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    Comment #48328402

    lmao - thank you!

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    Comment #47018591

    Sure – our API is built specifically for common LLM workflows. Here's a great example. LLMs are often used for changing code. If an LLM creates a patch that touches 10 files, you n…

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    Comment #47018453

    Git is ~ really ~ great at document storage :P We have folks using us to back crms, design tools, and all kinds of "non-code" stuff. Please reach out - would love to connect!

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    Comment #47017025

    To be fair to GitHub (which i have a lot of love and respect for), we're building very different products. GitHub is a social consumer coding product first. There's user models, re…

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    Comment #47016873

    We're actually meant to be less of a consumer product than i think you mean by this (but i may have misunderstood). We're more targeting enterprise as storage infrastructure provid…

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    Comment #47016724

    thanks for the feedback – we definitely have work to do on communicating what we're up to. Sorry about the audio - will get that patched

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    Comment #47016702

    Ahh good question… Here's the timeline if you're interested. 3 years ago we started building a direct competitor to GitHub with the theory that you need to build code storage, code…

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    Comment #47016631

    planning to share more in the next month or so :) But have been slowly signing folks up – if you want to shoot me an email, can get you setup jacob@pierre.co

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    Comment #47016618

    pretty much - low friction git* repos for massively parallelized agentic use. (can think of it kinda like what stripe does for payments… headless git infra, where you get an api ke…

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    Comment #47016562

    Hey everyone, Wow, you scooped us! we weren’t really expecting to launch here just yet, but happy to answer any questions y’all have :) First, Pierre is building code storage for m…

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    Comment #47016207

    not open access yet, sorry :(

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    Comment #10087222

    all upgrades will be free, once v4 is stable :)

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    Comment #5186796

    fwiw, we generally just try to do what the language does: border-radius document.createElement etc…

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    Comment #5186790

    I'll probably write up something at length about this decision when/if it happens… but this is the current thinking: CSS transitions are just total shit to deal with in javascript.…

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    Comment #4906195

    yep, twitter has been great. And mark and i didn't leave to start a bootstrap support company :P

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    Comment #4906191

    ha, well that is definitely not happening anytime soon… but, here is a whole thing on "why less" I wrote up about it a long while back, and it still holds true today: http://wordsb…

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    Comment #4906167

    haha! mark loves these, i think he started doing them way back at zurb. we took them away because they are hooorible for perf – and were exposing a memory leak bug in chrome i beli…

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    Comment #4902627

    hm… sorry it came off that way. :( fwiw, the amount of technical things i've learned from working on bootstrap is not proportional to the amount of work i've put into this project……

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    Comment #4902455

    yep, lots of legal hurdles to go through – took us like 6 months – but now they have a full time opensource shepherd @cra which makes this much smoother

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    Comment #4902092

    right now it's under the Apache License v2 – but we're working to move it to MIT for 3.0.0 I think of the community as owning bootstrap at this point… maybe that's cheesy? Or naive…

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    Comment #4901955

    Mark and I built bootstrap while we were employed at twitter on twitter hardware. Also, undeniably it was largely influenced by our work there (and later would largely influence a …

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    Comment #4746335

    awesome! This is exactly what we were running into too :D

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    Comment #4746294

    aww no problem :) Hope it's useful!