Harry Brundage
@airhorns.bsky.social
Developer developer. CTO at https://gadget.dev working on bringing some speed back to makin' software. Previously at Shopify
As an industry we kinda deserve to be automated away in some ways — we’ve spent decades rehashing the exact same ideas 18000 different ways and made so little progress in actually wrangling complexity
October 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
As an industry we kinda deserve to be automated away in some ways — we’ve spent decades rehashing the exact same ideas 18000 different ways and made so little progress in actually wrangling complexity
Reposted by Harry Brundage
It's too hard to build a Discord bot. Anything where YOU have to worry about hosting and scalability is too hard.
Here's the solution: dev.to/gabeb03/buil...
Here's the solution: dev.to/gabeb03/buil...
Build a Discord support bot from scratch
Demo I always found it annoying when I was following a tutorial, and they didn’t show you...
dev.to
September 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
It's too hard to build a Discord bot. Anything where YOU have to worry about hosting and scalability is too hard.
Here's the solution: dev.to/gabeb03/buil...
Here's the solution: dev.to/gabeb03/buil...
For colour, there was The Wizard of Oz, for AI feature length films, there will be ... ? And will there be riots or rejoicing?
June 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
For colour, there was The Wizard of Oz, for AI feature length films, there will be ... ? And will there be riots or rejoicing?
Did you know that abstraction is bad actually for performance
June 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Did you know that abstraction is bad actually for performance
Spent a lot of time developing a high-throughput, durable, distributed semaphore at Gadget
Can you guess what data store we ended up using
Can you guess what data store we ended up using
June 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Spent a lot of time developing a high-throughput, durable, distributed semaphore at Gadget
Can you guess what data store we ended up using
Can you guess what data store we ended up using
Anyone who’s used inngest or trigger dot dev in depth — how do you change workflow definitions after they’re already running? Is is hard to do safely?
June 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Anyone who’s used inngest or trigger dot dev in depth — how do you change workflow definitions after they’re already running? Is is hard to do safely?
All the cool new high throughput systems I use contend over node-local locks for writes -- no distributed consensus like Raft or Paxos
Consensus is out on consensus amirite
Consensus is out on consensus amirite
June 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
All the cool new high throughput systems I use contend over node-local locks for writes -- no distributed consensus like Raft or Paxos
Consensus is out on consensus amirite
Consensus is out on consensus amirite
One time I think I made someone quit by saying that no, global variables are good actually.
June 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM
One time I think I made someone quit by saying that no, global variables are good actually.
🧵 JS perf nerdery I always get tripped up on: generic wrapper functions really kill performance hard because they create megamorphic call sites.
Fun word, unfun impact.
Fun word, unfun impact.
June 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🧵 JS perf nerdery I always get tripped up on: generic wrapper functions really kill performance hard because they create megamorphic call sites.
Fun word, unfun impact.
Fun word, unfun impact.
The entire software dev industry was built when code was scarce and expensive to create. Scarcity is over, now it’s about trust -- whole industry needs to change.
June 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The entire software dev industry was built when code was scarce and expensive to create. Scarcity is over, now it’s about trust -- whole industry needs to change.
App dev has been set back 10 years by a simple confusion between app dev and web dev. next.js / remix have to play the make-e-commerce-sites-fast game instead of the make-building-the-next-figma-fast game and it really shows.
June 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
App dev has been set back 10 years by a simple confusion between app dev and web dev. next.js / remix have to play the make-e-commerce-sites-fast game instead of the make-building-the-next-figma-fast game and it really shows.
What’s your favourite rich filtering UI? For the demon index view in your app with 9 different possible attributes that can be filtered in tandem 18 different ways? The best I’ve used is Postico but … there has to be a better way
June 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM
What’s your favourite rich filtering UI? For the demon index view in your app with 9 different possible attributes that can be filtered in tandem 18 different ways? The best I’ve used is Postico but … there has to be a better way
What are your favourite patterns for enqueuing up backend work items that need to then be processed in batches for efficiency? Think like batch submission of inventory updates to a poopy low rate limit api such that you need to debounce, but on the backend statefully
June 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
What are your favourite patterns for enqueuing up backend work items that need to then be processed in batches for efficiency? Think like batch submission of inventory updates to a poopy low rate limit api such that you need to debounce, but on the backend statefully
Last time I felt as giddy as I do when vibe coding was my first ever visual basic app. Seismic shifts afoot people, seismic.
May 31, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Last time I felt as giddy as I do when vibe coding was my first ever visual basic app. Seismic shifts afoot people, seismic.
The edge lords were wrong - turns out RTT to the database matters more than RTT to the user
May 30, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The edge lords were wrong - turns out RTT to the database matters more than RTT to the user
Claude 4 is very good -- yes indeed. They RLHF’d a little too close to the sun and every third statement has a try/catch around it now
May 29, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Claude 4 is very good -- yes indeed. They RLHF’d a little too close to the sun and every third statement has a try/catch around it now
Gonna livestream building a AI-powered Discord bot using Gadget tomorrow at 10:00 AM EST here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTH...
Swing by if you wanna nerd out!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTH...
Swing by if you wanna nerd out!
Building a Discord bot fast with Gadget's AI
Gadget's CTO Harry builds a Discord bot using Gadget to help out in Gadget's discord. What fun!
www.youtube.com
May 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Gonna livestream building a AI-powered Discord bot using Gadget tomorrow at 10:00 AM EST here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTH...
Swing by if you wanna nerd out!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTH...
Swing by if you wanna nerd out!
The thing I have worked the hardest on ever is live on Product Hunt today: www.producthunt.com/posts/gadget-3
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May 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The thing I have worked the hardest on ever is live on Product Hunt today: www.producthunt.com/posts/gadget-3
What human-out-of-the-loop AI systems have y'all seen that are actually in production? Or mostly out of the loop -- that long trajectory promised land.
Who's actually pulled it off?
Who's actually pulled it off?
May 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
What human-out-of-the-loop AI systems have y'all seen that are actually in production? Or mostly out of the loop -- that long trajectory promised land.
Who's actually pulled it off?
Who's actually pulled it off?
Reposted by Harry Brundage
"Hey Gadget, build me a CRM. "
A single prompt in one end. A fully hosted, well designed internal tool out the other end, in under 4 minutes. Full code accessible and editable with further prompting (or by hand).
Beta opens in weeks. Waitlist at application.new.
A single prompt in one end. A fully hosted, well designed internal tool out the other end, in under 4 minutes. Full code accessible and editable with further prompting (or by hand).
Beta opens in weeks. Waitlist at application.new.
January 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
"Hey Gadget, build me a CRM. "
A single prompt in one end. A fully hosted, well designed internal tool out the other end, in under 4 minutes. Full code accessible and editable with further prompting (or by hand).
Beta opens in weeks. Waitlist at application.new.
A single prompt in one end. A fully hosted, well designed internal tool out the other end, in under 4 minutes. Full code accessible and editable with further prompting (or by hand).
Beta opens in weeks. Waitlist at application.new.
It is refreshing to be here.
December 11, 2024 at 8:32 PM
It is refreshing to be here.