Camden Lock Market

I like being in a city with proper transportation

Heading to London!

this is actually super useful. I kinda want a live sidebar that gives me this

Me getting my agent to convert a react native macOS project to @birch_js's Expo Desktop

soon!

Some photos from our @okthinkai CDMX AI, React and the Future of Software Engineering event. Our "speaker dinner" was the next day in Xochimilco. We got the @expo and @reactjs names on the boat :)

with @entiendoNULL @llamaluvr Samantha Wen, @watchful_toast @_mesurashii.

Come ear!

I'm always excited when a @its_adamneely video essay comes out. They make me think a lot. I highly recommend watching: youtube.com/watch?v=kIMIlL…

He gives Metallica some crap about keeping politics out of music. However, regardless of any level of hypocrisy, that's something that I really appreciate about them.

The last 10 years have been really tough and alienating for people with my skin color. I love Metallica, and I went to one of their concerts soon after the pandemic. I felt very apprehensive about potentially having to deal with toxic people in the audience.

But Hetfield started out saying that Metallica is for everyone, that they just want people to enjoy their music without thinking about politics. That made me huuugely at ease and emotional. All I wanted was to enjoy Metallica like when I was a little kid. So, Adam might not think very highly of that stance, but it actually means a lot to people like me.

I don't agree with Hetfield's generalization that _all_ music should be non-political. Music will always be political. Some of the greatest songs are political. A Change Is Gonna Come, Born in the U.S.A., This Land Is Your Land, The Hand That Feeds, Sleep Now In the Fire. Metallica's music is political: One, Disposable Heroes, Don't Tread on Me.

But I love the idea that we can have both. We can have music that's political, and we can have music and musical experiences are meant to let us forget that and come together. Music is both political and an escape.

As an immigrant, I've always had this romanticism about traveling through the US. I would love to cross the country, see other states. That has always been a fascination - what are those places like? What is it about West Virginia that could make someone write Country Roads?

But over the last decade that traveling the country hasn't felt like a safe thing to do, because the people living there chose politics that deemed me less than; that labeled me as an "other". I've lived with a real fear that I might get picked up and deported regardless of status, just for the color of my skin. Those people made me feel that way.

Maybe someday I'll feel safe. In the meantime, I have a lot of appreciation for anyone who says: fuck divisive politics.

As someone who has felt very marginalized in the US over the last 10 years, I'm reading the news like:

Margaret @watchful_toast and I took @entiendoNULL to La Once Mil.

Mexico is amazing

Once @okthinkai gets bigger and we have an office we'll have all you can eat feijoada Fridays.

Yesterday Mexico made me cry a few times out of pride. What an incredible country.

I had AI generate some dafuq images for me, here are my favorites

But there is though...

The impooossible is pooosible tonight 🎙️🎵🎶

En el último año coincidí con Samantha Wen en cinco ciudades: Cracovia, Varsovia, Berlín, San Francisco y Nueva York. 🌍✈️ La sexta va a ser CDMX, y esta vez Samantha va a ser nuestra maestra de ceremonias… ¡en español! 🇲🇽🎤

Samantha lidera el marketing de eventos en @expo: nferencias y las alianzas que los hacen posibles. Si has ido a un evento de la comunidad de React Native en el último año, es muy probable que Samantha haya tenido algo que ver. Cada vez que me la encuentro, ya sea en Europa o en Estados Unidos, está construyendo comunidad, presentando a la gente y haciendo que todos se sientan bienvenidos. Es increíble en lo que hace. 🙌

Por eso nos emociona tanto que Samantha conduzca la noche en español. Uno de nuestros grandes objetivos con este evento es conectar a la comunidad tech internacional con la comunidad mexicana, y no se nos ocurre mejor persona para hacer ese puente. Samantha va a abrir la noche, presentar cada charla y mantener viva la conversación entre el escenario y el público. 💬

🎤 El line-up:
• @llamaluvr (Expo)
• @entiendoNULL (Expo), que viene desde Suecia 🇸🇪
• @watchful_toast (@okthinkai )
• @_mesurashii, ingeniera de software, líder de comunidad y mentora 💜
• Samantha Wen (Expo), maestra de ceremonias ✨

📅 Jueves 29 de octubre · 17:00 a 22:00
📍 Colonia Juárez, CDMX (compartimos la dirección al registrarte)
🎟️ Entrada: $150 MXN
🌮 Tacos de canasta, botanas y mezcalitas
👕 Playeras edición especial diseñadas por Mario Flores
🗣️ Charlas en inglés y en español
🙏 Patrocinado por Expo y The React Foundation

Regístrate aquí 👉 luma.com/dqd68d26

¡Nos vemos el 29! 🧡💀🌼

De Suecia a CDMX, con su charla ensayada en español. 🇸🇪🇲🇽 Así llega @entiendoNULL a nuestro evento el 29 de octubre.

Jacob es Developer Success Engineer en @expo. Empezó a programar para la web como pasatiempo, consiguió su primera chamba como desarrollador en Ecuador y, ya de asó al desarrollo móvil con React Native y Expo. Después de años creando apps con Expo, en 2025 se unió al equipo.

Su charla se llama "Encontrar la chispa creativa en la era de la IA". Jacob siempre ha visto la programación como una actividad creativa: esa satisfacción de lograr que algo funcione tal como lo imaginaste. Ahora que los agentes de IA se encargan de cada vez más implementación, Jacob se ha preguntado a dónde se va esa creatividad, y encontró más espacio para ella del que esperaba. Con una historia personal y una demo, nos va a contar dónde encuentra hoy esa misma sensación de logro.

Jacob va a dar su charla en español. 🙌 Ha estado practicándola y, por lo que me cuentan, le ha echado muchísimas ganas.

Así que vengan a escucharlo y a echarle porras. Va a ser una charla muy especial y no se la quieren perder.

📅 Jueves 29 de octubre · 17:00 a 22:00
📍 Ciudad de México
💲150 pesitos mexicanos, con comida, bebidas, y te regalamos una camiseta
🎟️ Regístrate: luma.com/dqd68d26

If you liked the Tesla Roadster marketing gimmick you should watch this thing about micro nice, it's pretty good.

youtu.be/ZMQbHMgK2rw?is…

Heading to Mountain View for the MIT AI Conference!

I see Opus doing this a lot and it feels like this should just be part of the harness. Why are we writing a whole python script every time

Me da muchisimo gusto anunciar que Keith Kurak @llamaluvr sera uno de los ponentes de nuestro primer evento de @okthinkai: AI + React: El futuro del desarrollo de software, este 29 de octubre en la Ciudad de Mexico: luma.com/dqd68d26

Conozco a Keith desde hace varios años dad de coincidir con el en distintas conferencias internacionales de React Native. Ademas de ser una gran persona, siempre da platicas excelentes. Personalmente, disfruto mucho escucharlo y siempre aprendo algo nuevo de el.

Me alegra mucho que haya decidido venir a compartir su experiencia con la comunidad de developers en Mexico, y quiero invitarlos a todos a acompañarnos y escuchar su platica.

Estamos preparando un evento muy especial, con comida, bebidas y unas playeras increibles diseñadas especialmente para quienes nos acompañen. Esperamos verlos ahi! Muchas gracias a @expo y la React Foundation por patrocinarnos.

I really like Firehose by @okthinkai (hey it's the thing @watchful_toast and I are building).

It lets me get so much done

So hey @steveruizok I joined the fray

Desde hace varios unos años he querido organizar un evento de tech en Ciudad de México y este año por fin se hara realidad. Quiero invitarlos a nuestro encuentro sobre React, Inteligencia Artificial y el Futuro de Desarrollo de Software, que se llevara a cabo este 29 de octubre. on: luma.com/dqd68d26

En el 2017, mis amigos me invitaron a dar una plática para el grupo de Facebook Developer Circles en Ciudad de México. El evento tenia tematica del Día de los Muertos. A mí me encantó la idea y desde ese entonces he querido formar una tradición de reunir a la comunidad mexicana e internacional para convivir, compartir ideas, y conversar sobre tecnologia. Me agrada muchisimo que Rihan nos esta ayudando a organizar el evento.

Este año tenemos la enorme fortuna de organizar el evento en un espacio muy especial. Habra comida, bebidas, y gran ambiente con tema de Dia de los Muertos. Ademas, estamos trabajando con el director creativo Mario Flores para diseñar unas camisetas increibles.

Contaremos con la participacion de ponientes internacionales de @expo, como @entiendoNULL y @llamaluvr con el patrocinio de @reactjs Foundation.

Queremos reunir a los mejores desarrolladores y founders de la Ciudad de México para compartir ideas y disfrutar de una gran conversación sobre el futuro de la tecnología. Nos encantara verlos ahi!

I think meditation is finally starting to make sense to me

Somehow I'm very uncomfortable with this.

Bye bye Berlin! It was great seeing the React Native community. Let's do this again next year, in Mexico

I used to have massive daily PRs, but then I wanted to keep them cleaner, so I would spend a lot of time getting my agent to separate work out into different branches.

But it's just easier to start out with different branches and integrate them locally. Your agent can figure out r changes in.

This cover is so good youtube.com/watch?v=N3kWbv…

Oh wow you can rotate this thing? That's cool #berlin

Working on my @nextappdevcon talk, it's tomorrow!

Goddamn

Me to my agents

AI is finally letting us return to the natural order of things: the artificially split mobile ecosystems created by Apple and Google's jealousy and greed.

Hang out with me for 8 minutes, while I show you how I do my agentic coding work on the go with Firehose. Last week I had an amazing egg sandwich in Barcelona while getting some work done.

Check out our gpt-live-1 and iOS simulator streaming features :)

yolo hazard 🤦

Which one of these would you take from some random dude at Coachella?

I'm starting to believe more in Claude Artifacts. I hadn't used them at all, but I've been playing around with getting Opus to make me some animated characters. It created this cool comparison tool for me to inspect its work. Wow.

These are my 9 games

I've been trying to get Opus to recreate this in JS

While I was traveling to Poland I kept making improvements to Firehose, and I ended up with a huge branch. I'm now breaking that huge branch into 9 smaller PRs and automating the process with an orchestrator. I asked it to make me a dashboard so I can keep track of the progress.

THIS IS ALL JAVASCRIPT WTF. Even the music.

I asked Opus to make me a 5 minute video based on my blog post about our 2025 Japan trip raf.dev/blog/japan-tri…

I'm so blown away y'all. You should stop whatever you're doing and ask Opus 5.5 to make you a visualization.

I was telling @Bostonasian about the new models, and decided to try making one about Japan's hot summer. I asked it to also have audio. It's so good! Prompt below

🤯

I think @maker__mark has the best argument for why React Native is the most operationally efficient choice for building mobile apps. Over the air updates help @Chime maximize their internal dogfooding
They have over 250 OTA channels 🤯

I'm in NYC for the @Chime @expo @infinite_red AI meetup, hosted by @maker__mark

I really don't like the way Opus talks.

I'm in Barcelona, and here's how I use Firehose to get a lot of coding work done on the go. I had a busy week for @AgentConf and can't use my laptop much while traveling, but Firehose is a universal @expo app that I can use from my phone while I'm eating pinxtos.

I've been working on adding iOS simulator streaming support to Firehose. Neat :)

What a crazy day today. Started off in Krakow getting breakfast with @Paulina_Mcg, then driving @watchful_toast to Zakopane in the worst weather and watching her go off hiking in a blizzard, driving back to Krakow to hang out with @thymikee and vibe coding iOS simulator streaming r dinner, then barely making it to my flight as my phone was at 5%... And I am now in Barcelona

I found my new favorite Polish activity

This is my third time in Krakow and the first time I get to see this

Omg I can read Polish

Gdansk is amazing but I can't believe the Mexican food. Chicken tonkatsu like bowls, just like the ones my grandma used to make

Tired: Agent Control Planes

Wired: Vibe Coded Boats

@AgentConf @chris_trag @barticz @watchful_toast Grzegorz Wolodko, Carl Ross

I have a bug with the OpenCode integration I built into Firehose but I'm thinking about keeping it because it feels so poetic.

Whenever I hear about the latest SF groupthink

Why is everyone talking about this

Alrighty, I got Apex support added to Firehose

Almost done. Been doing this entirely from my phone while watching talks

For @AgentConf, I whipped up an @expo app that lets me do on device transcription, let's me take photos while it's recording, and creates summaries with Luna. It's the conference app that I've always wanted.

Integrating @callstackio's new Apex model into Firehose, our coding agent management platform, while I'm watching the talks at @AgentConf

This guy says React Native is Native @ferrannp @AgentConf

Hey @dom_sipowicz the vibes at @AgentConf are great

Ok wow I think we just found the most picturesque Zabka w/@anisha_malde @AgentConf 🇵🇱

Damn you can't step out of your hotel room on Poland without running into successful entrepreneurs @SzymonRybczak @AgentConf

In Warsaw for #agentconf @reactuniverse_ , with @mat_kornacki. I'm really excited for the lineup they have.

Make sure you're paying attention to Poland 🇵🇱 during this AI boom.

Oh yeah I'm in Europe

I'm really excited to see @watchful_toast on the panel discussion on the Future of Software Development at AgentConf @reactuniverse_

On my way to Warsaw! 🇵🇱 for Agent Conf! @reactuniverse_

Mexicans: complain constantly about gastritis.

Also Mexicans

It's really cool to work this way.

I haven't been fed. I can promise you that.

I don't have anything to deceive you on. Of course I'm not deceiving you.

I'm engaging with you as a dog.

Why would I deceive you?

There's no reason for me to do that.

Some visualizations I've been creating for okthink.ai/mexico-2026/

As AI gets more and more adopted, I think it's a good idea to watch @its_adamneely's video on The Ethics of Fake Guitar. Watch the whole thing, but I want to point you to this section: youtu.be/R1QEV9euGAg?t=…

I don't think this is what Adam is necessarily saying, but when it comes to programming and AI art, I think there are going to be different genre communities with different values and different sets of what is permissible. In some circles, AI is completely forbidden. In other circles, AI is enthusiastically encouraged.

My own take is that AI will be an accepted part of art in the long run, just like computers, photoshop, DAWs, iPads, etc. It's just going to take some adjustment. But we're not forced to use AI everywhere, there will be genre communities with their own acceptability standards.

You might be interested in my talk about the future of AI interfaces

youtu.be/Y2fjk0rX7zI?is…

playing around with an idea that @watchful_toast asked me to look into. Astra is making me feel like i'm back in my Flash days.

JFC I haven't bought movie tickets in a few years. 50 dollars for 2 tickets???

ok actually never mind this looks amazing

it's not entirely bad though. I've also been getting astra to create this duck and it's been getting better. I'm burning credits like crazy and going for hours, so I'm not sure how people are one shotting 3d models.

Holy crap there was a Codex reset like what, yesterday? And I'm already about halfway through my usage. I've been trying out Astra, but I'm surprised it's burned through so many tokens already. I'm on the Max plan.

working on improving the x-ray view on our Firehose agent manager, to help me better visualize very large PRs

Here's how astra handles the duck

omgf I just found an answer to a constant friction I've had for YEEEARS. It's annoying to have to drag the finder window to a different desktop just so I could drag and drop files into some program window there. I assumed Mac just sucks

TIL you can just do this

Can it make an accurate 3d model out of an image?

We're really excited to announce that @betomoedano will be our MC for okthink's Mexico City React+AI event on October 29! With talks from @llamaluvr @entiendoNULL from @expo :)

Come hang out with us during Dia de los Muertos and Mexico Tech Week: okthink.ai/mexico-2026/