Matt Hamlin

Beer and a fish finger sandwich with chips 🙌

New blog post: matthamlin.me/2026/septemb...

Who should I be following for more Effect.ts content here?

I know we're a bit behind on this one - but fortunately I had some time to try out OpenClaw and have since shut my agent down 🤣

New episode 🦾 The ClawdBot → MoldBot → OpenClaw saga, the marketplace malware scandal (1,184 malicious skills, one attacker shipped 677), and why Anthropic quietly cut subscription billing for always-on agents. bikeshedpod.com/episodes/23/...

New episode 🚲 We finally flip the script on our usual AI talk and get honest about what adoption actually looks like at bigger companies: $500K LLM bills, slop code, and a CFO somewhere wondering what just happened. Plus: is AI just a fancy search engine? bikeshedpod.com/episodes/22/...

How do I nuke all my triangle company deploys?

🎙️ New ep: "Avoiding the Slop With AI Coding" Throw prompt over wall → get code back → "sure, looks fine" → repeat Sound familiar? We're breaking the cycle 🔄 🎧 bikeshedpod.com/episodes/21/...

🔥 New Bikeshed episode! We made our 2026 predictions and rated them on the Spice-o-meter 🌶️ Will AI agents replace engineers? Will the AI bubble burst? Will one of us get laid off? Tune in to find out 👇 bikeshedpod.com/episodes/20/...

One slightly annoying aspect of mostly using the same theme everywhere, is that finding what app you wanted to open via Mission Control is that it takes just a bit more time to parse which window filled with text is the right window

AI drama double feature! We break down Anthropic's crackdown on third-party tools & what Tailwind's layoffs reveal about competing with AI. Turns out the product isn't the model—it's the ecosystem. 🤖 bikeshedpod.com/episodes/19/...

🚨 New Episode Alert 🚨 It's review season! We dive into using AI to write self-reviews, fighting for interesting projects on top-heavy teams, and the trap of being a senior who stops shipping code 💻 Plus: our 2026 resolutions & Arc Raiders drama 🎮 bikeshedpod.com/episodes/18/...

One of the most annoying aspects of Claude Code on the web/mobile app - if I hit my limits I can't continue the work locally or with another llm. My code is stuck there until the limits refresh

what’s one habit or life pro tip i should start in the new year? assume i have heard all the common recommendations and even the rare ones

kinda crazy that the phrase “vibe coding” is only 10 months old

How is homebrew so bad and yet so widely used? I know there’s many, many alternatives but none have taken off it seems?

I feel like bsky needs to have better content recommendation feeds I like following who I do right now, but sometimes I don't want to see their politics content, or see their atproto content

Does ChatGPT Codex on the web just not work for everyone else also? I enter a prompt and then it just refreshes the page and clears the input??!

Why does Cursor change its layout basically every day? Its great that the team is shipping fast updates, but updating the layout/design of it each time is getting tiresome as a user

This year on Bluesky I wrote 213 posts and 99 replies. I received 366 likes, whereas 56 was from my most popular post, and apparently I love saying "use" and 🤔! www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...

We're on YouTube now, which means you can get the podcast on YouTube Music as well! Please like and subscribe! www.youtube.com/@BikeshedPod

The modern day "my code is compiling"

Maybe its just my circle of bluesky, but I feel like things are shifting more towards being accepting of AI vs anti-AI, feels like a good shift generally speaking!

Small annoyance with bluesky, when I go to open it on my computer I can search for `bsky`, when I go to open it on my phone I have to search for `bluesky` (`bsky` as a search term doesn't work) Sure, iOS search could be better - but still wish the URL would match the app name

New blog post on why I think we're approaching "onboarding" AI agents incorrectly matthamlin.me/2025/decembe...

Really enjoyed this format, let us know if you want more episodes like this!

🚨 New Episode Alert 🚨 React drops a severity 10 vulnerability 🔥 and Anthropic acquires Bun 🤯—not exactly the calm December we expected. We break down what it all means in our first news episode: Retro and React! bikeshedpod.com/episodes/17/...

If you're recovering from too much turkey and stuffing today, throw on this episode of @bikeshedpod.com, you won't regret it!

🚨 New Episode 🚨 Why Internal Tooling Sucks Should you build that internal tool? Probably not. 🔥 New episode: we debate build vs buy, share war stories about custom dependency managers, and Dillon finally delivers a spicy take about Vercel. bikeshedpod.com/episodes/15/...

Cloudflare hosts their status page CSS on Cloudflare it seems, maybe not ideal 🙃

New Episode: The Parking Lot ☕️ We debate Dunkin vs real coffee, dive into Cursor 2.0's AI-first redesign, share Claude Code workflows (ultrathink everything!), and discuss Git worktrees vs just cloning multiple copies. Plus: AI in tech interviews gets weird. 🎧 bikeshedpod.com/episodes/14/...

Me waiting for Remix v3 alpha to drop after listening to this episode!

This has been a thought floating in my head for a while now, excited to share it with y’all!

🚲 New Episode: Is the Web Screwed?! AI crawlers killing ads, chatbots replacing browsers, and the slow death of human-centric content. We debate whether we're heading for a hard fork of the web or just a really awkward transition. Spoiler: The web was already having a rough time 😬 🎧

I feel mostly ambivalent about the string directives topic being discussed by the javascript community at the moment, but that might be because at work we have a huge codebase that uses a custom 'use es6' directive 🫠

This one has been sitting in the vault for a while now - feels so good to get it out to our listeners!

🚲 New Bikeshed Episode: Deploy Fast and Break Things?! Should you chase that 5-minute deploy dream? @scottykaye.com, @matthamlin.me, and Dillon debate whether hyper-optimized pipelines are the holy grail or just masking bigger problems. 🎧

It's been a while since we released an episode - feels good to get back in the groove! We have a few others in the backlog that we're working to get out as well!

🚲 New episode: Managing Dependencies—It Depends! One version to rule them all? Auto-update everything? Let it rot? We dive into dependency management, from Wayfair’s one-version rule to HubSpot's evergreen system. Spoiler: There's no silver bullet, just trade-offs 😅 🎧

i think one of the main reasons i don’t like using linters is that often they’re there to prevent you from doing valid things (albeit weird) in your code

ChatGPT, you good?!

I've never read a book that has given me such a visceral reaction as 'I, Robot' has by Isaac Asimov Here's some luke warm AI related takes: matthamlin.me/2025/septemb...

Is it just me or are all textareas on @github.com impossible to keyboard navigate past (either by tabbing past them to subsequent interactive elements, or by shift+tabbing to previous interactive element)? I get trapped within them and tab / shift+tab only update the content

Wrote up a short blog post on this issue: matthamlin.me/2025/septemb... I really hope @github.com starts to prevent these spam issue emails soon!

i still find it crazy that both Connecticut and Massachusetts said you know what, yea, we don’t want to take those additional 1500 square miles