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To me, a big source of accidental complexity in today’s software are implicit dependencies.
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kebab-case: SQLite WASM: Something subtle in your browser- overview
Announcing tldraw's $2.7M seed
We're building a new infinite canvas for the web: built with React, made for developers, and with a super-fast engine for collaboration. Try it today.
Like the original, tldraw is both an app and a library, designed for integration and extension. The new project goes further, introducing a custom engine for real-time collaboration.
From the beginning, tldraw was more than an app: it’s distributed as a React component that can be embedded in other apps; and, being open source, it’s been free to fork and modify to create new experiences. Developers have used tldraw to build some truly amazing things.
A surprise to me was that, with a few notable exceptions (such as the fantastic okso.app and Jordan Singer’s Macpaint app), most of these new projects were less about drawing or white-boarding and more about putting interactive widgets into a Figma-like interface.
Affine used tldraw to create their “edgeless” view of their Notion-style blocks. Legend Keeper and WorldAnvil both use tldraw to include characters and places from users’ story-worlds onto the canvas. Vidext is using tldraw to create AI-driven videos, BigBlueButton has reimplemented their virtual classroom’s whiteboard with tldraw, and Logseq is building their whiteboards feature on tldraw, too.
The new tldraw is designed to be a primitive for infinite canvas applications, providing the same type of infrastructure utility that ProseMirror provides for rich text editors or Mapbox provides for maps. Like text editors and maps, a canvas is a nightmare of internal complexity, both technical and in user experience design, together with a long list of table-stakes features that need to accompany any product.
It’s our belief that a canvas should be a thing you build with, rather than build yourself.
WebContainers, Rerun, and more
Welcome to issue #13 of the browsertech digest. WebContainers Most browser-based IDEs work by running the development toolchain — compilers, packaging tools,...
End-programmer Programming
The dream of “end-user programming” is still too far away. Let’s set our sights on “end-programmer programming” first.
The task of end-programmer programming is empowering programmers to actually control the software they use in their lives; not just the software they write for work.
Freedom 3 is the right to distribute modified versions to others, but, in this world, it's not necessarily access to the source that enables this freedom. Instead, it's access to the runtime environment.
1.0 Is the Loneliest Number
Many entrepreneurs idolize Steve Jobs. He’s such a perfectionist, they say. Nothing leaves the doors of 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino without a polish and finish that makes geeks everywhere d…
Web browsers need to stop
A clean start for the web - macwright.com
Daydreaming a post-HTML Utopia
The worse the ‘Mac App Store’ and ‘Windows App Store’ and ’App Store’ and ’Play Store’ get, the bigger a cut those monopolies demand, the more it costs to be a Mac or Windows developer, the more that applications get pushed to the web. Sure, some applications are better on the web. But a lot are just there because it’s the only place left where you can easily, cheaply, and freely share or sell a product.
Arweave - macwright.com
A review of arweave, a new decentralized web technology that attempts to create an immutable, blockchain-based internet.
Wah, a slightly higher level language for WebAssembly, with a reference compiler in Clojure - macwright.com
infix operators, type inference, and shortcuts for WAST
Open Source Projects, A Year On - macwright.com
How my projects evolved over time
Quick thoughts: on the introduction of technology
Brief thoughts on framing
Web technology optimism hour
Gotta have opposites, light and dark and dark and light, in painting. It’s like in life. Gotta have a little sadness once in awhile so you know when the good times come. I'm waiting on the good times now. - Bob Ross
Modern web applications are written in TypeScript but the tooling around their development is increasingly tools in Rust and Go. We have esbuild (Go) that replaces Babel and Webpack for Remix and other frameworks, SWC (Rust) that replaces Babel for Next.js and Turbo.build (Rust) that might eventually also replace Webpack. Rome (Rust) is trying to replace prettier for formatting files and, eventually the rest of the stack. The creator of SWC is also working on a replacement for the TypeScript compiler in Rust.
On Placemark
The full story
In that podcast last year, I was also asked whether I had any advice. I didn’t then and I’m probably not going to give any now. The kind of things that you learn in this experience are more like what you learn by running a marathon or moving to a new city: you can talk about them, but it doesn’t really impart the knowledge.
Normal People: Summary & Synopsis - The Bibliofile
This story takes place across five years. January – March 2011 Marianne Sheridan and Connell Waldron are teenagers living in Ireland. They are friends, but pretend not to know each other in school. Marianne is the smartest girl in school, but is unpopular. She reads a lot and doesn’t wear make-up or dress well. Her ...
OKLCH in CSS: why we moved from RGB and HSL—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog
CSS Color Module 4 adds oklch(), and we gain P3 wide-gamut support, boost code readability, and improve developer-designer communication.
Making Money from Open Source
Part 2: Deciding on the Right Open Source Business Model
Dreaming Of Dry Powder
The Collective Hallucination of Oncoming Capital
A Flare Across the Clouds : Cloudflare's Earnings Report by @ttunguz
I’m watching public company earnings to identify early trends in the software market to inform startups’ plans for 2023. Yesterday, Cloudflare announced earnings. I’m adding Cloudflare to the list of tracked companies for this series. Company Q-6 CAGR Q-5 CAGR Q-4 CAGR Q-3 CAGR Q-2 CAGR Q-1 CAGR Q-0 CAGR Microsoft Azure 50% 51% 46% 46% 40% 35% 31% Google Cloud Platform 46% 54% 45% 51% 35% 38% 32% Amazon Web Services 37% 39% 40% 40% 33% 27% 20% CloudFlare n/a n/a 48% 49% 51% 48% 48% CloudFlare’s annual growth rates haven’t slowed in the 5 quarters, unlike Microsoft, Google, & Amazon’s growth rates.
History Begins Again for Big Tech
Plus! Yachts, Taxes; Bad Ads; Investor Relations; Market Signals; More AI-in-the-Browser; Diff Jobs
Resetting the score — Benedict Evans
Sometimes, an entire industry gets reset to zero, and all the entrenched advantages and parameters go away. The iPhone had that effect, and so did HMS Dreadnought.
research!rsc: Transparent Telemetry for Open-Source Projects (Transparent Telemetry, Part 1)
Should OSS Projects Have Telemetry?
Russ Cox, the tech lead for the Go programming language at Google, made a case for adding opt-out telemetry to the language's toolchain in Transparent Telemetry for Open-Source Projects. As a former open-source maintainer of some fairly large projects, I understand the pain. Without telemetry – you're a product manager flying
Is the angel tax back?
An explainer on why Angel Tax is hot topic once again in Indian startup circles
✨ Jean Yang ✨ on Twitter
“Today, software is more like a rainforest rather than a planned garden. Code bases are more complex than ever before; the rise of SaaS and APIs means prod is the only source of truth.
But dev tools haven’t caught up.
Dev tools need a ChatGPT makeover. Here’s what I mean.
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The Tech
Introducing Upstash JSON for Redis®
Designed for the serverless with per-request pricing and Redis®/Kafka® API.
"Also, I've read some comments where people mention "we don't need redis", "we d... | Hacker News
A modern message bus like Kafka or the dozen other choices doesn't impose an implementation language on you, nor does it impose that implementation language being the only one.
Launch HN: Drifting in Space (YC W22) – A server process for every user | Hacker News
The Cult of Conformity in Silicon Valley
What happens when the unconventional becomes conventional? Michael Seibel and Dalton Caldwell discuss how the startup world has changed from being dominated ...