★ Delight developers in ecosystem-enhancing, easy to copy ways
Some thoughts on the role of platforms (especially open ones like the Web) and how to think about long term progress.
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Past: Ajaxian, Google, Mozilla, webOS, and more!
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This wouldn’t happen now, thus MLS. No owner would sign up for the opportunity to potentially get relegated.
When things start as toys, or amateur, and grow before the $ kicks in, some magic like this can happen.
This is the Web. Let’s keep the garden thriving together.
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This is key. We have something special here. The environment was ripe for the Internet and the Web and we don’t know when / if they will be true again.
It’s like football. When it was born in an amateur state, you could have relegation and promotion. It wasn’t about money.
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I just found out my good friend was killed last night while walking him in San Francisco
He was in the “good” part of the city and appeared to have been targeted in a random mugging/attack
Fuck San Francisco
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Noooooooooooooo :(
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BREAKING: Bob Lee the former CTO of Square and creator of Cash App found Stabbed to Death in San Francisco.
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=354488
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I love the addition of chat. I get assistance in my docs, and I can explore on the right.
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We've been working on Type Chat for a while now and I'm very excited about this launch! Having chat sit next to the editor lowers context switching and makes the workflow much easier by allowing drag and drop / in-editor replacement and operating on the current selection. twitter.com/stewfortier/st…
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I wrote an essay called "Grid World" for the latest issue of The HTML Review (thehtml.review). Read it here: alex.miller.garden/grid-world/
I had a really fun time creating the graphics that accompany the essay!
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Jarvis is now reality.
My GPT-4 coding assistant can now build & deploy brand new web apps!
It initializes my project, builds my app, creates a GitHub repo, and deploys it to Vercel.
All from simply using my voice.
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Does it make you a lil sad when you see a type that is hidden away and not available to import from a package?
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It's pretty easy to implement animated route transitions with , React Transition Group, and Tailwind
jacobparis.com/guides/remix-a
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Sometimes large migrations take time. Milestones shipped along the way.
"This was a rather big effort (first filed 9 years ago in bug 1033225)"
crisal.io/words/2023/03/
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The new WordPress Interactivity API is build with and Preact Signals. The design elegantly bridges the PHP world with the frontend world.
They spend a lot of time on making it approachable for their target audience. Very impressed by it!
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Schrodinger's AI:
→ These silly models make mistakes on anything that isn't a common thing that is on the Internet a million times.
→ GPT-4.5 is going to become skynet at worst, and take all jobs from humanity at best.
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Yo I'm looking through the Twitter open source code and wtf is this?!?!
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Check out this awesome new doc that describes the different areas of the Shopify platform where app devs can build, as well as showing which tools, APIs, & resources are available for each area. Great recap for existing devs and super useful for new hires!
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The new @ElastiFlow website is live! I'm really happy with what the team has done. Check it out at elastiflow.com
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Now this is a silly idea. An (prompt) class method decorator that dynamically returns the completion result.
replit.com/@DionAlmaer/De
#openai #javascript #decorator
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✨ HUGE NEWS! ✨
🤖 Introducing Socket AI – ChatGPT-Powered Threat Analysis
is using ChatGPT to examine every npm and PyPI package for security issues!
🤯 In just 2 days, we confirmed 227 vulnerable and malware packages, all discovered with the help of ChatGPT
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📣 Announcing the premier remix.run/conf 2023 Sponsor:
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Fly.io is sponsoring a giveaway of 8 🆓 tickets and 10 discounted tickets ($299 each)!
To enter:
1. Follow and
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See you in May!
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How much of your day is spent facing your users and building for them vs. facing internal stakeholders. When too much time is internal, things get broken fast. Fight against that.
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I love seeing all of these names: Mar 27, 2023 by Patrick Angle, Marcos Caceres, Razvan Caliman, Jon Davis, Brady Eidson, Timothy Hatcher, Ryosuke Niwa, and Jen Simmons.
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😂 So let me get this straight:
1. Elon pulls out of OpenAI because it's "moving too slow" and won't allow him to take over.
2. Elon reneges on the promise to fund OpenAI, thus adding incentive for them to do the now semi non-profit structure.
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Chatted with , who shared an irony in tech, that people who understand problems are not always the engineers able to build solutions.
He and are aiming to fix this with , a generative AI startup that helps anyone build apps:
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Vanilla Extract just shipped support for cascade layers with support for both locally and globally scoped layers.
This is a game changer for design systems. Massive shout out to for this one.
Scoped layers: vanilla-extract.style/documentation/
Global layers: vanilla-extract.style/documentation/
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“React Native for Web plans to only support these W3C standards-based APIs in future versions”
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“We are heads down on building "darklang-gpt", which is the same core Darklang but redesigned to have AI as the primary (or possibly only) way of writing code.”
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Every week that goes by we get closer to this. This is where we're is going. AI and AR coming together, not to block out the world, but to light it up 🌟
Our latest concept takes the / search integration one step further… 👇
#futureofshopping
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This is big. I have watched Tom continue to build amazing things for developers and on the web. Vercel keeps getting amazing folks!
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As a long-time believer in the power of the web and open source software, I’m excited to share that I’m joining @Vercel!
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- Understanding the use cases
- Building enough of the new platform
- Having everything we can to help you get there
- Sharing pieces early
- Starting the deprecation clock appropriately
- Staying close to the platform
- Do you need a new platform?
While respecting devs time.
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★ Help Mario Reach The Next Platform!
An ode to helping developers as you evolve your platform, resulting in a healthy ecosystem for all. All with a silly analogy where Mario is a developer :)
blog.almaer.com/help-mario-rea
Discusses: ⬇
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Proficiency in any programming language requires a deep knowledge of the standard libraries. For some reason devs seem to skip that for TypeScript. You'll have a hard time in TypeScript without knowing the utility types: typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/
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iOS 16.4 is a massive step forwards towards feature parity between Web Apps and Native Apps.
Big thank-you to the Safari/Webkit team for all their hard work ♥️
👇 Read all about it here
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I play pickleball so my mind doesn’t wander for a bit as it focuses on hitting a wiffle ball.
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This paper finds folks are less happy when they let their mind wander: “a human mind is a wandering mind, and a wandering mind is an unhappy mind. The ability to think about what is not happening is a cognitive achievement that comes at an emotional cost.” renevanmaarsseveen.nl/wp-content/upl
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This week better be entertaining enough to make my feel alive... as I've smoked horse. 🐴
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Here it is. Bard next? Fixie? …
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Claude + AI Plugins
AI Plugins (the ones ChatGPT is using) are usable by ANY language model
It takes a tiny bit of prompt engineering, but here is @AnthropicAI's Claude using them
Code: gist.github.com/hwchase17/554e
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Can you find love in creation with new tools?
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Going from humans creating content to humans reviewing the output of AI is going to happen slowly then suddenly across many fields.
What happened to humans translators with the rise of Google Translate will be a more common experience.
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