Paul Asjes
@asjes.dev
DX in 🇳🇱 at ElevenLabs. Previously DX at WorkOS, DevRel at Stripe. Dad x 2. Post mostly about security and the web. Opinions terrible and my own.
The @flutterdevofficial.bsky.social dev toolchain is actually pretty dope. Updating, doctor, publishing and testing all from the same CLI. Also just works with VSCode/Cursor and doesn't make me download a flutter specific IDE that I'd never use.
November 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The @flutterdevofficial.bsky.social dev toolchain is actually pretty dope. Updating, doctor, publishing and testing all from the same CLI. Also just works with VSCode/Cursor and doesn't make me download a flutter specific IDE that I'd never use.
It's incredible how archaic IDEs without AI now feel. Doing a project in iOS and I've actually switched to using cursor for actual code writing and only using xcode to build and test.
October 8, 2025 at 12:29 PM
It's incredible how archaic IDEs without AI now feel. Doing a project in iOS and I've actually switched to using cursor for actual code writing and only using xcode to build and test.
our april fools joke this year was a "Text to Bark" service which would translate human text into dog language and the amount of emails we get asking for API access is truly mind boggling
September 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
our april fools joke this year was a "Text to Bark" service which would translate human text into dog language and the amount of emails we get asking for API access is truly mind boggling
Artisanal, hand-crafted SDK, delivered right to your unicorn app idea.
Introducing the ElevenLabs Kotlin SDK
Add conversational agents to your Android apps in minutes.
Demo and docs links below:
Add conversational agents to your Android apps in minutes.
Demo and docs links below:
August 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Artisanal, hand-crafted SDK, delivered right to your unicorn app idea.
How does this even happen
August 18, 2025 at 7:52 AM
How does this even happen
Anyone else finding GPT5 to be really slow for coding? I've gone back to Claude because I'm tired of it taking 10+ seconds to read a file.
August 12, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Anyone else finding GPT5 to be really slow for coding? I've gone back to Claude because I'm tired of it taking 10+ seconds to read a file.
Hope you build something amazing with this. Any feedback or issues, hit us up here: github.com/elevenlabs/p...
Introducing the ElevenLabs React Native SDK
Build cross-platform conversational AI agents for iOS and Android in minutes. WebRTC and first-class @expo.dev support built in.
Docs links below:
Build cross-platform conversational AI agents for iOS and Android in minutes. WebRTC and first-class @expo.dev support built in.
Docs links below:
August 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Hope you build something amazing with this. Any feedback or issues, hit us up here: github.com/elevenlabs/p...
What do SDKs look like in this brave new world of AI and MCPs? I think it's time to move on from them. dev.to/paulasjes/se...
Self-Healing APIs with MCP: No more SDKs
Working with APIs has always been a dance between humans and machines. We write code that looks like...
dev.to
June 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
What do SDKs look like in this brave new world of AI and MCPs? I think it's time to move on from them. dev.to/paulasjes/se...
I hate Python environments so much. I know that Node is also insane but it's an insanity I can get behind and understand
June 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I hate Python environments so much. I know that Node is also insane but it's an insanity I can get behind and understand
Incredible time at the Google Developers summit in 🇵🇱! Great crowd and wonderful venue. Thanks to all who came and asked great questions about multilingual Conversational AI!
June 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Incredible time at the Google Developers summit in 🇵🇱! Great crowd and wonderful venue. Thanks to all who came and asked great questions about multilingual Conversational AI!
The not so glamorous part of releasing a new major version of SDKs is all the example code you have to update
May 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The not so glamorous part of releasing a new major version of SDKs is all the example code you have to update
I'm a senior level engineer, and I just committed a secret API key to a public repo. If you ever feel impostor syndrome I promise you there are bigger idiots out there.
May 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I'm a senior level engineer, and I just committed a secret API key to a public repo. If you ever feel impostor syndrome I promise you there are bigger idiots out there.
Always fun when something you wrote a few years ago makes the rounds on Slack and your colleagues put 2 and 2 together.
May 15, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Always fun when something you wrote a few years ago makes the rounds on Slack and your colleagues put 2 and 2 together.
The pushing of fighter jets off aircraft carriers will continue until morale improves.
May 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The pushing of fighter jets off aircraft carriers will continue until morale improves.
It's spring time in Amsterdam, which means the sun is out, the flowers are blooming and my car got keyed. Again.
April 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
It's spring time in Amsterdam, which means the sun is out, the flowers are blooming and my car got keyed. Again.
New Deafheaven album? Please and thank you.
March 28, 2025 at 9:12 AM
New Deafheaven album? Please and thank you.
My affections for bonsai trees and profanity, finally married into a perfect product. Comfy too.
March 13, 2025 at 10:34 AM
My affections for bonsai trees and profanity, finally married into a perfect product. Comfy too.
The worst part of working with npm packages is trying to load a local version to test your package without having to publish. What works in one environment just breaks in another.
March 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The worst part of working with npm packages is trying to load a local version to test your package without having to publish. What works in one environment just breaks in another.
Reposted by Paul Asjes
#FreeJavaScript update - we'll be posting this to TTAB tomorrow
Roughly translated: Just because you submitted two pieces of evidence and one of them was not fraudulent, does not mean you did not commit fraud.
Roughly translated: Just because you submitted two pieces of evidence and one of them was not fraudulent, does not mean you did not commit fraud.
March 7, 2025 at 3:39 AM
#FreeJavaScript update - we'll be posting this to TTAB tomorrow
Roughly translated: Just because you submitted two pieces of evidence and one of them was not fraudulent, does not mean you did not commit fraud.
Roughly translated: Just because you submitted two pieces of evidence and one of them was not fraudulent, does not mean you did not commit fraud.
I love small easter eggs in APIs, like did you know that api.elevenlabs.io/v1/voices doesn't require authentication?
api.elevenlabs.io
March 4, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I love small easter eggs in APIs, like did you know that api.elevenlabs.io/v1/voices doesn't require authentication?
We released Scribe today, an extremely high performing Speech to Text model. People are going to build some seriously fun stuff with this and I'm here for it.
elevenlabs.io/blog/meet-sc...
elevenlabs.io/blog/meet-sc...
ElevenLabs — Meet Scribe the world's most accurate ASR model | ElevenLabs
Transcribe Speech to Text with the world's most accurate ASR model
elevenlabs.io
February 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
We released Scribe today, an extremely high performing Speech to Text model. People are going to build some seriously fun stuff with this and I'm here for it.
elevenlabs.io/blog/meet-sc...
elevenlabs.io/blog/meet-sc...
"Websocks" is the singulative of "websockets". Thank you and I will not be taking questions at this time.
February 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
"Websocks" is the singulative of "websockets". Thank you and I will not be taking questions at this time.
Today's dark pattern award goes to HSBC, who after unsubscribing from their emails because I don't read them, sends me an email asking if I could please re-subscribe because they want to send me more emails I won't read.
February 7, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Today's dark pattern award goes to HSBC, who after unsubscribing from their emails because I don't read them, sends me an email asking if I could please re-subscribe because they want to send me more emails I won't read.