Duane Bester

Dog: is barking Kids: are crying Nanny: is nannying AirPods: Increase the volume for your Blink 182 song 🎵 Me: I FELL IN LOVE WITH THE GIRL AT THE ROCK SHOW Claude: **Prompt cache placement** — Good observation. The intro is only ~3

Many moons ago I built a toy Postgres driver from scratch in Clojure named Clunk for fun. It was based on the monadic Scala driver called Skunk. Once you have the bytes it’s really a series of pure transforms to messages and then records. This morning I vibed a driver in pure Bend and was really impressed @VictorTaelin! Repo for hacking: github.com/duanebester/blink

👋🏼 @AmpCode possible to have multiple Amp windows with different accounts for each one? E.g. I’d like one Amp window with my personal account and another with my work account. Sorry if there is already a feature request somewhere!

Have moved nearly my entire company onto @AmpCode Everyone is loving it It moves everything left: E.g. designer can design and engineer can make sure code is prudent at the same time. No more back and forth. Less review time. No pr review apps. No dev environment anymore

I still think there is something to be said for an idea like toolshed: An open, auditable registry where companies list tools, agents discover them, and reputation emerges from verified usage. Backed by Dolt DB, accessed via SSH, and heavily inspired by the AT Protocol toolshed.sh

Vibed up a multi-pane terminal emulator using just libghostty and gooey, called booey github.com/duanebester/booey

Fired off some @AmpCode orbs from my phone. And then set it down. Now watching the kids have fun in the pool instead of messing with my computer or IDE. @thorstenball I’m really enjoying this

Been vibing a game engine in Zig the last week or so. The idea is the use GPU primitives only and make an ultra fast ultra competitive FPS player game. Without textures and assets you can really turn up the performance as well as allow for interesting dynamic maps and LLM directors for enemy teams, etc

ora.ai/score/toolshed.sh Toolshed scored a “D” But it’s an http landing page describing an ssh server that’s made for agents so idk. Their tool just limits itself to http? Agents can use toolshed _really_ easily.

Running a chat app at scale is like, a whole thing

Opus is so good at Go and Zig

15 years of software experience. I've never been busier than Nov/Dev '25 when Opus 4.5 dropped. So much to do and work is not slowing down

Excited to spend some spare cycles replacing ~400 lines of platform-specific GCD/eventfd dispatcher code with one unified Io interface. Zero heap allocation async dispatch, structured cancellation for widget lifecycles, and a familiar one-parameter pattern devs already know. The future of UI in Zig is looking bright ☀️ repo if anyone is interested github.com/duanebester/gooey

Thinking about the annual South Korea trip this coming November