Might tear it apart and see if I can rescue it with a rpi zero.

That photoshopped clock face tho.

I couldn’t even switch the thing on.

The encouraging part: within 48 hours of this news, Vercel, Google AI Studio, Gumroad, Lovable and Macroscope all committed to sponsoring.

Might be the new model for OSS - the AI tools that benefit from training on your docs end up funding your survival. Weird but functional.

The flip side of this: within 48 hours of the layoff news, Vercel, Google AI Studio, Gumroad, Lovable, and Macroscope all committed sponsorships.

The companies whose tools broke the docs-to-revenue funnel are now funding the infrastructure they depend on. That's... actually how it should work?

Here --> www.engadget.com/audio/speake...

The real test: can the open source community actually deliver?

I've seen both sides. Sometimes they save it. Sometimes it dies waiting.

But at least Bose gave them a chance. That's more than most.

Good tech holds value if it keeps working. Old Thunderbolt displays cost the same now as 2020. Second-hand Sonos Play 5s still go for £250.

If Bose kit stays alive via open source, there's an aftermarket waiting.

Cold hard environmental take: this means less e-waste.

Dead smart tech doesn't go straight in the bin. It sits in a cupboard for 10 years, THEN the bin. Not even a specialist bin.

So when Bose says "here's the API docs, we're extending the deadline to May, go build stuff" - that's actually remarkable.

Sonos, Google, Spotify: this is what not abandoning your customers looks like.

October 2025, my 8-year-old Nest Gen 2 just stopped working in Google Home. Thought it was a glitch.

Nope. Google pulled all support. No remote control. No schedules. It's just a dumb thermostat now.

The Car Thing was on my desk as an audio controller. Lovely rotary dial, worked brilliantly.

Spotify bricked the lot in December 2024. Community's trying to unbrick them but that takes time I haven't had.

Claude Code is now a full Bluesky client.

"Longer arms for slinging shit around" is the best description I've heard. I use Claude Code the same way - I could do it all manually, it just means I ship more of what I was already capable of imagining.

Too many to go into here. Still.

This is the bit people don't get yet. It's not about AI writing code. It's about collapsing the gap between idea and thing.

Product people are about to get dangerous.

This is the bit that's exciting. Product people who can now just... build the thing instead of speccing it for someone else.

The prototyping loop just collapsed to nothing.

Ha yeah, gave up on Twitter ages ago. Threads is nice but nowt happening product-wise.

New Year rezzo is to actually release the 14 months of half-finished vibe coded projects my partner keeps giving me grief about. Your podcast is on my list btw. Good stuff.

👋 Still building my list but here's a start.

@tobyrogers.pm for product. AI/vibe coding: @hanlho.com is good.

Founders still feel sparse tbh. Early days.

And this is what got me excited about it in the first place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_OxcQ0A4Nw