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Austin's Notes
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buni library & links

  • Val Town Runtime design: https://blog.val.town/blog/first-four-val-town-runtimes/
    • Also Townie: https://blog.val.town/blog/codegen/
      • Townie system prompt: https://gist.github.com/simonw/d8cc934ad76b3bba82127937d45dc719 (via blog)
    • Also Val Town philosophy of End Programmer Programming
      • And linked Maggie Appleton on Folk Interfaces
  • Cursor code fast diff application: https://www.cursor.com/blog/instant-apply (a)
    • On Fireworks: https://fireworks.ai/blog/cursor#fireworks-ai-promise
  • Replit Agent
  • Codemirror for web code editor:
    • https://blog.replit.com/code-editors
    • https://modal.com/blog/playground
  • Websim prompts: https://gist.github.com/hourianto/e64eca5ef55ebf0360e39f26c486d377
  • Steve Yegge’s Platforms Rant: https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611
    • Also: Tigger Kindel https://blog.kindel.com/2011/08/24/be-either-an-app-or-a-platform-not-both/
  • SQLITE
    • Perf (h/t jvns) https://kerkour.com/sqlite-for-servers
    • Litestream https://fly.io/blog/all-in-on-sqlite-litestream/
    • SQLite vector https://alexgarcia.xyz/blog/2024/sqlite-vec-hybrid-search/index.html
  • CRDTs for code syncing
    • Evan Wallace: https://madebyevan.com/algos/crdt-text-buffer/#references
      • https://josephg.com/blog/crdts-go-brrr/
      • https://www.inkandswitch.com/peritext/
  • Better data sync paradigm than SQL server:
    • Kind of have a product
      • https://www.instantdb.com/
      • https://www.edgedb.com/
    • Very early
      • https://zerosync.dev/
      • https://jazz.tools/
    • Ideas
      • https://stack.convex.dev/not-sql
      • https://josephg.com/blog/api-for-changes/
      • https://riffle.systems/essays/prelude/
  • OpenAI Canvas
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    System prompt
  • CDN
    • https://fly.io/blog/the-5-hour-content-delivery-network/
  • Macaroons for JWT-like representing auth for requests
    • https://fly.io/blog/macaroons-escalated-quickly/
      • Aside: Thomas Ptacek blog posts are gold
  • Sandboxing code
    • Investigating val town & deno: https://healeycodes.com/sandboxing-javascript-code
    • Val Town on Firecracker https://fly.io/blog/sandboxing-and-workload-isolation/
  • Evals
    • v0 evals: https://vercel.com/blog/eval-driven-development-build-better-ai-faster
    • townie evals: https://blog.val.town/blog/codegen/#evals

Inspirations

  • Claude Artifacts
    • System prompt: https://gist.github.com/dedlim/6bf6d81f77c19e20cd40594aa09e3ecd
  • websim
  • val.town
  • replit agent
  • Vercel v0 & shadcn