valtism

Location: Sydney, Australia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: React, JavaScript, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Next.js, React Server Components, Vite, Astro, React Native, TanStack Start, Storybook, Zod, Figma, VisX / D3, AWS, Lambda, Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, GraphQL, REST, Ruby, Rails, Redis

Résumé/CV: https://www.valtism.com/cv.pdf

Github: https://github.com/valtism

Email: morphs63.cleat@icloud.com

Remote-first Staff/Principal Front-End Engineer in Sydney, Australia. I’m strongest in Front-End, complex UI, performance, data visualisation, with full-stack experience across GraphQL, Rails, Redis, AWS, serverless, and React Native.

I helped take Pry (YC W23) from pre-launch to ~30% MoM growth and a $90M Brex acquisition.

I’m looking for a high-trust IC role where I can stay hands-on, own hard product surfaces, raise codebase quality, mentor engineers, and write quality, maintainable software.

Location: Sydney, Australia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: React, JavaScript, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Next.js, React Server Components, Vite, Astro, React Native, TanStack Start, Storybook, Zod, Figma, VisX / D3, AWS, Lambda, Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, GraphQL, REST, Ruby, Rails, Redis

Résumé/CV: https://www.valtism.com/cv.pdf

Github: https://github.com/valtism

Email: morphs63.cleat@icloud.com

Remote-first Staff/Principal Front-End Engineer in Sydney, Australia. I’m strongest in Front-End, complex UI, performance, data visualization, with full-stack experience across GraphQL, Rails, Redis, AWS, serverless, and React Native.

I helped take Pry (YC W23) from pre-launch to ~30% MoM growth and a $90M Brex acquisition.

I’m looking for a high-trust IC role where I can stay hands-on, own hard product surfaces, raise codebase quality, mentor engineers, and write quality, maintainable software.

Wow, I didn't think this was badly written at all! I certainly don't think it smells like AI. Are you conflating lists with AI written prose?

Parakeet TDT v3 would be really good at that

VSCode has good performance, especially for how feature complete it is, but it really has nothing on the boot speed of Zed

I had no idea Lydia was working for Bun now. Her technical writing is absolutely top notch

Same age:

commit b400449a58507cca1fa007197929c2cfd6beabbe

Author: Nathan Sobo <nathan@zed.dev>

Date: Sat Feb 20 10:02:34 2021 -0700

    Start rebuilding with a cleanly-separated UI framework

Was that true for GPT-5? They claim it is much better at not hallucinating

As someone who has lived in Brisbane, I can attest that it does a really good job of capturing the colour of the city. There is a unique golden hour shade there like no other city I have lived in.

Would something like that hold up in court?

I'd assume that it's because they devolve into politics and Elon-bashing, rather than constructive discussion

I'm just about to leave for a long international flight, so this is absolutely perfect for me!

Glad I saw the comment about it being paid so I could get to the purchase screen before I lost internet. (As a side note, it says "Buy now for $3.99" but it's really $5.99 in my currency. Not sure if you can make the button match to the price in the locale)

I don't believe it's just that. I'm pretty sure he's taking testosterone as well

It was originally written in flash, then ported to C++ which would explain some (not all) of the badness.

Really appreciate the quality you put into expressing these things. It was nice just to see a well laid-out justification of how trying to tie a frontend to a backend can get messy quickly. I'm definitely going to remember the "ungrounded abstraction" as a useful concept here.

I really don't see the issue with OpenAI becoming for-profit. They started as a research group with no intention of creating a marketable product, and stumbled onto one. I think it would make sense for them to become for-profit.

Funnily enough, PCP is a drug that is very similar to Ketamine, but has a very different reputation.

Whenever someone sees someone in full-blown psychosis walking stark naked on the side of the road, PCP immediately gets the blame. In reality, both drugs have the same psychosis potential.

It's not an immediate thing. Heavy users will just start feeling confident and motivated. Little need for sleep and a spring in their step like they are light as a feather. As the heavy use continues, this can spiral into mania, delusions of grandeur, detachment from reality and paranoia.

I have no way of knowing how much Elon uses, but it would not surprise me if he is treating himself with consistent low doses of ketamine. I wonder how his memory is, that would be a pretty good tell.

Even "simple" interfaces–popovers, date pickers–inevitably become spiralling fractals of complexity, each layer folding into another the longer you look at them. Text editing would be crazier, even more so than what is described here.

This is a nice 2-minute video overview of this from Matt Pocock (of Typescript fame) https://www.aihero.dev/anthropics-new-model-context-protocol...

It's free (for now)

You can also just have a spoon in the microwave too, right? I think It's only from things like crinkles in aluminium foil and the prongs of a fork that produce sparks and arcing inside.

React is this for me. Before it, I was fumbling around with libraries like ExtJS for my first job, but after I started using it the concept of components that produce a view as a functional output of state really made so much sense to me.

It has given me so many powerful primitives to use while coding for the web

What car models are a good example of dashboard controls done right?

Your productivity absolutely phenomenal. Each video that comes out seems like you make what would take a normal person a good part of a year to produce in a fraction of the time.

re: Japan, I think it has to do with having higher density, meaning many things are within shorter walking distances.

I also think Japan is generally a lot more pleasant to walk in than the US

Tony Fadell was hired to create the iPod in late January 2001. Steve Jobs greenlit the project in March 2001. They hired a contract manufacturer in April 2001, announced the product in October 2001, and shipped the first production iPod to customers in November 2001, around 290 days after getting started. Source: Tony Fadell.

Just 290 days for the iPod to go from idea to customer is crazy fast

You don't exactly need to compile Typescript to make it run, you can just strip the types out which is much faster than compilation. If you want you can run `tsc` to have the compiler compile it and check for errors, but this can be running as you develop to act more as a linter.

I remember reading about this game as a full feature in a gaming magazine years ago. I was so entranced by the mystery of it and gorgeous art style, but never actually got to play it. I'll have to see if I can get it up and running.

The term signal was used, because RxJS had already taken the term "Observable" to refer to their primitives, which are actually more like streams.

Because of this, Ryan Carniato of SolidJS referred to his own observable primitives as "signals" and this has become the default terminology to talk about this type of pattern within the context of web development.

Really, signals should be thought of as a type of observable.

I also emailed them. Was asked for a minimal change to make it better and I suggested changing adding a class to the <td> to color: #333. This was in August 2021 but it hasn't been changed.