Rachel Lee Nabors

Who says you can't consolidate social platforms?

Build what they're afraid to build. Many things that were impossible before are possible now

Final cram session before taking my driver theory test on Saturday.

Yes, I can drive manual in the USA, but I STILL gotta pass this test to get a license in the UK!

TFW you're finally starting to trust your coding agent to go about on YOLO mode only to find out created a system deriving state and platform information from mutable ids in the database

As a retired cartoonist, I still prefer lo-fi scribbles -> malleable code over high fidelity mockups 🔥

Just played my first full song on the drums! Seven Nation Army, natch 😂

Morning! Whatcha up to?

Forcing myself to go to bed on time because I cannot solve all these problems without sleep.

Then I'm gonna lie awake thinking of how to solve all the problems!

Does anyone read tech blogs anymore? I want to write an "Evals are for Everyone" post for the TDD crowd, but I'll be damned if I've seen any JS blog posts float my way in years!

This is how I spend those short gaps between agent runs. I feel like everyone I know who plays chess is in the 1x00 range, but for me, starting at 300 in March, 800 is a meaningful and steady improvement ♟️

My TypeScriptAI talk about how evals are the new Test Drive Design is up! And you can catch the whole conference, too! (The last talk especially from GitHub Next was moving and worth it) https://www.youtube.com/live/dYAJ-LSBmbY?si=Qwg1b0iy-lmQcw4Q&t=1254

Really excited to be speaking at Mastra's TypeScript AI tomorrow. Can you guess what I'll be talking about? https://luma.com/tsaiconf?tk=5ra5eG

There is something so warm and refreshing about editing how-to videos with a cup of tea. It's something that I still haven't outsource to an agent, and used to loathe doing, but now it is a small moment of craft in a back-to-back schedule

Been thinking about how the engineering, community, and education parts of dev rel that I love so much have been superceded by marketing, events, and comms. Even the relationships feel commercialised, with almost every founder wanting to hire an influencer who will "get a lot of views"

Can't decide if this is auspicious or not

Look, I love my LLMs and the hot reams of garbage code they generate for a fraction of what I would pay a human to generate similar reams of garbage 100x slower.

But on X, the AI psychosis is off the charts. This is the guy who runs YC, essentially describing roleplaying like it's a revelation

How are founders not constantly posting love letters to QA? Everything is safer, more accessible, faster, bugs disappear.

I truly believe QA is more necessary than ever now that the bottleneck has shifted to reviewing code

I meet a lot of folks building their own harnesses and orchestration layers.

Most of the time, they are not producing anything from these systems that they can show. Their amazing coding harness is a side project—they still use Claude Code at work. They created a hive mind for agent swarms—not that they have actually used swarms in production.

I love that we're experimenting, but sometimes I worry everyone has AI psychosis, burning tokens because the movement looks like motion

Weekend with family + matcha scouting soon to be new neighborhood #Londonmaxxing

This is in, but some of us prefer thicc agents

I shipped two graphic novels to a community of 400k teenage girls before Facebook went mainstream.

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Why didn't you wake me up sooner? We're going to be late!

Joining the rest of the Londonmaxxing crew at a Hackathon. Time to ship some features!

Apparently, VC's like vengeance-driven development

Londonmaxxing coot. Something something only in the UK can a common bird construct a nest with wildflowers in the heart of a metropolis etc

Remastered for 2026, including accessible transcripts, a responsive layout, and the much coveted "https", I bring you my award-winning comics archive! https://rachelthegreat.com/

Can you find the hidden MCP server?

I never knew I needed this mashup https://youtu.be/qkoLP6JvGNk?is=knzNIJoMP25UTvyu

There are no prizes for being right unless you acted on that knowledge

Out here shipping at @OpenAI Build Week🔥

What you up to?

Perhaps the scariest thing about launching your baby into the world is the silence that likely will follow. You spent all that energy to make something. What if it doesn't find its home? What if the joke isn't funny, or the book doesn't sell?

But launch you must. There will be something that wasn't there before, and that is worth doing for yourself alone.

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(Late night mima.social angst)

Hunting an illustrator in the wild for brand work at artists' fair. #londonmaxxing

Which would you log into to keep up with your socials and news?

Spinning four agents to burn down launch-blocking issues and one tanking a feature all day on 4.5 hours of sleep is utterly exhausting.

TIL I have an uwu voice and a Big Dog Voice

She's cooooming...

Paying real people to design this brand precisely because it's "not like the other (vibe coded) girls."

How's your weekend?

The theme of Typescript AI this year was "factories," a far cry from AIE's "slow down."

As agents occupy more and more of the Developers' Journey, IRL events that offer human connection are more precious than ever, offering rare moments of connection and collaboration. Thank you, Mastra team!

Re-forming my personal advisory board. My life and goals have changed enough, it is time

Every once in awhile I look at Claude Cowork, and every time I wonder who the heck can use this thing? It feels like an app from 10 years ago.

Londonmaxxing doesn't require clean and tidy desks

I know plenty of founders who dream of getting rich. But are there any who dream of obliteration? To disrupt a sector completely, regardless of whether doing so turns a handsome profit? The founder equivalent of spite driven development?

Heading to the mini Google I/O in Berlin this year (June 25) to catch up with some of my fave browser peeps. Will I see you there?