Amber Williams
@notnotamber.bsky.social
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London-based software engineer. Writings - amberwilliams.io Building - QuesoBookmarks.com - read it later app FluentCheese.com - language learning app
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AI aside - an interesting side effect of this makes offline documentation easier since it's all just web pages formatted as Markdown!
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There's a proposal to standardize how websites give LLMs instructions on how to use their site via an llms.txt file.

I noticed a popular library called MUI is using it already. Here's an example of Claude interacting with MUI's llms.txt

See llmstxt.org for more on the proposal
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I have yet to see a nicer looking bookmark manager that's able to be self-hosted
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Nuts that AWS Amplify with Next.js considers 20 minutes an acceptable build time.

This is from my blog's build with a few pages.
Build logs showing part of build taking 19 minutes to compile.

This is a small blog site with a few pages.
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AI may not make you a 10x engineer, but understanding how to use AI assisted coding frameworks can cost 20x less.

Diagram shows an experiment by @jovaneyck.bsky.social using MCPs with Claude Code vs without MCPs
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So far it's helped me optimize a nasty endpoint I've been putting off. I asked it to make a plan of action, read through it and instructed what I wanted and it only needed slight tweaks. It all took less than 30 mins.
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Free GPT-5 use all today through Cursor IDE
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Fluentcheese.com just added Hebrew and Catalan. What language should we add next?
FluentCheese card UI showing the word 'cat' in Hebrew
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I use the extension to connect to a
@directus
server that saves my bookmarks. Though the UI was limited, I couldn't filter by tag for instance.

So this week after trying out other bookmark managers such as github.com/s3bw/skipper - I was inspired to create a bookmark page.
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Queso, a web clippings & bookmarks manager, now has a Bookmarks page!

chromewebstore.google.com/detail/queso...
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Had to rebrand Ricotta thanks to domain squatters...

Say hello to FluentCheese.com : )
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Just released my open-source advanced bookmark management browser extension called Queso. It's available in Chrome's extension store.
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/queso...
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"Agents are models using tools in a loop," — Hannah Moran (Anthropic)
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My blog post made it to the frontpage of @hackernews recently.

Easy to build stuff these days, harder to write about it all!
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As they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery! @directus.io