Johannes Schickling

Building a software factory @overengstudio. Host @localfirstfm. DX @EffectTS_. Founded @prisma.

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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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@stevekrouse 🫶

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@kitlangton

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@threepointone @katelyn_lesse @AnthropicAI @angjiang Congrats Sunil!

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@dexhorthy @maxwellbrown Congrats dude! Very excited for you!

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@joelhooks @EffectTS_ 🙌🙌

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@dabit3 Bold statement to say software factories are a solved problem. I think the industry is still very early in figuring out what it means to build a custom software factory for a given product.

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@jdegoes @EffectTS_ What do you mean “maybe”

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@michielmv 🤝

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Seems like software factories are having a bit of a moment right now.

I’ve been working on the “React for agents” aka a software factory framework over the past year.

The goal is to make it easy to for you to build your own software factory.

Will share more soon! 👀

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@goatbisceglia @harrysolovay With the help of my software factory I've finally started making progress on it again slowly but surely!

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@harrysolovay 👀

[Thariq @trq212]

I think most people multi-tasking with agents could benefit from slowing down

most of the stuff you're doing wont really matter- what's your P0? what would it look like if you gave it your full attention?

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Very excited about this as I've faced this exact problem many times over the past few years.

Crawling the web is still super painful - even with agents.

Getting reliable and consistent answers from the web is one of the last remaining unsolved problems when it comes to AI infra.

[Tim Suchanek @TimSuchanek]

Introducing Expand Fetch, a new way to scrape and crawl the web.

Your agent has never seen the web. No wonder it gets basic questions wrong.

Traditional Markdown APIs lose critical details. So we trained two System one models to change that:

Iris, a vision model that sees pages like you do, preserving tables, icons, and layouts.

X-Ray, a JSON model that uncovers the hidden data behind every page.

Every fetch also comes with a Wayback Machine. Every line links back to its source, so you can verify exactly what your agent saw.

Three products. One API.

On our benchmark of 1,094 questions across 326 challenging web pages, agents using Expand got 74% right. The next best API got 55%.

Available today at $1 per 1,000 fetches.

Try it at https://t.co/x4SDYsUX25

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@bohdanbirdie @livestoredev 🙌

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Today is a very special day. Effect v4 is finally out after years of development.

Effect has come a long way over the last 6 years and already became the default for most TypeScript projects.

Also: Agents are really good at writing prod-grade Effect.

[Effect | TypeScript for the AI Era @EffectTS_]

Effect v4 is here.

One ecosystem. Zero dependencies.

The next chapter of Effect and the foundation for building reliable software and AI agents in TypeScript.

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Durable workflows are finally starting to take off.

Very excited to have solid options like Restate, CF Workflows, Effect workflows etc.

Congrats to Restate on this new milestone! Happily using Restate for many of my projects/systems (with Effect).

[Stephan Ewen @StephanEwen]

Three years ago, we started Restate because we felt that building reliable distributed applications was just too hard. We were solving the same problems around failures, recovery, and consistency again and again.

Today, I'm excited to share that we've raised a $20M Series A led by Singular with participation from Redpoint Ventures and Capital One Ventures.

The need for solutions like Durable Execution has only grown since we started. Today, the majority of new Restate use cases are AI agents: long-running processes, coordinating across many tools and APIs, that need to keep working correctly through all sorts of failures and interruptions, coordinate sub-agents, or schedule work.

At the same time, our customers have pushed Restate into places that expanded our own view of what Durable Execution could become. Replit moved the execution of Replit Agent onto Restate. DOSS runs high volumes of enterprise workflows on Restate and Fortune 500 institutions are using Restate for complex transactional workflows.

We think this is just the beginning and excited to build what we believe will be a fundamental pillar of all infrastructure in the future.

Read more here: https://t.co/1S2AxK8Ydj

[Domen Kožar @domenkozar]

Introducing Casita: A content-addressed object store for source code and build artifacts.

It's time to rethink Nix.

It's time to fix packaging in software from where it all begins, in package managers.

https://t.co/nt6TRH4u2b

[Sriram Krishnan @sriramk]

strong recommend every engineer listens to this from @dhh. he is getting a lot of hate but this will be seen as prophetic.

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@gill_kyle Yes, a few more in the pipeline. Who would you like to hear from on the podcast?