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Texas Toland
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Spanish-speaking American code teacher and adventure sports enthusiast living around the globe
At least once a day @raycast.com AI integration/MCP does something for me that would've been a chore 🪄
August 5, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I 🤬 at Gemini so it did it back with emphasis 🤣
May 5, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Just discovered Make.md completely replaces Notion in @obsidian.md while supporting SSG with BrainDB 😍
youtu.be/ISpII6nsego?...
February 24, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Facebook is actively blocking messages from my (not new) personal account to several US (close) friends for mentioning country names 😳
February 10, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Not using an agentic IDE is just a fast track to unemployability 🚮 Expertise will always matter but tools like Windsurf have changed my entire perspective on work
January 30, 2025 at 1:52 AM
IFL LLMs are net negative for humanity but I haven't been as enthralled about a technology since coding in Flash 🍿
January 23, 2025 at 3:13 AM
In case you've never heard of a Valeriepieris circle 🌏 (paper linked below of you're nerdy like that)
github.com/rudyarthur/v...
January 20, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I use so many AI tools day to day but I'm still impressed (slash disappointed) by even basic chat built into Bing 🎙 (also excited to try Deno 2)
January 13, 2025 at 3:00 AM
I'm back to JetBrains but Lazygit surpassed my expectations 💯
December 2, 2024 at 7:16 AM
Honored to hang out with @alfonsogcnunez IRL during #Twittergeddon 🇯🇵 Brainiac behind @FableCompiler since 2016, Spaniard living in Japan, and father, all besides his day job. 1 of my role models in life as much as in coding 🏅

I should be in 🇲🇽 next if @angel_d_munoz is free ✌🏼
November 29, 2024 at 4:17 PM
What's even left on my #BucketList after #remoteworking from the Himalayas 🗻
November 29, 2024 at 4:16 PM
It just clicked the #javascript record/tuple proposal will make Map and Set finally useful 😲 Check out the TypeScript integration too:
• new record/tuple primitive and shorthand types
• renamed Record utility type
• new strictReadonly compiler flag

github.com/microsoft/Type…
November 29, 2024 at 4:16 PM
My predicted max heart rate based on age would be 180 😅🥊🇹🇭
November 29, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Moving again 🇹🇭
November 29, 2024 at 4:16 PM
WTF @Xoom 🤬
I filled out the support form.
I repeated my issue in the reply.
Yet your support person sent me an auto response to fill out the support form again.
3 times!
Your support is a pile of 💩
November 29, 2024 at 4:15 PM
I struggle with personal time management 🗓

My latest evolution on @NotionHQ:
November 29, 2024 at 4:12 PM
I wish I was as good at coding as adventures 👨🏼‍💻
November 29, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Friends on Twitter is more fun IRL 🌮 @reasonml
November 29, 2024 at 4:03 PM
I scrolled through Twitter 🐦
It stressed me out 🥵
I went for a walk 🏞️
Life is hard 🧗🏽‍♀️
Social media drama 🎭
…makes it harder 🌋
I wish you each the best 🥂
…on your personal missions ⚖️
November 29, 2024 at 4:03 PM
Thankful to hang with my favorite friend from Twitter IRL at @salesforce Tower 🦔
November 29, 2024 at 4:03 PM
urql is built in @typescript using the @reasonml callbag implementation with generated typings 🤯via @instapaper

formidable.com/blog/2019/urql…
November 29, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Amazing night more amazing people 🍻
November 29, 2024 at 4:02 PM
The author has apparently never done UI programming 🤔 (re. reference counting e.g. in iOSvia @instapaper

ocaml.org/learn/tutorial…
November 29, 2024 at 4:02 PM
. @OCamlLang ain't perfect but close enoughvia @instapaper

ocaml.org/learn/tutorial…
November 29, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Culminating a longtime dream thanks to one-on-one coaching with @zacjones93 🎙️
November 29, 2024 at 4:01 PM