Vlad Haltakov
@haltakov.net
Building products in the age of AI. Automating everything. Ex-VP Eng (cybersecurity), ex-BMW (self-driving).
How I use AI models for coding in Cursor
Simple features or UI - Composer 1.0
More complex features - Opus 4.5
Tricky, complex problems - Gemini 3 Pro
The hardest problems - GPT-5.1 Codex High
What about you?
Simple features or UI - Composer 1.0
More complex features - Opus 4.5
Tricky, complex problems - Gemini 3 Pro
The hardest problems - GPT-5.1 Codex High
What about you?
December 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
How I use AI models for coding in Cursor
Simple features or UI - Composer 1.0
More complex features - Opus 4.5
Tricky, complex problems - Gemini 3 Pro
The hardest problems - GPT-5.1 Codex High
What about you?
Simple features or UI - Composer 1.0
More complex features - Opus 4.5
Tricky, complex problems - Gemini 3 Pro
The hardest problems - GPT-5.1 Codex High
What about you?
Had a super tricky issue with the clicks of a context menu propagating to the background element.
Opus 4.5 and Gemini 3 Pro couldn't fix it after many tries.
GPT-5.1 Codex High one-shotted the fix!
Opus 4.5 and Gemini 3 Pro couldn't fix it after many tries.
GPT-5.1 Codex High one-shotted the fix!
December 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Had a super tricky issue with the clicks of a context menu propagating to the background element.
Opus 4.5 and Gemini 3 Pro couldn't fix it after many tries.
GPT-5.1 Codex High one-shotted the fix!
Opus 4.5 and Gemini 3 Pro couldn't fix it after many tries.
GPT-5.1 Codex High one-shotted the fix!
These 4 galleries are created with Simple Photo Gallery. There photos are by Yuliyan Ivanov who kindly allowed us to use them.
Seasons
simple.photo/g/seasons
👇
Seasons
simple.photo/g/seasons
👇
Seasons
The Four Seasons, Captured by [Yuliyan Ivanov](https://www.flickr.com/photos/bgsf/)
gallery.simple.photo
December 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
These 4 galleries are created with Simple Photo Gallery. There photos are by Yuliyan Ivanov who kindly allowed us to use them.
Seasons
simple.photo/g/seasons
👇
Seasons
simple.photo/g/seasons
👇
Black Friday Deal for Simple Photo Gallery 🚀
Get 50% off one year with the code BF2025
simple.photo
With the 10 year guarantee, you can get 30 GB of photos hosted for 11 years for $30 one time payment!
Get 50% off one year with the code BF2025
simple.photo
With the 10 year guarantee, you can get 30 GB of photos hosted for 11 years for $30 one time payment!
Simple Photo Gallery - Beautiful photo galleries in 1 minute
Transform your folders with photos into beautiful photo galleries in 1 minute
simple.photo
November 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Black Friday Deal for Simple Photo Gallery 🚀
Get 50% off one year with the code BF2025
simple.photo
With the 10 year guarantee, you can get 30 GB of photos hosted for 11 years for $30 one time payment!
Get 50% off one year with the code BF2025
simple.photo
With the 10 year guarantee, you can get 30 GB of photos hosted for 11 years for $30 one time payment!
Marketing Simple Photo Gallery on social media #2
Made a photo slideshow with CTA to the full gallery
TikTok: works great ✅
YouTube: only as community post, not Shorts ❌
Not as much views as the first video
Made a photo slideshow with CTA to the full gallery
TikTok: works great ✅
YouTube: only as community post, not Shorts ❌
Not as much views as the first video
November 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Marketing Simple Photo Gallery on social media #2
Made a photo slideshow with CTA to the full gallery
TikTok: works great ✅
YouTube: only as community post, not Shorts ❌
Not as much views as the first video
Made a photo slideshow with CTA to the full gallery
TikTok: works great ✅
YouTube: only as community post, not Shorts ❌
Not as much views as the first video
I showed Simple Photo Gallery to Toni Kroos today. He absolutely love it! ⚽️
November 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I showed Simple Photo Gallery to Toni Kroos today. He absolutely love it! ⚽️
Meta using TPUs is genius by Google 🧠
Meta owns PyTorch. Meta optimizing for TPUs = first-class TPU support in PyTorch.
Google just commoditized Nvidia's moat by getting the framework owner to do the work for them.
Once PyTorch makes TPUs easy, every ML team can switch.
Meta owns PyTorch. Meta optimizing for TPUs = first-class TPU support in PyTorch.
Google just commoditized Nvidia's moat by getting the framework owner to do the work for them.
Once PyTorch makes TPUs easy, every ML team can switch.
November 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Meta using TPUs is genius by Google 🧠
Meta owns PyTorch. Meta optimizing for TPUs = first-class TPU support in PyTorch.
Google just commoditized Nvidia's moat by getting the framework owner to do the work for them.
Once PyTorch makes TPUs easy, every ML team can switch.
Meta owns PyTorch. Meta optimizing for TPUs = first-class TPU support in PyTorch.
Google just commoditized Nvidia's moat by getting the framework owner to do the work for them.
Once PyTorch makes TPUs easy, every ML team can switch.
Weird thing happened to me... I used ChatGPT in English (foreign language to me), how to say something in Bulgarian (mother tongue) 🤦♂️
November 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Weird thing happened to me... I used ChatGPT in English (foreign language to me), how to say something in Bulgarian (mother tongue) 🤦♂️
Nano Banana Pro is nerfed inside of the Gemini app - it refuses to create photos of famous people.
In the API it works fine, though, I hope Google doesn't nerf it there as well 🤞
In the API it works fine, though, I hope Google doesn't nerf it there as well 🤞
November 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Nano Banana Pro is nerfed inside of the Gemini app - it refuses to create photos of famous people.
In the API it works fine, though, I hope Google doesn't nerf it there as well 🤞
In the API it works fine, though, I hope Google doesn't nerf it there as well 🤞
We are just 2 upvotes away from #1 on Uneed. Can you please help us get the top spot with Simple Photo Gallery?
www.uneed.best/tool/simple...
www.uneed.best/tool/simple...
November 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
We are just 2 upvotes away from #1 on Uneed. Can you please help us get the top spot with Simple Photo Gallery?
www.uneed.best/tool/simple...
www.uneed.best/tool/simple...
A Simple Photo Gallery user reported via Heyo by @nico_jeannen that they were having issues uploading 1200 photos.
Without the Heyo plugin the user would have probably left, but now we can communicate with him and fix his issue!
Thanks @nico_jeannen for the useful tool!
Without the Heyo plugin the user would have probably left, but now we can communicate with him and fix his issue!
Thanks @nico_jeannen for the useful tool!
November 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
A Simple Photo Gallery user reported via Heyo by @nico_jeannen that they were having issues uploading 1200 photos.
Without the Heyo plugin the user would have probably left, but now we can communicate with him and fix his issue!
Thanks @nico_jeannen for the useful tool!
Without the Heyo plugin the user would have probably left, but now we can communicate with him and fix his issue!
Thanks @nico_jeannen for the useful tool!
Btw. we have a very good deal for Simple Photo Gallery on @UneedLists with 50% off for 3 months.
Check it out here: www.uneed.best/tool/simple...
Check it out here: www.uneed.best/tool/simple...
November 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Btw. we have a very good deal for Simple Photo Gallery on @UneedLists with 50% off for 3 months.
Check it out here: www.uneed.best/tool/simple...
Check it out here: www.uneed.best/tool/simple...
The world map feature of @DataFast_ is so cool when you launch!
Thanks @marc_louvion
Thanks @marc_louvion
November 21, 2025 at 9:44 AM
The world map feature of @DataFast_ is so cool when you launch!
Thanks @marc_louvion
Thanks @marc_louvion
Launching now 🚀
Simple Photo Gallery is now launching on Uneed! Will appreciate the help to keep it at #1 😄
www.uneed.best/tool/simple...
Simple Photo Gallery is now launching on Uneed! Will appreciate the help to keep it at #1 😄
www.uneed.best/tool/simple...
Discover Simple Photo Gallery on Uneed
Discover Simple Photo Gallery on Uneed - Create beautiful photo galleries in 1 minute | Photography in Personal Life (Freemium)
www.uneed.best
November 21, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Launching now 🚀
Simple Photo Gallery is now launching on Uneed! Will appreciate the help to keep it at #1 😄
www.uneed.best/tool/simple...
Simple Photo Gallery is now launching on Uneed! Will appreciate the help to keep it at #1 😄
www.uneed.best/tool/simple...
The easiest way to create a beautiful photo gallery and share it with friends and family directly from your phone.
November 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The easiest way to create a beautiful photo gallery and share it with friends and family directly from your phone.
We had several users take the simple.photo hosted galleries for a spin, implemented many improvements and the app is really nice to use now.
Doing some final polishing int he next days and we launch officially on @UneedLists this Friday!
Doing some final polishing int he next days and we launch officially on @UneedLists this Friday!
Simple Photo Gallery - Beautiful photo galleries in 1 minute
Transform your folders with photos into beautiful photo galleries in 1 minute
simple.photo
November 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
We had several users take the simple.photo hosted galleries for a spin, implemented many improvements and the app is really nice to use now.
Doing some final polishing int he next days and we launch officially on @UneedLists this Friday!
Doing some final polishing int he next days and we launch officially on @UneedLists this Friday!
@marc_louvion started a cool trend with TrustMRR
I see many new apps that verify some aspect of your business. But giving them my Stripe API key? No, even the restricted version allow access to user PII.
So, I built a simple open-source solution:
github.com/haltakov/co...
I see many new apps that verify some aspect of your business. But giving them my Stripe API key? No, even the restricted version allow access to user PII.
So, I built a simple open-source solution:
github.com/haltakov/co...
November 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
@marc_louvion started a cool trend with TrustMRR
I see many new apps that verify some aspect of your business. But giving them my Stripe API key? No, even the restricted version allow access to user PII.
So, I built a simple open-source solution:
github.com/haltakov/co...
I see many new apps that verify some aspect of your business. But giving them my Stripe API key? No, even the restricted version allow access to user PII.
So, I built a simple open-source solution:
github.com/haltakov/co...
Very interesting report from Cloudflare on the outage today and great job on their end providing a post mortem so fast.
One of the key issues seems to be some limits put in place for performance reasons
Performance and flexibility are always a trade-off
blog.cloudflare.com/18-november...
One of the key issues seems to be some limits put in place for performance reasons
Performance and flexibility are always a trade-off
blog.cloudflare.com/18-november...
Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.
blog.cloudflare.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Very interesting report from Cloudflare on the outage today and great job on their end providing a post mortem so fast.
One of the key issues seems to be some limits put in place for performance reasons
Performance and flexibility are always a trade-off
blog.cloudflare.com/18-november...
One of the key issues seems to be some limits put in place for performance reasons
Performance and flexibility are always a trade-off
blog.cloudflare.com/18-november...
Not sure why I would switch from Cursor to Antigravity for now... The only advantage seems to be that it is free, but probably because of that it is unusable as the quota limits are ridiculously small
November 18, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Not sure why I would switch from Cursor to Antigravity for now... The only advantage seems to be that it is free, but probably because of that it is unusable as the quota limits are ridiculously small
I want to build a very complex feature for simple.photo and all models failed so far. Let's try with Gemini 3 Pro.
The feature is to implement multi-select of photos in the gallery builder and allow them to be dragged to another section.
Let's see how it goes...
The feature is to implement multi-select of photos in the gallery builder and allow them to be dragged to another section.
Let's see how it goes...
Simple Photo Gallery - Beautiful photo galleries in 1 minute
Transform your folders with photos into beautiful photo galleries in 1 minute
simple.photo
November 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I want to build a very complex feature for simple.photo and all models failed so far. Let's try with Gemini 3 Pro.
The feature is to implement multi-select of photos in the gallery builder and allow them to be dragged to another section.
Let's see how it goes...
The feature is to implement multi-select of photos in the gallery builder and allow them to be dragged to another section.
Let's see how it goes...
Everytime I use distroless Docker images, I'm fascinated how good the are!
They are maintained by Google and contain only your app and its runtime dependencies. Nothing else, no shell, no ssh, no package manager. Minimum attack surface and minimal size
github.com/GoogleConta...
They are maintained by Google and contain only your app and its runtime dependencies. Nothing else, no shell, no ssh, no package manager. Minimum attack surface and minimal size
github.com/GoogleConta...
GitHub - GoogleContainerTools/distroless: 🥑 Language focused docker images, minus the operating system.
🥑 Language focused docker images, minus the operating system. - GitHub - GoogleContainerTools/distroless: 🥑 Language focused docker images, minus the operating system.
github.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Everytime I use distroless Docker images, I'm fascinated how good the are!
They are maintained by Google and contain only your app and its runtime dependencies. Nothing else, no shell, no ssh, no package manager. Minimum attack surface and minimal size
github.com/GoogleConta...
They are maintained by Google and contain only your app and its runtime dependencies. Nothing else, no shell, no ssh, no package manager. Minimum attack surface and minimal size
github.com/GoogleConta...
Google had to finally release Gemini 3 today so Cloudflare can fix the outage or what?
November 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Google had to finally release Gemini 3 today so Cloudflare can fix the outage or what?
I didn't feel the AWS us-east-1 outage that much in Germany, but boy is this Cloudflare outage annoying...
November 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I didn't feel the AWS us-east-1 outage that much in Germany, but boy is this Cloudflare outage annoying...
It seems OpenAI surprised everyone with GPT 5.1. Usually all the AI apps post on X one hour after launch of a new model that they support it, but with GPT 5.1 it took them a day.
November 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
It seems OpenAI surprised everyone with GPT 5.1. Usually all the AI apps post on X one hour after launch of a new model that they support it, but with GPT 5.1 it took them a day.