Peter Pistorius
@appfactory
AI Builder at "startup in stealth."
Previously built @RedwoodJS, cmdcmd, and @_snaplet
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This isn't your typical acquisition blog post. I'm really excited not just that @rough__sea, @piscisaureus, and friends are joining, but also what they plan to work on: Making workerd a first-class, self-hostable open source runtime. Read for more:
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This is a popular opinion now, but T3 Code is a pleasure to use.
It is the most sane version of an agent orchestrator that I've used: It has well thought out defaults and good performance.
Well done T3 Team!
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We’ve lost an icon. Margaret Hamilton, a computer science pioneer best known for her work at MIT leading development of the flight software for the Apollo missions to the moon, has died at 90. Read about her legacy via MIT News:
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This time last year was React Conf 2025. I remember some of the speakers wondering why there was "so much AI" at a React Conf. This feels like a lifetime ago.
Same has always been true about teams of software engineers. I’ve spent years telling teams to write fewer tests especially unit tests and focus on velocity + minimum necessary end to end and integration testing
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@theo I would never leave the colony!
My tolerance for bad software has quickly dropped. It's too easy to fix and polish shit nowadays. No excuse for shipping broken garbage.
I'll gladly support a small team that actually wants to fix their software over big companies who can't make a functioning app.
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Don't RT this until you've tried it. It works, but this has zero care applied.
It works, but "VectorCraft" feels like you're dragging a cursor through mud. Basically unusable.
Sure, they can and will fix it, but there are too many apps here to make the implementer "care."
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Todos los productos de Adobe reimplementados desde cero, gratuitos y de código abierto
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one year ago. before the photoshop cleanroom. pay attention folks. if you are selling software (seperate of selling infrastructure) things are about to get very very hard for your business.
I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but the build time on my rust projects are not insane at all.
4 months ago: Where are all the vibe coded photoshops?
Today: Entire Adobe suite clean-room ported to Rust
Dev tool creators:
"I've invented a new spade that's an improvement over spades!"
Devs:
"Oh... But we have a machine that invents new spades when you think about them?"
I will never try and sell software to software developers again unless it's coupled to infrastructure.
I will never try and sell software to software developers again unless it's coupled to infrastructure.
Shetland ponies are assholes. If you think I'm trolling you're obviously never had one.
Very little about using JavaScript/ TypeScript makes sense today.
The only valid use-case I can think of is if you're building something intended for the browser, or you're providing functionality that should be extendable in user space.
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I've been building a ton of desktop applications in GPUI: A spotlight replacement, a harness projection tool, a desktop video recorder.
I will probably never share them. They're made just for me, the way I think about UX, and my 8GB MacBook Air.
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THE ANNOUNCEMENT: We’re going to make the prophecy of The Year of Linux on the Desktop come true. All the pieces are now in place. Time to go all in!
This model is slaughtering all our internal benchmarks. What the actual fuck is it??
My main takeaway from this note is that Stripe is obsessed with SPEED.
And that anyone not moving fast will be road kill.
