I’m here to interact with every @crittersquest post!!! Doesn’t matter if you’re Verdant, Amethyst, Mudclaw, Torrent, Sunfire, and of course, ETERNALS!! I’m here to support all of us!!!
…just not Bloodmoon. 😆
We’re giving away a Mac Mini in a month to one of our community members!
All members go into a raffle on June 5th, so join before then to have a chance to win (link in bio)
We’re also giving away a free month membership each week randomly to someone that retweets this post 🎉
Proximity to SF doesn't matter if you use Twitter Correctly.
https://t.co/fIBkJVm26e is 2 months ahead of SV/founders/eng
(if you curate your feed correctly and are in the right group chats)
If you just hang around here long enough and don't go away you'll probably catch the next fomo market. Where it becomes impossible to lose money and very possible to multiply your bankroll a ridiculous amount of times. This scenario usually only lasts only a few months. Be ready.
This guy played the same song on Guitar Hero 55,000 times to get a perfect score. The difference between obsession and dedication is direction. Solana degens will ape 55,000 tokens and the only thing they’ll perfect is their 58 second hold time. Know this.
let me explain the importance of this
an engineer solved a problem that’s been plaguing the Internet for 3 decades
every website you’ve ever used relies on a text layout system from the 1990s
the browser loads a font, measures text, figures out where lines break, and positions everything vertically
every step depends on the previous one… every step forces the browser to pause and recalculate
you’ve felt this problem plenty times before even if you didn’t know what caused it:
→ Slack’s scroll jumping when message heights are wrong
→ Google Docs getting slow on long documents because every keystroke recalculates everything below your cursor
→ AI chat apps getting janky when streaming because each new token can cause a line wrap that shifts the entire page
same root cause every damn time.
text measurement is locked inside the browser’s DOM… it’s slow… and there’s been no alternative… for 30 damn years
Pretext bypasses all of it:
→ pure TypeScript text measurement… no DOM… no CSS… no browser reflow
→ you give it text, a font, and a width... it returns exact line breaks, widths, and heights… using pure math
→ around 500x faster in many cases than the standard approach
→ supports every language including mixed bidirectional text, CJK, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, and emojis
→ the engine is 15 kilobytes
→ built and validated by running Claude Code and Codex against browser ground truth for weeks
the demos are wild:
→ hundreds of thousands of text boxes virtualized at 120fps with no DOM measurement
→ shrinkwrapped chat bubbles with zero wasted pixels… something CSS literally cannot do
→ responsive multi-column magazine layouts that reflow dynamically
→ variable font ASCII art
over the years, developers moved rendering to Canvas… scrolling to custom implementations… positioning to JS
but text was the one thing you couldn’t move out of the browser… it was the last piece locked inside the DOM with no alternative
now we have a solution
this was built by Cheng Lou… one of the foundational developers behind React, Facebook Messenger, and Midjourney.
he’s not just anyone… lol
if you build anything on the web, this now changes what’s literally possible
this unlocks new UI patterns, layouts, interfaces, and experiences like we’ve never seen before
go look at the demos in the quote posts
it’s open source.
npm install @chenglou/pretext
insane these are all running in a browser
the future of design is still to come
I mentioned this last year on @theallinpod and the crypto bros freaked out.
Two things are true about crypto bros: they are extremely technical and extremely belief oriented.
Sometimes, though, the latter clouds the former.
This paper from Google, though, is quite reasonable and raises some important technical questions.
If you believe in AI leading to AGI/ASI in the semi near future, the most obvious honeypot to point an AGI/ASI to is cracking a crypto project like Bitcoin. Essentially becomes free money.
The crypto elders should start spending more effort organizing on a timescale that makes crypto quantum resistant / proof in these next few years with a conclusive roadmap.
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
just created the ultimate openclaw setup guide.
lots of founders are struggling to find use cases for it, I have it running my business 24/7.
Even using my card info to hire designers on Contra.
inside the doc, i’ll cover…
-> how to install and run the first boot.
-> the mandatory first boot checklist.
-> workspace files so it knows how to behave.
-> creating your agent’s philosophy with SOULmd.
-> uploading your information with USERmd.
-> how to add skill stacks.
-> setting up your communication channel.
-> some basic automations to save you HOURS.
-> multi-agent routing.
-> ensuring security is set up properly.
also uploaded all the code so you can just plug-n-play.
just RT + comment “CLAW” and I’ll send it to you (must be following)
The funniest take is that I "failed" 43 times when people look at my GitHub repos and projects.
Uhmm... no? Most of these are part of @openclaw, I had to build an army to make it useful. https://t.co/GLR35USlzu
It's that time (again)
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OpenAI bought OpenClaw
Your initial gut reaction might be anger and rage, but I promise you are mistaken.
This is a win for EVERYONE involved (including you):
• OpenClaw remains open source
• The team gets way more resources to build incredible products and advance the vision of OpenClaw
• OpenAI gains an incredible builder (Peter Steinberger)
• Get the biggest PR boost ever
• They are finally viewed as 'Open'
• Get millions of people signing up for expensive ChatGPT plans to plug into OpenClaw
• Connect their name to the most powerful AI tool ever made
• Peter Steinberger's entire bloodline never has to worry about money ever again
OpenAI will NEVER close source OpenClaw or end the project. It would be brand suicide. They have no option but to keep it open source.
Their play here is clear: incentivize using OpenAI models for OpenClaw. Get a massive reputation boost. Hire the smartest builder in AI.
This will lead to WAY more revenue for OpenAI and even more importantly: gain the favor of the millions of people who adopted OpenClaw. This will be the biggest PR win in the history of AI and make Anthropic look like closed off walled garden authoritarians for banning people the last month.
Expect faster OpenClaw acceleration, ChatGPT plans BUILT for OpenClaw, and an AI tool that will only continue to dominate the world.
This is a win for everyone except Anthropic.