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JW. Husband. Dad. Building secret wacky robo-shenanigans. Wacky tech shenanigans since 90’s. ex @coinbase @godaddy @meta @mootools @textmate

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When you lift a train over your head,
normal people don't think you're strong;
they think the train is made of cardboard
and you are trying to trick them.

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it's all his fault

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I blame seg

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@wesbos we elder millenials has seen the rise and fall of more technologies than all past AND FUTURE generations combined

our parents saw human programming get invented
we have seen its end

but just like VHS, some of us still love it for nastalgia

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@wesbos instead of ~1987 era desktop app
or a ~1997 era web site
or a ~2007 era mobile app
or a ~2017 era web app

what if 2027 had retro futuristic ~1977 era CLI/TUI apps in chat

and 2037 had them in voice + AR holograms

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@wesbos chat is nearly the O'st of Gs UX pattern
we had bash, zork, and BBSs before desktop windows and menus

AI chat is like the terminal, but mainstream.
ChatGPT was like bash * zork.

Gen UI in chat is like TUI apps in bash.

a BBS is a remote TUI app.

That's a HUGE opportunity

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@dhh YES !!
bring back cartidges

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@jarredsumner bun made me fall in love with Zig
but Zig is like JavaScript and Rust is like TypeScript
for long term super serious business stuff, I'd probably use Rust / TypeScript
for whimsical toys and wacky side quests I'm on Zig and ESM JS (with ts jsdocs)

bun is Pro™ software now

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@mutewinter ya, Linear is held up on a pedestal like the end all and be all of what web apps can be. it's pretty great, but it seems Safari is not getting the love

personally I'm discovering that task oriented project management is not really the right abstraction for me

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@ChmalSzymon that'd be pretty hip

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what is LazyGit was a macOS app
it is now
I made a thing that lets me double click whatever.lazygit folders to open its parent in lazygit in LazyGit macOS app

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@tldraw and yeah, QuickLook works

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what if tldraw was like SVG?

resurrected my 15 year old Appify-UI project and built TLCanvas app that manages .tlcanvas bundles (folders full of tldraw canvas stuff)

immabouta use tldraw for ALL the things. each of the ones actually.

we love @tldraw

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@dhh this is the thesis to my family's game studio
the retro collectible games of 2047 in 2027

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@kitlangton SHAMELESS PLUG:
@ effect-native/tui-testing-library@beta
may or may not be helpful to you :D

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@dhh YES !!

my favorite nerds are all coming together

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@VictorTaelin @SteveMoraco or anti-entropy. you know what I mean :P

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@VictorTaelin @SteveMoraco "token golfing" has helped me with this a bit

especially the Binary Cognitive Mechanics flavor that uses a GAN-like loop to iteratively attack & refine the compressed info such that signal entropy is maximally retained across all cognitive dimensions, provably

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@dceddia @VictorTaelin I've been toying around with various kinds of fractal decomposition such that relevant complexity is discoverable in context just-in-time, but

I'm tired boss

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@VictorTaelin unfortunately your personal cognitive mechanics * "giftedness" is sufficently atypical to ensure permanent frustration with any toolset capable of becoming generally popular

you're going to have to solve it for yourself only

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Portable App Docs
PAD demo 1

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