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Sebastian Korfmann @skorfmann.com · 20h

Ink is great, glad it’s gotten such a widespread adoption thanks to all those agentic tools

Sebastian Korfmann @skorfmann.com · 21h

Are the new macbooks any good? Or would one just get an ipad pro and a remote vm to run Claude Code?

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Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · 1d

more movement to agentic behavior & computer use

cheaper than sonnet but on par (slightly better than) Sonnet 4.0

Tim Duffy @timfduffy.com · 1d

Haiku 4.5 just dropped

Introducing Claude Haiku 4.5

Claude Haiku 4.5, our latest small model, is available today to all users.

www.anthropic.com

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Mathias Lafeldt @mathias.blog · 1d

My friends at DuckDB Labs are hiring a DevOps Engineer (on-site in Amsterdam).

I know from experience that working on open source is fantastic, and this is a great opportunity.

Apply: duckdblabs.com/jobs/devops_...

DevOps Engineer

DuckDB Labs provides services around the DuckDB in-process OLAP data management system directly from its main developers.

duckdblabs.com

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Sebastian Korfmann @skorfmann.com · 1d

Yes, using Pub/Sub, Storage and BiqQuery right now - Cloud Run, potentially some GKE and Load Balancer with SSL cert handling is next. At least the plan looks very promising so far.

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Sebastian Korfmann @skorfmann.com · 1d

Have a Google cloud project which I’m working on recently, and I must say it’s a quite nice experience overall so far

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Sebastian Korfmann @skorfmann.com · 1d

An info message / warning by the OS would be nice

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Sebastian Korfmann @skorfmann.com · 1d

Turns out I was running my external hard-drive on the wrong port on my Mac Studio 🤪 And who fixed it? Claude Code.

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Sebastian Korfmann @skorfmann.com · 2d

Isn’t there something like max turns? Also, make it use (generic) sub agents

Sebastian Korfmann @skorfmann.com · 2d

That’s actually not as bad as I expected it to be. Running verification scripts is a bit involved, but other than that can be a quite simple Test setup

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Sebastian Korfmann @skorfmann.com · 2d

Buckle up, I'm gonna use "terraform test" 😅

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Nick Gerakines @ngerakines.me · 3d

Built cryptographically-verified endorsements for at://work. The core innovation isn’t just cryptography, it’s the consent model. Both parties must explicitly agree to create a verified attestation. This changes how trust networks form. @atwork.place #ATProtocol

Building Unforgeable Professional Endorsements with ATProtocol - Nick's Blog

Traditional professional endorsements on platforms like LinkedIn lack cryptographic proof—anyone could forge them, and the platform controls the truth. This article introduces a two-record architectur...

ngerakines.leaflet.pub

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Hendrik Mans @hmans.dev · 4d

The only thing worse than having Discord as the support community for your Open Source project is to use a free Slack space (where all messages disappear after 90 days). ;'(

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 5d

I'm beginning to suspect that a key skill in working effectively with coding agents is developing an intuition for when you don't need to closely review every line of code they produce. This feels deeply uncomfortable!

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goose @opensource.block.xyz · 5d

Stop repeating yourself: goose can build tools from your work history!

🔍 Analyze session data
📖 Build recipe automation
📈 Level up productivity
⏰ Save your future self time!

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Sebastian Korfmann @skorfmann.com · 8d

what kind of queries / access patterns?

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Sebastian Korfmann @skorfmann.com · 8d

just stuff it into parquet files and dump it into a bucket 😅

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Sebastian Korfmann @skorfmann.com · 8d

There was a talk about the Agent Client Protocol on our last agentic coding meetup here in Hamburg - glad so see that the protocol gets broader adoption zed.dev/blog/jetbrai...

ACP Brings JetBrains on Board - Zed Blog

From the Zed Blog: The Agent Client Protocol reaches a major milestone: JetBrains is committing to bringing ACP support to their entire ecosystem.

zed.dev

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Taylor Mullen @ntaylormullen.bsky.social · 9d

We've released Gemini CLI extensions for querying PostgreSQL and MySQL with natural language.

If you're interested, take them for a spin! Oh and we'd appreciate any feedback you'd be willing to share 👇

github.com/google-gemin...

#GeminiCLI #Postgres #MySQL #OSS

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Sebastian Korfmann @skorfmann.com · 9d

mostly manual context building (with help of Claude Code or claude.ai) and then keeping track of changes / decisions in a file plus maintaining some sort of quick reference index file about the project (which component does what and where). Those frameworks felt a bit too strict for my cases

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Tobias Müller @tobilg.com · 9d

Yup. Claude coded a complete DuckDB Extension for me during my lunchbreak with the help of three MCP servers and a handful prompts… Crazy.

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Sebastian Korfmann @skorfmann.com · 9d

At this point, ignoring agentic coding tools is like refusing to use Git because you prefer manually tracking file versions in folders named 'final_v2_ACTUAL_final'

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Sebastian Korfmann @skorfmann.com · 9d

Yes! Also, research tasks in chatgpt or Claude.ai to generate use case specific docs

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Tobias Müller @tobilg.com · 9d

Created a DNS extension for @duckdb.org today:

github.com/tobilg/duckd...

Hopefully it will be available via the Community Extensions soon!

GitHub - tobilg/duckdb-dns: DNS (Reverse) Lookup Extension for DuckDB

DNS (Reverse) Lookup Extension for DuckDB. Contribute to tobilg/duckdb-dns development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Sebastian Korfmann @skorfmann.com · 10d

Prototyping with Claude Sonnet 4.5 is incredible 🧑‍🎨

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