Stephen Fluin

@stephenfluin

VP of Product at Hero Devs. Built teams at @Chainlink, @Google, @Angular. Developers, Developers, Developers!

Minnesota, USA fluin.io Joined July 2008

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I still track thousands of Angular websites and I always find it fascinating to watch how they change over time. Based on my data, real world Angular apps are 10% smaller than Next.js or React apps.

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fluin.io I Still Track Thousands of Angular Websites Back during my time when I was at Google, I built a tool that scanned thousands of public Angular sites to check their Angular version, bundle size, library usage, and best practices, and let users...

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What if I vibe coded an incremental game about vibe coding?

Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin Oct 31

I vibe coded a photogrammetry pipeline app tonight and gave it some of my drone footage. THE QUALITY IS SO GOOD! I didn't even have the settings turned up. I can't wait to see what the next render looks like.

Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin Oct 23

There has always been two hard problems in computer science.

1. naming things
2. cache management
3. off by one errors

Lachlan Donald Verified account @lox Oct 23

We've shipped Buildkite Cache, the first of several building blocks we're putting in place to make CI radically faster.

We've learnt a lot from how the fastest companies in the world run their CI. Great caching isn't just one technique, it's several working together: what you reuse, where it lives, and which work you can avoid doing in the first place.

We're starting with a save and restore primitive to control cached files across jobs, on hosted or self-hosted agents. You choose what goes into the cache key, when to fall back to an older entry, and which builds can share the cache.

There's a lot more coming.

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin Oct 20

Thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal for #DevFestMN 2026! We're starting reviews today, but you still have today to submit if you're interested in sharing.

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devfest.mn Speaker Call for Papers | DevFestMN Submit a session for DevFestMN 2026. We want sessions on AI and agents, Google technologies, web, mobile, cloud, security, and careers from speakers of every experience level.