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I think meat proxies are solved by ARs which is the new PR, we built a tongue-in-cheek attentionrequest.com site about it, but the general concept has been working for our team -- …

We had the same problem, now I just ask my colleagues to AR the docs (attentionrequest.com); while the site may be tongue-in-cheek, it helped us build a workflow, where "certificat…

I'd recommend MintData ( https://mintdata.com ) It lets you define your dashboard logic in a spreadsheet & then drag/drop the dashboard UI and publish it for end-user consumption.

I think this is a fantastic way to describe it! I spent 5 years in the 90s creating a WYSIWYG tool with Visual Basic 6 , and VB6 was a life saver. I think retool is a fantastic, mo…

100% Agreed! Defining logic in JS is quite clunky for these sorts of tools. I'm biased[1], but for this reason we took the approach of creating a spreadsheet from scratch for the s…

Great post! To op, for tools like Figma, what do you think the future holds? In what dimension will they evolve? How can they help you be more effective? Will they help you express…

Design + Code tooling. Hard problem: How do we evolve design tools? Can Sketch/Figma be evolved to create full featured software? [1] Something with no limits, and the freedom to c…

I can't help but agree! Where's the Visual Basic 6 of our era? :) Sure, apps weren't pretty, but you could bang one out in a few days and start getting use from it. That's why I've…

Agreed on the democratization front! We saw this OpenAI demo: https://player.vimeo.com/video/427943452 and were just blown away . Very cool!! I guess a spreadsheet is never too old…

What's a "non-artistic developer"? I think: 1) Design is like a muscle, you can always develop it 2) Digital experiences [1] are all around us! And they play a more pivotal role in…

We [1] used to think the same thing a few years back, but then figured out empirically that virtualization (above the React layer) will let you view/scroll through virtually unlimi…

We use "nested spreadsheets" that can live in any cell, and combined with aggregate functions like GROUP_BY() we're able to get this behavior. Would be genuinely curious -- would o…

"I can't imagine how that would work" -> hearing that kills me inside :( I think we have 2 options: OPTION 1) We've reached a plateau -- software will continue to be developed as i…

I think dates, times, UTC offsets, and locales/cultures is a topic we frequently think of as "that's easy" [1] when in practice it's painstakingly hard to get right. As an example,…

We’ve used this API in our https://mintdata.com/docs examples, but the limits run out fairly quickly. Would be curious to ask here — are there any alternative APIs you’d recommend …

So, for (2) above, not sure I understand: camp 1) at best, a TCP connection is re-used, and the HTML for "page 2" is fetched over the network, parsed, the CSS OM is applied, and th…

I'll take a stab at this, Kyle just shoot me if I get something wrong below :D 1) There's a server-centric approach and a client-centric approach: --a) hand-maintained HTML + php f…

Interesting, what were the challenges you faced with MDX? We built https://mintdata.com/docs on it, and it's been proverbially better than sliced bread -- that is, a true joy to wo…

Kyle, Just read the post, congrats on the launch! We've been using Gatsby on: https://mintdata.com for the past few years, and are huge fans of your work. I still recall the day wh…

Thank you! Before the others come with torches, I’ll point out we turned on public/free access recently, would be happy to hear your thoughts/feedback on the MintData approach.

The issue is that FBP (flow based programming) scales to a certain point of complexity. After that, it stops being more effective than a textual representation or (gasp!) even old …

This is exactly what we built at MintData. [1] A new way to construct software by using a spreadsheet to define application logic, instead of today’s spreadsheets which breed chaos…

I think of this in two parts: 1) Computing is cheap, human time is not. 2) Competition in established industries is fierce (finance, real estate, education, construction, etc) -- T…

Thank you! Genuinely warms my heart to hear it :) We've been using our own "Visual SDK" to build large parts of MintData for the past few years. It's 100% written in TypeScript/Rea…