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Kwaku Eshun @samxeshun.bsky.social · 6h

Reggie’s Portra recipe is really nice. Finally get a recipe that works well on night shots.

Kwaku Eshun @samxeshun.bsky.social · 6h

Claude Code is an amazing piece of software.

Kwaku Eshun @samxeshun.bsky.social · 5d

Good ol symlinks to the rescue, why didn’t I think of this.

Kwaku Eshun @samxeshun.bsky.social · 5d

Claude Code is a very good experience. Forget about the model not being as reliable as GPT-5, you can tell that this was an internal tool they were using for a long time before AI IDE tools became a thing.

Kwaku Eshun @samxeshun.bsky.social · Sep 16

Would be great to see Claude adopt `AGENTS.md` as I hate not having a single source of truth for my context file.

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Kwaku Eshun @samxeshun.bsky.social · Sep 2

“The Race” - Tay K. Felony music slaps so hard.

Kwaku Eshun @samxeshun.bsky.social · Sep 2

Figma MCP is saving lives. Love it, let’s MCP everything.

Kwaku Eshun @samxeshun.bsky.social · Aug 26

Need to see Yellowstone National Park in this lifetime.

Kwaku Eshun @samxeshun.bsky.social · Aug 19

Claude Code might just be the best one since I started paying for AI tools. Proper game changer.

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Kwaku Eshun @samxeshun.bsky.social · Jul 30

“Chains & Whips” is the perfect rap song. Hits like crack.

Kwaku Eshun @samxeshun.bsky.social · Jul 30

Don’t know why I decided to have 3 shots of grass fed espresso at 4pm but yea this shit is kicking my ass, chale.

Kwaku Eshun @samxeshun.bsky.social · Jul 7

Talking bout she couldn’t sleep all night. Ma’am did you forget that I literally paid physical cash for this space?

Kwaku Eshun @samxeshun.bsky.social · Jul 7

My landlady acting like we are breaking up is funny as hell. Ghanaian mums kill me chale, whole time I’m just trying to change my environment.

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Kwaku Eshun @samxeshun.bsky.social · Jul 7

Absolutely love how I feel after 4 espresso shots in the morning. Feels like crack.

Kwaku Eshun @samxeshun.bsky.social · Jun 18

I wrapped this up with a generated JIRA acceptance criteria. I’m too deep in this rabbit hole now

Kwaku Eshun @samxeshun.bsky.social · Jun 18

Only thing it couldn’t get totally right were the tests - they did compile but 50% of them failed. This is still saving me like 2 hours so that’s pretty cool.

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Kwaku Eshun @samxeshun.bsky.social · Jun 18

Today I decided to attempt completing a ticket with just prompting and zero typing. Gemini 2.5 Pro is insanely good because everything compiled correctly and worked as expected.

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Kwaku Eshun @samxeshun.bsky.social · Jun 8

Finally about to try MCP, let’s see how this goes.

Kwaku Eshun @samxeshun.bsky.social · Jun 8

“Drown” - Bring Me The Horizon

Kwaku Eshun @samxeshun.bsky.social · Apr 9

“So Good, So Right” - Brenda Russell

Kwaku Eshun @samxeshun.bsky.social · Apr 9

“Do What You Gotta Do” - Nina Simone.

Reposted by Kwaku Eshun

Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · Feb 17

What skills should people acquire early in their careers that will last a lifetime, regardless of whether the skill is technical or not?

Technical: master the basic UNIX tools. awk, cut, sort, find, vim, tr.
Non-technical: Invest in deeply understanding what empathy is and how to apply it.

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Kwaku Eshun @samxeshun.bsky.social · Feb 10

Confluence has got to be worst piece of software known to mankind.

Kwaku Eshun @samxeshun.bsky.social · Feb 3

“1983” - Neon Trees.

Kwaku Eshun @samxeshun.bsky.social · Jan 27

DeepThink R1 is really really good.