Francois Laberge

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

Automated previews? Tell me more

Ok, phew. We’re on the same page.

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

💯. 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

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

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

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

I’m a huge fan of merging notebooks and canvases

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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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.

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

That’s nicccccee

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

Yup.

Now you’re talking

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

YouTube video by This Week in Startups Drawing the Future with AI featuring tldraw’s Steve Ruiz | E1863

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?...

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

We actually met up too. Yesterday rather

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

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.

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!

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.

How were you rendering the PDF there?

Where’s this, sounds fun.

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

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...

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!