Tyler Angert
@tylerangert
building @patinasystems
I'm starting a company called Patina Systems (@patinasystems). We're building spontaneous software: everyday tools you can quickly customize and share, right when you need to.
unironically would be useful.
I heard a ghastly sounding woman in the airport say “ChatGPT— how much did I spend on this matcha??” into her phone about her drink
is there anything like a python package that's like chrome dev tools for inspecting objects? like inside of a jupyter notebook i could go something like inspect(python_obj) and ill get a console + clickable / expandable object reader?
"best UI is no UI" thinking at its limit approximates the infant's relation to the mother / the breast. inability to distinguish needs arising within the self from its fulfillment. in the future, the last interface is feeling discomfort and then screaming "wahhhhhhh!!!"
if this is you i am disappointed
I went to a design event last week and met so many people who vibe coded beautiful sites but couldn't get localhost to work
My forever fun fact: my birthday is the calendar emoji 📅
junior designers everywhere are trembling when they learn how jaded seniors actually do their interaction work
trees!
if i won the lottery i wouldnt tell anyone, but there would be signs.
proud of this one
No-code tools threw out the baby (coding) with the bathwater (all the complexity to run & deploy code) Val Town is, as @tylerangert phrased it, "just code"
We’re not monkeys playing with cymbals we’re monkeys playing with symbols
My dream is to create “lifestyle technology” that helps people live the good life: saturated with fulfillment, friends, and family
Thinking about how people often see no boundary between an underlying technology and the product that relies on it. To most people, Google was / is the web or the internet. ChatGPT = AI
If your goal is to make the "future of computing" you're probably going to flop. what does "computing" mean? what are you "computing"? so many of these projects end up being glorified note-takers or email clients because if you really break down what "computing" is for most…
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