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building @figma via @dynaboard , prev @coinbase via @_dsys , @CalHacks
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the real semantics of semantic versioning:
major = a breaking change
minor = a minor breaking change
patch = a little-bitty breaking change
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Dynaboard is joining Figma!
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Introducing your friends+family to crypto-collectibles is harder than it needs to be.
So over the weekend
@ETHSanFrancisco
,
@AndrewMichaelAU
and I built gifty://, an open protocol for sending NFTs 😸 via a URL/SMS!
Check out our demo and code:
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Over the 🌕 to share that we've raised our seed round to scale Dynaboard!
Honored to be backed by such an incredible group of angels, founders, operators, investors, and early employees across the devtools ecosystem.
Building on the web is about get a whole lot better.
🎉 We’ve raised $6.6M from devtools industry veterans to continue scaling Dynaboard.
We’re excited to help both engineers and non-engineers build amazing low-code web applications, together!
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@andreasklinger
@classpass
My expectation is that if I didn’t have to talk to a real person to sign up, I shouldn’t have to talk to a real person to cancel.
Any website that breaks this is practicing the dark arts.
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Thrilled to share what we’re up to at
@dynaboard
!
⚡️ Go 0 → 1 on web apps, starting w/ internal tools and dashboards
🚢 Build & ship in real-time with teammates (multiplayer)
⚙️ Extensible, composable, safe, & performant w/ WebAssembly + CRDTs
🧵
Today we’re launching the private beta of Dynaboard!
We're a new platform that reimagines web application development and extends it beyond the text editor. 🧵
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Honored to be working with so many friends advising the latest season of
#SiliconValley
!
My code makes it on TV before I do... 🤓
@JeremyRubin
@yasyf
@willwjack
@jpochtar
@adamwgoldberg
@ryaneeshea
@TzhonggBot
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@jasoncwarner
Patches that work on the AST rather than line by line— could be even more compressed as a representation and would make automated codemods/formatters have much better diffs. Also, a better version of submodules and/or monorepos.
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I have fallen down the no-code/low-code rabbit hole. 🕳🐇
My biggest lesson: even engineers will be more efficient using some of these tools than not.💡
Engineers, give these tools a try! 💥
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0/ Excited to unveil one of the final projects I worked on while at Coinbase: Staking Rewards ⚡️
🧵 on why this is an important moment for the future of crypto.
/not investment advice, purely informational/
1/5 Coinbase is focused on offering simple ways for customers to grow their crypto wealth. Today, we’re announcing staking rewards for every Tezos (XTZ) held on Coinbase by eligible US customers.
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Big day for
@coinbase
.
In 2014,
@brian_armstrong
spoke as the keynote at the first
@CalHacks
. He followed up after, gave kudos, and offered an interview. Took 4 yrs and 1 acquisition to board the 🚀, but I’m so glad I did.
Thankful to be a small part of this historic moment!
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It should take me exactly one click to unsubscribe from an email newsletter. No log-in, no confirmation, just one click.
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After using it for a couple weeks,
@SuperhumanCo
is such a huge productivity boost partly because of the well-executed keyboard shortcuts (many don't require modifiers). Makes you wonder what other productivity apps would be like if they favored keyboard-only navigation.
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My apartment doesn't have heating so I moved my NVIDIA 1080 Ti to my room. 😂
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Plaid should provide:
- A dashboard to manage your authenticated apps
- A way to verify that an app is a real Plaid customer
Their current offering seems like a security nightmare waiting to happen...
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let’s get this party started
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My current go-to Swiss Army knife tools have been
@retool
and
@useparagon
— both of which have unlocked massive efficiencies for me.
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Don't drop out! There's still value in college. My thoughts:
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If I could have one superpower it would be to look at a hex color and know what the color looks like.
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Apple should require a setting to disable all embedded UIWebViews that serve no purpose other than to keep you in a third-party app.
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Cleargraph is the essential missing link between conventional application development and blockchain-based smart contracts. Develop your next (or first) dApp with Cleargraph, now in public beta! 🎉
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Today is Cal Hacks 4.0, and I couldn’t be more excited to be here with >1.5k student hackers. 😌 1/
#calhacks4
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Launch secure web apps right from your browser with our new private app boilerplate!
What you get out of the 📦:
🔐 Bring-your-own-auth (Email, Google, GitHub, OIDC, etc)
🎨 Fully customizable UI/UX, incl the login page
💻 TypeScript, anywhere you need it
Get started now ⤵️
Dynaboard is in open beta! 🥳
Start building private web apps in minutes with our collaborative — code forward — WYSIWYG editor!
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Unpopular opinion: Trust-minimization is more measurable and often more important than decentralization.
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Explore the Ethereum blockchain using a rich GraphQL API with eth-explorer!
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I’m terrible at keeping secrets. Fortunately, we built this:
🤫 Psst — we've made secret management easy in Dynaboard
Easily store / roll your DB credentials or API keys with built-in secrets.
Use your secret in server functions as easy as ${{TOP_SECRET}}
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No time to build that tool? No problem.
Turn natural language into UI components, code, or SQL queries automatically — then deploy in seconds.
Try it for free today ⚡️
Unveiling Dynaboard AI ✨
Building production-ready web apps or tools has never been faster.
Design, develop, and deploy in minutes — using natural language. Available today.
More below on what’s possible 🧵
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My database of choice is PostgreSQL. With FDWs and plugins like Citus/Timescale, PG can do almost everything you could reasonably wish for.
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TIL that if you title your Dropbox Paper doc with an extension, the whole doc becomes monospaced with syntax highlighting. Literate docs?
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I use my custom keyboard (Ditto) to save macros for M.
Al pastor super quesadillas as a service? 😋
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So stoked by what the
@dynaboard
team is launching soon.
It’s shaping up to be truly magical. ✨
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@balajis
@brian_armstrong
It’s been a pleasure working with you — thank you for your visionary leadership and tireless work ethic. Hope our paths cross again. 🙌
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Excited to announce Pavlov Match, a scalable reverse image search solution for Kubernetes and Elasticsearch
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🆕 Use `debug-solidity` to debug your Solidity smart contracts! printf-driven debugging ftw.
Now open source:
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Now you too can scale to millions of users on a Google Sheet.
⚡️Turn your
@googlesheets
,
@NotionHQ
databases, and
@airtable
bases into full web applications in minutes.
Easily build interactive UIs, make API calls, and integrate with other databases using Dynaboard’s visual IDE.
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🎨🧑🎨
🥱 Tired of making low-code apps that don’t match your brand and all look the same?
Fork our Hacker News template to learn how Dynaboard supports fully customizable styling.
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I'm skeptical of "semantic" taxonomies of free-form domains. Makes people believe there is simple structure where there is huge complexity.
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yet another reason to love PostgreSQL: its default port is 5432 which is fun to type 🐘
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For what it’s worth: I know of far more people who have lost BTC on non-custodial wallets than on exchange/custodial ones. 🤔
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When I'm in a coffee shop and people are snooping on my terminal, I change to an all-green color scheme so I look like a real hacker.
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5/ Staking Rewards on Coinbase wouldn’t have happened without
@lukeyoungblood
@rheakaw
@nvsio
@zosegal
@balajis
@zquestz
@sammcingvale
@brian_armstrong
& many more.
It was a true pleasure working with all of you on something epic! ✨😎🥩
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Rails is like alcohol. You love it while you’re doing it, but you always end up hating yourself the next day.
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What is it about version number 9 that companies are so afraid of? 😜
iPhone 8 -> iPhone X
Windows 8 -> Windows 10
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ENS domains have a three step registration process:
1. Blind bid (2 days)
2. Reveal (2 days)
3. Finalize
If you miss one of the first two, you lose you staked ether!
Idea: a service that handles this for you, so you can get the vanity address of your dreams. 🤓
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Decentralized identity represents a transformative shift in our relationship with technology. We’re excited to be making a better financial system possible at
@_dsys
!
0/ A short thread on how multi-signature messaging signing can change the way we think about user-controlled identities
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waiting for a movie about a dystopian future society in which we have quantum computers but they only run javascript
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@andreasklinger
@classpass
very dark UX. There’s definitely a CANCEL button on the rep’s side, but they don’t let you be the one to click it so they can give you their spiel.
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Proud to be backed by
@TheHouseVC
and part of
@TheHouseCal
family. Check out the new startup space at Cal. Go Bears!
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I feel accomplished discovering an awesome+obscure song on my Discover Weekly, but really it's a victory for the ML engineer who trained it.
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Twitter seems to not detect/ignore many clear instances of botting. Have had ~10 "Machine Learning" bots all following me in the past few days with simple name variations, tweeting the same exact junk.
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I see a lot of discussion around GDPR being onerous to implement, but after diving deeper I think it is good, common-sense regulation. Prevents a lot of dark UX patterns (bad privacy defaults, no way to delete account, etc.).
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Legal docs are written in “legalese” — a domain-specific subset of a natural language like English.
What would you call the natural language dialect used for LLM prompt engineering — “promptese”? 🤔
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If you find yourself using an analogy to explain a concept in your product, maybe the analogy is a better word.
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GPT-3 has some ideas on how to run your team.
First two are excerpts from
@HarvardBiz
. Next two are generated by
#GPT3
.
Incredibly realistic results, although that might say more about the sampled distribution. 😅
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I'm inclined to believe that there's no such thing as fast and stable hotel wifi.
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📈📊
- Supports bars, lines, composites, & more
- Arbitrary data sources (REST, SQL, etc)
- Easy search/filtering with custom UI components
- Independent left and right axes
- Powered by plotly
Whether or not they’re up and to the right, easily include interactive charts in your apps.
Quickly integrate charts with filters, search bars, or multiple data sources to build UIs that respond in real-time.
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Apps built for keyboard power users don’t hide hotkeys behind ⌘.
Go modifier-less.
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Move over btcpayserver, there’s a new service in town.
In June, we launched Rosetta as an open-source specification that makes integrating with blockchains simpler, faster, and more reliable. Today, we are introducing Rosetta for Bitcoin:
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@dan_abramov
We are aimed in this direction
@dynaboard
. We have an Inline React component that lets you drop in custom code with first-class support for composition and package managers. Anything you can do visually can be done programmatically too.
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Someone asked how I felt to be in a room with ppl so diff than the tech norm.
A: optimistic
#ILookLikeAnEngineer
http://t.co/goqxmNk1Iw
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Super stoked to launch our integrated Cmd+K bar!
It’s been a huge accelerator of my own productivity in Dynaboard already, and there’s a whole lot more coming soon.
You’re in command!
⚡️ Get building faster, by using the command bar to explore, insert, and find components.
⌨️ For power users, we’ve added shortcuts to support an entirely keyboard driven workflow.
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Both of these services, and most of those in this new genre, would be considered “low-code”, not “no-code”.
Honestly, I think that “no-code” is a misnomer. Almost all these tools are infinitely programmable with JavaScript.
This isn’t Dreamweaver MX. 🧐
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watch these poor humanoid AIs run for dear life while balls are thrown at them as they maximize their reward fns
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🏛 Decentralized exchanges make possible new kinds of financial instruments.
🎉 Excited for Marble, a “flash lending” platform that improves liquidity on these markets and opens up a new way to trade without risk.
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Many web apps are basically a bunch of data tables with pretty URLs. Hence:
Check out our updated admin panel template for tips and tricks on working with:
🔌 SQL DBs and REST APIs
📑 Paginated data sources
📋 User detail views
🔍 Real-time server-side search
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