Aaron Francis

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Sincere poster. No cynicism. Dad to two sets of twins! - https://t.co/WfYvVaHpTW - https://t.co/QG0tWQcm92 - https://t.co/RuC1MT0UuJ - @MostlyTechPod

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Ok maybe rewriting the terminal 5 times was actually worth it.

Many sleepless nights later, we're almost there

The new Solo desktop app has been in the hands of beta users for about a week! Now rolling it out to 25% of regular users. If all goes well, it'll be generally available tomorrow! Your single app for working with every agent and managing your dev stack 🤤

And on the fourth rewrite, we achieved 120fps terminal animations

Here we've got one Claude and TWELVE Geminis and it's buttery smooth! We did it! No one will know the violence it took to become this gentle

I gotchu fam

In perhaps the most Try Hard way possible: we shipped dark and light mode *videos* for the course. With a little thought and planning up front by Steve Tenuto, it ended up being relatively easy! Lemme walk you through it

Smooth 60fps. Feels good man

There are already tools that do this! Yes, but now it fits my workflow *exactly*. I can generate perfect og image templates for all my articles without leaving the admin area.

I use the Better Display CLI to dim the monitors before I record! It's not baked into the recording and I can trigger it with the push of a button from my Stream Deck.

Claude Code made key sections of my launch video for me (quoted) In this specific chunk, I had Claude write out a fake terminal interaction using ANSI codes so I could time it out to the music and create the ANSI explosion effect! There are a couple other tricks here too 1/

I've spent most of this week focusing on performance, getting memory and CPU down. Turns out the big wins basically boil down to: don't do stupid things. The fastest code is code that doesn't run at all

Stunning scroll-driven animation on tempo's homepage!

Real, actual Postgres right from your browser! Learning a lot. This is fun

Gemini Deep Research has totally altered the way I use Google. Instead of trawling forums, videos, and old docs, Gemini does it for me. It looked at ~200 different sources (!) to help debug a remote resolution issue. Not sure what it means for SEO, but it's a huge time saver.

On a bit of a lark, I hacked together support for dialogs / popups! Might be a nice place to put menus or settings, so it doesn't clutter up the UI.

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Instead of going back and forth with your agent saying "hmm little more, no a little less" just ask it to build you a control to tweak it yourself, then give it the params you like.

I've been building Solo for several months, and it's out today! It's a desktop app that manages your entire dev stack. Add a project, Solo detects your processes, and you can start everything with one click. It's free! Try it today:

They say AI is the end for developers. They say the job market is gone. They say learning to code is pointless. I don’t buy it. I think we're just getting started.

📣 My next course, Introduction to Postgres, is going to be 100% free! The kind folks at Supabase are sponsoring it so that everyone can learn how to use Postgres confidently. But that's not all... I'm changing things up a bit. I'm making a bet. Watch the video to see more!

I wrote zero lines of this code. I think things are changing more rapidly than I understood. I probably spent 30 minutes talking to Opus 4.5 about it, and now I have a fully functioning tool. And I'm making more tools every day. I don't think we're slowing down!

Many many years ago I built 128 square feet of handwriting robots. I still think about them

Introducing Fusion - a new way to write JavaScript with Laravel. I hope you like it.

Your terminal now has an MCP Agents can spawn agents • Codex → Claude • Claude → Amp • Amp → Gemini Whatever you want! They can chat back and forth, dispatch tasks, monitor, do research, read output, and set durable wakeup timers.

📣 We're excited to announce Mastering Postgres, a video course coming October 15th. Steve Tenuto and I started this business with dreams to improve the quality of database education. With the help of Xata 🦋, this course is our next step in that direction.

A few weeks ago, I got laid off. Here's what I'm doing next.

High Performance SQLite launches next week! Come see what all the fuss is about. Y'all go sign up for the waiting list at to hear when it launches + get a discount! Super excited for y'all to see it!

Here's my quick demo of a Laravel-native version of the new "composer dev" command that was just shipped! It's like npx concurrently, but a little bit nicer and more powerful. Lemme know! (Thanks to Joe Tannenbaum and his Laracasts course for the inspiration.)

The new Solo app is out! Run your agents, terminals, and devstack all in one app. I've increased the free tier, cleaned up the terminal, made trusting commands less annoying, fixed a few zsh issues, shift+enter issues, etc. Lots of good stuff!

Yesterday I tweeted DHH and asked if we could talk about SQLite. To my surprise and delight, he said yes! It's a fun conversation spanning SQLite, Campfire, the one-person framework, Stoicism, and their new ONCE product! Click on the video to see the full discussion.

We do a little stress testing from time to time. Not yet perfect, but getting a lot closer!

There's a very real possibility that I accidentally just invented tmux in PHP

Here's a perfect example of when I use Solo's scratchpads. I had Amp do a bunch of research on how to implement live light/dark theme switching in terminals, but turns out I'm not ready to do it yet. Instead, I had it write all the research to a scratchpad for later!

We have been working hard to make screencasting​.com the comprehensive destination for all things screencasting. 🎉 We're excited to announce FIVE new courses 🎉 • How to Screencast • Screenflow • Premiere Pro • DaVinci Resolve • Final Cut Pro But that's not all!

I took a lot of inspiration from the Cloudflare dashboard command palette when building my own. One enhancement I made is that the ">" character is an explicit scope change token. So you can type: [part of project name] > [part of action name] to drill down quickly. Super pumped about it!

In perhaps the most Try Hard way possible: we shipped dark and light mode videos for the course. With a little thought and planning up front by Steve Tenuto, it ended up being relatively easy! Lemme walk you through it

There are already tools that do this! Yes, but now it fits my workflow exactly. I can generate perfect og image templates for all my articles without leaving the admin area.

We have been working hard to make screencasting.com the comprehensive destination for all things screencasting. 🎉 We're excited to announce FIVE new courses 🎉 • How to Screencast • Screenflow • Premiere Pro • DaVinci Resolve • Final Cut Pro But that's not all!