Taha Saifuddin
@TahaDoingThings
reader, writer, translator, cinephile founding eng @ http://blacksmith.sh
i was having a perfectly good day but i support @Arsenal so that was never gonna last long
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picked up my guitar for the first time this year, and to no one's surprise, i'm now asking claude to help me guitar shop
We are amazed by @useblacksmith sponsoring us with their services! 🙌 Their runners now run most of our CI, decreasing our runtimes by 80% and queuing times by 75% through faster machines and caches with great locality. Thank you so much for supporting our mission! 💛
are these the immaculate vibes everyone talks about?
here i'm running 12 - 16 claude 4 opus/sonnet code agents through claude code bridged to eigencode for coordination, additional memory layers & additional tools they're running 95% autonomously with minimal input for several hours straight
.@mintlify → Blacksmith: 2x faster Docker Builds, 50% lower CI costs. “Blacksmith was such a low-effort way for us to instantly benefit from fast CI, allowing us to ship faster. We love Blacksmith.” @hahnbeeIee, Co-founder of @mintlify. Here's the story of how one of our…
- a day in the life of a software engineer, 2025 (colorized)
Cursor: "I've absolutely fucked your shit up beyond repair. Let me know which way I should proceed"
google i/o was a mic drop of epic proportions for AI tooling
Google is one good UI away from leading this AI race.
.@pbardea woke up one day and said "Datadog CI Visibility who?"
If you’re a fan of git blame, you’ll love what’s coming in the next release of Blacksmith. You’ll be able to run a global search across all your CI logs to trace exactly when — and who — introduced that flaky test.
I am convinced there has never been a better @TechCrunch headline

you're stranded on an island, and you get to take one picture with you. what are you taking? this is mine

friend is building a very cool game
My game is obviously inspired by: - Resident Evil - Silent Hill - Fatal Frame/ Project Zero - Crow Country
I cannot stop thinking about this OpenAI acquisition of io; like wtf is the point and why is it worth 6.5bn??? I wonder how windsurf employees feel about this
found a bug in @linear; feels like a major accomplishment
