funkytek

Creative Technology Originator

[Cheng Lou @_chenglou]

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

[funkytek @funkytek]

Salvia is not a peptide

[funkytek @funkytek]

Claude code literally just rick rolled me - I said pick any YouTube video to test, just make sure it’s real

[baby keem @babykeem]

how do u fix openclaw internal reasoning leaking

[Daily Noud @DailyNoud]

21 Savage has cut ties with Palantir Technologies.

[funkytek @funkytek]

I think @openclaw benefits from something I'm calling "Cool Friction" ❄️💥 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

[Kit Langton @kitlangton]

𝚘𝚙𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚘𝚍𝚎 + 𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚕𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚕𝚎 = 𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚕𝚌𝚘𝚍𝚎

[Johannes Schickling @schickling]

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.

[funkytek @funkytek]

10 Years and we're back! Come hack with us in PHX
https://t.co/dc4sEGDBuq

[Aiden Bai @aidenybai]

run parallel coding agents in the browser

Introducing React Grab:

[funkytek @funkytek]

AI coding is fully transforming Engineers into PMs

[funkytek @funkytek]

@jshchnz 👋

[𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ @Grimezsz]

@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

[Michael Arnaldi @MichaelArnaldi]

Reminder that Effect Schema is the only serialization library in JS that scores perfectly in https://t.co/XJ4klwiCCe

[Nick St. Pierre @nickfloats]

NOBODY WANTS AI INFLUENCERS FOR UGC CONTENT MARKETING STOP BUILDING SHIT FOR A DYSTOPIAN FUTURE YOU DONT WANT TO LIVE IN!!!

[DAOuda @daoudaleonard]

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.💊

[Johannes Schickling @schickling]

Just recorded this little performance
demo of @overtone_app while working on my talk for @localfirstconf.

Near-zero query latency enables a magical UX.

[DAOuda @daoudaleonard]

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.

[funkytek @funkytek]

@dwr Open to agencies ?