@EricMann Avatar @EricMann Eric Mann

Eric Mann posts on X about ai, garmin, mastodon, ollama the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [--] posts still getting attention that total [---] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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Social category influence technology brands 11.54% stocks 7.69% social networks 7.69% cryptocurrencies 3.85% countries 3.85% finance 2.56% celebrities 2.56%

Social topic influence ai 6.41%, garmin 6.41%, mastodon 5.13%, ollama #107, share 3.85%, cloudflare 3.85%, just a 2.56%, level 2.56%, $4k #31, inference #253

Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @tailscale @ziplyfiber @starlink @phptek @timuryessenov @ericmann113250766000182453 @ericmann114240909520451520 @coursera @konstruktors @remkusdevries @brandbydan @lovabledev @larafastphp @cloudflare @photomatt @system76 @jeffr0 @timur_yessenov @chrislema @jkudish

Top assets mentioned Cloudflare, Inc. (NET) Caught in 4K (4K) Braintrust (BTRST) Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (CMG)

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Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"Vented on Reddit about @ZiplyFiber and they connected me with a technician to help debug. The weirdness - if I connected to a Mullvad VPN endpoint I no longer had issues. So it was definitely local . We walked through resetting the ONT and the router and my DHCP lease "
X Link 2026-02-05T21:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Nothing we did seemed to work. Then on a whim he suggested bypassing the router entirely. I plugged the cable from the ONT directly into my switch (prioritizing my Eero wifi). Success. Speedy network once again. No packet drops. Near-zero latency"
X Link 2026-02-05T21:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Sadly my only ISP options are Ziply and Comcast (and I've gone with the better of the two). Maybe I should consider switching to something like @Starlink Just a matter of network speed reliability and letting me host toy websites and tools from home . My network has been crap this week. I figured it was me. Maybe my DNS config. Kept peeling back layers of the onion . to no avail. Speeds this morning (on hardwired gig fiber) was [--] Mbps down [---] Mbps up. That's . not worth it. My network has been crap this week. I figured it was me. Maybe my DNS config. Kept peeling back layers of the onion ."
X Link 2026-02-05T21:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Until the new router is installed . all of my sites will be offline. Mastodon blog other tools . I need the new hardware to fix my network :-("
X Link 2026-02-05T21:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Yet again I'm thwarted by modern cryptography regs and reqs not living in the same decade as modern cryptography itself. P-256 curve created late 1990s Ed25519 curve [----] FIPS 140-2 requirement last updated May [----] My keys need to live in a FIPS 140-2 Level [--] HSM vault"
X Link 2026-02-13T21:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Playing with local inference has been fun. But my [----] Ti with only 16Gb of memory is somewhat limited. I can share system memory but that slows things down 25-30x Would love a more powerful setup. DGX Spark is intriguing. But I don't have a free $4k. Anyone wanna sponsor"
X Link 2026-02-13T22:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"I love video walkthroughs of hidden bunkers secret rooms and the like. But the proliferation of bad AI video content is just frustrating. The video looked solid. But there's something off about this First Aid (TAT IE)) kit that's bugging me "
X Link 2026-02-10T20:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"I don't often see #WordPress peeps at @phptek. But I want to. Come join the fun I'll have notebooks :-)"
X Link 2026-02-11T01:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"If I'm running Cursor on my machine and Ollama on my machine Cursor should be able to talk to it. Even if I'm offline. Apparently that's not how it works. Which is hugely disappointing IMO"
X Link 2026-02-12T22:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Also the multi agent workflows in Cursor Are powered by Cursor's APIs. Point at a local model rather than their server and you lose the agentic collaboration and parallelization. We need a better shovel"
X Link 2026-02-12T22:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Timur_Yessenov My point exactly. Cursor proxies all requests through their own servers. So you can't expose Ollama to it without a web server (and ideally an auth layer) in front of it"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Step 1: write comprehensive spec document Step 2: ask Claude to drill down on anything that's vague or incomplete Step 3: ask Claude to plan the entire build from a high level Step 4: watch [---] new epics stories and subtasks appear in Linear via MCP Is this the future"
X Link 2026-02-13T04:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Experimenting with local LLMs as an alternative to the beefy cloud models. It works they're just a bit slower. And I discovered today that Cursor won't work locally. Even using local Ollama models it still routes all requests thru Cursor's servers. I'm not a fan"
X Link 2026-02-12T22:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Also FIPS 140-2 is set to be retired this year . Ed25519 is compliant with FIPS 140-3 . but the hardware available hasn't caught up with the newer spec yet. This is why we can't have nice things"
X Link 2026-02-13T21:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"I have a blog draft for next week detailing marrying Ollama for local inference with Caddy and a Cloudflare tunnel to expose it to Cursor on a remote dev laptop. I'd rather do this over Tailscale (can for some things) but Cursor's workflow requires the endpoints to be public. Playing with local inference has been fun. But my [----] Ti with only 16Gb of memory is somewhat limited. I can share system memory but that slows things down 25-30x Would love a more powerful setup. DGX Spark is intriguing. But I don't have a free $4k. Anyone wanna sponsor Playing with local inference has been fun. But my"
X Link 2026-02-13T22:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"I love #containerization. Five minutes to update both Mastodon and all of my PHP apps. (Now running PHP 8.3.12 in all the places) https://tekton.network/@ericmann/113250766000182453 https://tekton.network/@ericmann/113250766000182453"
X Link 2024-10-04T19:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"WordPress: The DramaContinues The team has forked the Advanced Custom Fields plugin amidst a legal dispute with WP Engine raising concerns about user awareness and security updates. Were they right to do so It's complicated b https://eric.mann.blog/wordpress-the-drama-continues/ http://WordPress.org https://eric.mann.blog/wordpress-the-drama-continues/ http://WordPress.org"
X Link 2024-10-14T16:15Z [----] followers, 14K engagements

"My birthday is coming This year I'm asking the community to help me in raising funds to support [---] Collective a #charity aiding various global causes including support for #Ukraine. I'll also match your #donations up to $4000. https://eric.mann.blog/fundraising/ https://eric.mann.blog/fundraising/"
X Link 2024-10-17T13:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"For the record I ship most of my code under the MIT license (because I feel the GPL is too restrictive in some places). And I deploy to #WordPress.org and #GitHub. I'm also very aware the owners of those sites can do whatever they want with the code I put there. That's um k"
X Link 2024-10-24T00:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"You know you're sick when your Garmin somehow records a 10min workout at 2am when you thought you were sleeping"
X Link 2024-10-25T19:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Dear Media Companies I don't block ads because I don't want to support you. I block ads because of the deplorable privacy track records of the major advertisers. No I will not disable my ad blocker. Nor will I pay you for content you otherwise provide the world for free. Si"
X Link 2024-10-27T17:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"When I was a precinctperson for the Democratic party we pushed a vote for the "National Popular Vote Interstate Compact." It passed our committee with a single vote in opposition. Mine. I pointed out that despite our hopes the popular vote wouldn't always go our way. Seein"
X Link 2024-11-08T01:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Considering the app has been stagnant since the Zoom acquisition and now Zoom is rebranding as some weird AI-enabled office productivity suite . It feels like the right time to build something new"
X Link 2024-11-27T00:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Woke up to an email about a "cyber Monday" sale for something I actually wanted to buy. Checked the website before church. It was already sold out. A Monday deal. Sold out before 9am on Sunday"
X Link 2024-12-01T22:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"I'm trying. I really am. I block ads in the house. I don't let the kids watch scary/gory/inappropriate stuff. Yet my 2nd grader still comes home telling me the plot of Venom and Deadpool and whatever other R-rated films are popular because apparently some of her classmates"
X Link 2024-12-05T16:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Think GitHub/GitLab but WordPress-specific and completely open. Could live on .org. Could also use Git behind the scenes but with release tags directly powering API responses"
X Link 2024-12-13T21:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"If my network (or power) goes down I want to be able to quickly remote in once things are restored and ensure apps (Mastodon blog Git etc) are running as expected. Today the options seem to either be: - Don't encrypt the disk so everything comes back up automatically - Encr"
X Link 2024-12-17T21:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"I have a bunch of #VLDL stickers but what I really want is a comic emoji of #Baelin tied to :mornin: set up in Slack . anyone know of an image set I could use"
X Link 2024-12-18T16:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"#garmin #beatyesterday Took the littles out for a trip. Only a few runs (Star ed getting icy) but they did great"
X Link 2025-01-19T01:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"OK Braintrust I need your help. I have a Launch keyboard connected to my Thelio desktop shared with my Serval laptop using Synergy. Typing speed on the Serval is just fine - it keeps up with me perfectly. But when I type on my primary machine (the desktop) the keys lag behin"
X Link 2025-01-27T01:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"I can effectively launch self-hosted applications powered by containerization in minutes. Then upgrade my entire stack in minutes. How much would YOU pay for the blueprints to DIY https://tekton.network/@ericmann/114240909520451520 https://tekton.network/@ericmann/114240909520451520"
X Link 2025-03-28T16:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"I started my first company in grad school. It was focused on publishing both traditional books (print-on-demand) and web. It was a fun ride but doomed to fail. Want to know why Keep reading . 👉"
X Link 2025-04-21T19:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"In all I published [--] print books: - A fiction novel fulfilling a promise to an old friend - Two editions of a career coaching guide - A limited print run of a NW forestry guidebook Every project was amazing inspiring and . run at a loss. That was "mistake no. 1.""
X Link 2025-04-21T19:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Anyone I know use #Garmin for fitness tracking and want to connect Fitness is more fun when it's social"
X Link 2025-04-22T00:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Definitely getting good use out of my treadmill. Nice easy run (easing back into the sport) accompanied by @coursera. #garmin #beatyesterday"
X Link 2025-04-24T04:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"So with reopening Alcatraz does that mean we're on track for a sequel to The Rock"
X Link 2025-05-05T16:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Another #Async Alternative: Open Swoole It's a high-performance async extension with built-in servers (HTTP WebSocket TCP) async clients for MySQL/Redis C-based implementation for top speed. Serious contender for high-load apps #phptek #PHP #Swoole"
X Link 2025-05-20T16:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Thanks to all who attended my talk at #phptek * Slides: * Code: Don't forget to rate the talk Questions Find me ping me here or reach out on Mastodon (link in profile). #PHP #async https://joind.in/event/php-tek-2025/i-promise-to-teach-you-asynchronous-php https://github.com/ericmann/phptek-2025-demo https://gamma.app/docs/I-Promise-to-Teach-You-Asynchronous-PHP-syrddpjuls19nbz https://joind.in/event/php-tek-2025/i-promise-to-teach-you-asynchronous-php https://github.com/ericmann/phptek-2025-demo https://gamma.app/docs/I-Promise-to-Teach-You-Asynchronous-PHP-syrddpjuls19nbz"
X Link 2025-05-20T16:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Standing in line at Wendy's. There are [--] employees visible. No one helping customers. The three people in line ahead of me all gave up and left (to Chipotle next door). I'm very confused right now. Is this how fast food is now (I don't eat out much .)"
X Link 2025-05-23T01:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Spent some time this weekend relaunching a few of my tools on the new (very much still WIP) platform and that was awesome. But today I just feel . tired. Burned out. Unmotivated. How do you keep pushing forward through low-energy periods"
X Link 2025-06-09T17:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@konstruktors I'd toyed with the idea of integrating Fedi support for conversations a while back but didn't seem to see much interest beyond a few niche devs. I think ongoing interaction would be huge for engagement. And pumping to email just . feels distracting IMO"
X Link 2025-06-20T10:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"My phone just reminded me that [--] years ago today I was at #WCEU in Spain. Has it really been that long I feel . old "
X Link 2025-06-27T14:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@remkusdevries I still remember my ill-advised walk across the river in search of bottled water when all of the stores were closed because no one (other than me) was stupid enough to be outside in that heat "
X Link 2025-06-27T18:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Happy to finally launch a very rough v0 of A long ways to go until we're live and taking on customers but it's progress nonetheless https://displace.tech https://displace.tech"
X Link 2025-07-03T05:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"New v0 website: Branding by @brandbydan Site layout by @lovable_dev Backend by @larafastphp Deployment via @Tailscale Networking via @Cloudflare Hosting by . http://Displace.tech https://displace.tech http://Displace.tech https://displace.tech"
X Link 2025-07-03T16:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"I dreamed last night I was an astronaut. Seated in my rocket I looked left and saw Matt Damon. On my right Ryan Gosling. Just then the radio came on "this is flight director Andy Weir. Lift off in [--]. [--]. [--] ." So glad I woke up right then"
X Link 2025-07-11T18:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Went to a local festival today and discovered a local company that makes holsters and accessories. Stopped by their booth to say hi. They flagged me and my kids maybe [--] times while talking about their gear :-( Yeah . probably won't be buying their stuff now"
X Link 2025-07-20T05:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Both the Hobbyist and Founder's tier are 50% off just for #WCUS. And we're only offering the discount for Founders to the first [--] folks who sign up. Get in now to lock in low pricing. For life"
X Link 2025-08-28T18:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Pricing is set to be annual. It's not seat based. And we don't care how many clusters or deployments you do - you're paying for the development and maintenance of the templates (and Founder's also for the ability of have a direct line for feedback and requests)"
X Link 2025-08-28T18:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Three years ago a colleague and I explained at Datadog Dash how we retained our sanity while managing over [---] distinct AWS accounts for our employer. Folks at #WCUS can learn how to easily do something similar . https://www.youtube.com/watchv=K-eoQGExYqQ https://www.youtube.com/watchv=K-eoQGExYqQ"
X Link 2025-08-29T16:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Building a product in Sept [----] on top of a platform released in April [----] and then learning it's already considered "legacy" and will be sunset in the near future is absolutely wild. Need to stop building in other folks' sandboxes "
X Link 2025-09-05T15:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Someone asked me last week why I got out of defense contracting. I joked about not wanting to contribute to building Skynet for real. But . it wasn't really a joke. Things like help illustrate why I wanted to move on. I build for defense. Not war. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-rename-department-defense-department-war-official-says-2025-09-05/ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-rename-department-defense-department-war-official-says-2025-09-05/"
X Link 2025-09-05T20:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"At #WCUS last month I talked to a lot of teams looking for developers. Nearly all of them expected devs to work from an office. That and a RT from @photomatt comparing remote work with AI management got me thinking. https://eric.mann.blog/rto-killing-ai-strategy/ https://eric.mann.blog/rto-killing-ai-strategy/"
X Link 2025-09-09T16:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Schedule important secretive last-minute meeting that's almost universally seen as a bad idea. Refuse to explain what the meeting is about since it's such a sensitive thing. Televise it live on Fox"
X Link 2025-09-30T13:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Had lunch with family this weekend. Was reflecting on the random and weird experiments I did in undergrad. From cosmic ray detectors to wave meters to Bose-Einstein condensates. I was a geek. Makes me want to get back into it a bit "
X Link 2025-10-06T01:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"I've seen friends build out small toy computers. 8-bit processors. RAM arrays. Even toy GPUs. Makes me wonder if I could/should actually build a model qubit in my garage. With proper walkthroughs posted to YouTube and everything"
X Link 2025-10-06T01:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"PHP 8.1+ introduced Fibers - low-level coroutines that let you pause and resume independent call stacks Key methods: Fiber::start() Fiber::suspend() Fiber::resume(). This is revolutionary for async #PHP #phptek #async"
X Link 2025-05-20T16:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Planning for an AWS outage (like today's) might seem overkill for most. But sometimes the outage is just one among many concurrent problems . #AWS #outage #DisasterRecovery https://eric.mann.blog/when-it-rains/ https://eric.mann.blog/when-it-rains/"
X Link 2025-10-20T15:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Twelve years ago today I had the opportunity to geek out in a presentation on Web Workers at jQuery Russia. How time flies "
X Link 2025-10-22T16:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"When we were first experimenting with responsive design I added a jQuery plugin to most sites. It detected rapid resizing events (i.e. my boss dragging the corner of the browser back and forth repeatedly to test responsiveness) and throw up a prompt: "Dude it works. Stop.""
X Link 2025-10-23T19:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Went to FedEx to drop off a package. A guy was at the counter and a woman was behind him in line with several boxes. OK. I can wait. He finished and left. She didn't move forward. Instead she sat in a chair focused on her phone. Her boxes still unsealed labels on the counter"
X Link 2025-10-31T01:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Nice little trail run today to start my month off right. #garmin #beatyesterday"
X Link 2025-11-01T21:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"The vote for PHP [---] release managers started in April [----]. At the end of next month PHP [---] officially passes from Active Support to just security fixes. Wow. Time moves fast"
X Link 2025-11-18T17:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Had a stupid idea. AI in a box. Think RPi + GPU. Preloaded with local models and a wireguard mesh. Just plug it in link to your IDE and go. Would probably sell off the shelf for $1500-2000. Easy to use. Easily replace Cursor/Warp/Gemini/etc. Should it exist"
X Link 2025-11-22T00:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"I worry I broke my @system76 Thelio. It needed a firmware update and I ran it. After maybe [--] mins I was worried it was stuck (no GUI or terminal feedback) and power cycled it. It's running now . but thinks I have a new CPU And used a new flash GUI I'd never seen before :-("
X Link 2025-11-26T18:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Im seriously considering investing my holiday laziness to solo-build a sci-fi game (with 6-9 months of polish to follow). Need to know if this premise actually slaps or if Im delusional. Core idea in one paragraph: Youre a fleet commander investigating twelve human colonies that all went dark in [--] days. You never see the threat. You manage your ships through a 1998-style military terminal reading real-time text transmissions from crews that are light-minutes away. Orders you send take actual real-world minutes to arrive. By the time their panicked messages reach you its usually too late to"
X Link 2025-12-02T20:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Key details that make it different from anything Ive played: - Real-time with real comms lag (a ship [--] light-minutes out = [--] real minutes) - Multi-pane terminal UI everything streaming live - Cascading failures across the entire fleet - Permadeath named crew no reloads - Heavy modding/plugin support from day one - Optional asymmetric co-op Think FTLs tension Duskers terminal Dead Spaces isolation but youre the helpless dispatcher not the marine"
X Link 2025-12-02T20:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Over the past few days I've toyed with Claude Code. Spun up a tmux-based multi-agent orchestration system gave it a PRD I'd drafted and screenshots of a potential UI mockup and let it cook. It built the app. It works. I'm stoked. The diff from a boilerplate commit to now"
X Link 2025-12-04T15:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Letting it simmer for a few days more to test some of the automations and crons before I invite other folks in publicly . but I really like this "AI as the dev team me as the final voice before shipping" pattern. (But if you really want to see it now hit me with a DM .)"
X Link 2025-12-04T15:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"I was not prepared for a John Travolta as Santa doing a Greased Lightning throwback commercial"
X Link 2026-01-01T18:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"The reflection analysis surfaces themes emerging in YOUR spiritual journey. Are you consistently wrestling with patience Trust Gratitude The AI helps you see patterns you might miss"
X Link 2026-01-12T16:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Semantic search means you can explore by concept not just keyword.Looking for meditations about "finding peace in uncertainty" We've got you covered"
X Link 2026-01-12T16:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Spent some time reporting them to the vendor they were spoofing Cloudflare (their host) and the domain registrar. The bogus site is now shut down. Will also be forwarding the illicit mailer to the USPS in the event they want to pursue mail fraud charges as well. @jeffr0 Turns out the vendor used a third-party payment processor who got popped (just noted an "oops our bad" notice in my unreads from earlier this month). The scammers acted quickly . we'll get them shut down just as quickly. @jeffr0 Turns out the vendor used a third-party payment processor who got popped (just noted an "oops our"
X Link 2026-01-21T14:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Proactively alerted AWS to the compromise after it was resolved. No response from either the account support or trust/safety team. Wake up today to a "your account is sending unwanted email and SES has been paused" nastygram demanding I explain what happened. :facepalm: Sit down to catch up on some work on an otherwise restful Saturday. Suddenly see a huge influx of email bounces from my site. Hmm. Oh there was a CVE announced recently regarding an RCE exploit in a component I use And the attackers stole my SES creds Fun times. Sit down to catch up on some work on an otherwise restful"
X Link 2026-01-27T14:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"I make heavy use of LLMs these days. But the systems are quite fragmented. Warp for the terminal. Cursor for the IDE. Claude for the browser and agentic interactions. But they don't share context so moving between tools is like talking to unrelated strangers about a project"
X Link 2026-01-28T17:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Cooking up a way to solve this. Running an LLM locally thanks to a beefy GPU. Wrapping it in an API and MCP server exposed to my tools. Paired with a vector DB for context retention and semantic search of past decisions/design. All connected via @Tailscale"
X Link 2026-01-28T17:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Heh. Asked an LLM to translate a quine from PHP to Python to see how it would do. It hung. Apparently self-referential recursion is an avenue LLMs still struggle with"
X Link 2026-01-30T15:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"I'd literally just started scoping the build of exactly this (nearly identical tech stack and all) Now to pivot to using the amazing tech that already exists. Onward Your AI forgets everything between conversations. Mine doesn't. Not because I'm using some secret model. Not because I bought a new Mac Mini. Because I installed something back in December that solved this before it became a real problem for me. Here's what it is and why Your AI forgets everything between conversations. Mine doesn't. Not because I'm using some secret model. Not because I bought a new Mac Mini. Because I installed"
X Link 2026-01-30T22:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

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