Brendan O’Leary ✅
@brendan.fyi
DevRel at @kilocode.ai
Ex-GitLab. Ex-Board Member CNCF
1x developer 👨💻 4x dad 👦🏻👧🏼👦🏻👧🏼
https://boleary.dev
Ex-GitLab. Ex-Board Member CNCF
1x developer 👨💻 4x dad 👦🏻👧🏼👦🏻👧🏼
https://boleary.dev
Every once and a while the Discord loading experience is so bad...it just doesn't load.
October 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Every once and a while the Discord loading experience is so bad...it just doesn't load.
Grok Code Fast being free for so long really revealed a whole untapped market desire for low-cost (free) agentic coding support.
It will be fascinating to see when the paid version drops how the market reacts. We've already seen new free tiers invented. What else will happen?
It will be fascinating to see when the paid version drops how the market reacts. We've already seen new free tiers invented. What else will happen?
October 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Grok Code Fast being free for so long really revealed a whole untapped market desire for low-cost (free) agentic coding support.
It will be fascinating to see when the paid version drops how the market reacts. We've already seen new free tiers invented. What else will happen?
It will be fascinating to see when the paid version drops how the market reacts. We've already seen new free tiers invented. What else will happen?
We should replace "Myers-Briggs" and the like with "What is your favorite and least favorite I Think You Should Leave " sketch.
September 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
We should replace "Myers-Briggs" and the like with "What is your favorite and least favorite I Think You Should Leave " sketch.
We are living in the future here people.
September 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
We are living in the future here people.
It's crazy to me how often "first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win" is true
September 22, 2025 at 11:00 PM
It's crazy to me how often "first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win" is true
Actual script I wrote because dealing with AirPods with a MacStudio, a MacBook, and my phone is far too much for me to deal with: https://gitlab.com/brendan/formation/-/blob/main/raycast-scripts/switch-to-airpods-raycast.sh?ref_type=heads
September 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Actual script I wrote because dealing with AirPods with a MacStudio, a MacBook, and my phone is far too much for me to deal with: https://gitlab.com/brendan/formation/-/blob/main/raycast-scripts/switch-to-airpods-raycast.sh?ref_type=heads
Reposted by Brendan O’Leary ✅
I hope Andy Reid gets put at a table with the Haim sisters
August 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I hope Andy Reid gets put at a table with the Haim sisters
Unpopular opinion: I don’t like Will Wheaton as a narrator
August 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Unpopular opinion: I don’t like Will Wheaton as a narrator
Grace Hopper carried wire pieces in her purse to show engineers what a nanosecond looked like. She spent her career making computers speak human.
Today I prompted Claude in plain English and got working code back. We're living exactly what Amazing Grace predicted.
https://brendan.fyi/grace
Today I prompted Claude in plain English and got working code back. We're living exactly what Amazing Grace predicted.
https://brendan.fyi/grace
August 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Grace Hopper carried wire pieces in her purse to show engineers what a nanosecond looked like. She spent her career making computers speak human.
Today I prompted Claude in plain English and got working code back. We're living exactly what Amazing Grace predicted.
https://brendan.fyi/grace
Today I prompted Claude in plain English and got working code back. We're living exactly what Amazing Grace predicted.
https://brendan.fyi/grace
Hill I will DIE on:
Jesus Christ Superstar *slaps*
Jesus Christ Superstar *slaps*
August 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Hill I will DIE on:
Jesus Christ Superstar *slaps*
Jesus Christ Superstar *slaps*
Men ought not to play God before they have learned to be men
July 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Men ought not to play God before they have learned to be men
Hearing Gwyneth Paltrow say "Apache Airflow" was NOT on my 2025 bingo card.
July 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Hearing Gwyneth Paltrow say "Apache Airflow" was NOT on my 2025 bingo card.
Dear Posthog: You're amazing
That is all
That is all
July 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Dear Posthog: You're amazing
That is all
That is all
Nobody will remember:
- That time you were on the Coldplay fan cam
- What song was playing on the Coldplay fan cam
- If it was a work trip on the Coldplay fan cam
...unless you act suspicious...then everyone will remember.
- That time you were on the Coldplay fan cam
- What song was playing on the Coldplay fan cam
- If it was a work trip on the Coldplay fan cam
...unless you act suspicious...then everyone will remember.
July 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Nobody will remember:
- That time you were on the Coldplay fan cam
- What song was playing on the Coldplay fan cam
- If it was a work trip on the Coldplay fan cam
...unless you act suspicious...then everyone will remember.
- That time you were on the Coldplay fan cam
- What song was playing on the Coldplay fan cam
- If it was a work trip on the Coldplay fan cam
...unless you act suspicious...then everyone will remember.
I got caught cheating on my wife with an employee on the Jumbotron at a Coldplay concert.
Here's what it taught me about B2B SaaS growth metrics 👇🧵
Here's what it taught me about B2B SaaS growth metrics 👇🧵
July 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I got caught cheating on my wife with an employee on the Jumbotron at a Coldplay concert.
Here's what it taught me about B2B SaaS growth metrics 👇🧵
Here's what it taught me about B2B SaaS growth metrics 👇🧵
Actually, Cognition AI is going to buy Windsurf for an undisclosed amount after the Open AI $3 billion deal fell through and Google invested $2.4 billion to license Windsurf and took their CEO and other talent.
July 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Actually, Cognition AI is going to buy Windsurf for an undisclosed amount after the Open AI $3 billion deal fell through and Google invested $2.4 billion to license Windsurf and took their CEO and other talent.
Something I think people really underutilize is: having AI help you write the prompts for AI.
And moreover, prompting the AI to ask you questions that it would have to make the prompt and the output that you're going to get from it better!
And moreover, prompting the AI to ask you questions that it would have to make the prompt and the output that you're going to get from it better!
July 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Something I think people really underutilize is: having AI help you write the prompts for AI.
And moreover, prompting the AI to ask you questions that it would have to make the prompt and the output that you're going to get from it better!
And moreover, prompting the AI to ask you questions that it would have to make the prompt and the output that you're going to get from it better!
In the conjoined triangle of intelligence, speed, and price, what matters most in the AI coding wars?
July 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
In the conjoined triangle of intelligence, speed, and price, what matters most in the AI coding wars?
Is there some way to tell YouTube "please stop showing me breaking news, you are literally the place I go to try and escape doom-scrolling"
July 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Is there some way to tell YouTube "please stop showing me breaking news, you are literally the place I go to try and escape doom-scrolling"
Some of y'all don't understand how undetemrinistic LLMs are, and it shows
July 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Some of y'all don't understand how undetemrinistic LLMs are, and it shows
So glad someone already wrote this so I didn't have to: https://oncilla.github.io/old-man-yells-at/
July 1, 2025 at 11:00 PM
So glad someone already wrote this so I didn't have to: https://oncilla.github.io/old-man-yells-at/
No one scares me quite as much as people who don't like git rebase and don't like squash and merge.
There. I said it.
There. I said it.
July 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
No one scares me quite as much as people who don't like git rebase and don't like squash and merge.
There. I said it.
There. I said it.
Sweden had to include a footnote in their GDP data for the quarter Taylor performed there. The impact on growth was so significant that it made it an outlier requiring a footnote.
July 1, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Sweden had to include a footnote in their GDP data for the quarter Taylor performed there. The impact on growth was so significant that it made it an outlier requiring a footnote.
At least 90% vibe coded this weekend - https://relkit.dev/
It's going to be a set of tools that I find myself using all the time (and just googling every time too) as a Developer Relations Engineer.
It's going to be a set of tools that I find myself using all the time (and just googling every time too) as a Developer Relations Engineer.
June 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
At least 90% vibe coded this weekend - https://relkit.dev/
It's going to be a set of tools that I find myself using all the time (and just googling every time too) as a Developer Relations Engineer.
It's going to be a set of tools that I find myself using all the time (and just googling every time too) as a Developer Relations Engineer.
Hot take:
Claude Code and Gemini CLI are NOT CLI tools. The are React web apps in the terminal.
Claude Code and Gemini CLI are NOT CLI tools. The are React web apps in the terminal.
June 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Hot take:
Claude Code and Gemini CLI are NOT CLI tools. The are React web apps in the terminal.
Claude Code and Gemini CLI are NOT CLI tools. The are React web apps in the terminal.