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| Title | Episode | Published | Category | Domain | Tool Type | Preview |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Favicon Service Trick | EP 15 - What is the figma MCP really like? plus China makes a big play for talent and Qwen updates! | 9/27/2025 | Stories | - | - | Using the Google Favicon service link for icons centralizes updates, so changing the source updates favicons across all applications. |
| Builder IO Plugin Confusion | EP 15 - What is the figma MCP really like? plus China makes a big play for talent and Qwen updates! | 9/27/2025 | Stories | Frontend | - | Initial experience with Builder IO’s Figma plugin can be confusing out of the gate, requiring hands-on time to understand its value relative to altern... |
| Connection Stability Snag | EP 15 - What is the figma MCP really like? plus China makes a big play for talent and Qwen updates! | 9/27/2025 | Stories | Frontend | - | Cameron experienced frequent disconnects requiring him to restart Figma or Claude, while Tom reported no disconnection after leaving his MCP server ru... |
| MCP Servers Tracking Sheet | EP 15 - What is the figma MCP really like? plus China makes a big play for talent and Qwen updates! | 9/27/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | Cameron maintains a large reference sheet to remember MCP server commands and configurations due to managing many servers across projects. |
| Broken React Component Output | EP 15 - What is the figma MCP really like? plus China makes a big play for talent and Qwen updates! | 9/27/2025 | Stories | Frontend | - | Tom recounts generating React components via Figma's default builder and receiving broken code with wrong images and layout, illustrating current tool... |
| Rapid Image Edits Demo | EP 15 - What is the figma MCP really like? plus China makes a big play for talent and Qwen updates! | 9/27/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | Tom demonstrates using Nano Banana inside Figma to remove backgrounds and adjust lighting on his wife’s website assets, illustrating how AI can speed ... |
| Struggling with Figma Basics | EP 15 - What is the figma MCP really like? plus China makes a big play for talent and Qwen updates! | 9/27/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | Cameron recounts initial frustration navigating Figma’s UI and basic controls, which slowed down attempts to leverage the AI plugins effectively. |
| Hedge Fund AI Use Case | EP 15 - What is the figma MCP really like? plus China makes a big play for talent and Qwen updates! | 9/27/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | A hedge fund was fully leveraging fine-tuned open-source Qwen models for quant trading without offering any public-facing AI product. |
| Screenshot-Driven Workflow | EP 15 - What is the figma MCP really like? plus China makes a big play for talent and Qwen updates! | 9/27/2025 | Stories | - | - | Relying on frequent screenshots during coding drove the need to integrate OCR into the development workflow to capture text from images. |
| Colossus Cost Anecdote | EP 15 - What is the figma MCP really like? plus China makes a big play for talent and Qwen updates! | 9/27/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | The Grok 4 Colossus training center cost roughly $0.5–1B and consumed energy equivalent to a small town of 4,000 homes annually. |
| Running Qwen on Alibaba | EP 15 - What is the figma MCP really like? plus China makes a big play for talent and Qwen updates! | 9/27/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | Tom Spencer shares his hands-on experience spinning up Qwen models via ModelScope to test multimodal capabilities firsthand. |
| Visa Overstay Risk | EP 15 - What is the figma MCP really like? plus China makes a big play for talent and Qwen updates! | 9/27/2025 | Stories | - | - | Tom recounts that overstaying a visa by even a day triggers significant penalties that can bar you from returning to the U.S. for years. |
| Startup Acquisition Visa | EP 15 - What is the figma MCP really like? plus China makes a big play for talent and Qwen updates! | 9/27/2025 | Stories | Frontend | - | After his startup was acquired in an acqui-hire deal, Tom Spencer moved to the U.S. on a company-sponsored visa and brought his family, illustrating r... |
| E3 Visa Sponsorship | EP 15 - What is the figma MCP really like? plus China makes a big play for talent and Qwen updates! | 9/27/2025 | Stories | Frontend | - | Share the personal experience of requiring an employer offer to apply for an E3 visa, which, unlike H1B, disallows a pathway to permanent residency. |
| Personal Visa Concern | EP 15 - What is the figma MCP really like? plus China makes a big play for talent and Qwen updates! | 9/27/2025 | Stories | - | - | Tom Spencer shares his personal concern over H1B fee changes because he is on a similar visa, illustrating firsthand stakes in immigration policy. |
| Forgotten Demo Mix-Up | EP 15 - What is the figma MCP really like? plus China makes a big play for talent and Qwen updates! | 9/27/2025 | Stories | Frontend | - | Cameron’s head-nod during Tom’s Deep Researcher UI demonstration led to an amusing realization that familiarity doesn’t guarantee retention, underscor... |
| Dummy Holding Page Prototype | EP 18 | 10/18/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | Tom quickly built a dummy holding page as a front-end proof of concept by iterating on ChatGPT prompts to visualize AI agent organization. |
| V0 Dashboard Prototype | EP 18 | 10/18/2025 | Stories | Frontend | - | Showed a working prototype built with V0 that demonstrates how quickly a bare-bones charting and agent prototype can be assembled in React/Next.js. |
| AI SDK Integration Attempt | EP 18 | 10/18/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | Tried hooking AI SDK gateway through Vercel functions to auto-generate agent blueprints, but encountered timeouts and integration gaps. |
| Diagram Formatting Pain | EP 18 | 10/18/2025 | Stories | Ai-development | - | Experienced significant difficulty getting complex, large-scale diagrams to format correctly in React Flow, highlighting UI challenges in dynamic grap... |
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