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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

29 days

I love that I can ask Chrome to create a github repo and deploy it to vercel now.

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

14 days

The open ai realtime api is sick! I hooked it up to control my browser so I could browse the web with my voice 🤯

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@sawyerhood

1 year

@OpenAI 's GPT-4-Vision is a literal game changer. I was able to hack together this flow of doing low fidelity mock up -> actual html in like < 5 hours of the api being available. The future is bright.

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

4 years

For maker week at @figmadesign I really wanted to do something wild, so I made a plugin that runs a gameboy emulator inside of Figma and renders the output as vectors to the canvas.

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

10 months

Retiring on a goat farm is gonna have to wait

TechCrunch

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10 months

Adobe and Figma end $20B acquisition plans after regulatory headwinds in Europe

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@sawyerhood

2 years

Excuse me!? I just asked GPT-4 to give me a React app that looks like Facebook Messenger, supports dark mode, and communicates with the gpt-4 api and it worked? Actually blown away.

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

4 months

I'm dropping what is surely the biggest AI release all day! I'm open sourcing Windows 9X, which is Windows but all of the apps are ai generated. Let 9X show you itself:

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@sawyerhood

5 months

My ultimate llm test: ask it to make facebook messenger as a single html file. gpt-4o does this in 6 seconds!?!?

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

5 months

I've just open-sourced my tlbrowse demo! You can generate imagined websites on an infinite @tldraw canvas.

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@sawyerhood

5 months

I plugged gpt-4o into my windows 9X simulator. It cooks up paint.exe with multiple tools in < 10seconds. This is 100% realtime. For contrast Opus took closer to 30 seconds. This model is cracked

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

4 months

In case you haven't been following: I'm building Windows 9X. It is a simulacrum of an OS from the 90s but all of the apps are AI generated. Today we have a huge milestone; programs can define their own file formats and save data to the file system.

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

3 months

No... what!? This can't be happening.

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

3 years

I'm really excited to show off the real reason I'm excited about widgets: pandering to 90s kid nostalgia. You can now open up Pokemon booster packs right in @figmadesign 's FigJam. Check it out:

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

9 days

@devtesla you are for sure single if you wake up to a pikmin 4 alarm

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

5 months

@quantian1 Wait this is actually real wtf

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

1 month

This is insane I just used this to create a signup page with a db and backend in like a minute?

Amjad Masad

@amasad

1 month

AI is incredible at writing code. But that's not enough to create software. You need to set up a dev environment, install packages, configure DB, and, if lucky, deploy. It's time to automate all this. Announcing Replit Agent in early access—available today for subscribers:

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

3 months

Windows9x is now here! Anyone can play with it right from their browser. Enter the description of any retro application you want and it will make it real. No matter how weird you want to get. Check below for how to get started.

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

5 months

hear me out: windows, but ai writes the programs

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

8 months

After 4 incredible years today marks my final day at Figma. For the first time in my career I'm taking a big chunk of time off to travel, make music, and work on some side projects. It is super energizing to not know exactly how the next few months will unfold!

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

1 year

I'm proud to have had the honor to press the button to turn on all of these features during the keynote

Figma

@figma

1 year

#Config2023 launches bridge the gap between design and development, all in Figma. → Dev Mode, a new space for developers → Variables → Advanced prototyping → Auto layout updates → Font picker → File browser redesign Plus, we previewed the future of Figma with AI and

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

3 years

I just dropped a new FigJam plugin: Better Codeblocks. You can now edit you codeblocks using VSCode right inside of FigJam!

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

2 months

What if you could just ask your phone to make a native app for you? Not a single webview in sight.

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

5 months

goofy idea: have ai build your sitemap as you click around

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

2 months

Like all great projects: this is a single 6000 line html file

Ben South

@bnj

2 months

Introducing Subform—a canvas for branching and remixing AI chats. Built in two weeks using $400 of Claude credits, blood, sweat and tears Link below

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

4 months

No OS is complete without a browser so I had Windows 9X make its own. My mind is blown here 🤯. My simulated windows is simulating a web browser. That web browser then simulates websites.

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

14 days

btw if you are interested in using this sign up at we are working on getting it out to ya’ll

Do Browser - AI-Powered Web Automation

Join the waiting list for Do Browser, the extension that does what you tell your browser to do.

www.dobrowser.io

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

1 month

What if you could have a personal agent inside of your browser? Ryan and I asked ourselves this question and gave ourselves a week to build it. The result: a browser extension that does what you ask. I asked it to buy toliet paper...

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

1 year

GPT-4-Vision is really good at reading text as well! I was able to just write some instructions in the margins of my mock and it followed them 🤯. It added Javascript and make the hover states red!

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

3 years

I legit don’t know how he is making them so quickly

Jordan Singer

@jsngr

3 years

For fun: a lil calculator FigJam widget

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

2 years

@Blake_LDA Yeah this is the whole back and forth:

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

4 months

In windows 9X everything is a file. You can generate a program to edit your generated programs!

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

1 year

Source for this demo is now here!

GitHub - SawyerHood/draw-a-ui: Draw a mockup and generate html for it

Draw a mockup and generate html for it. Contribute to SawyerHood/draw-a-ui development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

2 months

I just discovered castle. This app is so fun it is like a tiktok feed of warioware games all made by other people! They have a pretty slick mobile game editor to make your own.

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

5 months

codestral is quick at generating html (real-time)

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

3 years

@shirlmeow I feel like getting stoned, trying to bake something challenging with friends, failing, and then giving up and just eating the raw ingredients is my favorite creation group activity. There is nothing like making the best of failure to bring people together.

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

29 days

My brain is so smooth I didn't even think to ask myself this before building

Ben South

@bnj

29 days

@sawyerhood You know companies have raised hundreds of millions to do what you did in a week right

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

3 months

What if the filesystem for your fake ai generated operating system was actually real? Generating a program w/ claude -> that is written to my filesystem that I can edit in my local code editor -> that is hot reloaded in my fake os

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

1 month

Ok I just made this hackathon submission for pm in 4 minutes while on the muni. This is a glimpse of the future of programming. Note it is a bit on rails, you can only use python / flask / vanilla js, but it is a great start

Amjad Masad

@amasad

1 month

AI is incredible at writing code. But that's not enough to create software. You need to set up a dev environment, install packages, configure DB, and, if lucky, deploy. It's time to automate all this. Announcing Replit Agent in early access—available today for subscribers:

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

4 months

You've heard about dog breeding. Introducing website breeding.

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

2 months

I've been having the urge to make a game so I've been making a tool to help be prototype ideas and tweaking game mechanics by talking to an llm is so much fun! Stoked on the fruit ninja I made🍍

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

5 months

time for @websim_ai DAW? make beats inside of websim and they are saved so other people who visit the page can listen to them (audio on)

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

5 months

new @websim_ai meta: give it access to a websocket server so it can write multiplayer apps

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

10 days

😮 controlling figma with my voice!?!?

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@sawyerhood

1 year

Have you ever wanted to make a Figma plugin that talks to an LLM but didn't know where to start? We now have an official @figma plugin template that will get you up and running in minutes!

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

2 months

Making a React Native note taking app from a phone.

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

1 year

I can now reveal it! I'm going to be showing you how to write plugins for Dev Mode tomorrow at 3:15pm in room 305. Want to know how to write one of those sick code generation plugins? I got you covered 😎

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

28 days

using our ai tool to use a different ai tool to teach another ai tool about brainrot

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

5 months

Not sure if this is a known @websim_ai tech, but you can have it hit localhost. I've crafted a url to proxy images through stable diffusion so it can make images as well!

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

8 months

I am in love with this ai cat desktop pet at the @OpenAI / @southpkcommons hackathon

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

11 months

I never would have guessed that @tailwindcss would end up being the universal UI communication format with AI but it makes so much sense. All of the styling information about an element is colocated with the element and it is very concise.

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

2 months

duuuude the future is too good

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

3 years

The api has only been out for a day!!!

Cole Bemis

@colebemis

3 years

I got a very rough prototype of visual programming working with FigJam widgets! 🤯 Excited to experiment with this more. Heavily inspired by @_paulshen 's ❤️

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

29 days

also forgot to plug if you want to use it sign up at

Do Browser - AI-Powered Web Automation

Join the waiting list for Do Browser, the extension that does what you tell your browser to do.

www.dobrowser.io

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

14 days

@seflless Yeah it is a custom dom format that is merging stuff from html and things we can get from the chrome debug transport. The raw html is too much context and doesn't work reliably on a lot of websites.

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

4 months

Someone last night asked me if Windows 9X could play Doom. I'm sorry I couldn't get it working live on stage, but I was in fact able to get it to run Doom

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

3 years

This was my maker week project that I honestly think is even cooler that the gameboy emulator in Figma. You can essentially write React code that renders out to FigJam!

Figma

@figma

3 years

Today we also launched a private beta for FigJam widgets✨ Widgets are like native FigJam objects—similar to sticky notes, shapes, and connectors—except they’re custom, and built by you. Our team came up with examples for what you might build.👇

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

4 months

I was able to get AI powered windows to create a retro style artifacts interface

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

5 months

making paint.exe fully actualized

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

5 months

@jsngr sometimes I feel like skeuomorphic ios was just a fever dream

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

10 months

breaking: @figma leadership plans to use the billion dollars to buy me a goat farm and teach the goats to use figma

Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

10 months

Retiring on a goat farm is gonna have to wait

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

4 months

@DrBriefsScratch stay safe, your work has been inspirational!

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

4 months

I have just started this book, but can already say that I deeply recommend it.

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

4 months

Check out the code here:

GitHub - SawyerHood/windows9x: It is windows, but all of the apps are ai generated.

It is windows, but all of the apps are ai generated. - SawyerHood/windows9x

github.com

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

5 months

What if @websim_ai itself was multiplayer? See what their cursors on the page, chat, see what pages they are on, and click in to join them! The social and imagined web.

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

3 years

We pair programmed the first version of this using @code collaborative editing. We entered this hive mind fugue state. I highly recommend that people try it. Figma isn't the only thing that has to be collaborative!

Willy Wu

@willyvvu

3 years

Can't wait for everyone to discover all the small interaction details and animations built into the #FigJam toolbar that I helped work on. Big shoutout to the rest of the @figmadesign toolbar team, such a blast to work with @keeyeny @RobbieZhuang @sawyerhood

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@sawyerhood

4 months

Anthropic Claude now can preview html and other media that it generates. This is huge for doing some fun creative coding.

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

3 years

I'm so excited to see my months of work in the wild! It was amazing to see what this team has built from basically a very simple prototype to this amazing product we have today.

Figma

@figma

3 years

🚀 Just announced at #Config2021 : FigJam. FigJam is a new online whiteboard for teams to ideate and brainstorm together. Check it out:

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@sawyerhood

1 month

Ryan is so cracked; he just casually made the future of spreadsheets

ryan

@ryanjkaplan

1 month

I went on a trip last week and built Cursor for spreadsheets! Here’s a demo video of it creating a layout and chart…

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

2 months

I don’t manually write 98% of the code I commit anymore

Michael Feldstein

@msfeldstein

2 months

There's not a lot of info on @cursor_ai 's composer beta so i wanted to share an example of building out a nextjs app without ever touching a piece of code. Highly unpolished with a few hitches but its incredible to be able to build things like this. cmd+i, forgot to say that 😅

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

4 months

Sonnet 3.5 is pretty goated. I had it generate a Windows9X app that lets me write sql queries in natural language that it prompts itself to run.

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

1 year

The modal is also self hosted lol. I drew this and generated the html.

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@sawyerhood

5 months

AI generated programs can now expose apis that other programs can plug into! One exposes a user profile and other programs can read it.

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

23 days

Asking my browser to play 5 clicks to Jesus

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@sawyerhood

3 months

I recorded an overview video of Windows9X for the Anthropic competition (I need those credits to keep the lights on lol). Thought I'd share.

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@sawyerhood

1 year

Also huge thanks to @steveruizok for making TL;Draw so easy to extend! For real one of the best open source projects out there right now.

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@sawyerhood

5 months

ok last @websim_ai hack for the day I promise. what if we let it define a sql schema and persist app data?

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@sawyerhood

3 months

I feel like with Github Workspaces + Cursor a single technical person can become more productive than an engineering team.

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

10 months

@RobertJBye my management chain continuously reminds me that owning goats and working at figma are not mutually exclusive but idk it doesn’t hit the same.

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

3 years

My cursor modeling career is popping off. My cursor is in this fast company article. My dms are always open if you need a cursor somewhere

How Figma built FigJam, a whiteboard where 'the humanity shines through'

The pandemic inspired Figma to build a brainstorming tool. But it’s about a lot more than giving people a substitute for a conference-room whiteboard.

www.fastcompany.com

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

5 years

@codinghorror Espresso machine. Big purchase but making a latte every morning is well worth it

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

1 year

Config is in 2 days!?!?! I'm giving deep dive on some brand new plugin apis 👀🤫👀 Stop by to find out what they are ‼️

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

3 months

In case you were wondering. No, fake windows is not impacted by CrowdStrike

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

5 months

The stars are aligning. I might just be cooking up my sickest demo yet

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@sawyerhood

5 months

Do you want to play with some prompt to html fun? I just open sourced my prompt to html playground that I've been using to experiment with windows9X prompts! Tweak those prompts and let that sweet, sweet html stream in. It supports GPT / Anthropic / llama3.

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

7 days

somebody help... i asked do browser to "buy me software" and now it is talking to a salesforce associate

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Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

1 year

pov: It is june 22nd 3:15pm. You are about to turn up for the config after party. Why don't you first join me as I teach you how to build plugins with brand new features and apis like [redacted], [redacted], and yeah even with [redacted].

Figma

@figma

1 year

The FULL Config agenda is live 🥳 With talks ranging from AI to design systems, prototyping to code, there's something for the whole product team. Plus, we’ve added new speakers. Start planning out your day and register.

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@sawyerhood

3 months

Do you want to tinker with the code for Windows9X yourself? I've just hosted it on @Replit !

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@sawyerhood

11 months

Thank you for making this one of the top trending github repos this weekend!

Sawyer Hood

@sawyerhood

1 year

Source for this demo is now here!

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@sawyerhood

4 months

this is the biggest thing the web might ever ship

Intent To Ship

@intenttoship

4 months

Blink: Intent to Prototype: canvas placeElement()

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@sawyerhood

4 months

There is huge value in making a more unlocked version of Claude Artifacts. The UX is great, 10x better than alternatives. If it could use 3rd party js libraries and talk to external apis the things your could create would be insane.

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@sawyerhood

3 months

They are really trying their hardest to Sherlock websim now lol

Anthropic

@AnthropicAI

3 months

Artifacts made with Claude can now be published and shared. You can also remix Artifacts shared by others. 🎨

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@sawyerhood

4 months

thiel fellowship but instead of money it gives tech workers shrooms and that makes them realize they should quit their jobs

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@sawyerhood

3 years

If you are like me. You've probably been opening packs of Pokemon cards in FigJam all week. Your next week can be even less productive since the widget now supports Jungle and Fossil packs!

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@sawyerhood

5 months

I just used Copilot WorkSpace and it actually fixed an issue? Someone requested a download button for TLBrowse, so I just made an issue and bam it was done. Only manual edit I had to make was change where the button was located.

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its hard to explain, but i feel a new project brewing inside of me

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@sawyerhood

4 months

Wonkypedia is still the best name for a side project I've ever come up with.

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@sawyerhood

2 months

@jdsimcoe @figma I have a chrome extension that lets me switch between the two, but I know if I release it they will just patch it out 😭

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@sawyerhood

2 months

In the future your operating system should just be able to make bespoke tools for you. I had Windows 9X make database(dot)new for me.

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@sawyerhood

2 months

Maybe a bit overdue, but I just launched Windows 9X on product hunt! Check it out if you have a chance.

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@sawyerhood

3 months

I'm kinda surprised how Windows9X is just organically spreading through networks of Minecraft / Roblox servers. Turns out people are using it to make games!

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