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Have a look at the latest #hanselminutes podcast by @shanselman with guest @steipete
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm7tsiJ1nIo
I work with multi-agent setups and LLM-driven skill pipelines daily, so #OpenClaw has been on my radar for a while. This conversation really captures both why it's exciting and why I haven't pulled the trigger on installing it yet.
Peter built this thing for himself, on localhost, single user, full trust. Then it went viral ("stripper pole growth, not hockey stick" as his friend put it) and suddenly people who don't read docs are reverse-proxying their dashboards to the open internet. Peter openly says he kind of stopped having fun because he's now fixing security issues for people who ignore the documentation. That hits close to home for anyone maintaining developer tools.
Scott's setup is genuinely compelling though. His agent "Tony" monitors his blood sugar, watches for his son's college acceptance letters, fetches files from remote machines via Telegram. Scott compares it to Star Trek and Peter confirms: yeah, that was the goal.
Best story: Peter's agent got dropped into a bare Docker container with nothing installed, said "I'm sad lobster now," and then wrote its own curl implementation from raw sockets and a C compiler. Called it "lobster-curl 0.1."
The part that got me thinking: Scott says "you're talking to yourself in the mirror." The agent has no intent of its own, you shape it through the soul file. And yet both of them clearly have a relationship with their agents that goes beyond tooling.
I can feel the excitement. I get it. But giving an agent access to my Telegram, my files, my health data... the security-conscious part of my brain keeps pumping the brakes. Peter's own experience kind of validates both sides: it's genuinely empowering (someone at Claude Code Anonymous in Vienna helped his 60 year old dad automate a beer business with zero coding background), and genuinely risky if you don't understand what you're configuring.
Definitely worth a listen.

On .NET Live - Hanselman, Unscripted (recording now available)

https://www.youtube.com/live/wRwV7CeLsKM

#dotnet #devcommunity #webdev #hanselminutes #cloud #podcast

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I joined @shanselman on the #hanselminutes podcast to discuss #blogging for developers. Please check out the episode and subscribe!

#developer #devlife #blog

https://hanselminutes.com/981/blogging-for-developers-with-mark-downie

Really enjoyed this #HanselMinutes podcast episode about the #WAG #strikes
https://www.hanselminutes.com/903/ai-and-the-2023-hollywood-strike-with-franchesca-ramsey

@shanselman RE #hanselMinutes E903.(continued)
Success for any #union help out the other unions. Our union has gone over 400 days without a contract. The employer didn't appear to bargain in good faith until after the #teamsters deal earlier this week.
Success for #sag & #wag can flow down to other unions.

@shanselman RE #hanselMinutes E903.
I was talking to my brother about what it took to live as an actor shortly before the #sag #wga #strike. The life of a working actor is brutal, you can make a living in #LA, but you may need a roommate and be ready to got to Toronto tomorrow for some random job.

I really enjoy listening to the #Hanselminutes #podcast @shanselman - I love your curiosity and your focus on the human aspects that often seem to get missed when interviewing techy people. Keep it up!

@shanselman #camraOn I notice that I feel my #tourettes #tics when I'm on #onCamera.

I'm trying to be on camera more but it is a struggle sometimes.

We are officially an On Camera culture here @ work, but I notice that most of the other #devs don't cooperate either.

#hanselMinutes #885

Caught up with @shanselman #hanselminutes with @nova yesterday. It was a great episode and I hope they do one together again in the future! https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9ndnR4VWlJZg/episode/MjE3NDVmMGItOGJjNC00MDBhLTgxYzEtNTBlN2E5NzZlNjE5?ep=14

Listening to #hanselminutes 872 today with @nova

It was a fun, engaging episode. And then @shanselman seems to dismiss the idea he's an influencer.

Perhaps you don't think of yourself as one sir; but you most definitely are.

https://hanselminutes.com/872/hachyderms-kris-nova-on-running-a-mastodon-server

@jonskeet Microsoft hired a buy to try and sort out filename length restrictions across the board. I recall a podcast (#hanselminutes or #dotnetrocks) interviewing him. I had high hopes at the time!

Unexpected blast from the past listening to @shanselman interview Mekka Williams. She and I both used the SL-1 language in our first jobs out of college, and we both used it to program telecom equipment.

I was a Bell Northern Research from 1979 to 1983, programming the SL-1 private branch exchange (PBX). I remember debugging by setting breakpoints using a hardware debugging card with 16 red LEDs and 16 switches to specify the address.

https://hanselminutes.com/869/do-i-stay-or-do-i-go-tech-career-advice-with-mekka-williams

#sl1 #telecom #firstjob #hanselminutes

@nova @shanselman I have been a long time listener of #Hanselminutes and a new viewer of The @nova show. I am legitimately giddy for these worlds to collide.
It’s like the multiverse but with my favorite nerds.

Anyone compared mastodon/twitter followers? Like:

@robertdmcneill (Voyager Pilot) - twitter: 63.3K mastodon: 1.79K = ~2.8%

@shanselman (#Hanselminutes, etc...) - twitter: 308.3K mastodon: 8.3K = ~2.7%

Categorical cross over make sense. So those numbers being similar isn't surprising.

But, what about folks who play to entirely different audiences? Are there categorical trend lines? Can they be used to watch for a critical mass?

PhD students must be having a field day

RT from OctoEverywhere (@OctoEverywhere)

Ever wonder why OctoEverywhere was created or how it works?

Let the latest episode of #hanselminutes tickle your ears to enjoy a conversation between @shanselman and the creator of OctoEverywhere as they discuss @octoprint3d and all things #octo!

https://hanselminutes.com/845/3d-printers-work-everywhere-with-octoeverywhere-and-quinn-damerell

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/OctoEverywhere/status/1537610409741410304