Andrew Cairns (@acairns)

Yesterday

Have been giving Orca a try the past few days: https://www.onorca.dev/ Have tried so many ways of working in the last few years. Nothing has quite lasted. But I'm feeling pretty good about Orca so far!

OrcaOrca — The agent development environmentOrca is the Agent Development Environment (ADE) for shipping with coding agents. Run Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Cursor CLI, and every other CLI agent in parallel across isolated worktrees. Get work done dramatically faster than any IDE. New features shipped every day. Free, open source, cross-platform.

Fabio @fgrehm2h

Try bb, malleable as fuck :) https://getbb.app

bbbbbb can control, customize, and automate itself, laying the groundwork for your own software factory.

Graham-04 @Graham-043h

@acairns have you tried trypalomino.com? It is still in beta but moving fast, and is built with Rust + GPUI. It is very performant!

PalominoPalomino: Keep up with your agentsPalomino runs all your agents in one window, natively on your Mac.

Andrew Cairns @acairns4h7e4931a

Is there support for animated gifs? Anyone tested that?

Julien Bianchi @jubianchi4h

no GIFs for now :)

Tue, Oct 27

Andrew Cairns @acairns1d17ca336

Don't assume there is a human in the loop. Make an assumption, proceed, then show a map of your assumptions at the end.

A lot of decisions are 2-way doors. Just get 90% of the way and make some corrections.

Mon, Oct 26

Andrew Cairns @acairns2d4ac7610

Having spent months migrating a service from PHP to C#, I'm finally back working fully in PHP. I like many other languages, but PHP is still my favourite.

Sun, Oct 25

Andrew Cairns @acairns3d47cf83e

I could have, and perhaps should have, used AI to create this video thumbnail. It would have saved me a lot of time. And probably looked a lot better. But I still love pouring time into something just for the sake of enjoying the process and learning stuff.

Faruk Nasir @frknasir3d

i feel you

Andrew Cairns @acairns3de89a0a3

Spend the extra hour in bed, or... rebuild my entire video production workflow? Maybe I should have stayed in bed.

Tue, Oct 20

Andrew Cairns @acairnsOct 20b3ce9d3

If were not careful, every conversation with AI can turn into a game of Wheres Wally. The more we add to a context window, the harder it can get for a model to find the stuff that really matters. In my new video, I use a popular game to explain 'lost in the middle', 'context…