Norvig's spell checker! norvig.com/spell-correct.…
It's a short snippet instead of codebase, but the fact that it solves a problem others might take a codebase to solve is exactly why it's so important
Jared Pochtar
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Jared Pochtar
@jpochtar
Working on something new. Fmr founder @PagedrawIO, ex-FB, devtools enthusiast. We'll steal SF tech talent to NY yet!
- Hi friends! I’m excited to share publicly what I’ve been up to. This is how PMs and designers can make simple changes to React apps themselves faster than waiting for engineering time:
- JS runs in the browser, app layer (node.js), and db layer (postgres/mongo). JS isn't my favorite language, but being able to use only one and share code everywhere is killer.
- Introducing gpt-http: have AI hallucinate apps at runtime, and skip product development altogether!
- Honestly Goodreads should optimize around being a dating app
- I’m joining a crazy fast growing startup in NY! meetdandy.com is the kind of co I thought I’d have to move back to SF for. If you’re an eng in NY wishing for a homegrown hypergrowth company, DM for details
- Weird pitch, but engineers should learn @sketch/@figmadesign. We talk a lot about designers learning to code, but inversely, as a coder being able to draw is a communication superpower. Instead of 3hrs coding just to find out I built the wrong thing, I can sketch it out in 3min
- Replying to @simonwIn a twist, prompt injecting is secretly the intended way to pass the interview, and what they’re screening for
- Pagedraw is shutting down and going open source. I’m moving on to Facebook!!
- Replying to @jordwalkeYes! Drop caps, images, and other figures in text documents CSS is an amazing text styling DSL, and absolutely TERRIBLE at anything else. Things it's not meant for, like, oh I don't know, UI layout.
- Dandy has to have the highest concentration ever of compiler nerds on a fullstack eng team
- Replying to @solomonstreKubernetes is slightly cheaper in computer time, and way more expensive in engineer time, which is a tradeoff engineers will take all day
- “REST” is too controversial; I’m going to say http/json from now on
