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Roy Derks

@gethackteam.bsky.social

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AI, Web Dev, Developer Experience & DevRel @ibmdata ⚡ 🥑 Tech Author, Speaker, Entrepreneur 🚀 Sharing opinions (✉️ [email protected]

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Roy Derks @gethackteam.bsky.social · Nov 18

Have you ever looked at your GitHub history? What does it say about your career?

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Roy Derks @gethackteam.bsky.social · 10d

The fact that nobody reads the posts I publish here in no way dissuades me from publishing more.

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Roy Derks @gethackteam.bsky.social · 10d

Guardrails made easy:

“use no hallucination”

Roy Derks @gethackteam.bsky.social · 11d

"coding with AI sucks"

Roy Derks @gethackteam.bsky.social · 13d

Input raw contracts, reports, and research papers to your agents, and use Docling to turn it into structured data.

Try it out yourself, directly from Claude Desktop or via the MCP server or Python SDK.
→ github.com/docling-proj...

GitHub - docling-project/docling: Get your documents ready for gen AI

Get your documents ready for gen AI. Contribute to docling-project/docling development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Roy Derks @gethackteam.bsky.social · 13d

That’s what Docling does:
📄 Converts PDFs, Word, and HTML into clean Markdown or structured JSON.
⚡️ Runs as an MCP server so agents can parse documents in real time.
🔓 100% open-source, and already ⭐️ 42K+ GitHub stars.

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Roy Derks @gethackteam.bsky.social · 13d

AI can finally read all your documents.

Not just parse text but actually understand structure, sections, and tables.

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Roy Derks @gethackteam.bsky.social · 15d

Evaluation of your AI app (or agent) is like testing your “regular” application. Very much needed but often overlooked

Roy Derks @gethackteam.bsky.social · 15d

The very moment it became clear Europe is ngmi

Roy Derks @gethackteam.bsky.social · 23d

“𝗩𝗶𝗯𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝘀𝘁. 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱.”

Roy Derks @gethackteam.bsky.social · 24d

Everyone says they want to “vibe code,” until it actually looks like this 👇

🧾 Endless design docs
🧪 Weeks of test writing
💾 Legacy tech for “stability”
🔍 4 rounds of code reviews
🧤 Manual QA on every pixel

Sometimes the best way to move fast… is to just build.

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Roy Derks @gethackteam.bsky.social · 26d

never disrupt your coding agent mid session

Roy Derks @gethackteam.bsky.social · 26d

anyone remember this trend?

Roy Derks @gethackteam.bsky.social · 26d

vibe coding a calculator app

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Roy Derks @gethackteam.bsky.social · 27d

Weekends are for having fun with AI, recorded some of my vibe coding to share soonish

Roy Derks @gethackteam.bsky.social · 27d

Building evergreen app with AI is cute

What I like to see is “build X using my companies’ design system, connecting to our internal microservices and deployed on this AWS cluster”

Roy Derks @gethackteam.bsky.social · 27d

People ask: “can AI write full stack apps yet?”

My take: yes, but the challenge is in stitching components, handling edge cases, connecting to non-evergreen infra

Bullish it won’t take long to get there

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Roy Derks @gethackteam.bsky.social · 28d

peak developer performance

locked in for the rest of the year

Roy Derks @gethackteam.bsky.social · Oct 8

wait until you see my ./node_modules

Roy Derks @gethackteam.bsky.social · Oct 8

MCP just turned Chrome DevTools into an AI tool.

From your IDE you can now directly debug and inspect your web applications using MCP

(great demo by the Chrome DevTools team)

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Roy Derks @gethackteam.bsky.social · Oct 8

If I'm excited about one thing, it is being a developer

With AI I'm able to write code much faster and efficiently

Roy Derks @gethackteam.bsky.social · Oct 8

People that had no skills before AI, will still have zero skills with AI

Roy Derks @gethackteam.bsky.social · Oct 7

"You cannot scale without Kubernetes"

Says the corporate dev who has never shipped a feature in hours

Roy Derks @gethackteam.bsky.social · Oct 7

I'm locked in until the year ends

All work, family and playing around with AI tools

Roy Derks @gethackteam.bsky.social · Oct 7

If you really believe MCP does not matter you have never built any serious agentic tools

Roy Derks @gethackteam.bsky.social · Oct 7

Why did OpenAI go with GPT-4 for DevDay instead of their newest models?

Curious what went on behind the scenes there.