scrollback — saturday june 27

joel ⛈️ @joelhooks

🌀 "loops" are nothing new, but they take thoughtful consideration to build durably. This is a quick look at how I'm thinking about loopcraft, building durable loops from scratch, and experimenting with Pi, Herdr, and @theo's Lakebed (a shitty cloud for shitty apps)

Steve (Builder.io) @Steve8708

Introducing the Clips chrome extension - the easiest way to send bug reports to agents with video, transcript, and browser debug info captured automatically. 100% free and open source. If you are like me and get tired of manually typing instructions to agents, attaching screenshots, pasting debug logs, and all of that, this might be your new favorite tool. With the Clips chrome extension, you can just click the Clips icon, hit record, and start talking. Visually demonstrate your issue, go through the flow, point out what’s broken. Clips will capture everything on your screen, plus network requests, browser logs, client errors, and all the details around them. And it redacts sensitive information. Then it gives you a link you can send to humans so they can play it and take a look. Or, more importantly, just give it to your agents by just pasting the URL to them. The link has special metadata for agents so just from the URL, the agent can pull all information from the clip automatically. No plugin or MCP server required. That means it can "see and hear" what’s in the video - read the transcript, grab snapshots at any timestamp, and inspect the logs and network requests that were shared with it. So whether you want to quickly demo an issue and send all that context to an agent, or get better bug reports from teammates, recording and sending Clips makes that super easy. Unlike expensive apps like Loom, this is all 100% free and open source. The framework that powers this, plus a bunch of other free applications, is open source too. You can just sign up and use it, or fork it and customize it to your needs. This, in my opinion, is the future of software. Rather than bloated SaaS that charges you a ton of money and still doesn’t even have the things you need, we get free open source canonical apps that you can fork and customize in any way you want. I'll link to all this stuff in the replies. If you try it, let me know your feedback.

joel ⛈️ @joelhooks AI

pi+herdr+lakebed clutch af 🐀