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Joined May 2013
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funkytek retweeted
My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces): I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept): Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow
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Salvia is not a peptide
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Claude code literally just rick rolled me - I said pick any YouTube video to test, just make sure it’s real
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how do u fix openclaw internal reasoning leaking
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21 Savage has cut ties with Palantir Technologies.
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I think @openclaw benefits from something I'm calling "Cool Friction" ❄️πŸ’₯ for non-technical folks. It's a badge of honor, something to setup show running on the console. If OC was introduced as a $10/mo SaaS product running on someone else's cloud, nobody would care- it would be just another drop in an ocean of AI startups. n8n was embraced heavily by marketers who made content, but it wasn't "cool" and creatives were not asking me about it on a daily basis. Cool Friction isn't new. Crypto had it in the NFT Boom- setting up a MetaMask wallet, buying ETH, joining a token-gated Discord. The friction filtered for believers and made membership feel earned. What makes Cool Friction work: Identity filtration: more difficult onboarding self-selects for evangelists and believers, comes with a badge of honor and a sense of belonging. Narrative fuel: struggle generates content. Nobody writes a blog post about signing up for a SaaS. People write blog posts about getting something working. The friction IS the marketing. ("Look I setup Open Claw" is a lot more interesting than "I pushed a button on a website") Something to BUY, something to DO: when adoption has a physical or financial artifact attached to it, curiosity becomes commitment. That's retention no onboarding flow can compete with. (Buying and setting up a Mac Mini) SaaS spent a decade optimizing friction out. OpenClaw proved the right kind of friction builds movements
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funkytek retweeted
Who's building an IDE for reviewing code instead of writing code? Don't only show me diffs. Show me before/after UIs, terminal output, benchmarks, historic trends, playgrounds, demos, test results etc. Someone stop me from building this myself.
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4 Dec 2025
run parallel coding agents in the browser Introducing React Grab:
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30 Jul 2025
AI coding is fully transforming Engineers into PMs
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Replying to @bryan_johnson
We were very good once upon a time. We could have been a lot better. We are considering a second attempt to take things to the next level - if we succeed u shud consider grimes team
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funkytek retweeted
Reminder that Effect Schema is the only serialization library in JS that scores perfectly in typescript-validators.com/

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NOBODY WANTS AI INFLUENCERS FOR UGC CONTENT MARKETING STOP BUILDING SHIT FOR A DYSTOPIAN FUTURE YOU DONT WANT TO LIVE IN!!!
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funkytek retweeted
29 Dec 2024
Who wants Native Internet Creation? It’s coming. Creativity unleashed in a way that’s only possibly because of how the internet works tomorrow. Net new idea manifestation. DM for the pill.πŸ’Š
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Just recorded this little performance demo of @overtone_app while working on my talk for @localfirstconf. Near-zero query latency enables a magical UX.
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11 Feb 2024
The music industry is one of the most technologically advanced industries. The problem is the leaders of the industry are playing defense and not offense.
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To make it easier to detect and analyze performance problems in Overtone, I've been adding some real-time monitors for various aspects of the app (DB queries, re-renders, ...) It's really fun to use and has already helped me to identify some big bottlenecks!
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funkytek retweeted
Can't shake the intuition β€” and I'm not sure if it makes sense β€” that "Tools for Thought" is actually a window management problem
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