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18.02.2025 17:19
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Talking to this thing in a pretty open and natural way to have it update your plans is surprisingly satisfying.
Mike Cann made a pretty sweet app, and then he and I used it on video to prepare for the rise of skynet.
You know, usual Tuesday stuff.
convex.link/nZT1nhy
Defying all odds, I made a second blog post!
jt.lol/posts/simple...
This one is about AI realizations at work, and how AI's lack of hesitation to try new methods opens up opportunities to leverage new abstractions.
Now, the previous blogs never got beyond the first post describing how/why I built the engine, but THIS TIME will be different, I'm sure...
Continuing my tradition (github.com/jamwt/hobo) (github.com/jamwt/robo) of building a blog engine every five years using my latest favorite tech (the 2005 python one has been lost to the sands of time), I just did it again. and I wrote up how it went.
jt.lol/posts/buildi...
New video out: Zero-downtime, type-safe migrations on Convex. Courtesy of the awesome migrations component written by @ianmacartney.bsky.social
(special guest appearance by Ryan Gosling)
youtu.be/hj89hIjq2HE
As I mentioned to Brian, I'm very jealous of his voice. He has such a rich, resonant voice for podcasting!
Really enjoyed this chat with @brianmm.dev of @clerk.com on building developer products. Especially when we got real about working on novel platforms that generate vendor lock-in concerns.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyaC...
Direct link to the code: github.com/jamwt/1app5s...
Running: roundest-convex.vercel.app
Shockingly, Convex wasn't included in @t3.gg 's recent video on "one app on five different stacks." So I ported it!
youtu.be/hW2IiPFFd_0
If you've ever been curious to know *a lot* about database isolation levels, and what is subtly broken about your database (even Postgres), @cowling.bsky.social , Tom Redman and I just made a pod about it:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEfq...
I'm not saying it's not useful, I'm just saying it's not what got me into tech.
It's always a joy to discover a new software project that is actually DEEPLY focused on the human experience and craftpersonship, rather than a clever quick-value-grab.
But you have to look pretty hard!
But the imprecise and the open and the expansive? We already have that. And it's beautiful when it's owned by a human, it's connected to an intention. We emit it and observe it and let it wash over us. That's life to me.
I struggle to care very much that machines can fake that for fewer USD.
In particular, I'm not very inspired by tech which is efficient, but only probabilistic or open-ended. Enablement is more inspiring than efficiency.
Humans are bad at precision. Tools (like software) are exciting when they can augment the human experience by enabling precision when it's useful.
Twenty five years in tech, and I find consistently the only part of it that I've given any shit about is the connections to humans.
Tools and technologies which are ultimately only interesting in a mathematical/self-referential may may be neat and clever, but they're not very inspiring...