Saturday Stuff (June 14th)

Kristian Freeman
June 14, 2025

What’s up - happy Saturday. We made it! Here’s some stuff for you to check out during your morning coffee ☕

#1

Claude Code is insane at one-shotting full projects. Here’s Ian saving sub-$100 monthly on a Zapier-style automation by building it himself with Claude Code.

Here’s some of what I’ve built with Claude Code so far:

Software synthesizer VST
Desktop video editing software
Full Obsidian-style multi-directional backlinks in my website
Payroll management software for my side business
Management SaaS for storage operators (literally, a full SaaS — billing, integrations, etc.)

I want to switch my email lists to substack but they don't have an API
so claude code built me a cloudflare worker, literally in one-shot, that will subscribe emails to my substack
with full tracking in a database and deleting emails on completion for privacy! 🤯
— Ian Nuttall (@iannuttall)
3:05 PM • Jun 10, 2025

#2

I agree with this. How do I stay on the current iOS indefinitely? The new release looks awful.

The phone has been solved. It is done. It is a rectangular black shape with cameras on the outside. there has not been any improvements in over a decade.
The way forward is either you put the phone in sunglasses or inside your skull.
The phone is done
— LindyMan (@PaulSkallas)
5:53 PM • Jun 10, 2025

#3

This is what a significant portion of software development will look like sooner than you think. You will guide a series of agents through tasks and spend much more time reviewing prompts and outputs than actually writing code.

i now spend 2-3 hours per day reading research papers and building something with goose that i didn't think it capable of doing. i never see a line of code, and never trapped in an IDE.
it works nearly every time, but does requires some nudging every now and then. incredible.
— jack (@jack)
1:53 PM • Jun 4, 2025

#4

Love this write-up of how to integrate MCP with a real-world API. This is what is awesome about MCP. You don’t have to point and click on a website. You don’t have to make API calls. The apps and services you love will soon be able to be interacted with using natural language - specifically, your natural language. Awesome post.

The secret sauce to building an MCP server that doesn't suck? 🧠Memory🧠
Let your server remember the user’s past tool calls/preferences so every interaction can get better!
If you want to know how I built GoodReads into an MCP server in 30 minutes on @Cloudflare, keep reading!
— dina kozlov 🐀 (@dinasaur_404)
6:23 PM • Jun 4, 2025

#5

This is an excellent write-up covering a cohort of the dev community that is staunchly against LM coding. It isn’t just being against LLM coding as a whole, but the specific argument that it is incapable of producing quality, shippable code. This is just simple not true, and the tweets I’ve shared above and that you see constantly on 𝕏 prove otherwise. The responses to this blog post are also ABSURD and embarrassing. I should write more about this.

I regret nothing! (Yet).
fly.io/blog/youre-all…
— Thomas H. Ptacek (@tqbf)
9:07 PM • Jun 2, 2025