Jonathan Kelley

yc s23 | dioxuslabs | working on and

[Konstantin Hohr @hkonsti_]

I built a tool to create motion graphics from your codebase.

It's called Midrender.

Here's me recreating an Anthropic-style feature announcement clip (result at the end).

[Dioxus 🧬 @dioxuslabs]

🎉 Introducing SkyVM 🎉

Instant-boot cloud desktop VMs.

Comes with:
- Full macOS, Windows, Linux support
- Instant memory snapshot, share with URL
- Advanced computer-use tools
- Direct SSH and VNC access
- Integrated Claude Code + Codex ‼️

Written entirely in Rust + Dioxus.

[Jonathan Kelley @jkelleyrtp]

@felpix_ yes!

[Jonathan Kelley @jkelleyrtp]

35ACT/1570SAT, 3.96 UW, 12AP

- selective STEM boarding school
- robotics, science fair, physics research at Duke
- Conrad winner, NASA internship, sci-oly, hardware on ISS
- 600 volunteer hours, STEM outreach, baseball, band

Rejected by top schools, now run YC startup.

[felpix @felpix_]

College admissions is so competitive, kids are just crashing out

[Armin Ronacher ⇌ @mitsuhiko]

The next version of Rust might be one of the most transformative to the Rust ecosystem due to support for up-casting of trait objects. This makes `Any` significantly more powerful and potent!

[Jonathan Kelley @jkelleyrtp]

incredible, and in my backyard!

[Sam Zeloof @szeloof]

We make it ourselves
And make the machine to make it.
Want to join?

Hiring EE, ME, Software , process engineers. We made the machine that puts atoms there, it’s laptop sized and draws 90 watts . Now we’re automating and building 10.

Zoom in ,they’re not pixels

[HSVSphere @HSVSphere]

Hot reloaded Rust is insane, looking forward to it

[Jonathan Kelley @jkelleyrtp]

Investing in global health is an unequivocal good: both morally and financially.

You can't trade with countries whose people are dying of malaria.

Mosquito nets, insecticides, and preventative healthcare are inexpensive investments for outsized moral good.

[Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter]

A lot of people are portraying USAID as some sort of bastion of looney DEI excesses. Let’s take a look at what the sudden arresting of their operation is doing to global health. Please read the thread (my thread, not Ryan James’):

[Jonathan Kelley @jkelleyrtp]

@IKchmt6jSYhp5I8 @HSVSphere You need a PhD in computational geometry to get started, basically. It’s not easy in the slightest.

[Jonathan Kelley @jkelleyrtp]

Los Angeles is burning but at least we're buying Greenland! 🤦‍♂️

[Jonathan Kelley @jkelleyrtp]

Olin mafia!!! Making waves!!

[Sam Altman @sama]

it is hard to overstate how much alec radford has contributed to the field, and how much of everyone's current progress traces back to his work.

i believe he is a genius at the level of einstein, and also he is one of my favorite people ever--hard to imagine a nicer, warmer, or more thoughtful person.

he is extremely modest and isn't as well-known as he should be, though i'm certain he doesn't care.

super grateful for everything he has done for openai, and so looking forward to collaborating with him as an independent researcher--i think it will fit his style really well.

[Jonathan Kelley @jkelleyrtp]

if the #Tsunami kills me at least I died building b2b saas with the homies

[Jonathan Kelley @jkelleyrtp]

@phillavelle My first ever robotics competition was held in Dorton arena 🙂 funny to see old places take on new meaning

[Jonathan Kelley @jkelleyrtp]

@ChShersh Zig is a better C but still doesn’t save me from myself ☹️

It seems like Rust is doing better than ever: Google + Microsoft seeing tangible gains in minimizing CVE count

Rust hasn’t had drama a while - I do think it’s quite overblown and the leaders are doing a great job

[Jonathan Kelley @jkelleyrtp]

YC funds Continue S23.
YC funds PearAI S24.

Pear copy-pastes Continue’s codebase, changes the logo, switches to an enterprise license (illegal!).

Pear’s “competitive advantage” is its “open-source community.”

Does YC not understand how open source works?

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Don’t understand why people are dragging a new project when literally it’s open source Apache license and that’s *the reason* why open source is awesome

[Jonathan Kelley @jkelleyrtp]

@garrytan @jqdsouza @boneGPT It’s one thing for a random startup to “fork” an OSS YC company, it’s another thing for YC to *fund* that directly.

As an OSS YC founder, this is really really not cool.

[Jonathan Kelley @jkelleyrtp]

@garrytan @jqdsouza @boneGPT Gary, why is YC funding companies to “fork” other YC companies and pass it off as their own?

Continue is a S23 YC company.

This is not the first time YC funded a company that blatantly resells an S23 company’s work.

[Christian Keil @pronounced_kyle]

@FedericoNoemie @Astranis We're doing a tour as part of SF deep tech week!

https://t.co/6StQKmn3hN

[Jonathan Kelley @jkelleyrtp]

@Mammoth Only $4000 for this bad boy???? My apartment's garage has just the tiiiiiniest bit of room left 👀

Maybe it'll do well on my future sailboat... always wanted a machine shop on a yacht

[Jonathan Kelley @jkelleyrtp]

@dhh I feel bad for how much folks try to dunk on you and the team.

We’ve borrowed a lot of RoR ideas in @dioxuslabs. HTML over websockets is great in a lot of cases.

The web community is just full of hate these days, which is sad, because the web is so fun to build for.

[Jonathan Kelley @jkelleyrtp]

@dhh I’ve had to mute a lot of the JS ecosystem.

So much negativity, so unhealthy. As a framework author, it’s fun to see other solutions - never do I feel the need to dunk on any of it.

People can have their opinions, but we still know that success comes from results, not tweets.