A useful Github trick is to watch a repo, but with custom notifications so I only get notified on releases.
Links
How Fast to Hire by Sarah Guo focuses on navigating the transition around finding product-market fit, and hiring appropriately on both sides of that transition.
I did have some concerns about pages that need to edit complex objects, but it looks like you can write a function to "rune-ify" any object without too much trouble. I made a small project in the Svelte 5 preview REPL to try it out. There are probably some bugs there but that relieved my main concern.
Looking at the compiled code with runes, everything is a lot simpler too. No more need for dirty tracking or passing nested context into components for slots. Slot functions are just closures that directly access the runes in the outer component's state now.
The internal scheduler looks more complex than before, but that's to be expected. Importantly, there are far fewer moving parts and the moving parts aren't being generated by the compiler for every new project, which should both reduce potential for bugs and make it easier to test.
Buzzy is built out enough now that I could show the prototype to my kids. My 6-year-old said I should change the name to Alexa, or maybe Google :)
Up next will be intent detection and web search to help the model answer factual questions, but first I redid some of the web app internals to use a real state machine. First time using XState's type generation helpers, and it works well!
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About Me
Work
I'm a co-founder of
Carevoyance (acquired by
H1 Insights), a sales acceleration tool that
analyzes healthcare data and enables healthcare sellers to zero in on their
best prospects and generate custom reports and insights with just a few
clicks.
I spend most of my time there creating new data analyses, working on the
backend API and database systems, and developing tooling to research data
anomalies and automate repetitive tasks. Recently I've been active on the
front-end too, and have been enjoying the Svelte framework.
In the past I worked almost exclusively in C++ and various assembly
languages. Now that I'm more in the web ecosystem, I'm mostly writing
Javascript for work, but I'm using Rust more and more as well.
Before starting my own venture, I interfaced with advanced network switching
chips at
Arista Networks and worked on JTAG
hardware debuggers and embedded operating systems at
Green Hills Software. Running a small
startup feels very different from working at these companies, and it has its
ups and downs, but I love it.
Life
I usually have some sort of side project going on, and my most recent
obsession is Ergo, a low-code
workflow orchestrator that is still in early stages, but coming along well.
Sometimes I wish I could code all day and night, but when not hacking on
something or spending time with my family, I enjoy good coffee, nature
photography, reading nonfiction and sci-fi, and improving my nascent design
and UX skills. I'm also active in my church and run the sound board there
every few weeks.
Where to find me
Twitter is probably the best
way to contact me, and I'm trying out
Mastodon
as well. You can also email me at daniel at this domain or find me
on
Github.