André Klein
@andreklein.net
Writer, publisher, procrastinator … (will finish bio tomorrow) 🧉
https://andreklein.net
https://andreklein.net
“To advance an idea is to steal something from someone and make it so cool and covetable that someone then steals it from you.” — Nick Cave
#rockandroll #copypaste
#rockandroll #copypaste
December 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
“To advance an idea is to steal something from someone and make it so cool and covetable that someone then steals it from you.” — Nick Cave
#rockandroll #copypaste
#rockandroll #copypaste
fascinating stuff: https://tympanus.net/codrops/2025/11/29/building-the-monolith-composable-rendering-systems-for-a-13-scene-webgl-epic/ #webgl
Building The Monolith: Composable Rendering Systems for a 13-Scene WebGL Epic | Codrops
An exploration of how composable materials, particles, and transitions were engineered to bring The Monolith Project’s stylized universe to life.
tympanus.net
December 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
My little crossposter just grew fangs 🧛
⏰ proper scheduling (fully local)
📊 shiny new analytics
🤖 AI spellcheck, shortening, or your own custom prompts
🔄 basic sync to folder
100% open source, forever free
https://github.com/burninc0de/socialsox #indiedev #buildinpublic
⏰ proper scheduling (fully local)
📊 shiny new analytics
🤖 AI spellcheck, shortening, or your own custom prompts
🔄 basic sync to folder
100% open source, forever free
https://github.com/burninc0de/socialsox #indiedev #buildinpublic
December 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
My little crossposter just grew fangs 🧛
⏰ proper scheduling (fully local)
📊 shiny new analytics
🤖 AI spellcheck, shortening, or your own custom prompts
🔄 basic sync to folder
100% open source, forever free
https://github.com/burninc0de/socialsox #indiedev #buildinpublic
⏰ proper scheduling (fully local)
📊 shiny new analytics
🤖 AI spellcheck, shortening, or your own custom prompts
🔄 basic sync to folder
100% open source, forever free
https://github.com/burninc0de/socialsox #indiedev #buildinpublic
December 2, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Ever wanted to sound like a terminally online monk? 🙏I present: The SocialSox "Spice Factory":
#buildinpublic #indiedev
(This will probably never be part of production, but too much fun too mess around with.)
#buildinpublic #indiedev
(This will probably never be part of production, but too much fun too mess around with.)
December 2, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Ever wanted to sound like a terminally online monk? 🙏I present: The SocialSox "Spice Factory":
#buildinpublic #indiedev
(This will probably never be part of production, but too much fun too mess around with.)
#buildinpublic #indiedev
(This will probably never be part of production, but too much fun too mess around with.)
December 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
"I think actually on the programming side, we're in a fairly good spot. I really think that AI will be a tool -- and it will make people more productive." - Linus Torvalds
https://youtu.be/mfv0V1SxbNA?si=uy9YOb29hK9_u6uZ&t=2003 #linux #coding #AI
https://youtu.be/mfv0V1SxbNA?si=uy9YOb29hK9_u6uZ&t=2003 #linux #coding #AI
December 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
"I think actually on the programming side, we're in a fairly good spot. I really think that AI will be a tool -- and it will make people more productive." - Linus Torvalds
https://youtu.be/mfv0V1SxbNA?si=uy9YOb29hK9_u6uZ&t=2003 #linux #coding #AI
https://youtu.be/mfv0V1SxbNA?si=uy9YOb29hK9_u6uZ&t=2003 #linux #coding #AI
AI is most useful to the people least likely to use it, and most depended on by the people least equipped to evaluate it.
I wrote about why this paradox isn't going away: https://andreklein.net/the-ai-paradox-it-only-works-if-you-already-know-how/
#AI #ChatGPT #Claude #LLM
I wrote about why this paradox isn't going away: https://andreklein.net/the-ai-paradox-it-only-works-if-you-already-know-how/
#AI #ChatGPT #Claude #LLM
The AI Paradox: It Only Works If You Already Know How
Everyone wants a pocket oracle. They type their question into Claude or ChatGPT and wait for the One Correct Answer™ to descend from the cloud. When it’s wrong—which it eventually...
andreklein.net
December 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
AI is most useful to the people least likely to use it, and most depended on by the people least equipped to evaluate it.
I wrote about why this paradox isn't going away: https://andreklein.net/the-ai-paradox-it-only-works-if-you-already-know-how/
#AI #ChatGPT #Claude #LLM
I wrote about why this paradox isn't going away: https://andreklein.net/the-ai-paradox-it-only-works-if-you-already-know-how/
#AI #ChatGPT #Claude #LLM
Gotta love these Amazon “Creator Rewards” emails:
“As of Nov 30, 2025 you failed to meet shipped revenue targets.”
Forgive me, Great Lord of the Zon, for I have sinned.
My affiliate links did not sacrifice enough souls to the algorithm this month.
#GigEconomy #CreatorGrift
“As of Nov 30, 2025 you failed to meet shipped revenue targets.”
Forgive me, Great Lord of the Zon, for I have sinned.
My affiliate links did not sacrifice enough souls to the algorithm this month.
#GigEconomy #CreatorGrift
December 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Gotta love these Amazon “Creator Rewards” emails:
“As of Nov 30, 2025 you failed to meet shipped revenue targets.”
Forgive me, Great Lord of the Zon, for I have sinned.
My affiliate links did not sacrifice enough souls to the algorithm this month.
#GigEconomy #CreatorGrift
“As of Nov 30, 2025 you failed to meet shipped revenue targets.”
Forgive me, Great Lord of the Zon, for I have sinned.
My affiliate links did not sacrifice enough souls to the algorithm this month.
#GigEconomy #CreatorGrift
Does any one use IDEs for long-form writing? Seems like commits and diffs could be extremely handy when doing extensive rewrites. Never lose that one tiny perfect phrase again that got lost in a 2am revision.
#WritingCommunity #WritersLife #CreativeWriting
#WritingCommunity #WritersLife #CreativeWriting
December 1, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Does any one use IDEs for long-form writing? Seems like commits and diffs could be extremely handy when doing extensive rewrites. Never lose that one tiny perfect phrase again that got lost in a 2am revision.
#WritingCommunity #WritersLife #CreativeWriting
#WritingCommunity #WritersLife #CreativeWriting
Me: "Hey, let's whip up a quick tool to post occasional messages to X/Bluesky/Mastodon." 🫠 *Dives headfirst into a whirlwind of shiny new post mania.*
My blog and 37 half-written drafts gathering dust:
My blog and 37 half-written drafts gathering dust:
November 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Me: "Hey, let's whip up a quick tool to post occasional messages to X/Bluesky/Mastodon." 🫠 *Dives headfirst into a whirlwind of shiny new post mania.*
My blog and 37 half-written drafts gathering dust:
My blog and 37 half-written drafts gathering dust:
And yeah, your personal blog getting 10 visits a day? The hype is real -- you simply must spin up serverless clusters, stream JSON like Netflix, and slap Kubernetes on it for “enterprise scaling.” Get real. #DevLife
November 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
And yeah, your personal blog getting 10 visits a day? The hype is real -- you simply must spin up serverless clusters, stream JSON like Netflix, and slap Kubernetes on it for “enterprise scaling.” Get real. #DevLife
React's cool, but for small/medium projects, you don't need a full Next.js/Express setup just for contact forms & basic auth. New fave: Use WordPress as your "backend in a box"! Battle-tested auth, REST endpoints, & a full dashboard. Simple wins. 🚀 #WebDev #WordPress #React
November 30, 2025 at 11:37 AM
React's cool, but for small/medium projects, you don't need a full Next.js/Express setup just for contact forms & basic auth. New fave: Use WordPress as your "backend in a box"! Battle-tested auth, REST endpoints, & a full dashboard. Simple wins. 🚀 #WebDev #WordPress #React
"when you ask claude to generate UI, it defaults to the same patterns every time ... everyone's seen it so much it's become a meme"
Fascinating take on Claude and UI: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1p9srut/finally_figured_out_why_claudes_ui_generations/ #ai #coding #ui
Fascinating take on Claude and UI: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1p9srut/finally_figured_out_why_claudes_ui_generations/ #ai #coding #ui
November 30, 2025 at 8:11 AM
"when you ask claude to generate UI, it defaults to the same patterns every time ... everyone's seen it so much it's become a meme"
Fascinating take on Claude and UI: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1p9srut/finally_figured_out_why_claudes_ui_generations/ #ai #coding #ui
Fascinating take on Claude and UI: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1p9srut/finally_figured_out_why_claudes_ui_generations/ #ai #coding #ui
TIL: dark mode styling support for textarea resize handlers in most (all?) browsers is basically non-existent. The only reliable way of doing this AFAIK: turn off resize altogether and wire up frankenstein JS to re-enable resizing with custom click handler. #weirdweb #darkdesign #html
November 30, 2025 at 1:31 AM
TIL: dark mode styling support for textarea resize handlers in most (all?) browsers is basically non-existent. The only reliable way of doing this AFAIK: turn off resize altogether and wire up frankenstein JS to re-enable resizing with custom click handler. #weirdweb #darkdesign #html
99% of self-hosted scheduling/cross-posting apps for social media:
“Spin up a server, Docker, reverse proxy, keep it online forever.”
Normal people just give up.
What if it was much simpler:
Desktop app + one tiny WordPress plugin you drop on any site you already have? #indiedev
“Spin up a server, Docker, reverse proxy, keep it online forever.”
Normal people just give up.
What if it was much simpler:
Desktop app + one tiny WordPress plugin you drop on any site you already have? #indiedev
November 29, 2025 at 11:46 PM
99% of self-hosted scheduling/cross-posting apps for social media:
“Spin up a server, Docker, reverse proxy, keep it online forever.”
Normal people just give up.
What if it was much simpler:
Desktop app + one tiny WordPress plugin you drop on any site you already have? #indiedev
“Spin up a server, Docker, reverse proxy, keep it online forever.”
Normal people just give up.
What if it was much simpler:
Desktop app + one tiny WordPress plugin you drop on any site you already have? #indiedev
New space-trucker ID for Arno, fresh off the printer for my free chat-style sci-fi story "Gestrandet", a German learning experience disguised as interstellar chaos. Beat-by-beat, message-by-message.
https://learnoutlive.com/stories/gestrandet/
#SciFi #German #TimeWarpTales
https://learnoutlive.com/stories/gestrandet/
#SciFi #German #TimeWarpTales
November 29, 2025 at 11:14 PM
New space-trucker ID for Arno, fresh off the printer for my free chat-style sci-fi story "Gestrandet", a German learning experience disguised as interstellar chaos. Beat-by-beat, message-by-message.
https://learnoutlive.com/stories/gestrandet/
#SciFi #German #TimeWarpTales
https://learnoutlive.com/stories/gestrandet/
#SciFi #German #TimeWarpTales
Everyone loves to dunk on #Electron. Yet VS Code, Slack, Discord all use it.
New AI IDEs fork VSC (Cursor, Kiro, Antigrav) instead of going native. Laziness? I don't think so.
Electron is simply one of the best ways to ship cross-platform apps. Chromium overhead? Negligible.
New AI IDEs fork VSC (Cursor, Kiro, Antigrav) instead of going native. Laziness? I don't think so.
Electron is simply one of the best ways to ship cross-platform apps. Chromium overhead? Negligible.
November 29, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Everyone loves to dunk on #Electron. Yet VS Code, Slack, Discord all use it.
New AI IDEs fork VSC (Cursor, Kiro, Antigrav) instead of going native. Laziness? I don't think so.
Electron is simply one of the best ways to ship cross-platform apps. Chromium overhead? Negligible.
New AI IDEs fork VSC (Cursor, Kiro, Antigrav) instead of going native. Laziness? I don't think so.
Electron is simply one of the best ways to ship cross-platform apps. Chromium overhead? Negligible.
Season 5’s Upside Down isn’t a hell-dimension anymore, more like a day trip to New Jersey with beef jerky, constant silly banter, and a cheap Cronenberg filter slapped on top.
The horror’s on life support and writers are pulling the plug. #StrangerThings
The horror’s on life support and writers are pulling the plug. #StrangerThings
November 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Season 5’s Upside Down isn’t a hell-dimension anymore, more like a day trip to New Jersey with beef jerky, constant silly banter, and a cheap Cronenberg filter slapped on top.
The horror’s on life support and writers are pulling the plug. #StrangerThings
The horror’s on life support and writers are pulling the plug. #StrangerThings
Mastodon/Bluesky: verified = I own this domain, here’s the DNS proof.
Xwitter: verified = I gave Elon $8, gimme reach.
Different universes. #decentralizeallthethings #checkmarkgang
Xwitter: verified = I gave Elon $8, gimme reach.
Different universes. #decentralizeallthethings #checkmarkgang
November 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Mastodon/Bluesky: verified = I own this domain, here’s the DNS proof.
Xwitter: verified = I gave Elon $8, gimme reach.
Different universes. #decentralizeallthethings #checkmarkgang
Xwitter: verified = I gave Elon $8, gimme reach.
Different universes. #decentralizeallthethings #checkmarkgang
Spent 3 hours debugging a completely dead WordPress site.
Checked every plugin, dug through 1200 lines of ancient functions.php…
Turns out the site was dead because someone had disabled the emojis.
Removing emoji support completely tanked it.
I’m done with this timeline. 😭💀 #WordPress #WebDev
Checked every plugin, dug through 1200 lines of ancient functions.php…
Turns out the site was dead because someone had disabled the emojis.
Removing emoji support completely tanked it.
I’m done with this timeline. 😭💀 #WordPress #WebDev
November 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Spent 3 hours debugging a completely dead WordPress site.
Checked every plugin, dug through 1200 lines of ancient functions.php…
Turns out the site was dead because someone had disabled the emojis.
Removing emoji support completely tanked it.
I’m done with this timeline. 😭💀 #WordPress #WebDev
Checked every plugin, dug through 1200 lines of ancient functions.php…
Turns out the site was dead because someone had disabled the emojis.
Removing emoji support completely tanked it.
I’m done with this timeline. 😭💀 #WordPress #WebDev
"AI code is trash” hits the same note as 1904 farmers roasting the first tractor: “Mule never breaks down in the rain. This thing can’t feel the soil. Potatoes taste weird now.”
They were 100% right: those early tractors sucked. Funny how we still ended up replacing the mule.
They were 100% right: those early tractors sucked. Funny how we still ended up replacing the mule.
November 29, 2025 at 10:56 AM
"AI code is trash” hits the same note as 1904 farmers roasting the first tractor: “Mule never breaks down in the rain. This thing can’t feel the soil. Potatoes taste weird now.”
They were 100% right: those early tractors sucked. Funny how we still ended up replacing the mule.
They were 100% right: those early tractors sucked. Funny how we still ended up replacing the mule.
Germanic tribes in 410: Visigoths sack Rome like it's Black Friday. Franks (their West Germanic cousins) in 800: 'Hold my mead - we're Rome now, Charlemagne edition, blessed by the Pope.' HRE: Peak barbarian-to-bishop pipeline. #VoltaireWasRight #notholynotromannotempire
November 29, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Germanic tribes in 410: Visigoths sack Rome like it's Black Friday. Franks (their West Germanic cousins) in 800: 'Hold my mead - we're Rome now, Charlemagne edition, blessed by the Pope.' HRE: Peak barbarian-to-bishop pipeline. #VoltaireWasRight #notholynotromannotempire
🚀 SocialSox v0.2.4 is out!
Now with multi-image crossposting (up to 4 pics everywhere), instant API verification, brand new icon, and a bunch of bug fixes.
Post once → hit X, Mastodon & Bluesky perfectly.
github.com/burninc0de/s...
(Still 100% free & open source ❤️ #indiedev #buildinpublic
Now with multi-image crossposting (up to 4 pics everywhere), instant API verification, brand new icon, and a bunch of bug fixes.
Post once → hit X, Mastodon & Bluesky perfectly.
github.com/burninc0de/s...
(Still 100% free & open source ❤️ #indiedev #buildinpublic
November 29, 2025 at 8:58 AM
🚀 SocialSox v0.2.4 is out!
Now with multi-image crossposting (up to 4 pics everywhere), instant API verification, brand new icon, and a bunch of bug fixes.
Post once → hit X, Mastodon & Bluesky perfectly.
github.com/burninc0de/s...
(Still 100% free & open source ❤️ #indiedev #buildinpublic
Now with multi-image crossposting (up to 4 pics everywhere), instant API verification, brand new icon, and a bunch of bug fixes.
Post once → hit X, Mastodon & Bluesky perfectly.
github.com/burninc0de/s...
(Still 100% free & open source ❤️ #indiedev #buildinpublic