Building software, writing ideas & figuring things out along the way. Building rootmail.io. Read along → robertpaschal.substack.com

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If you want to make the most progress you've ever made in your life, you need to be alone. You need an extended period of isolation, not influenced by friends or media, spent building your future. You need space to learn, think, experiment, and fail. Give yourself 6 months. Focus solely on the development of your mind, body, spirit, and finances. This is how you get ahead of most people.
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Hey timeline! I'm interested in connecting with people around: - software engineering, - AI, - technology, - startups, - product development, - programming, - science, - space, - creativity, - writing, - curiosity. LET'S CONNECT 🤝🤝🤝
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After thirteen flights, explosions, booster catches, new engines, damaged heat shields and thousands of engineering lessons, SpaceX is preparing to do something different with Starship: put it to work.
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After thirteen flights, explosions, booster catches, new engines, damaged heat shields and thousands of engineering lessons, SpaceX is preparing to do something different with Starship: put it to

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Meta’s latest announcements are not really about smart glasses, AI agents, or VR in isolation. They are about something bigger: changing the interface through which we interact with computers.
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Meta Is Building the Computer After the Smartphone Meta’s latest announcements are not really about smart glasses, AI agents, or VR in isolation. They are about something bigger: changing the

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I'm folowing accounts that are: - product founders - software developers - creative writers - technical writers - builidng a community of shared interests - engaging with my post
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Grok 4.7 is more interesting than the version number makes it look. This is not just “Grok, but slightly smarter.” The real story is that xAI is clearly pushing Grok toward becoming an AI worker: something that can code, operate tools, work inside terminals, reason across long tasks, inspect its own output, and keep going. And the price makes that especially interesting. Grok 4.7 starts at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens. That matters because the future of AI is increasingly not: prompt → answer It is: goal ↓ search ↓ read files ↓ write code ↓ run tools ↓ inspect results ↓ fix mistakes ↓ repeat ↓ finish the work And agents burn tokens. According to xAI’s published evaluations, Grok 4.7 improves significantly over 4.6 across coding, terminal use, engineering, and long-horizon professional work. One of the biggest jumps is Terminal-Bench: Grok 4.6: 20.3% Grok 4.7: 38.0% That is close to an 87% relative improvement. CursorBench also moves from 40.4% → 46.3%. DeepSWE moves from 65.2% → 71.0%. And its engineering benchmark jumps from 53.0 → 64.0. The numbers themselves are not the entire story. The direction is. xAI appears to be optimizing Grok less around “give the smartest answer” and more around: “Give this model a difficult job and let it work.” Grok also has access to things that become increasingly valuable in an agentic workflow: • web search • native X search • code execution • file search • function calling • remote MCP servers • document retrieval • image generation That makes Grok particularly interesting for developers. Imagine giving an AI access to your repository, logs, database tooling, cloud APIs and terminal, then asking: “Find why this production issue happens, reproduce it, patch it, test it, and explain exactly what changed.” That is where models like Grok 4.7 are heading. Not better autocomplete. Not better chat. Software that can actually do work. And at $2/$6 per million tokens, xAI may be making one of the most aggressive bets in the frontier-model market: Maybe the winner will not simply be the smartest model. Maybe it will be the model that is smart enough, fast enough, tool-capable enough, and cheap enough that you can afford to let it keep working until the job is finished. That is what makes Grok 4.7 worth paying attention to.
Grok 4.7 is here. It's a notable improvement over Grok 4.6 at the same price and speed.
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X changed its algorithm again. So I went through the latest open-source recommendation code to understand what actually changed — beyond the usual “post more” and “replies are worth X likes” advice. The biggest shift? X is getting better at deciding who should see your post, not just rewarding accounts that are already big. That matters if you’re a small account. I found: •explicit cold-start logic for smaller creators •stronger out-of-network discovery •deeper engagement prediction •mutual-follow effects •author diversity rules •and a recommendation system increasingly built around audience fit The biggest takeaway for me: Your first 1,000 impressions are not just an audience. They are an audition. I broke down what changed, what the code actually means, and how small accounts can position themselves to grow under the new system. Including a practical 30-day posting strategy. Full article ↓
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I gained 4 followers yesterday and I keep going I’m a full stack developer, building a product and looking for a niche of people that are inspired to make something I follow back once you know why you’re on X
I gained 46 followers yesterday How many did you gain?
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Growing online is a painstaking thing. I know because I’m doing it too! But slowly and surely, you’d connect with people that share your experience. So this is your sign to keep at it!
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Most products don’t fail because the team couldn’t build them. They fail because the team built the wrong thing too confidently. A good product usually starts smaller than people think. Not with a feature list. Not with a polished UI. Not with a roadmap full of assumptions. It starts with better questions: What’s actually broken? Who feels it? How often? What are they doing instead? Is this problem painful enough to solve? Then build the smallest thing that can teach you something. Ship it. Not because it’s perfect. Because reality is the only place where a product can really be tested. Real users will: Ignore things you thought mattered. Struggle with things you thought were obvious. Ask for things you never considered. Sometimes prove your original idea wrong. That isn’t failure. That is product development. The best builders don’t protect their ideas from reality. They let reality reshape them. Build. Ship. Watch. Listen. Learn. Change it. Ship again. Over time, the product gets simpler. Not because the problem was simple. Because you finally understand it well enough to know what belongs—and what doesn’t. The goal isn’t to build more. It’s to build something useful enough to earn a place in someone’s life. From idea to impact.
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I’m down to connect with: Product developers Indie founders Entrepreneurs Creatives Curious minds Drop a reply and I’d follow back 🚀🔥
I AM NOT looking to connect with the following: • Growth hackers • SaaS experts • LinkedIn gurus • People who "love networking" I want internet friends who build weird stuff then disappear into the mountains. Let me know if you are down to adventure 🏕️
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I’m a solo founder from Nigeria Looking for more builders and developers to connect with !
I'm 38. Solo founder from Germany. Looking to connect with more builders & indie hackers!
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So far today, I’ve gained 2 followers. It’s nothing much but it’s worth noting and I thank everyone . I’m a full stack developer, a programmer and an entrepreneur. Most importantly, I follow back. As we keep growing, I’d be sharing more about myself 🙏
Bro, starting from 0 and growing on X is actually HARD.
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Bro, starting from 0 and growing on X is actually HARD.
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DO YOU KNOW: In @ChatGPT 's image gen, if the image generation is yet to show an image, you can play snake on it while it generates😂
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