Amit Jotwani

Amit Jotwani

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🚀 Now available: A Simple Starter Kit for Building macOS Menu Bar Apps I’ve been exploring macOS development for a few months now. One of the projects I worked on was PopLight, a menu bar app that monitors internet connectivity. Building it was fun, but getting started? Not so much.

two skills i use the most to keep my agent’s responses short and easy to understand: “bro” and “i have adhd”

I read that as “LLM”. AMA.

I was trying to add GitHub’s MCP server to Claude Code and man, the official docs make it weirdly hard they suggest running it via Docker 🤔 which is odd because... GitHub *does* have a remote MCP server

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anyway, dug around a bit and turns out - yes, you can just add the remote GitHub MCP server directly in Claude Code here’s the claude mcp add command to add GitHub's remote MCP server

that’s it. no Docker needed. just sharing in case someone else is staring at that Docker command and wondering if they missed something obvious you didn’t. the docs are just kinda off here.

I was trying to add GitHub’s MCP server to Claude Code and man, the official docs make it weirdly hard they suggest running it via Docker 🤔 which is odd because... GitHub *does* have a remote MCP server

and for tools like Cursor and VS Code, they *do* recommend using that. which makes sense. it's nice and clean.

but then you go to the Claude Code guide and it’s like: “run this Docker container locally” wait, why?

Speaking at @devrelcon.bsky.social NYC this week. "DevRel Without the Developer" AI agents are already using your APIs and skipping everything else. Pageviews, Discord pings, SDK installs - they don’t tell the full story anymore. DevRel isn’t dead. But the old playbook is.

I made a one-click deploy template for Flask on @digitalocean.com I’ve got a bunch of tiny Flask/FastAPI apps I mess with, and now I can actually share them without saying - “ok so first, clone the repo…” 😀 Just click the button, and it's ready! Repo link in the comment.

github.com/do-community...

github.comGitHub - do-community/do-one-click-deploy-flask: Deploy a Flask app to DigitalOcean with one click! This simple Flask API fetches a random Chuck Norris joke and is pre-configured for DigitalOcean's On...Deploy a Flask app to DigitalOcean with one click! This simple Flask API fetches a random Chuck Norris joke and is pre-configured for DigitalOcean's One-Click Deploy—no setup required, just cli...

I wrote a thing! ⚡️ Hook up Cursor to your own custom-trained LLM with DigitalOcean’s GenAI Agent—super simple to set up. Instead of getting random AI suggestions, you get your code, your way, every time. Check out the guide to build your own. www.digitalocean.com/community/tu...

digitalocean.comSupercharge Your Cursor Experience with GenAI Agent | DigitalOceanSupercharge your coding workflow with DigitalOcean’s GenAI Agent. Learn to train Cursor on your custom knowledge base for personalized code snippets.

Feel so prepped for the imminent“why” question from the 3 y/o at breakfast this morning!

AI is out here solving quantum physics, but can it sort my 87 tabs, close the junk, add important ones to my to-do list, and file “read later” where I’ll actually read them? That’s the AI promise I want 😊

I am such a nerd 🙂

I think I am ready to switch away from GSuite for my personal email at this point. I have three emails with them (including one for my wife), and they have gone from $7 each to $12 each in less than 12 months. What’s the best alternative for personal domain email?

ha, it looks like they're rasing it even more to $14.40 per user/month starting Dec 15 🙂

I think I am ready to switch away from GSuite for my personal email at this point. I have three emails with them (including one for my wife), and they have gone from $7 each to $12 each in less than 12 months. What’s the best alternative for personal domain email?

@cassidoo.co do you still use and like fastmail?

Just want to say that Vienna has perhaps the best Christmas markets I have ever seen. Absolutely magnificent, and the level of detailing is insane. High recommend for holidays.

“enjoy your sleep” 2.5 y/o while tucking her in last night 😘

🚀 Now available: A Simple Starter Kit for Building macOS Menu Bar Apps I’ve been exploring macOS development for a few months now. One of the projects I worked on was PopLight, a menu bar app that monitors internet connectivity. Building it was fun, but getting started? Not so much.

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Introducing the macOS Menu Bar Starter Kit: a collection of SwiftUI templates to help you skip the confusion and get straight to building. Here’s what’s included: 1. Classic Template: A lightweight dropdown menu bar app 2. Window Template: A menu bar app w/ detachable window for more complex UI

Each template is beginner-friendly, pre-configured, and skips unnecessary defaults like dock icons and app windows. Oh, and it’s free. 🎉 If you’re curious about macOS development or want to get started quickly, check it out here: ajot.gumroad.com/l/mac-menu-b...

ajot.gumroad.commacOS Menubar app TemplateA Simple Starter Kit for Building macOS Menu Bar AppsMenu Bar Apps Are AwesomeMenu bar apps are underrated. They’re lightweight, always accessible, and perfect for solving small, everyday problems. Wh...

🚀 Now available: A Simple Starter Kit for Building macOS Menu Bar Apps I’ve been exploring macOS development for a few months now. One of the projects I worked on was PopLight, a menu bar app that monitors internet connectivity. Building it was fun, but getting started? Not so much.

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Even tools like ChatGPT and Claude didn’t help much—they often pointed me in the wrong direction, making things even more confusing. There’s no “menu bar app” template in Xcode. Tutorials are outdated. Even simple tasks, like adding a Quit button or removing the dock icon were easy enough to find

What I really needed was a starter kit—something modern, simple, and built with SwiftUI using Apple’s recommended approach. Since that didn’t exist, @kunalbatra.com and I decided to create one.

🚀 Now available: A Simple Starter Kit for Building macOS Menu Bar Apps I’ve been exploring macOS development for a few months now. One of the projects I worked on was PopLight, a menu bar app that monitors internet connectivity. Building it was fun, but getting started? Not so much.

The truth is, when you’re new to something, you don’t know what you don’t know. That’s what kept tripping me up. I had no idea what the “right” way to build menu bar apps was, and every time I searched for answers, I’d end up down endless rabbit holes.

We took our 2.5 y/o to the Christmas market in Salzburg yesterday, where she discovered these soaps. She meticulously picked up and smelled each of the 20-odd varieties before settling on these - a heart and a Euro coin. Unwittingly, of course. Still, not a bad choice in life! 😊

When Spotify on your phone takes a pause because the toddler has taken control of Alexa at home 😊

One thing I love about Lisbon is the open-air workout culture in public parks. There are so many 1:1 trainer led sessions every morning. The weather is still nice here - so much better than the concrete gyms.

This "skeet" was posted using the Bluesky API. So, was this quote tbh 🙂

Amit Jotwani@ajot.me

Hello 🦋 World!

Hello 🦋 World!

I had a great conversation with @martyndavies.me about quick start guides—what makes them work, and what often doesn’t. It’s a topic I care deeply about, so it was a real pleasure to dive into the details and share some ideas. Thanks for having me, Martyn! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eag5...

youtube.comHow to write awesome API Guides! | Best Practices with Amit JotwaniYouTube video by API Excellence

Every time I fly, I message my family: boarded, taking off, landed. For years, I did this manually. Just turned it into an iOS shortcut. It asks for my status, drafts a quick message in iMessage or WhatsApp. Super simple, but efficient. I like.

This would be pretty cool. Like an old school RSS feed, but no reader needed. I like.

Why@why.bsky.world

Anyone interested in an “Only Links” feed that figures out what websites you like to see content from and shows you posts with links from them?

Swiss Air really wants me to take these two-prong headphones home. Can’t wait to plug them into the in-flight entertainment system we all obviously have in our living room 🤨

Switched back to Alfred app as my default launcher. Really liking it.

Anyone seen an AI tool that takes GPT style prompts as input and spits out low fidelity UI mock-ups?

How do I have so many followers? Are bots here already?

Allergies are the absolute worst. Oak trees are my spring nemesis.

Thank you @carter.rabasa.com for the invite. Who else do I know here?

Hello world! Also, is the sky really blue?

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