silently invalidate existing documentation.

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Robin-Manuel Thiel @robinmanuelthiel.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

🗓️ 🔄Local Calendar Sync is now on mobile. Between the years is nerd time for me, so I finally ported it from desktop. Mobile just makes more sense as it's always online. The app keeps calendars in sync. No cloud, no subscription. Private. Let me know what you think!

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Local Calendar Sync - Privacy-First Calendar Synchronization

Sync your calendars locally on macOS, iPhone, and iPad. No cloud, no data collection. Complete privacy and control.

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Robin-Manuel Thiel @robinmanuelthiel.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

In the latest version, Claude Code detects that I am using it for Swift and suggests me to install the Swift langauge server plugin, so it can access compiler features like go-to-definition and error checking. Really cool!

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Robin-Manuel Thiel @robinmanuelthiel.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Most important settings change in iOS 26.

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Robin-Manuel Thiel @robinmanuelthiel.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Unimpressed with Copilot != unimpressed with AI in general, lol

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Robin-Manuel Thiel @robinmanuelthiel.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Glad to see the fired Azure Front Door engineers found a job at Cloudflare!

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Robin-Manuel Thiel @robinmanuelthiel.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Before heading to the gym, I quickly hand over three tasks to the GitHub Copilot Agent to work on in parallel in the background while I work out. Ready to be reviewed when I come back. What a time to be alive!

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Robin-Manuel Thiel @robinmanuelthiel.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I can't believe that Windows is still showing me ads on a freshly installed machine. How much are they making out of it? It can't be worth the shitstorm.

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Robin-Manuel Thiel @robinmanuelthiel.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

In Visual Studio Code, you can now delegate //TODO comments to an agent! This is cool!

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Robin-Manuel Thiel @robinmanuelthiel.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

What to do in between two jobs? Start another side project, of course! So I started a weekly tech newsletter! whatdidimiss.io Every Friday, I send out a handpicked list of news articles on AI, tech business, software development, and industry breakthroughs. Unexcited, no fluff, jargon-free.

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Robin-Manuel Thiel @robinmanuelthiel.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Agents.md fixes the chaos of AI coding agent configuration. Project-specific AI instructions have been fragmented: CLAUDE.md, .cursorrules, ... The future: A universal spec, already adopted by over 20k open-source projects. Let's all migrate to Agents.md and leave the mess behind!

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Robin-Manuel Thiel @robinmanuelthiel.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

My friend skipped our meeting. His AI didn’t. Whoops, I trash-talked to the note taker, which now thinks he runs an airline cleaning crew. As a result, it added some very disturbing tasks to his to-do list. Consider it payback for leaving me hanging. Sorry, Mike! 😘

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Robin-Manuel Thiel @robinmanuelthiel.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Ey @sonarqube.bsky.social, you should protect me from security vulnerabilities and not become one!

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todo:cast Developer Podcast 🎙️ @todocast.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

🔴 🎙️ In der neuesten Folge erklären wir, was Vibe-Coding ist, zeigen ein spaßiges Setup mit VS Code, Live-Server und Audio-Input und diskutieren Tools wie MCP Server, Claude Code und Playwright MCP für autonomen Frontend-Workflow.

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Robin-Manuel Thiel @robinmanuelthiel.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

The success of LangChain, an open-source framework for building AI applications, is wild! In Python, LangChain is now downloaded more often than the official OpenAI SDK. That’s more than a stat, it’s a signal: flexible, open tooling wins the heart and minds of developers. ❤️

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Robin-Manuel Thiel @robinmanuelthiel.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Agents are cool. But agents that talk to each other? That’s where it gets interesting. Google’s new Agent-to-Agent Protocol (A2A) promises exactly that.

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Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.

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Robin-Manuel Thiel @robinmanuelthiel.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

One of us had to change the name. As you can see, LinkedIn is still called LinkedIn, so my Browser Extension is now "Make Social Media Great Again". As a result, the Apple Gods now allow me to publish it as a Safari Extension. Safari users, your timeline is now 💩-free too.

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todo:cast Developer Podcast 🎙️ @todocast.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

🔴 🎙️ In Folge 114 haben wir über unsere ganz persönlichen KI-Workflows gesprochen: Vom Podcast-Cutting bis zu automatisierten TikTok-Videos. 👉 Zur Folge: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/todo-…

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todo:cast Developer Podcast 🎙️ @todocast.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

🎬 TD;DR: In Folge 103 vom Podcast geht's um gRPC, einem hocheffizienten Kommunikationsprotokoll, was REST und GraphQL in einigen Fällen den Rang abläuft. 👉 Zur Folge: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/todo-…

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Robin-Manuel Thiel @robinmanuelthiel.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

When I am back on my Laptop after using a colleague's machine for 10 minutes.

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Robin-Manuel Thiel @robinmanuelthiel.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

When I return back to AI-Assisted Coding after being offline for 2 hours.

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Robin-Manuel Thiel @robinmanuelthiel.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Apple's App Store Review keeps on being a frustrating shit show! 😡 To bring my free(!) "Make LinkedIn Great Again" browser extension to Safari, I need to change the name, replace the "Buy me a coffee" button with In-App Purchases (= -30%). Each of my questions get ignored...

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Robin-Manuel Thiel @robinmanuelthiel.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

New Update for Local Calendar Sync in the making. Get ready for filters! ☕️ 🥐

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Robin-Manuel Thiel @robinmanuelthiel.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I created a Custom GPT for @todo_cast - and I should’ve done this sooner. It helps with recurring tasks like formatting episode descriptions or turning notes into scripts, all with our context baked in. Game-changer!

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todo:cast Developer Podcast 🎙️ @todocast.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

🔴 🎙️ Neue Folge: MCP (Model Context Protocol) mischt die AI-Welt auf und verspricht noch mächtigere KI-Anwendungen. Wir besprechen, was Developer wissen müssen. 👉 Zur Folge: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/todo-…

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Robin-Manuel Thiel @robinmanuelthiel.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Update is out: What started as a joke (lnkd.in/djTETw8X) is a real feature of Make LinkedIn Great Again now! 🐣

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Robin-Manuel Thiel @robinmanuelthiel.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

A new version of Local Calendar Sync is out. For those who don't know: It keeps work and personal calendars in sync. - Support for different event availabilities - Faster, improved sync algorithm - Optionally hide the Menu Bar icon What should I add next?

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Robin-Manuel Thiel @robinmanuelthiel.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Soon, Copilot will be able to play the whole game for me and I all have to do is sit on the sofa and insult my teammates when their Noob AI Assistants play worse than mine. I don‘t know…

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Robin-Manuel Thiel @robinmanuelthiel.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

We need to agree on a global standard, that Shift+Enter should *never* send a message, but *always* just adds a new line. Violating that results in a one-week internet ban. It drives me nuts that this is different with every app!

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todo:cast Developer Podcast 🎙️ @todocast.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

🔴 🎙️ Neue Folge: Kann dank AI bald niemand mehr richtig programmieren? Wie kommt es dazu? Das diskutieren wir in dieser Folge. 👉 Zur Folge: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/todo-…

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Robin-Manuel Thiel @robinmanuelthiel.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Today, a friend joked that it would make his day if every mention of "AI" on LinkedIn was replaced with a 🐓 emoji. How could I resist? I added this feature to the Make LinkedIn Great Again browser extension, and unintentionally created a GitHub Copilot Agent Mode ad. youtu.be/4lBhdz22gJA

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Building the Make LinkedIn Great Again Chicken Feature

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todo:cast Developer Podcast 🎙️ @todocast.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

🔴 🎙️ In der neuen Podcast Folge geht's um Browser Extensions, wie man diese baut und wie unsere LinkedIn-Timelines wieder anschaulich werden. 👉 Zur Folge: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/todo-…

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Robin-Manuel Thiel @robinmanuelthiel.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I am thrilled to announce 🙄 that this is the last time you have to read that phrase on LinkedIn again: I've built a Browser Extension to filter out posts from your timeline that contain unwanted words or work anniversaries of people you barely remember. www.linkedin.com/pulse/make-l...

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Make LinkedIn Great Again

A simple Browser Extension to filter unwanted content from your LinkedIn timeline

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Robin-Manuel Thiel @robinmanuelthiel.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I know, #dotnetconf is already 2 months old, and I am late to the party, but these recordings I found worth watching, if you are into .NET 👇

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Robin-Manuel Thiel @robinmanuelthiel.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Why is your entire timeline suddenly talking about DeepSeek R1? ⚡ Performance comparable to OpenAI o1 💰 18x more cost-efficient 🌏 Made in China: Censorship questions 📜 Open Source Model + paper published 📉 Breaking Scaling Laws: Could replace brute-force scaling pumpingco.de/blog/the-dee...

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The DeepSeek R1 hype explained for normal people: What you need to know

R1 from DeepSeek challenges AI norms with smarter training, rivaling OpenAI’s o1. It’s 18x more efficient, raising questions on scaling, costs, and censorship.

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todo:cast Developer Podcast 🎙️ @todocast.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

🔴 🎙️ Folge 107: Software-Konzerne, wie Meta oder Salesforce, verkünden großspurig, Developer komplett durch KI zu ersetzen. Aber geht das wirklich schon? Wir haben Devin,ai, Cursor und GitHub Copilot Workspace einem Realitäts-Check unterzogen.

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Felix Rieseberg @felixrieseberg.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

You might be wrong about @electronjs.org Wherever I see a discussion about Electron, I also see people getting tons of things wrong. People on the Internet being wrong isn't new, but I've written a bunch of text and code to clear up misconceptions.

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