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Max @max.szengel.com · Nov 27

Hi, I'm Max. A developer based in Munich. I work on mac/iOS and web projects. Let's connect ⚡️ #dev #munich #ios #typescript #swift

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austin @aparker.io · 21m

phone call

oooOOOooorbette @orbette.bsky.social · 3h

What terrifying thing are you dressing as this Halloween I'm dressing up as acid reflux

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Max @max.szengel.com · 5d

Don‘t use logs for tracing. Check out otel opentelemetry.io

OpenTelemetry

High-quality, ubiquitous, and portable telemetry to enable effective observability

opentelemetry.io

Max @max.szengel.com · 14d

vibetunnel.sh

Vibetunnel: Your Mac Terminal in Any Browser

Turn any browser into your terminal & command your agents on the go.

vibetunnel.sh

Max @max.szengel.com · 16d

Yeah, we‘ve waited three days for the last update to be reviewed 💤

Max @max.szengel.com · 19d

This is so cool, Goodreads/Storygraph on ATproto! bookhive.buzz

BookHive

Goodreads but better. Built on top of Blue Sky.

bookhive.buzz

Max @max.szengel.com · 21d

Also did not expect computers to still have only 16GB of RAM in 2025 😭

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 29d

researchers: i have made Artificial Intelligence
engineers: you fucked up a perfectly good computer is what you did. look at it. it’s got anxiety

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Max @max.szengel.com · Sep 29

They even shipped rewind before I was able to test out Jujutsu for automatically snapshoting changes alper.nl/dingen/2025/...

Keeping Claude in check with Jujutsu

I’ve found it very useful to use jj to continuously and automatically snapshot the changes that Claude makes. This way if it does anything that I didn’t want, it’s incredibly easy…

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Max @max.szengel.com · Sep 29

Lately I've been using codex more than claude code, because I felt that gpt5-codex was performing better at the tasks I gave it. But the new Sonnet 4.5 release sounds really promising simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/29/... – Excited for checkpoints and /rewind

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is probably the “best coding model in the world” (at least for now)

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.5 today, with a very bold set of claims: Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the best coding model in the world. It’s the strongest model for building …

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Max @max.szengel.com · Sep 27

TIL about @grain.social – great project! Just posted my first gallery
grain.social/profile/max....

Wiesn

Some shots from this year’s Oktoberfest (2025).

grain.social

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Peter Steinberger @steipete.me · Aug 31

I'm orgainizing Claude Code Anonymous - Berlin Edition! September 10 luma.com/home?e=evt-V...

Claude Code Anonymous - Berlin Edition · Luma

Claude Code Anonymous is a meetup for developers navigating the shift to agentic coding. 👉 If you would like to talk, we currently have ~4 slots, please…

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Max @max.szengel.com · Aug 17

TIL: macOS also has the vehicle motion cues accessibility feature. Nice! Oh and in case you've wondered... yes they show up in screenshots 😅

Max @max.szengel.com · Jul 29

Very much like the Genie analogy that @kentbeck.com uses 🧞‍♂️. But "Das Sams" also has the rate limiting build in, if you've used up all its dots you're out of wishes, so be careful what you which for!

Max @max.szengel.com · Jul 29

Claude reminds me so much of ‘Das Sams’, a German fantasy creature that grants wishes. Each dot on its face represents a wish. If you don’t wish precisely, you won’t get what you actually want.

Max @max.szengel.com · Jul 28

Sure, claude 🙂‍↔️

> Actually, let me just verify the code is correct and mark the tests as complete. The issue is with the test environment setup, not with my test code. The tests I wrote are syntactically correct and follow the proper patterns used in the codebase.

Max @max.szengel.com · Jul 11

Genius!

Max @max.szengel.com · Jul 11

✌️

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dan @danabra.mov · Jul 11

my new favorite claude trick is “here’s a lot of code, give me some pseudocode that preserves the big picture but without incidental details just so i get what’s going on”. and then ask it to incrementally add things back

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Max @max.szengel.com · Jul 11

One of the things I like about #ClaudeCode is that it‘s not another IDE. I just prefer using #HelixEditor

Max @max.szengel.com · Jul 11

There were new languages, IDEs, tools etc. But it just augmented the fundamental: writing code. Now it is really changing to: expressing ideas ✨

Max @max.szengel.com · Jul 11

Had an interesting discussion with a colleague today. I was comparing the advent of AI with the rise of the internet. But his argument was that nothing in the lifespan of programming is actually comparable to AI, because it fundamentally changes how we program. And I agree.

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Ian Bicking @ianbicking.org · Jul 7

Some things I do like (not summarization) where AI can support reading:

1/ Modernizing language. Even if you want to understand a piece in its original form (and I think it's okay not to be interested in that), it's still very helpful to have a modernized form to read alongside.

Ian Bicking @ianbicking.org · Jul 7

I pretty much agree. There's something dull and heartless about "summarization".

I think there's a ton of interesting ways to use AI with a piece of reading, but not summarization. Similarly with writing. Both scrub away all purpose. Both are playing pretend.

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Max @max.szengel.com · Jul 5

Is there any other model that supports constrained decoding like the Apple Foundation Model does with @Generable structs? #llm #swift #json #ai #coding

Max @max.szengel.com · Jul 5

I‘ve been trying to use @windsurfai.bsky.social and @zed.dev more, but they are just so hard to use coming from #Helix. Helix has perfect ergonomics that just click with my brain and make me forget about the editor. It‘s just me and the code ✨

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Basic Apple Guy @basicappleguy.com · Jun 27

Apple Podcasts 20 years ago... 🎙️

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