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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

What are auto-generated! Links to a working version of the app to test or specific features/views of the app?

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Automated previews? Tell me more

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Ok, phew. We’re on the same page.

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I’m in camp: “text formats” are the worst camp. We should only ever make formats that are strictly editable by a rich text or similar editor. These types of technical details are distracting when authoring and error prone

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

💯. I hate having tests run in a separate process like the pattern of using Playwright though. Has anyone found a good system for running test logic in the browser too? I was tracking vitest for this but never checked out their attempt

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

What’s your email? I’d love to interview you to understand your usage pattern. I’m trying to get a lot of early feedback before doing a more open beta. Email me at francois@decode.dev and let’s chat if you are up to it

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I’m curious what you were thinking about exactly. Check out Decode: decode.dev to see if it’s in the same ballpark:

decode.dev

Decode

An infinite canvas to draw and code on

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Observable’s notebooks are so good. It’s like my two best friends are getting married!

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I’m a huge fan of merging notebooks and canvases

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

A Decode demo (decode.dev) 1. Convert free form diagrams to mermaid diagrams 2. Use free form annotations to edit mermaid code

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

PSA: If you make $200K+ individually (or $300K with spouse) for the past two years, you qualify as an accredited investor and can invest in pre-IPO startups. Not giving financial advice, just sharing.

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I always liked JSON’s too: www.json.org/json-en.html

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

DM me your number. Dinner or a long walk or something?

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I feel like @todepond.com and @steveruizok.bsky.social have sort of mastered the make something cool and it acts as content marketing for your product. Need a related product for that to work of course. Working at Synthesis School might be a good fit, though the topics for explainers are limited

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Decode is Make Real but for your real codebase. If you missed @tldraw.com’s Make Real going crazy viral last year, watch this youtu.be/2jYmtFs3DA4?...

youtu.be

Drawing the Future with AI featuring tldraw’s Steve Ruiz | E1863

YouTube video by This Week in Startups

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Wish Nicky was as active still with these. Love this type of creative coder, cross over skills like drawing, plus tools for thought types.

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

We actually met up too. Yesterday rather

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Are there any products doing multi-player chat with agents? Thinking about multiplayer Decode and curious what that might look like.

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I'll be at the AI Engineer Summit 2025 in NYC today for the Feb 20th-22nd days. Hit me up if you are working on cool dev tools and/or AI laden creative tools and want to meet up.

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Today was my last day at Descript. I really enjoyed my last 2 years and am super excited about the roadmap! I’m sad to be leaving but excited for what’s next, more to come on that!

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Command+Shift+V is a god send. I used to paste into the command bar and then copy again to remove formatting until I learned that.

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

How were you rendering the PDF there?

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Nintendo Switch is my recommendation, PS5 ecosystem has less easy to play games.

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Tiddlywiki’s claim to fame initially was exactly this trick. Looks like the project has moved on to supporting hosted variants too. tiddlywiki.com stackoverflow.com/questions/45...

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Great thread for makers of VS Code extensions that interact with react-based code. Triplex is shaping up real nice. Must have been so much work!

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

"Quiver: a modern commutative diagram editor" @elliot.website This seems like your type of thing. Source code: github.com/varkor/quiver

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

So while I'm here comparing Tldraw to other hand written styled fonts, I may go as far as not using handwritten style fonts at all. I'd miss the informal look though.

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

I switched early to using Tldraw over Excalidraw was because I liked how it looked. It had a cleaner look and the font were more legible. I don't think Tldraw's fonts are the most legible though, especially when zoomed out. So I'm hoping to improve things there.

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

I'll be restyling Decode to look less like @tldraw.com's default UI, in order to build separate brand equity. First up is picking a new font. I built this tool to quickly compare handwritten style fonts with Tldraw's.

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Fuck that, if you enjoyed drawing it, double down. The world needs more programmer art making it ok to not be perfect. It looks like what was intended. It’s like hiding yourself not including your own drawings if you like drawing.

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Update. He did the 6 public examples and got 4 of 6 of them correct with no help from me.

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

My 6 year old couldn’t figure out without a clue, and then figured out the dots create the lines part. I think understanding what pattern examples are got him a bit. I think a little above or below 6years old is a reasonable range to say when humans can start to do it.

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

That has turned out to be a lot of work. It required full support for GFM (Github Flavored Markdown) and a lot of additional extensions. For example adding support for inline mermaid rendering.

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I'm targeting full compatibility with github.com's and VS Code's markdown renderer. Here's a demo of a bunch of the markdown features it supports.

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I added a markdown editor to Decode (getdecode.dev), including a side by side editor with real-time preview.

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Full lisp implementation on a canvas?

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Convert free form diagrams to auto-layout versions, using Decode, getdecode.dev

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Generating diagrams from code inside VS Code. This time with much improved auto-layout. Using Decode, getdecode.dev

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Another new feature displayed here, is that you don't have to select shapes to execute visual prompts. If nothing is selected everything on the screen is the implicit selection. I'm loving this change, it's so much more seamless, though has some rough edge cases.

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

This UX is most helpful for quick changes that are more topological changes or deletions. It's faster than using chat to describe the change or manually editing code with a keyboard.

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Edit diagrams by drawing on them in Decode (getdecode.dev)

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Francois Laberge @seflless.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Fingers cross that somehow the AI revolution ends up with an efficient forkable, differentiable, and deterministic computing environment. The incentives seem pretty lined up, as this is basically what agents need (maybe determinism lesser so initially).

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