Matthew Linkous (@matthew_linkous) 's Twitter Profile
Matthew Linkous

@matthew_linkous

building @triplit_dev (YC W21)

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Matthew Linkous (@matthew_linkous) 's Twitter Profile Photo

One major prop to SQL systems is they'll answer any query no matter how complex. NoSQL is like "unless it's a index scan, get lost". I much prefer a system that just works from the beginning that you can then optimize than one where you have to come up with query plan first

Ryan Florence (@ryanflorence) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Sometimes I wonder if there are really only two frontend architectures: 1. No frontend rendering, no JavaScript. Just HTML the and browser (not even htmx sorry) 2. 100% frontend rendering + background sync Everything else feels fraught with compounding complexity

Cory House (@housecor) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Claim: “Local-first web apps only make sense for the few apps that must work offline.” Reality: Local-first isn’t just about offline support. It’s about consistently fast UX, and streamlined DX. These benefits can improve a wide variety of web apps.

Matthew Linkous (@matthew_linkous) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Triplit Cloud is affected by the current Cloudflare outage but I didn't believe because one of our internal apps that uses Triplit works so well offline that it seemed to be online

dax (@thdxr) 's Twitter Profile Photo

there was a phase in devtools where the industry over rotated to bottom of funnel it is good to focus there but it was getting to the point where companies only differentiator was they could serve a free tier more cheaply and had no value otherwise this seemed to be coming to

Matthew Linkous (@matthew_linkous) 's Twitter Profile Photo

CSS and SQL are weirdly similar... Both highly declarative, have inconsistent syntax, many targets but varied support of the standard, and both are annoying to work with directly and most developers use an alternative API (Tailwind and ORMs respectively)

Nic Barker (@nicbarkeragain) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I love that thanks to Casey Muratori, a whole bunch of backend web engineers and game programmers are today finding out that an ECS and a relational database are the same thing