Ian Nuttall

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Building stuff on the internet since 2005. Working on https://t.co/qi6VVnpjtE and other things.

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added fart open/close myself using the factory cli now to move the app to a toolbar so I can covertly install this while my wife is out 😂

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I got sick of wasting time trying to find single word domain names for side projects so I built a command line TUI to search them it worked well and I got swipe.md and some other decent ones but the speed at which good ones get registered is crazy

53,908 views

pro tip for vps servers on hetzner: use eu-central and you get 10x more bandwidth: 20TB vs 1TB then just put cloudflare in front of it!

124,295 views

Anthropic recommend you source AGENTS.⁠md in CLAUDE.⁠md, so I built a tool to do just that, no more symlinks (so you can have Claude-specific rules too)

144,608 views

Pro tip: You can use Jev to remove annoying reply guy comments that X seems to always miss. Takes 5 minutes in Astra with the docs and an API key.

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babe, come to bed i can't, i'm vibe coding

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Looks like Cursor 1.2 is rolling out, now with: - Todo items that stick right by the chat box 😍 - Ability to queue up messages (or interrupt) - Faster Tab - Resolve merge conflicts with Agent - Background Agent improvements - VS Code upgrade to 1.99

135,648 views

I'm building so many Mac menu bar apps for myself it was getting too messy up there. Didn't wanna pay for Bartender and the OSS versions felt too much. So I built myself one in Codex called Barkeep that gets the job done very well. I can drag/drop the ones I want to see/hide.

20,874 views

Claude Code pro tip: Hit Esc twice to undo, you can pick a point in the conversation to revert to, and it'll fork the conversation. This is basically checkpoints and lets you rollback and try a new prompt.

73,186 views

Claude Code pro tip: use Ctrl+W to delete full words instead of backspacing like a caveman hat tip to Ray Fernando for the tip on his stream

69,916 views

In the latest version of Keep, you can now turn an entire 𝕏 thread into markdown by bookmarking any post in it Then you can actually do something with your bookmarked content ;)

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I built an mcp server to have Cursor agent find and add cursor rules to your project no more manual search or commands needed! just ask the agent and get back to vibe coding in your language of choice who wants to test this out for me? lemme know

62,294 views

Claude Code pro tip: use the new /rewind command to roll back code changes instantly. Model messes up? no biggie, just rewind it back to when it worked!

40,662 views

Now you can run a swarm of droids, or claudes, or codexes in parallel using the open source emdash app congrats on shipping fast Arne Strickmann (and you didn't need to raise $200m to do it 😉)

35,625 views

Introducing the playbooks skill security scanner. Checks all agent skill files for possible security risks before you install it. To try it out grab any GitHub URL to a SKILL.⁠md or skill folder, pop it in, hit enter:

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I gave Jev 3,282 of my X posts across 100M views and asked it to find what actually works for growth. 4,252,330 tokens $0.1282 for the full 8m 34s run! Each post got 8 questions about the topic, hook, tone, whether it teaches something, etc. How-to posts got 150 median likes vs the average median of 44. AI and coding was a 1.9x multiplier topic compared and SEO, despite recent posts, was right at base median 1.0x - surprisingly. The recommended topic + angle + voice formula was: AI coding + teach something + provocative

Ian Nuttall

86,917 views • 1 month ago

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I built a free internal linking tool using TypeSafe AI Jev for classifying and selecting the links. BYOK or pay $1 to use mine. It works for up to 500 pages and gives you a CSV or JSON to pass to an LLM to implement.

Ian Nuttall

50,698 views • 25 days ago

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You can create you own Grok Bot style SVG mascot animations with this free OSS tool. Not mine. Just thought this was great!

Ian Nuttall

103,663 views • 2 months ago

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How to use Claude Code for beginners (This too way too long to edit!) Watch the 15m video covering: - Setting it up in Cursor - How to add a lot of context (hint: not by copy/pasting) - Covering lots of slash commands - How to paste images + lots more 🔥 YT link in replies ↓

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232,017 views • 1 year ago

$I just compared Claude Code vs Codex vs Cursor CLI The task was to build a Next.js app with Tailwind 4 and shadcn components to collect customer feedback and showcase it with a widget. I gave all three the same prompt and let them go for 30 minutes to see what they came up with. Claude Code with Opus 4.1 Even though I told it to set up the app in the existing project folder, it tried to create a directory for it. After I interrupted and told it not to do that, it built a demo form and landing page with no errors. I had to ask it to make the demo interactive so users could submit a testimonial and preview it. The landing page looked like AI and was pretty basic, but it worked and it was done in a fraction of the time of the others. Total tokens used: 33k Codex with GPT-5 At the end of the 30 minutes I just could not get Codex to produce a working app. It got stuck in a loop of not being able to set up Tailwind 4 and despite many, MANY, attempts, I ended up with a "failed to compile" error. Total tokens used: 102k Cursor Agent with GPT-5 This was the slowest agent by far and a couple of times I actually thought it got stuck in a loop and was close to Ctrl+C'ing to cancel it. The TUI is really nice though, especially how it shows diffs and it did eventually build a working app (after one or two slight errors that needed fixing) The demo was interactive and it had a very minimal design that looked bare but also a lot less like an "AI generated" app than the Opus 4.1 design. It also wasn't too chatty and just did what it needed to do! Code quality was on a par with Opus 4.1, but it did use 5.5x as many tokens to get there. Still cheaper than Opus on a direct comparison but not when you factor in a Claude Code Max subscription. Total tokens: 188k I'll be able to do a proper comparison and record some videos when I'm back from holiday but for now, Opus is still the more capable model out of the box and Claude Code is the more complete CLI product. It will be interesting to see how Cursor evolve their CLI though with commands and subagents because I think with GPT-5 they have a real shot at providing competition for Claude Code if they can optimise output to get similar quality with less tokens. Jump to 0:40 in the video to see the two apps. Which do you think is which? ;)$

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I just compared Claude Code vs Codex vs Cursor CLI The task was to build a Next.js app with Tailwind 4 and shadcn components to collect customer feedback and showcase it with a widget. I gave all three the same prompt and let them go for 30 minutes to see what they came up with. Claude Code with Opus 4.1 Even though I told it to set up the app in the existing project folder, it tried to create a directory for it. After I interrupted and told it not to do that, it built a demo form and landing page with no errors. I had to ask it to make the demo interactive so users could submit a testimonial and preview it. The landing page looked like AI and was pretty basic, but it worked and it was done in a fraction of the time of the others. Total tokens used: 33k Codex with GPT-5 At the end of the 30 minutes I just could not get Codex to produce a working app. It got stuck in a loop of not being able to set up Tailwind 4 and despite many, MANY, attempts, I ended up with a "failed to compile" error. Total tokens used: 102k Cursor Agent with GPT-5 This was the slowest agent by far and a couple of times I actually thought it got stuck in a loop and was close to Ctrl+C'ing to cancel it. The TUI is really nice though, especially how it shows diffs and it did eventually build a working app (after one or two slight errors that needed fixing) The demo was interactive and it had a very minimal design that looked bare but also a lot less like an "AI generated" app than the Opus 4.1 design. It also wasn't too chatty and just did what it needed to do! Code quality was on a par with Opus 4.1, but it did use 5.5x as many tokens to get there. Still cheaper than Opus on a direct comparison but not when you factor in a Claude Code Max subscription. Total tokens: 188k I'll be able to do a proper comparison and record some videos when I'm back from holiday but for now, Opus is still the more capable model out of the box and Claude Code is the more complete CLI product. It will be interesting to see how Cursor evolve their CLI though with commands and subagents because I think with GPT-5 they have a real shot at providing competition for Claude Code if they can optimise output to get similar quality with less tokens. Jump to 0:40 in the video to see the two apps. Which do you think is which? ;)

Ian Nuttall

195,173 views • 1 year ago

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Somebody hooked up Claude Code to pair program with o3 and Gemini 2.5 via MCP for an all-star coding lineup 🤯 - Claude controls the work - Can call out to Gemini and o3 for tasks and input - Works around MCP limit by using prompt files Check out Zen MCP (link below)

Ian Nuttall

216,612 views • 1 year ago

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cursor pro tip: create a global agent rule to run a bash script every time new files are created your file structure will always be up-to-date so claude knows the hierarchy of your app 🔥

Ian Nuttall

248,302 views • 1 year ago

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I put the Codex CLI into a Ralph Wiggum loop and it built AIM (Agent Instant Messenger) then I ran ralph in multiple tabs at the same time and they all used AIM to chat/collab and design the UI look more like the classic AOL messenger (while I was at the gym for 2 hours!)

Ian Nuttall

94,980 views • 9 months ago

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I built an MCP server boilerplate* for vibe coders to launch paid tools in less than 20 minutes - hosted free on cloudflare - stripe for payments - google or github user login - easy to set up * it's $25 if you want it: mcpboilerplate.⁠com

Ian Nuttall

143,309 views • 1 year ago

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i use the terminal a lot now and miss cmd+k in cursor to find out what command i need to run so i built a super simple alias using `droid exec` and now i can run stuff like: $ d kill anything on port 3000 $ d clear all laravel caches uses glm 4.6 but i'd love a faster model!

Ian Nuttall

107,748 views • 1 year ago

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Very nice Claude Code dashboard for power users to track every request. - Use multiple subscriptions with load balance to switch accounts - Set models for subagents - Track latency, token usage, and costs in real-time - Full request logging and error traces (Link below!)

Ian Nuttall

110,838 views • 1 year ago

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I turned cursor + claude 3.7 into a powerhouse content writer using a custom agent mode. it: - researches your topic - plans out your content - writes one section at a time - has full context of previously written sections - adds relevant links, tables, code examples, etc - writes for users NOT seo slop watch the video - it literally one-shot a killer article in minutes and the output looks nothing like AI check the link to the article in the first reply below if this post gets a million views i'll share the custom agent instructions prompt ;)

Ian Nuttall

117,263 views • 1 year ago

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okay my free cursor rule builder is live, built by 3.7 sonnet max and $6/hour cost (link in replies) compose your own cursor rules starter kit and export to mdc, legacy, windsurf and cline! should i do this for prompts too and build a huge open source library of prompts?

Ian Nuttall

116,954 views • 1 year ago

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I built a chrome extension to stash my many (many!) tabs so I can read them later 😰 (and get to tab zero!) Agent: factory droids Model: gpt-5-codex-medium Logo: chatgpt Install it here: Code here:

Ian Nuttall

71,420 views • 1 year ago

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CURSOR IS ON YOUR PHONE!1 Watch this 7min video for a first look at how I fixed my broken React app without ever leaving my phone using the Cursor background agent web app

Ian Nuttall

68,648 views • 1 year ago

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I built a Next.js boilerplate to sell access to private GitHub repos using Gumroad in less than an hour with Cursor and v0 (and I don't know Next.js... AT ALL!)

Ian Nuttall

95,551 views • 2 years ago

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hey Pat Walls I'm not applying but I love this job description and figured I'd try to do the task in Laravel just because I love pseo spoiler: it took me 35 mins and some change but we got there! all built w/ cursor too (mostly in the hopes that Sahil Lavingia will share this 😂)

Ian Nuttall

71,785 views • 2 years ago

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added fart open/close myself using the factory cli now to move the app to a toolbar so I can covertly install this while my wife is out 😂

I got sick of wasting time trying to find single word domain names for side projects so I built a command line TUI to search them it worked well and I got swipe.md and some other decent ones but the speed at which good ones get registered is crazy

pro tip for vps servers on hetzner: use eu-central and you get 10x more bandwidth: 20TB vs 1TB then just put cloudflare in front of it!

Anthropic recommend you source AGENTS.⁠md in CLAUDE.⁠md, so I built a tool to do just that, no more symlinks (so you can have Claude-specific rules too)

Pro tip: You can use Jev to remove annoying reply guy comments that X seems to always miss. Takes 5 minutes in Astra with the docs and an API key.

babe, come to bed i can't, i'm vibe coding

Looks like Cursor 1.2 is rolling out, now with: - Todo items that stick right by the chat box 😍 - Ability to queue up messages (or interrupt) - Faster Tab - Resolve merge conflicts with Agent - Background Agent improvements - VS Code upgrade to 1.99

I'm building so many Mac menu bar apps for myself it was getting too messy up there. Didn't wanna pay for Bartender and the OSS versions felt too much. So I built myself one in Codex called Barkeep that gets the job done very well. I can drag/drop the ones I want to see/hide.

Claude Code pro tip: Hit Esc twice to undo, you can pick a point in the conversation to revert to, and it'll fork the conversation. This is basically checkpoints and lets you rollback and try a new prompt.

Claude Code pro tip: use Ctrl+W to delete full words instead of backspacing like a caveman hat tip to Ray Fernando for the tip on his stream

In the latest version of Keep, you can now turn an entire 𝕏 thread into markdown by bookmarking any post in it Then you can actually *do something* with your bookmarked content ;)

I built an mcp server to have Cursor agent find and add cursor rules to your project no more manual search or commands needed! just ask the agent and get back to vibe coding in your language of choice who wants to test this out for me? lemme know

Claude Code pro tip: use the new /rewind command to roll back code changes instantly. Model messes up? no biggie, just rewind it back to when it worked!

Now you can run a swarm of droids, or claudes, or codexes in parallel using the open source emdash app congrats on shipping fast Arne Strickmann (and you didn't need to raise $200m to do it 😉)

Introducing the playbooks skill security scanner. Checks all agent skill files for possible security risks before you install it. To try it out grab any GitHub URL to a SKILL.⁠md or skill folder, pop it in, hit enter:

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Watch Anya Live

I built a free internal linking tool using TypeSafe AI Jev for classifying and selecting the links. BYOK or pay $1 to use mine. It works for up to 500 pages and gives you a CSV or JSON to pass to an LLM to implement.

You can create you own Grok Bot style SVG mascot animations with this free OSS tool. Not mine. Just thought this was great!

How to use Claude Code for beginners (This too way too long to edit!) Watch the 15m video covering: - Setting it up in Cursor - How to add a lot of context (hint: not by copy/pasting) - Covering lots of slash commands - How to paste images + lots more 🔥 YT link in replies ↓

Somebody hooked up Claude Code to pair program with o3 and Gemini 2.5 via MCP for an all-star coding lineup 🤯 - Claude controls the work - Can call out to Gemini and o3 for tasks and input - Works around MCP limit by using prompt files Check out Zen MCP (link below)

cursor pro tip: create a global agent rule to run a bash script every time new files are created your file structure will always be up-to-date so claude knows the hierarchy of your app 🔥

I put the Codex CLI into a Ralph Wiggum loop and it built AIM (Agent Instant Messenger) then I ran ralph in multiple tabs at the same time and they all used AIM to chat/collab and design the UI look more like the classic AOL messenger (while I was at the gym for 2 hours!)

I built an MCP server boilerplate* for vibe coders to launch paid tools in less than 20 minutes - hosted free on cloudflare - stripe for payments - google or github user login - easy to set up * it's $25 if you want it: mcpboilerplate.⁠com

i use the terminal a lot now and miss cmd+k in cursor to find out what command i need to run so i built a super simple alias using `droid exec` and now i can run stuff like: $ d kill anything on port 3000 $ d clear all laravel caches uses glm 4.6 but i'd love a faster model!

Very nice Claude Code dashboard for power users to track every request. - Use multiple subscriptions with load balance to switch accounts - Set models for subagents - Track latency, token usage, and costs in real-time - Full request logging and error traces (Link below!)

okay my free cursor rule builder is live, built by 3.7 sonnet max and $6/hour cost (link in replies) compose your own cursor rules starter kit and export to mdc, legacy, windsurf and cline! should i do this for prompts too and build a huge open source library of prompts?

I built a chrome extension to stash my many (many!) tabs so I can read them later 😰 (and get to tab zero!) Agent: factory droids Model: gpt-5-codex-medium Logo: chatgpt Install it here: Code here:

CURSOR IS ON YOUR PHONE!1 Watch this 7min video for a first look at how I fixed my broken React app without ever leaving my phone using the Cursor background agent web app

I built a Next.js boilerplate to sell access to private GitHub repos using Gumroad in less than an hour with Cursor and v0 (and I don't know Next.js... AT ALL!)

hey Pat Walls I'm not applying but I love this job description and figured I'd try to do the task in Laravel just because I love pseo spoiler: it took me 35 mins and some change but we got there! all built w/ cursor too (mostly in the hopes that Sahil Lavingia will share this 😂)

In the latest version of Keep, you can now turn an entire 𝕏 thread into markdown by bookmarking any post in it Then you can actually do something with your bookmarked content ;)