David Asabina
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David Asabina
@vidbina.bsky.social
Family guy 👶🏽, engineer/hacker 👨🏿‍🔧 and tech due diligence advisor to VCs and PE at P&B. I love to build 🧰 and eat. 🍜🌮

he/him with my ❤️ in 🇸🇷🇳🇱🇩🇪
@fibery.bsky.social just walking through the tutorial and am noticing this error whenever I add a Workflow field to a database. Things seem fine after a reload but I'm guessing it's a bit of a race condition I'm hitting. Just fyi: may be something for your internal bug tracker if not already there.
August 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
@fibery.bsky.social hey Fibery, I find the tool hard to use but somehow keep coming back to try again since I love the idea so much. 😅

Struggling with MCP in Claude Code rn. Any tips on what I need to do differently?
August 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
maybe I shouldn't upgrade my Claude Code plan. Having a forced break to put the kid to bed and do some housekeeping and grab dinner may not be such a bad idea.

#todaywasagoodday

Thanks @anthropic.com
June 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
hey @anthropic.com is there a way to get usage data for Claude Code. Currently testing and finding myself wanting to observe how many tokens I've been burning, how many changes I've been accepting or rejecting, etc. Some dashboard or a simple CSV dump in the CLI would be helpful.
June 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
been playing with Graphite (gt) and started learning #jujutsu (jj) a few weeks after... now, I'm not clear on the gt killer-feature. 😕

Strong enough git chops (or jj chops) or AI (Warp or Claude) give the same benefits with less pain imo.

Prove me wrong.

or... skill issue?
June 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Loving the AI tools out there these days, but there is so much babysitting involved. Still reminded every day to be cautiously optimistic when I pair-prog with Claude, Codex et al. lest I get caught with these tools eating up my tokens over nothing as they seem quite greedy atm. 😅🍔
June 24, 2025 at 10:57 AM
oddly satisfying when jj rev ids (hashes) look like reasonably pronounceable words... I mean "souqrpot" isn't even a word but somehow my brain is happy -- I'm just reading it as "sucre pot"... leave me be!

I don't recall having such a "come to Jesus" moment in git. 🤣
June 24, 2025 at 9:21 AM
For all the "Nix is hard" stuff and all my cursing, I also get to enjoy the git-pull-and-darwin-rebuild magic to just get my personal MBA set up almost exactly like my work machine. Like clockwork. Like magic. ✨

Hate running side-effecting setup commands so much that this makes me really happy.
June 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Some weekends are something else with the lovely weather out in Berlin.

Lots of time with my folks outside.

Didn't get to tinker much unfortunately but, on the flip side, also didn't get to track the news at all... fortunately.

How is your weekend going?
June 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
never had as many fucks in my calendar. Sometimes I don't know why I bring on the pain: Nix + Flutter + Xcode is a losing combination. 🤬

But my on-the-spectrum-ness keeps me trying 🙈 and it kinda worked.

Not sure if worth it though. Any of the aforementioned tools may break my reproducible setup.
June 17, 2025 at 10:27 AM
some days... had slow moments with Cursor, Warp, ChatGPT, etc... A bunch of seemingly bad advice and outright ignoring of my requests, side-questing/yak-shaving on something else. Definitely a day where my dev brain had to be on high alert to reject vibe-coding slop.

Going out for some sun. 🌞
June 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
stumbled into a tweet/X 🙊 x.com/karpathy/sta... that encouraged me to prompt my frequently used image generating AI: "based on what you know about me, create a picture of what you think my current life looks like."

I guess new parenthood and our travels to Seoul stuck with the model. Kinda wild.
November 26, 2024 at 9:42 AM
Reposted by David Asabina
In short, the right people are working on this, they're not out to build a Twitter clone, they're out to reshape the web, and help us return to the original promise of an open platform, a sense of ownership, and the ability to share with each other on our own terms.
November 20, 2024 at 6:37 PM
Reposted by David Asabina
Did you know that by substituting your morning coffee with green tea, you can eliminate up to 93% of what little joy you have left?
November 21, 2024 at 9:17 AM
Alcohol free white beer🍺, crisps, the missus with ginger ale and a fun book about stats.

Things to do to relax. Work and life at Balance.

Fun fact: Current chapter is about mutual exclusivity. Who says work and life have to be mutually exclusive? 😅
August 11, 2023 at 3:41 PM
TGIF. 🥳

✅ Gave a talk about LLMs. So much fun we went off script. 😅

✅ Met a bud who challenged my encryption in @supabase snafu so I'm opting to KISS, so I'm unblocked 🏆 (for now)

Looking fwd to catching up with the missus over a stroll & well deserved sleep.

How's your week been? #buildinpublic
August 11, 2023 at 2:59 PM
Engineering surprises. 😭 Trynna quickly stub UIs for Fortoo Studio and then ending up at the start of a rabbit hole 🕳️ because I didn't setup Storybook completely.

Waste time jumping in or waste time manually replicating test scenarios? 🤷🏿‍♂️

Time boxing a fix to 30mins. Let's go! ⏰

#buildinpublic
August 1, 2023 at 10:35 AM
Every day I'm using GNU/Linux, I'm pep-talking myself into believing I'm "fighting a good fight" as I suffer through UX pains.

Unfair because shitty touchpads aren't just Linux's fault but I still make that attribution.

On the flip side: dev tools run smooth as butter.
July 29, 2023 at 6:36 PM
Check out Treedy Coordinate Gradient (GCG) at https://llm-attacks.org

They trained a "jailbreak generator" on some models (Vicuna-7B &13B) which they found to generalize to others like ChatGPT, Bard, Claude, LLaMA-2-Chat & Falcon.

Previous attack methods: AutoPrompt (2020), GBDA (2021), PEZ (2023)
July 28, 2023 at 4:14 PM
Hustle porn ain't my jam but sometimes shit needs to get done which is how overclocking oneself happens.

Almost Friday though. 😅 I'll try to offset the compression with some decompression. Promise to self.

If you push too hard, also remember to take that breather once in a while. #buildinpublic
July 27, 2023 at 8:35 PM
In today's consulting life episode:

a) spotted topical wild-board-not-a-predator humor 🐗

b) snapped useless shots of the FRA skyline. 😅

c) met a fellow reMarkable2 fan: set designer 🎬, branding head for a vertical farming venture, parties well + is mom to party-goers. 🚀

Too cool. 😎 life goals.
July 24, 2023 at 7:13 PM
Playing Get down Saturday night. 🪩 It's gonna be alright, fam. ✌🏿

Bricked my laptop on Thu night (upgrade), was a big 0 on Friday (nothing worked), had a fuck it moment in the eve and just decided to let go and do social catch-ups. Tamed the dragon today, we're back! 💃🏿🐉

AMA about GRUB2 going fwd. 😅
July 22, 2023 at 9:35 PM
My first post is a picture of me struggling with some computer trouble. Yups, I bricked my GNU/Linux system (GRUB2 bootloader to be precise) and because I'm using NixOS reviving the machine is non-trivial.

I'll be much smarter re: bootloaders after this fuckup though, so hey... Bright side. 🤷🏿‍♂️😅
July 22, 2023 at 1:01 PM