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Full-stack Engineer & Product Builder. Creating tools that connect the digital and physical worlds. Founder of DashlyIoT.com, TheWorldMood.com, and more.
Chip Builder is a brilliant concept for teaching low-level logic. How did you handle the gate simulations? Is it a custom engine or are you using something like a logic circuit library under the hood?
Fair point on the mid-century Orientalism. Alexander’s aesthetic was definitely a product of its time.
But even if we strip away the 'Tao of the West' style, there's a functional core that feels neglected today: the idea that systems (whether a building or a dashboard) should adapt to their users' organic behavior rather than forcing users into a rigid UI grid.
In 'The Nature of Order', he moves toward more abstract 'living structures'. Do you think that abstraction is actually more applicable to modern software architecture than his earlier pattern languages? Or are we just doomed to cycle through different flavors of aesthetic trends?
Alexander argues that great design is a 'living' thing. Looking at modern UI/UX for sports apps, do you think we've lost that 'Timeless Way' by chasing trends instead of building things that feel inherently human?
Interesting approach. How are you handling the DOM processing inside the sandbox without spiking CPU usage? If it's not making constant API calls, is the vision model running locally (WASM/WebGPU), or are you using a clever way to diff the page state before sending it to the LLM?
Impressive benchmarks. How does the BM25 implementation handle high-frequency updates (writes) while maintaining search latency? Usually, there's a trade-off between ingest speed and search performance in Postgres-based full-text search.
Appreciate the honest answer! Hand-curating the data definitely makes a huge difference in trust, especially for travel. Downloaded it—will definitely share some feedback if I run into anything while exploring. Keep up the great work!
Love the value prop here. Trip research is definitely a huge pain point. How do you ensure the 30s briefing stays high-quality? Is it a mix of curated data and AI, or purely LLM-based? Signed up for the TestFlight, looking forward to trying it out!
Thanks for the early support! I'm already seeing anonymous mood markers popping up on the map. Let me know which country you are from.
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