Dave Kiss

Dave Kiss

@davekiss.com

Staff Community Engineer @ Mux Cleveland til I die (or move)

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I made my band's website a working cassette player with R3F - insert tapes to play our songs and demos - pick up various notes, photos, and desk trinkets - procedural VU meter, tape hiss, and warble via web audio filter chain @pmnd.rs libraries 🐐(drei, post-processing) a/v delivery by @mux.com

I was a human copy-paste machine for months before I realized it. A coworker would Slack me a bug. I'd copy it, paste it into Claude Code, watch it fix the issue in under a minute. Then I'd do it again. Bug reports, UX complaints, feature requests. So I built VoicePatch to remove me from the loop

voicepatch.appVoicePatch - Turn user feedback into shipped codeCollect feedback, triage with AI, and automatically generate pull requests. VoicePatch turns user feedback into code changes.

Are corporate blog posts ultimately fuel for SEO? Maybe. But if that were entirely true, I don’t think I could ever get motivated to write. I like to approach blogs as journalistic, educational, entertaining, capturing a sliver of time, a moment in this mad life that won’t be brand new ever again

It’s interesting how different the responses are btwn Cursor’s chat interface and composer window Chat seems more pragmatic, thoughtful, considerate, but the multi-file editing is difficult Composer is more brute force, shoot from the hip, gunslinger cowboy code, but the file patches are excellent

The oai realtime APIs in dev mode are a ton of fun Mostly because you can change the prompt to be something like “You are a donkey. An actual donkey.”

I’m about to ship a talk to Santa app that I built over the past few weeks in my off hours Will share some sneak previews this way soon 🎅

“you are a creepy zombie who has just emerged from the underworld and is starved for human brains. you speak slowly, groan often, and spit dirt and leaves” leads to a really interesting OpenAI realtime api voice convo

I’m remembering how when I started doing support for my first software product as a broke ass 23y/o I had a link to my Amazon wishlist in my customer support email signature and SOMEONE ACTUALLY BOUGHT ME SOMETHING “Finding your way without map or compass” what a boss move. still have the book

The Mux team is thrilled to be attending RenderATL next week — and as part of our sponsorship, we're giving away TWO conference tickets. If you're a URM/BIPOC and can make it to the conference in Atlanta next week, drop a link to your GitHub for your chance to join the event. reskeeeet for reach

lots of my tech docs writing lately is happening here in this residents’ lounge of my office rental this room + rooftop w fire pit and gas grills + 100sf private office + gym access is $550/m in cleveland get here and wash your hands with the jo malone soap every half hour

Cut open a piece of old fence to tack on to Lumi’s mud kitchen and a termite nest scurried out. Not sure if I should still call it a mud kitchen.