Amit Jotwani

@amit

@DigitalOcean Dev Advocate. Making macOS menu bar apps for fun. Creator of PopLight. I make complex APIs sound simple.

New York

ajot.me

Joined July 2007

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Amit Jotwani
@amit
Jul 21
Was away for two weeks and somehow missed the whole "mutuals are back" update 😄 Hopefully you're all still here. Quick life update if we haven't crossed paths in a while: - Still in NYC. - Still doing Developer Advocacy, now at @digitalocean. - Took 2024 off to travel
Amit Jotwani
@amit
20h
Alibaba dropped Qwen 3.8 last week, and it's now on @digitalocean Serverless Inference. The thing that got my attention is the context window, hundreds of thousands of tokens in one pass. Basically a whole codebase. So I threw an entire repo at it.
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Amit Jotwani
@amit
Aug 11
This might be the nudge for me to finally move @geteventmate to a more traditional database. tbh, @airtable's been great for what I needed when getting it off the ground a few years ago - basically an easy-to-set-up database with a quick UI for managing attendees and message
Gergely Orosz
@GergelyOrosz
Aug 9
"We've started to migrate off Airtable, knowing that Bending Spoons will jack up pricing very soon" - from an engineering lead I talked to. And THIS below is exactly why: Bending Spoons bought Harvest and is 10x'ing pricing. It's their known playbook for most acquisitions
Amit Jotwani
@amit
Aug 11
It's pretty wild how many developer tools make it hard to get an API key. That's arguably one of the few things agents still need human help with when integrating your tool/SDK. Make it easy to find. Here's @resend doing it right: API keys are prominently available in the
Amit Jotwani
@amit
Aug 7
What are some smaller developer conferences that you absolutely love? Not the huge industry events, but more independent or community-run conferences with a really great vibe that people genuinely love attending 👀