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ex-Dropbox/Google/YC founder Now in Solo Mode building:

Boulder, CO

Joined June 2009

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Matt Holden

18 days

I've been skeptical of "agent" hype, but this is compelling if it works To me the essence of “agent” is “breaks down a complex task into steps and executes them” One big challenge with agents is: How does a user...

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Scott Stevenson

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Meet Spellbook Associate: The first AI Agent for law Two years ago we launched the first GenAI copilot for lawyers. We had no idea it would now be used by 2,500+ legal teams! Today we're launching the first full-fledged agent that can break down legal projects into plans,

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Matt Holden

1 year

OpenAI Functions is the coolest new tech I've played with in a long time. It's totally changed how I think about building software. It's linguistic computation.

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Matt Holden

1 year

Current favorite tech stack: - @nextjs on @vercel - @ClerkDev for auth - @mantinedev components styled with @tailwindcss - @posthog for product analytics and feature flags - @getsentry for errors - @duckdb for instant data transforms anywhere What else I should check out?

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Matt Holden

10 months

ChatGPT is very helpful at answering questions about @duckdb (my favorite database). But...its knowledge is always out of date 😢 So I built QuackGPT: a custom GPT with access to the latest (0.9.2-dev) docs (an 895 page PDF!). It also makes occasional duck jokes. Give it a

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Matt Holden

1 year

Launching a fun new project for @duckdb #DuckCon today in SF! Duckbook is an AI-powered SQL notebook that runs in your browser, powered by the blazing speed of DuckDB. Try it free here:

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Matt Holden

1 year

One thing I love about @shadcn 's component library is it's made me write better code in my own components e.g. adding optional className? props that use the `cn` utility + tailwind-merge is a great pattern. Or learning new tailwind techniques from his code Code ownership ftw!

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Matt Holden

10 months

Ha, nice! I've been building this as a solo dev the last couple of months, leveraging OpenAI Functions. The idea was to offer a "fuzzy command palette" where you could just type what you want to change the state of your chart. Give it a spin. Would love any feedback!

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Guillermo Rauch

10 months

Very impressive tool: Easiest way to plot data on the internet You can use AI to make any change to the result:

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Matt Holden

1 year

I open sourced a new library to make it easier to use @duckdb in WebAssembly in @reactjs apps: I used it to build (fun/free solo project I launched recently) and in a new WIP project (not launched yet). Feel free to use/fork!

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Matt Holden

1 year

Meta: You can't use Llama2 without our permission if you have "greater than 700 million monthly active users in the preceding calendar month" Snapchat: "We have 750M MAUs"

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Matt Holden

1 year

Just had my first contribution to @duckdb merged 🎉 Ok, it was only a tiny 1-line change, but there will soon be an `ends_with` function, and `starts_with` will be reunited with her soul mate. Open source ftw!

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Matt Holden

10 months

Request for startup: 1. I pick my tech stack (e.g. @nextjs 14.0.2, @reactjs 18, @tailwindcss 3.3.5, etc) 2. You create a GPT (or Assistant) for me, that does RAG over these exact docs. Even better: Whenever I `git push`, update my GPT from my `package.json`. I already use

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Matt Holden

1 year

Such a weird rebrand. Isn’t HBO one of the best brands in media? It’s like if Disney+ dropped the Disney part, and said now we’re the Plus app.

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1 year

“Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!!”

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Matt Holden

10 months

Just how jolly can Santa be? Let's find out.

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Matt Holden

9 months

Fun little project I made with @OpenAI 's new DALL-E 3 image model: I've been enjoying the "make it more" memes, so I made a free app to create and share them easily. Just pick a noun + adjective, and let the AI do the rest.

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Matt Holden

10 months

@emollick My favorite trick recently: whenever it says it can't do something (like install a python wheel), just say "you absolutely can, please try again" and it often works

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Matt Holden

1 year

@swyx @jefrankle Any publisher can block Google with a robots.txt. Reason they don't is they get more value (traffic) from Google than Google takes from them. LLMs aren't providing much value (or often, even attribution) back to content owners, so not surprising they will move in this direction

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Matt Holden

1 year

@ilanbigio I used to use prompting ("only return JSON using this format..."). But functions works much better. You can pass in JSON schemas, and I think the model has been tuned to respect them. You still get occasional hallucinations, but can solve that by validating output (I use zod)

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Matt Holden

1 year

I just registered a new LLC in ~30m using @stripe @atlas with zero legal fees. Super simple and includes nice perks like OpenAI credits. Highly recommended if you're starting a business!

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Matt Holden

1 year

@BrivaelLp Yeah, it bridges the domains of (ambiguous, intuitive) language and (precise, deterministic) computation. Super powerful

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Matt Holden

10 months

Wow, computer "programming" is getting so fun and weird. Feels like some crazy-cool Bret Victor vision has arrived, but you can hack it together as a weekend side project for any tool and a few cents of compute. (cc @geoffreylitt seems up your alley)

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nailing the technical interview

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Matt Holden

1 year

Took only 1 day for Stripe to complete the incorporation in DE and get me a federal tax ID. Much faster than last time I did this (during Covid). Now time to setup a new @mercury account!

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Matt Holden

1 year

I just registered a new LLC in ~30m using @stripe @atlas with zero legal fees. Super simple and includes nice perks like OpenAI credits. Highly recommended if you're starting a business!

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Matt Holden

2 years

We decided to wind down Whywhywhy at the end of the year, after not getting traction. Big thanks to our investors, employees, and everyone who tried our product! We wrote up some learnings that can hopefully be helpful to other founders in the space:

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Matt Holden

3 years

600+ homes burned in our community today…in December. We are safe but rough day for Colorado 😢

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Matt Holden

11 months

@kaseyklimes My brother lives in Tokyo and helped create this place (pretty cool!):

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Matt Holden

10 months

Built with: - @nextjs + @vercel for hosting (and their awesome AI SDK) - @ClerkDev for auth - @shadcn (best UI lib ever!) - @tldraw for annotations - @convex_dev for storage And because OpenAI Functions are so structured, gpt-3.5 is quite good (and much faster than gpt-4!).

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Matt Holden

8 months

💯 Function calling totally changed how I built AI-powered apps. Before, LLMs were text in -> text out. That works for text completion use cases (like helping a user write a blog post or some code). But most interesting software use cases aren't like that, they need more

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Guillermo Rauch

8 months

The AI generation was a particularly fun part. This screenshot I think sums up the intersection of "Software 1.0" and "Software 2.0" engineering that'll become the norm in coming years. We prompt the AI with human language, but we expect *structured output* from its generation.

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Matt Holden

2 years

@ben_mathes @acesounderglass Good list! I'd add Kurt Gödel too.

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Matt Holden

1 year

Just used @ClerkDev for the first time, so good! Took ~1h to add beautiful, branded auth flows to a NextJS app - including a user menu, profile/settings, account switching, email flows, multiple SSO providers, 2FA... This is a golden age for solo devs!

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Matt Holden

2 years

As a PM, @whimsical is one of my top 3 favorite tools. I used it often at @Google even though it wasn't allowed (oops!). Google has now officially approved it, so if you're an engineer, PM, or designer at Google, email success @whimsical .com and they'll hook you up!

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Matt Holden

1 year

Working on a new project based on a bunch of learnings from launching . People continue to find and use Duckbook without any marketing effort, which surprised me. Feedback has been super useful! But new project is going to be much cooler :)

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Matt Holden

1 year

My 4-year old daughter has no idea what Google is, but continues to ask me unprompted to type questions for the "magic thing". 3 from today: - where does daniel tiger live? - why do cats eat moths? - why does the potty make a sound after it flushes?

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Matt Holden

1 year

My daughter now regularly asks in the morning while we're getting ready for school -- "daddy, can we do the magic thing again?" This morning we made a story about superkitties rescuing a balloon stuck in a tree 🎈

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Tonight, I told my 4yo daughter the "magic thing" (i.e. ChatGPT) knows how to draw pictures now After a few iterations, behold: "a unicorn, kitty, and hedgehog eating a pumpkin pie, with a rubik's cube" (p.s. Midjourney is amazing, but this is SO much easier to use)

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Matt Holden

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My 4-year old daughter has no idea what Google is, but continues to ask me unprompted to type questions for the "magic thing". 3 from today: - where does daniel tiger live? - why do cats eat moths? - why does the potty make a sound after it flushes?

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Matt Holden

1 year

New favorite type ID lib: IDs look like "user_01h5x195f5fc8skjptdxszd1kt", and are typed like TypeID<"user">. Much better than passing around strings. More compact & url friendly than typical guids. Avail in many langs. Nice work, @jetpack_io team!

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GitHub - jetify-com/typeid-js: TypeScript implementation of TypeIDs: type-safe, K-sortable, and...

TypeScript implementation of TypeIDs: type-safe, K-sortable, and globally unique identifiers inspired by Stripe IDs - jetify-com/typeid-js

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Matt Holden

1 year

@philotimo_eu I’ll have more concrete examples to share soon (both code and a fun demo that will show what I mean)

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1 year

TFW your infant starts sleeping 5+ hours a night 😍

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Matt Holden

9 months

Got 300+ posts on the first day of makeitmoreMoreMORE Some are hilarious. Some look delicious. One person is super into gourds? I added a Random tab to the gallery to make browsing more fun: Will share a few highlights here 😁

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Matt Holden

1 year

My 4yo saw me using @OpenAI 's ChatGPT this morning, and asked if it was magic? I said, "yeah, pretty much". She insisted on trying it herself without help, and only knows how to type a few words, but she was still delighted. (cc @katiecholden )

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Matt Holden

1 year

Two things have made web dev so much better in the last few years: - @reactjs hooks - @nextjs I used to be more curious about new frameworks like vue, svelte, solid. Not anymore (sorry). The ecosystem around next/react is just so good, feels like a golden age for web dev.

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Matt Holden

10 months

Built my first Custom GPT on a flight home: ELI4 TAM is just 1 person: my 4y old daughter She already delights in asking questions to the “Magic Thing” (i.e. ChatGPT), usually about how the world works. What do ants eat? How do cars move? You know, 4y old stuff 1/2

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Matt Holden

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Tonight, I told my 4yo daughter the "magic thing" (i.e. ChatGPT) knows how to draw pictures now After a few iterations, behold: "a unicorn, kitty, and hedgehog eating a pumpkin pie, with a rubik's cube" (p.s. Midjourney is amazing, but this is SO much easier to use)

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Matt Holden

10 months

Excited about @OpenAI DevDay tomorrow! Also, traveling solo (without two small children in tow), I feel light as a feather!

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Matt Holden

8 months

Great post sharing some good learnings for AI feature builders. Couple things I found interesting: 1. A "local" approach (fix 1 line) won over a "global" one (rewrite the query) for multiple reasons (UX, speed). Reminds me of spellcheck/Grammarly (local/unobtrusive, can ignore

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MotherDuck

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Last week, we released FixIt, an AI error corrector integrated directly into the MotherDuck UI. The team has written a blog post to explain how it works and how we built it 👇

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Matt Holden

1 year

Confession: I hate writing unit tests, so I usually don’t. Having ChatGPT do it for me is amazing. “heyo, write some jest unit tests for this code: <paste>” and I’m done. Takes 5s, and they’re actually good! I feel like it’s doing my chores, so I can focus on the fun part 🙌

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Matt Holden

10 months

I hate writing unit tests, so I made an @OpenAI GPT to write them for me. No chit chat needed, just paste your code and get tests back. wdyt?

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ChatGPT - Write My Tests

Writes unit tests for provided code snippets or files, inferring code language and framework.

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Matt Holden

10 months

I already believed this yesterday, but even so more so today. The amount of power available to a solo dev today via simple APIs is insane

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Matt Holden

10 months

@chenliw Best time ever to be a solo builder!

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Matt Holden

3 years

Everything about crypto feels like a late-stage bubble to me. It feels like 2007. Extended family or friends who don’t know anything about finance or tech are asking about crypto investments or coins or NFTs they don’t understand. That’s what a late stage bubble feels like

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Matt Holden

2 years

Who's going to the @getdbt Coalesce conference in New Orleans next week? Excited to learn from others and meet more folks f2f!

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Matt Holden

1 year

Got a new web domain today. Pretty excited about it! Been prototyping a bunch of new stuff, and think it's gonna be sweet :)

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Matt Holden

1 year

I don’t think there’s ever been a better time to be a web engineer. Powerful new APIs to play with, browsers are super fast, dev tools are amazing/cheap. Typescript/React/Next/Tailwind (hosted on Vercel or Netlify) is wildly productive. Exciting time to be a solo builder!

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Matt Holden

1 year

Been noodling on why a Chat UI works so well for interacting with LLMs. I think it’s because it gives you control over memory. Sometimes I’ll go back to long coding chats where past context is helpful. Other times, it’s better to start with a clean slate and no “residue”. 1/5

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Matt Holden

1 year

Great to be back for a visit to SF (a city I called home for 8 years, and where I met my wife!). It feels grittier than it used to, with more places boarded up. But also alive with a certain intellectual energy few places can match. I think both narratives are true at once?

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Matt Holden

1 year

@fanpelt I build mostly in Typescript/React and use @vercel 's `ai` sdk: (it's not tied to Vercel, just made by them). Main reason I like it is it makes streaming easy. I added a thin layer on top to validate schemas with zod (planning to open source/share soon)

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Matt Holden

10 months

Another day, another toy GPT Direct Answer answers any question with an extremely brief and decisive answer, ideally 1-2 words. No hedging allowed! Use it to settle any holy war or bike-shedding, once and for all. What if you compressed all human knowledge into direct answers?

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Matt Holden

2 years

@pdrmnvd If you want pure, fun, beautiful, I would dip your toes in elementary number theory or group theory. Eg here’s a cool course Gowers (Fields medalist at Cambridge) taught to undergrads that gives a good feel for what pure math is like:

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Matt Holden

1 year

My daughter now regularly asks in the morning while we're getting ready for school -- "daddy, can we do the magic thing again?" This morning we made a story about superkitties rescuing a balloon stuck in a tree 🎈

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Matt Holden

1 year

My 4yo saw me using @OpenAI 's ChatGPT this morning, and asked if it was magic? I said, "yeah, pretty much". She insisted on trying it herself without help, and only knows how to type a few words, but she was still delighted. (cc @katiecholden )

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1 year

This job seems perfect for me. Think I should apply?

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Matt Holden

10 months

Previously, this would have been hard to build (RAG, chunking, embedding, etc). But this only took 10m to make. All I had to do was upload a PDF and answer a few questions. Cool!

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Matt Holden

2 years

Excited to be sharing more about what we've been working on at Whywhywhy. If this looks interesting to you, would love to chat!

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Whywhywhy

2 years

Excited to be at the @getdbt #Coalesce conference this week, sharing more about what we're working on at Whywhywhy - a browser extension that bridges your team’s data and communication tools. Check it out here:

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Matt Holden

9 months

Aperiodic ravioli tiling? Amazing! I’m so here for this

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Matt Holden

1 year

Wow! Ok, time to retile all my bathrooms.

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11 months

@nikitabier Native apps won on mobile and lost on desktop. For consumer products (focused on entertainment, consumption, communication), mobile is probably everything. But if you're B2B (most companies), desktop is probably more important. tl;dr - it depends on your product/business

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Matt Holden

2 years

My 3yo daughter loved her new AI art. Thanks, @ArtImaginedByAI !

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Matt Holden

1 year

Great hire by @OpenAI -- can't wait to see what you do!

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1 year

Today’s my first day @OpenAI and I'm quite excited about it! I’ll work with the research team to design user interfaces to cutting edge ML models.

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1 year

Feels like things are accelerating: It's not just AI, it's that we also have very high-quality "building blocks" for it to assemble (like radix-ui/shadcn components built on React/Tailwind/Typescript). 1/4

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Generate UI with simple text prompts. Copy, paste, ship.

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shadcn

1 year

Introducing v0 by @vercel - v0 generates custom components on the fly that you can copy and paste into your existing codebase. Need a component? Just Ask - @jaredpalmer @shuding_ @max_leiter @mrncst @rauchg @cramforce @almonk and the team at Vercel

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Matt Holden

1 year

This looks really nice. The @radix_ui primitives are the best headless components I've seen, but styling well isn't easy. Now we have both shadcn and Radix Themes as beautiful/accessible components with top-notch devX. Great time to be a UI builder!

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Radix by WorkOS

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🎉 Announcing Radix Themes—a beautiful, open source component library that’s built on top of the primitives so many developers love.

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Matt Holden

3 years

@gordonbrander I love products with Undo. Feels safe, playful, forgiving. At early Dropbox, "Undo, not confirm" was one of our product principles. I still think about that one sometimes when designing UIs.

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Matt Holden

10 months

An example to illustrate. QuackGPT (on the left) knows about the new `ends_with` function. But classic ChatGPT (on the right) does not, because its training cutoff was April 2023 and it has no ability to RTFM.

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Matt Holden

2 years

@NateSilver538 Voting hasn’t been effective, though, at affecting composition of the court. Dems got more votes in 8 of the last 9 prez elections, but the undemocratic EC/Senate and retirement timing gave them only 3 of 9 seats. What’s your advice, vote harder?

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Matt Holden

1 year

I've been playing with @OpenAI Functions for a few days, and it's a really nice change to how LLMs work. I already see two big benefits in my code: structuring output, and branching within a prompt. 1/5

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Matt Holden

1 year

Remember when @Google Labs was still new and cool in the 2000s? (It was shut down in 2011) Well - it's a new era of cool "Beta" beaker-icon stuff to play with. Everybody has a Labs again!

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Peter Welinder

1 year

Plugins and Web browsing are now out in Beta to 100% of ChatGPT Plus users

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Matt Holden

9 months

Got a big spike tonight, now at 900+ posts (fun!). Have been hitting OpenAI DALL-E rate limits all night ( @OfficialLoganK halp, bump me up?). If you hit an error, sorry about that! Some of the new submissions are pretty hilarious:

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Gallery - Make it moreMoreMORE

Crank up the silly

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Matt Holden

9 months

Got 300+ posts on the first day of makeitmoreMoreMORE Some are hilarious. Some look delicious. One person is super into gourds? I added a Random tab to the gallery to make browsing more fun: Will share a few highlights here 😁

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Matt Holden

1 year

@hamiltonulmer @motherduck When I saw you mention you were on the job market, I immediately pinged Jordan/Tino saying "this guy is special, you should hire him". They didn't share anything, but happy to see that's where you landed. Makes me more more bullish on DuckDB/MD!

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9 months

@geoffreylitt They had a lot of market experience from the iPod? Adding a phone was cool, but the browser (er "breakthrough internet communicator") was the killer feature imo for the iPhone 1 (no app store, few apps). Difficult tech/ux problem to solve, but dogfooding probably worked well?

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Matt Holden

9 months

@emollick Hilarious if true. What would be the mechanism causing it? Is the hypothesis that RLHF from ChatGPT end users would differ in December? Or that internal raters generating test data are behaving differently?

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Matt Holden

2 years

The primary effect of the privacy campaign against 3p data and cookies will be to drive more ad $ to huge 1p players like Google, Amazon, Apple, Walmart. No meaningful diff in “privacy” but big impact on competition. Not what’s intended, but privacy and competition are at odds.

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Matt Holden

2 years

@rsms Building a new browser to do this faces big network effect headwinds. Devs won’t pay attention until you get to significant mkt share. Another approach is creating new app layout engines on wasm. Eg see Nice bc users don’t need to switch browsers

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Matt Holden

10 months

@simonw Mine are mostly toys, but happy to share my prompts TeXplainIt: Prompt: QuackGPT: Prompt: Write My Tests: Prompt: (prompt comments

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Matt Holden

2 years

Wildfire smoke seen from my house. The 2020s keep testing us, but grateful for family and our first responders. #NCARFire

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Matt Holden

8 months

If you dig TypeScript, you might find this useful: Small open source lib that adds runtime output validation and some patterns to make function calling more ergonomic. Mostly just standing on @colinhacks shoulders with Zod (🙏). If you prefer Python,

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Matt Holden

10 months

After FTX and OpenAI, let's all just agree to stick to boring old Delaware C Corps Innovate on building things people want, not novel corporate structures with unclear governance

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Matt Holden

1 year

@antonycourtney Avoid converting data (like toArray). Use arrow.schema for field metadata, and just access row data as needed via the RowStructProxy using arrow.get(rowIndex). E.g. here's a virtualized table in with smooth scrolling over 270k rows :)

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Matt Holden

10 months

This is the most fun time in software since early Web 2.0 days. A few years ago, it was boring (top of the S-curve) maturity/monopolies. Now it's weird and fun again. Who cares about "moats"? More "What if...?" experiments, please 😍

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Orion Reed

10 months

What if collaborative whiteboards could do physics? Here's a Rust/WASM physics sim inside of a multiplayer @tldraw canvas. All in realtime, happening in the background. Let your diagrams fall to the floor, make dominoes on your state charts, put rejected ideas into a pile...

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Matt Holden

1 year

@bradneuberg CORS is my least favorite part of web dev. I guess it makes things more secure (?), but it sucks and makes the web feel way less open. Remember the good old days of JSONP?

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Matt Holden

8 months

I'm excited about the potential for "small" AI features like this to make computers more intuitive, helpful, and humane, gently nudging us in our existing workflows. "Programming" (whether in Python, SQL, or Excel) is so powerful but often feels strict and unforgiving,

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Matt Holden

8 months

@peduarte You forgot the checkbox for "Install a software update right as I'm about to hop on an important call"

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Matt Holden

10 months

@nextjs @reactjs @tailwindcss Trying out @cursor_ai It does have a feature to "learn" from a specific docs URL (nice!). I tried pointing it at and it crawled the docs, but still gives me wrong/outdated answers. Any way to fix this?

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Matt Holden

1 year

@i_dontknowmuch You can define a bunch of functions with structured args, and then have the model pick one based on a prompt (and then do whatever you want with the response). It's bridging unstructured/structured in a powerful, simple way

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Matt Holden

1 year

Dollar cost averaging has never made much sense to me. Vanguard analyzed it and found it underperforms 68% of the time vs investing as a lump sum. Nice to see data on this!

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Lump-sum investing versus cost averaging: Which is better?

Our research finds favorable potential outcomes in immediately investing a lump sum versus cost averaging or holding on to cash.

investor.vanguard.com

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Matt Holden

2 years

@Carnage4Life Good ones. Also: - Instagram (2010) - Zoom (2011) - Notion (2012) - Google/Apple Photos 2015 - Linear (2019) A lot of good companies founded in 2008-09 (Dropbox, Slack, Airbnb, Uber, WhatsApp) that had their golden/growth years in the 2010s. 2010s we’re great for innovation

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Matt Holden

1 year

I'm digging the new @nextjs App folder. It's got some rough edges and takes some getting used to. But breaking down UIs into nested layouts/pages and using server actions (with @vercel postgres) is really nice. Feels powerful, simpler, and super fast.

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Matt Holden

1 year

Very cool demo! ( @heyequals seems to be crushing execution) I love the vision of a deterministic familiar UI, with some unobtrustive/helpful AI sprinkled in. I've been playing with similar ideas in , but in a Notion-like notebook format vs spreadsheet

@bobbypinero

Bobby Pinero

1 year

This might be one of my favorite @heyequals demos I've made. In it I build an analysis using our AI Assist (command+J) feature to: - Write me a query and edit it - Write my formulas - Configure my charts - Describe the data in my chart All in under 3 min 💥

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Matt Holden

11 months

Yes, nice philosophy, as user expectations are much higher than before. But one of @stripe 's main innovations was figuring out how to convince world-class engineers to work on payments, which was never very sexy. Beautiful design, growing the Internet GDP, positive sum thinking

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Karri Saarinen

11 months

@patrickc on Stripe: “My intuition is that more of Stripe success than one would think is down to the fact that people like beautiful things and for rational reasons. Because, what does a beautiful thing tell you? It tells you the person who made it really cared, and you can

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Matt Holden

2 years

Why is it called Whywhywhy? Just added a new /about page with that and more...

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Whywhywhy

2 years

We put together a page going into the "why?" behind Whywhywhy for @getdbt #dbtCoalesce :

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Matt Holden

1 year

@duckdb @motherduck Give it a spin and let me know what you think. If you're attending #DuckCon today in SF, I'll see you there!

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Matt Holden

8 months

@pdrmnvd @vboykis Here's the prompt (I had to add the bit about being fired from my job, or it still sometimes answered "Subjective")

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Matt Holden

2 years

Sad to see the run on SVB (an important part of the startup ecosystem). If the panic puts them out of business, I assume no depositors will lose any money (none did in 2008 at FDIC insured banks), but will be bad for startups.

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Matt Holden

10 months

New react hook just dropped. Been looking forward to this one! Thanks @lgrammel !

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Jared Palmer

10 months

RFC: Assistants API for the @Vercel AI SDK h/t @lgrammel

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Matt Holden

2 years

Trying to understand, what’s the justification for carried interest to be taxed as capital gains? As a mgt fee, seems like it’s obviously income, no capital was risked, no possibility of capital loss. Is there some argument for it I’m missing?

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Matt Holden

1 year

Wow! Ok, time to retile all my bathrooms.

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Newly discovered ‘einstein’ shape can do something no other tile can do | CNN

A geometry problem that has been puzzling scientists for 60 years has likely just been solved by an amateur mathematician with a newly discovered 13-sided shape.

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Matt Holden

1 year

I haven't published many open source libs before, but one really fun thing about it is that random cool builders reach out (usually in Discord/Twitter DMs) and want to chat or swap notes. Happy to chat! I use tons of open source myself, so fun to give back (just a little ;) )

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Matt Holden

1 year

I open sourced a new library to make it easier to use @duckdb in WebAssembly in @reactjs apps: I used it to build (fun/free solo project I launched recently) and in a new WIP project (not launched yet). Feel free to use/fork!

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Matt Holden

2 years

When a bank failure wipes out equity/bond holders, that's working as designed. Those folks were knowingly taking risk, had upside, and are expected to do diligence. But if *any* deposits are lost when a bank fails, that's a huge regulatory failure that undermines trust.

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