Brett Eastman

Building a Full-Stack Music Education Platform SvelteKit 2 Svelte 5 PocketBase Google Gemini AI Cloudflare Pages A searchable archive of transcribed song charts — drums, bass, guitar, and theory — combined with an AI-powered music historian c...

Just revamped my music ed site! 🎵

- Upgraded the Gemini chat model to 2.5-flash
- More free song transcripts
- Moved PDFs to Pocketbase for easy access
- Used Claude Code + the new Gamma connector to auto-generate a slide deck from my repo.

Claude + Gamma = a perfect 🍐
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Had a special friend visit the office today, but he might’ve gotten too comfortable 😅 | Grant Lee | 184 comments Had a special friend visit the office today, but he might’ve gotten too comfortable 😅 | 184 comments on LinkedIn

My wife's company, @meetgamma.bsky.social, got the illustrious Rainn Wilson to do an ad for them! www.linkedin.com/posts/grants...

Heirloom Heirloom is restoring balance to our atmosphere by removing 1 billion tons of carbon dioxide. We use natural processes to engineer the world's most cost-effective Direct Air Capture solution.

This photo is from their website: www.heirloomcarbon.com

Workers adjusting stacks of trays of material used in CO2 capture

Visited @heirloomcarbon.bsky.social in Brisbane yesterday and it was such a cool experience. They’re tackling climate change through carbon capture, building custom machines that help limestone absorb CO₂ faster, then store it permanently or sell it. Huge thanks to Rob Duncan for the tour!

Brett Eastman and Scott Tolinski taking a selfie at the Syntax meetup at Bare Bottle Brewing co. in Salesforce Park.

🚨 Name drop alert 🚨 Met the incredible @tolin.ski, @wesbos.com, and @w3cj.com at the awesome @syntax.fm meetup! I've been an avid listener since starting my software journey and these guys have been a huge inspiration. They're just as nice in person! Amazing vibes & great folks. Thanks to Syntax.fm!

Had a great time watching the drone show put on by @meetgamma.bsky.social last night for SF tech week! Congrats to their whole team! Especially loved seeing their mascot, the three-eyed cat “Mr. Peepers”, in 3D above the Ferry Building 😻

Late post! Proud to share a site we built for Kenworthy Machine near Seattle, which showcases their services, values & products. Made with Next.js, TinaCMS, Chakra UI, etc. Huge thanks to Archaa, Alex & Kayla. Check it out: kenworthymachine.com 🚀

If your organization is still on Twitter it is enabling explicit naziism.

Send these screenshots to whoever is in your organization’s trust, safety, PR, comms team.

Opinion | Ken Jennings: Trivia and ‘Jeopardy!’ Could Save Our Republic

I really appreciated this essay by Ken Jennings on facts: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/o...

The Post-Developer Era • Josh W. Comeau When OpenAI released GPT-4 back in March 2023, they kickstarted the AI revolution. The consensus online was that front-end development jobs would be totally eliminated within a year or two.Well, it’s ...

I like Josh Comeau’s analogy that using AI to code is a bit like using cruise control to drive - it goes mostly where you point it yet it requires steady guidance. This is a great article and definitely worth a read: www.joshwcomeau.com/blog/the-pos...

I’m looking for work and would love to learn more!

Brett Eastman Studio teaching archives Brett Austin Eastman is a Full Stack software engineer, musician, composer, and former music teacher based in San Francisco. This archive contains teaching materials including guitar and bass tabs, mu...

Excited to share my latest project site! It’s an archive of music teaching materials I made back when I was an instructor, plus a free A.I. music historian chatbot. Check it out and let me know what you think! 🎶 bretteastmanstudio.com

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A.I. Is Changing How Silicon Valley Builds Start-Ups Tech start-ups typically raised huge sums to hire armies of workers and grow fast. Now artificial intelligence tools are making workers more productive and spurring tales of “tiny team” success.

The company my wife works for, Gamma, was featured in todays New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/t...

Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction WikiTok cures boredom in spare moments with wholesome swipe-up Wikipedia article discovery.

I really like this idea. I developed a habit of reading Wikipedia while brushing my teeth, so this app was made for me.
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Latitude
The Moore Brothers 
Tarnation

At the
Make out Room 
3225 22nd street 
San Francisco 

February 8, 2025
Early show 6:30 
$15 to $25 sliding scale donation 

Benefit for
 Musicares Greater LA Fire relief 
 musicares.org

It is sad that David Lynch is no longer in this world. No artist could make you contemplate the surreal darkness underneath the surface of society in the way that he could.

Had a nice interview today. Went for a walk to catch the wolf moon rise.

My amazing wife @juliebarwick.bsky.social has a world premiere coming up! She was commissioned by Earplay to compose this piece for their 40th anniversary concert. It was written in collaboration with the incredible poet, Tonya M. Foster.

D.A.R.Y.L.

I Forked Bolt.new and Made it WAY Better YouTube video by Cole Medin

I just watched this video of a guy who forked Bolt.new and modified it to allow for LLMs other than Claude. I was able to clone his repo and run it locally with Llama 3.2 without a problem. Llama 3.2 results aren't as good as Claude of course, but hey, it's fun and free: youtu.be/3PFcAu_oU80?...

Home Helia Music Collective supports the creative endeavors of women in music throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Visit our website to learn more.

I love Astro! I built this site for a local composer collective with it: www.heliamusiccollective.com

Deploying with Firebase App Hosting Firebase offers a powerful and flexible new platform for hosting and managing fullstack web applications and it is called App Hosting. It's easy to use, scalable, and reliable, and has built-in framew...

I wrote a handy how-to guide on deploying a full stack app with Firebase App Hosting, mostly for myself to remember how I did it, but it could be helpful for someone else too! I used Gamma sites to create the guide.
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Hello Bluesky tech community! I am a junior web developer in SF looking to meet others in tech.

Recently, I built and shipped a responsive website for a local music collective called Helia. I used Astro for SEO friendliness and speed. Feel free to reach out to say hi!

www.heliamusiccollective.com