Alex Kotliarskyi 🇺🇦
@alex_frantic
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CTO of an AI startup in latent space. Former @replit, @facebook
Seattle, WA
Joined March 2009
Last year I built a small side project: a game that tests your attention to details. And now it's blowing up on Twitter 😅
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Apple gets a lot of hate for their closed doors platform, but major players in the open protocols space are not much better.
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Serve an image? That's 0.00X¢ to Vercel for egress.Appear first when ppl search for your brand? $0.25 CPC to Google.Show up in newsfeed? $4.5 CPM to Meta.Send an email? $0.01 if you want it actually land in their inbox.
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If you grew up in 00s internet and trying to build a SaaS/ecommerce startup today, you'll be shocked at how much power platforms have now. Getting listed in search results or sending legit emails to your users is 100x more complex, with big players extracting rent on everything.
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It's funny how backend devs blame frontend devs for choosing DX over UX, but themselves go for HTMX or LiveView which is also totally DX over UX (costs interaction latency for the convenience of rendering everything on the server).
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Is there something like @lintrule but supported and working?. I love the idea (define a vague set of human-readable rules for LLM to evaluate on every commit), but looks like the project is abandoned
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The ability to tell apart duplication from abstraction must be one of the most undervalued software engineering skills. I've saved myself so much time and headache by duplicating code that later turned out to diverge for good reasons.
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Opening new terminal tabs used to be so slow — I thought it was my heavily tuned iTerm2 and zsh. But then (inspired by xz story) I found zprof and realized it was all nvm . (350ms+ → 🗑️). Fast tools make me so happy wow.
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Your first task is going to be rebuilding this ugly open graph preview 🫠.
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Are you a front-end dev who cares about little details? Would you like to get deeper into cutting-edge AI?. Come work with me on Secta. DMs open.
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After shutting down side projects, I move the backups to the graveyard. gg & 🫡
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37signal folks have an excellent product taste: Basecamp, Hey, etc. — well thought out. I only wish the UX details were better. They seem stuck in the 2010s, UIs look dated and feel slow. Is the hate for React holding dhh's eng team back?.
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Looking at Rails 8 milestone it is hard not to get frustrated at the JS ecosystem, where we are still stuck on Next and only getting deeper into @Vercel's lock-in.
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These days I take fancy recording setups for educational videos as anti-signal. Guess which video will actually teach you the inner workings of stable diffusion?
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Wrote a story about Hacker Gifts, a project I started in 2018, and the reasons I’m winding it down.
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RT @stopachka: 🔥 Today is launch day! 🔥. We (@JoeAverbukh and I) are so excited to share with you a new version of Instant! The last time w….
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