floodfx

Joined 18 years ago

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Startup junkie, engineer, and tinkerer

- https://donnie.com - https://www.linkedin.com/in/donnieflood - https://github.com/floodfx

donnie at floodx dot com

Currently CEO at ContextBridge (https://contextbridge.ai)

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Comment · 11 days ago
Comment · 2 months ago
Precision feedback for CLI-based coding agents is terrible. We built and open sourced PlanBridge (https://plan.contextbridge.ai) to fix this. It is a CLI that lets your coding agent open a local browser with a rendered plan/spec (or just the last agent message) so you can select and comment directly on the text and iterate with precision.
Comment · 2 months ago
A few years back I wrote a backend implementation of the LiveView protocol in Typescript (https://liveviewjs.com) and played around with another BunJS-specific implementation (https://hotdogjs.com/). (Also did Java and Go versions but that's another story.)

There isn't an official "protocol" so I had to figure it out by watching the WS traffic and determining how it worked which was fun if not tedious. That said, the more I learned, the more I was impressed by the efficiency and the programming model which felt simpler yet more powerful than SPAs.

I did get to a point where I just got too busy to keep up and over the last couple of years things have changed a bit on the "protocol" side.

But recently (a week ago-ish), I started poking at the old LiveViewJS repo with the help of coding agents. Now that Phoenix is past 1.0 and the JS runtimes (Node, Deno, Bun) have more overlap in terms of APIs and library support, I think it will be more straight forward and frankly easier to get and stay at parity.

Comment · 5 months ago
Genuinely curious if you've used "plan mode" (with perhaps a plan feedback tool) to get clarity from your coding agent before unleashing it on a feature like "add a pods view with live updates"?

Getting a plan isn't a panacea but is a better way to limit downstream slop than just vibing without one.

Comment · 5 months ago
The Doge had no power.
Comment · 5 months ago
I clicked through the $100k credits link and didn’t see Cloudflare listed as an Atlas partner? (Maybe not updated?)

This looks interesting nonetheless.

Comment · 6 months ago
Came here to say something similar. Adults are just as hooked to their addiction feeds as kids.

These are uber-personalized feeds optimized to keep you scrolling to the next item (story / video / post) so companies can show more ads.

"Social media" is a textbook example of a euphemism. We should be calling this what it is: "addiction feeds".

Comment · 6 months ago
Seconded. Interesting read.
Comment · 6 months ago
Haha. Underrated comment!
Comment · 7 months ago
Some folks have been using the term “promptbaiting” to describe these obvious engagement tactics.
Comment · 7 months ago
Working on that too. Lmk if you’re up for a chat?
Comment · 11 months ago
I salute this artistry
Comment · 11 months ago
Why are completion tokens more with image prompts yet the text output was about the same?
Comment · 1 year ago
Had same expectation and read through half the article before realizing it was not Golang related.

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