jesselawson.dev
Writing computer instructions since 1999. 🏳️🌈
Rust, C++, Ruby, TypeScript, etc.
Currently building https://teamlanes.com
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also, ngl code completion from ai is boring as fuck. i wanna type on my mechanical keyboard, not press tab.
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Here are some research questions to consider:
How many Instagram users are bots? How about Facebook? X?
BlueSky?
Now let’s zoom out:
What is the relationship between the growth of “agent”-based bot technology availability and the growing number of social media “users”?
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oops "log into" -> "log in to"
please don't take my english degree away
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So TL;DR: there's PLENTY of room here for options (or "competition" depending on how you want to participate). The more the merrier, I say--especially since it gives me a clear product to recommend to others for whom Teamlanes does not (and will not) solve their enterprise-grade needs.
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The fact is that the TAM is massive--but more importantly to me, the TAG (total addressable gap) left by a plurality of startups focusing efforts on enterprise customers leaves opinionated, stubborn people like me with an incredible opportunity to double-down on "excellence begins with the basics."
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I am highly opinionated about what I call the Core Communication & Collaboration Primitives (C3P) of a tool for digital collaboration among humans. I know the domain I am modelling, and I want it modeled as close to metal as possible. I'm trading time-to-market for core affordance experience.
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Teamlanes is taking a different approach entirely. The whole stack is built from scratch in Rust on top of tokio and hyper. The desktop client is built in Tauri (Rust). Where traditional startups are rapidly prototyping and adapting to prospective future customers (as they should), Teamlanes is not:
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This is great news for Teamlanes. As I shared in a comment there on HN, we need more options/competition in this space because it's dominated by the same four or five tired modalities of digital collaboration. Emdash appears oriented toward the existing enterprise market--and they look really slick!
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I do have to credit them for their very clear and very public masterclass in how not to communicate about data and privacy in 2025.
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For an organization to be so far removed from the reality of their market position, their UVP, and the state of tech today is just… embarrassing? That these decisions can be interpreted uncharitably is enough to indicate that they lack the requisite clarity necessary for user trust.
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Volunteer Mozilla Apologists are champing at the bit to interpret this charitably, and are rightfully being raked over the coals of experiential reality. As a longtime Firefox user, I’m disheartened by their continued pattern of first-year MBA comms mistakes.
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But Jim how do we know if tolerating the intolerant will work if we don’t try. It’s like you don’t even care about intolerant people who violate the social contract. What kind of chaotic hellscape do you want, man, where people can engage in wanton intolerance of the intolerant! /s
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Good idea with the music subdomain! I will have to do that once my new site is finished. Right now you can find my stuff on Spotify here open.spotify.com/artist/0Jvyv...
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I am incredibly grateful to have friends like this. 💕 Thanks again, Liz & Corey.
And I shudder to think back to those days now, and where I might be if I hadn't figured that out when I did.
(Including a few more of my personal household tips for your entertainment. 🥰)
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I am begging you, if you can't even *read* the output of an LLM, try it out, or otherwise judge its quality at ALL before handing the information out... Just tell me it's from an LLM.
I promise I won't judge, just don't waste my time. Please
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I’ll help with the NLnet grant app lets goooo
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Call it Decentralized Uniformly Mangled Binary Assembled Structure System (DUMBASS)
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I have many internal tools about this size that each are designed to do one thing extremely well and efficiently, and they’re all on the same Mac mini. Go for it! We are often so surrounded by planet-scale services that we can forget how awesomely powerful just one little box can be.
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If you've got the account anyway, you might as well give GAS a shot for your automation needs. I built, grew, and eventually sold my hosting company, and the entire tech stack was basically google app scripts that communicated via webhooks and a single PHP file that coordinated it all.
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I actually think this is why it’s so popular with a very specific breed of person. The kind of person who looks at someone’s art and goes “psh I could do that.” Those kind of people. Unfortunately many drawn to computers these days are not curious about anything other than make numbers go up.
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I have most of my infra introspection tooling migrated from random bash scripts into a nice little rust cli right now, and my discipline is really being tested because I keep dreaming up ways this would be way more pleasant with a short rabbit hole into ratatui...