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You are in a startup. All around is a burning runway. There are exits to the North and East. You have a bootstrap. There is a VC here.
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I've ingested a bunch of
@paulg
essays into a
@pinecone
database using GPT and
@gpt_index
Now I can ask questions based on his opinion on topics, rather than just the generic "whole internet" opinion that GPT comes back with.
I think this... could be quite powerful!
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I'm looking for experienced front-end and full-stack engineers to help build a
@reactjs
@nextjs
@typescript
@trpcio
@supabase
@tailwindcss
SaaS web app with me. Full-time. Remote. UK +/- 2 hours timezone. Anyone in my network job-hunting for a startup engineering job? DMs open!
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✅ Work for yourself
✅ Make things people love
✅ With people you love
✅ Get paid to do it
✅ Walk to work
✅ See the kids during daylight hours
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I'm now considering making a simple web app that would allow someone to provide a web address, say someone's blog, a startup's internal Notion, etc. and be able to ask that "person" or "team" for their thoughts on a subject.
Anyone interested in this idea?
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Here’s an idea: “Remain Standing” - find your local pro-remain general election candidates:
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🚨Major life event claxon 🚨 The dust has settled, and I'm very pleased to say that we've moved into a wonderful house in Frome, Somerset, UK that we *actually own* 🤯🎉
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@basicallydan
@CCHQPress
@BorisJohnson
@ElectoralCommUK
@Ofcom
@metpoliceuk
please tell us you are looking into what is clearly electoral fraud around tonight’s debate!
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@commaficionado
Ah gosh. I just saw all of this too. “Oh he’s autistic!” is not good enough. I’m here with two autistic kids and we self isolated when we all got coughs really early on. Didn’t get in the car to grandma’s!
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Flipping heck,
@cloudflare
workers are awesome. I've replaced a relatively expensive AWS setup with a
@render
entry-level Node instance with CF Workers in front, and it's not breaking a sweat! Costs will be down about two orders of magnitude I think.
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I’m six weeks in to “Couch to 5k” - a running app and podcast. Today I ran further than I have for maybe twenty five years! If you’ve thought about maybe trying to run, or failed in the past like me, check it out
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🚨 Some news! I've joined the
@ondeck
team with their hugely ambitious vision for education. Genuinely one of the most exciting startups I've ever come across. Check out the rocket boosters we've just added 🤯 Exciting opportunities ahead and so much to build!⚡️
We are excited to announce we’ve raised $20 million from 180+ of the world’s top investors and operators to create the modern educational institution for the next 100 years.
📽 Here’s a look at the journey we’re on, and where we’re headed:
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👋 I am back after two weeks of Covid. It was pretty awful and I narrowly avoided a hospital trip thanks to doctor relatives and friends giving
@emilyquinton
remote advice. Phew! I'm a bit wiped out but recovering well.
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Discovered my 9-yo son has followed Youtube instructions to set up a port-forwarding firewall on his computer so that his friends can join him on the Minecraft server he's running. 🤯
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It’s live! 180 x 1-hour lessons made by UK teachers all hosted on a free-to-access website, for kids from Reception up to Year 10 🎉
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@CodeBeard
I'm sorry I didn't understand that. Commands include "Kill thought leader" and "Destroy framework".
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@CodeBeard
You have succumbed to Tech Debt. Your dreams are dashed. Your savings are depleted. You are in a startup.
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@Jamie_Margolin
@netribution
@EARTH3R
@foe_us
@Earthjustice
@ourdailyplanet
@green4EMA
@EnvDefenseFund
@nytclimate
@UNFCCC
@ClimatePower
@UNEP
Sadly, I think we'll look back and think of 2020 as the good old days.
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Very very excited about our new *$100M accelerator* we’re launching today! 🎉
Announcing ODX, a $100M accelerator to back the next generation of founders.
• $125k for 7% from us + the community
• Access to our network to hire, fundraise, or find customers
• 100% customized for you
Apply (or invest) today 👇
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With kids starting to go back to school today, this feels like a good moment to reflect on one of the most intense periods of work I've experienced. I've written more code than I have in years, and it's supported ~4.5m pupils per week to learn from home over the last few months.
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@AdultingADHD
I just... suddenly stop. Which confused everyone around me because I'll have been talking about it for ages, and with so much passion. Then they bring it up, and I look confused, giving off a "what are you talking about? I don't do x any more!" vibe
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What a year! A week after this message, we’d built and released the first version of
@oaknational
- 250,000 visitors and no downtime. A year later it’s served well over 100 million video lessons 🤯
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I’m on a family holiday by the sea in Cornwall, UK.
Rather than taking photographs I’m finding myself compelled to make a series of ai/ml-generated images with
@midjourney
instead.
Here’s this evening by the sea ✨
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@CodeBeard
A new Framework is released that will solve all of your problems. Your employees are excited. A Thought Leader is here.
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Police: “The attacker worked alone”.
Politicians: “We definitely need to crack down on messaging app security then”.
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Oh wow. Swift Playgrounds looks like an amazing way to learn the basics of code
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The
#remain
tactical voting recommendations from /
@remainvoter
are now live. Interesting that they are recommending Change UK for London, Greens, Lib Dems elsewhere.
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🎉 It's taken a year… The
@oaknational
online classroom this morning got a full 100% Google Lighthouse score when I ran it on my laptop. Getting to this level is super hard and time-consuming. But every slowdown or glitch you remove means one more child gets to keep learning.
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Doing anything experimental, dramatic or meaningful is hard. Try to allow yourself to not be cynical when you next hear someone’s idea. 🤔
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@housecor
We use Mui Base instead. It has no default styling and doesn't have a dependency on any particular CSS-in-JS (or other CSS) library. So you pass your own classes (could be Tailwind) to each component for each state that it has config for.
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Okay,
@starlingbank
have *solved* business bank account creation. Today I got a new company registered, set up a bank account, issued my first invoice, received the funds, set up ApplePay and I just paid for something on my Apple Watch. All in 7 hours. 💎⚡️
Wow! I just got my new company registration certificate through, went to the
@StarlingBank
app, added the company name, my Linkedin profile URL and a couple of lines about expected turnover and now I’ve immediately got a business bank account. Seriously amazing! 🤯
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@mattwallaert
@FondOfBeetles
@SwipeWright
Matt, been following you for a while and this just popped up. I think you’re going off piste here.
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@CodeBeard
a wise man approaches from the East with talk of science and data. He does not survive the flames of the burning runway.
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The bank... actually said yes to the mortgage. 🎉 Note to former self (and others following this path) - if you want to own a house, don't be a startup founder apparently. 🤷♂️
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@CodeBeard
You retrieve the wisdom. Access it in your inventory. A Javascript storm arrives. Your grip on the concept of "this" is lost.
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Did it! Ultramarathon challenge complete 🥳
That was about 75 hilly kilometres (45 miles) and I finished in a 11:11.
Thanks everyone for following along!
Gosh that was hard. I can barely walk now 😬 Showered and going home to eat something to make up for the 6300 calories 🍔
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@SahilBloom
In the late 90s I used to VJ at club nights projecting video onto the stage of the astronauts in this footage bouncing around to the beat. Lots of fun 😀
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@jackappleby
My daughter is a keen sportswoman. As she grows up, and is perhaps unable to win certain competitions because of her physiology, if I extrapolate that potential experience to other areas of society, there's a valid conversation to be had, hidden behind the slurs and trolling.
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When they said AI will destroy the world, I'm not sure they thought it would be by this method.
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Pretty sure saying “good morning Lord Sugar” in uninson with a bunch of other muppets is the opposite of being an entrepreneur.
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A calendar app for teams where there is a limit for how many hours of zoom calls you can do of a given day and after that it marks the whole day full.
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Schools - I never want you to send me information as a “letter” as a PDF attachment. I just want the text of what you’re sending me in the body of the email so I can read it on my phone.
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🎉Some news! 🎉 We have found a way to soon make accessing lessons on
@oaknational
free on a mobile phone. Once we’ve done some work to the site and been approved by the mobile networks, accessing all our lessons will not affect your phone bill or use up your data allowance.
Proper chuffed about this. It's going to make a big difference to families across the country.
A little crew of us has been working on it for a while, so shout outs to my fellow amigos:
@matthewhood
,
@johnrobeds
and
@stef
💚
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Wow! I just got my new company registration certificate through, went to the
@StarlingBank
app, added the company name, my Linkedin profile URL and a couple of lines about expected turnover and now I’ve immediately got a business bank account. Seriously amazing! 🤯
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A website that lists who your most-likely-to-win local pro-remain candidate is.
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Goodness me. Any other non-Americans feeling a sense of immense relief right now? Sanity and positivity prevail. 🎉
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36 hours until I run my first ultramarathon - The Summer Green Man Ultra - 45 miles (!) around the city of Bristol in the South West of England.
I think it will take me about 11 hours, assuming I can actually do this!
What combination of emojis am I feeling do you think?
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It doesn't matter if it's "been done". You'll do it your way. Maybe you'll even do it better.
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🤯 We've helped over a million children in the last 24 hours to be able to keep learning from home during lockdown. Well done to all the teachers who came together to make all these video lessons over the Summer! Glad the tech is holding up to do it justice 😅😎
Over 1,000,000 children have been learning through Oak's lessons today... 😱
Well done to all of you on completing another day of hard work. We'll see you tomorrow for more. 👊💚
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Not tweeting officially. I've *personally* been working harder than I've worked in years to make sure that if this happened in January, we could ensure that school children and young people can keep learning by having a really solid online classroom service available.
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I've surprised myself by how upset I am to find out that the Do Book Company who publish a range of wonderful, positive books like Do Fly, Do Design, Do Earth, etc. etc. have a new book out.
* Do Bitcoin *
🤢💀
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Instagram: "Sorry we dropped support for our API with no notice. Please invest loads of time with this other API that the same definitely won't happen to, honest. Cross my heart."
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Happy Friday. How about we all send a quick email to the support address for an app that we use a lot, just to say "cheers folks"? 💌
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If you’re not embarrassed by the typo you just shipped, you’re not emailing fast enough.
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The laptopomodoro method: work with your laptop unplugged and make sure you get your work done before it dies. ⚡️
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I’ve discovered a wonderful print studio within walking distance of where I live. And they do courses. And… I’m going to learn etching! Look at this space 😃
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It’s my birthday today, and it’s quite surreal celebrating it under lockdown!
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Encouraging to see
@secondhome_io
launching a coworking space *with a built-in nursery*. A lovely feel to the place at the launch tonight.
@SadiqKhan
got us all inspired about diversity, I had a lovely serendipitous chat with
@imogenheap
and I've come home uplifted. Thanks! ⚡️
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Over the last month or so, the
@OakNational
team scaled up to something like 900 people to create almost 10,000 video-based lessons.
And it's my job to press "go" tomorrow morning on the code we've written that ingests, transcodes, transcribes and captions them. No pressure! 😎
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Wait, if I'm reading this right, I put my app live yesterday and it's currently Number 3 in its category on the UK App Store today? 🤯
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With this tiny little snippet, I'm able to build a
#nextjs
webapp that deploys to
@vercel
as a PWA and also as a native app using
#capacitor
🎉
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2015 Should designers learn to code?
2016 Should coders learn to design?
2017 Should code itself learn to design?
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We're coming to the end of the first day of
@OakNational
being live. So far we've had around 300,000 visitors to the new website checking out the lessons. Going from nothing to a site serving that many people, in a matter of days was a challenge. Here are a few lessons learnt!
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Sorry I’m late for the meeting. The startup that built my calendar app had an incredible journey.
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This weekend I’m helping launch this new site with a gang of awesome teachers, government folks, designers and tech makers who’ve planned, design and build an online school from scratch in a couple of weeks flat.
Hi world 👋 We've been created by 40 teachers. Want to know more about who we are and how we can support teachers? Our Principal
@matthewhood
and Head of English
@ramender10
tell you more...
#LearnWithOak
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Very excited about where I've got to with my semantic search / GPT agent. I can now:
* Connect to an arbitrary Notion account
* Ingest all the pages
* Get an answer to a question specifically about the text content of that Notion workspace
* Link back to the source Notion page!
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@will_lawrenceTO
I once excitedly told someone that I was talking to the Managing Director only to realise it was "a" managing director... seems pretty similar
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I’m shattered! Started at 6am yesterday, and we got the new Teachers Hub app for
@OakNational
deployed at 4.30 this morning. 🤪 Glad to finally be able to share the first part of what we’ve been building all summer! ~10,000 free video-based lessons 🎉
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What. A. Week. Ending on a high with a brand new pitch deck, a working prototype and a lovingly crafted investor paper. My brain is getting a huge workout atm! In a couple of weeks I’m hoping to begin getting the team together to start building something very exciting indeed.
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My boy passes me a card before bedtime.
"Dear daddy, I love you and I've got hopefully endless hugs for you"
I can't find the right emoji.
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Yackathon - it's like a hackathon but it's where you spend all day talking about what you're going to build instead.
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🎉 Funding confirmed for the next phase of growth for
@overlayearth
🤩
A Friday writing job ads with
@teepruitt
now beckons…
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There’s a guy in my timeline speaking on stage about how if you’re not afraid of getting fired, you’re not being bold enough. Not going to link him.
Absolute unremitting bullshit.
Great advice if you have a safety net. A big if. Getting fired and without income is horrific.
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A designed-to-fail kickstarter page so that someone in China will clone my amazing innovation so I don't have to make it.
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I'm spending my working days plugging away at a new sustainability startup, and realising I need a new word. Something to describe the overwhelming terror of what could come if we don't address the climate crisis, alongside determination to do something about it at a small scale.
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I just accidentally deleted a day's work on a file in VSCode. (No, I'd not yet committed to git. Yes I know.) 🙀
BUT CHECK THIS OUT. Create a new, blank file in exactly the same place in your project, and then hit Command-Z to undo.
And the file content magically REAPPEARS. 🎉
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