Father of 2. Building an ERP for a Window Manufacturer. Web Apps with Convex.dev
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TLDR;
Tech stack for vibe-coding web apps in 2025:
- db/backend: @convex_dev
- app: @tan_stack Start
- Coding Agent: Codex @OpenAI
- auth: Convex Auth @convex_dev
- ui: @tailwindcss
- 3D: react-three-fiber
- icons: lucide
- tx emails: @resendlabs
- bug tracking/ screen replay: @highlightio (works with three.js)
- git @github
- hosting @vercel
- AI images @GeminiApp nanobanana
- Search web @grok and for specific things @Google
- influencers: @rauchg @tannerlinsley @jamesacowling @unclebobmartin @theo @adamwathan @dhh @ericelliott_ and many more...
Popular Blog posts:
- Positive Code for Productive Software Development
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- High Quality Work
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our new home page?
mad scientist @mikeysee strikes again
Wow! @mikeysee built an entire Operating System with @convex_dev
Demo and how to build your own OS here: piped.video/watch?v=3CvsHZIt…
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Insane just how much @convex_dev has made it fun to make things for me for recollo.app. Never really dove much into it before but now, I have a reactive & collaborative markdown editor and it took me maybe an hour to get the actual thing working.
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Andrej Karpathy says you should learn AI depthwise, not breadthwise.
Most education is breadthwise: watch lectures, memorize formulas, and trust you'll need it later.
Karpathy flips this by learning "depthwise, on demand."
What this means:
Pick a project, start building, and learn exactly when you hit a wall.
When he created a tutorial on transformers (the architecture behind ChatGPT), he didn't start by explaining attention mechanisms or complex architectures.
Instead, he started with the simplest possible thing: a lookup table that predicts the next word.
You build that first. Then you try to make it handle more complex patterns.
And it breaks.
Only then, when you've felt the limitation, does he introduce the next concept. Each piece solves a problem you've actually encountered.
As he puts it:
"It's a dick move to present the solution before I give you a shot to try it yourself."
When you attempt the problem first, the solution actually makes sense.
Teaching forces you to learn. "If I don't really understand something, I can't explain it."
When you try to explain and stumble, you've found the gaps in your understanding.
...
Build a project that gives you a reward.
Hit a wall. Learn just enough to solve it. Then explain it to someone else.
Don't consume content. Build the code.
That's how you actually learn.
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Just use 10% of your total Bitcoin to back fiat debt, and they can never liquidate you.
It's like subtle bait, similar to credit cards' grace periods that make you lose track of expenses and hook you with big interest payments.
The big business isn't the 10% they charge for Bitcoin-backed fiat debt, but profiting from greedy people who overborrow and get liquidated in the next Bitcoin crash. The trap is real.
Convex have native workflows
Convex isn't bolting this strategy onto the side of an older product. This vision is central to what we've designed.
This ends up with a DX that is way, way more elegant than any other solution.
stack.convex.dev/the-softwar…
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What's next with Code With Antonio & Convex x.com/i/broadcasts/1OdKrOYeD…
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It is probably the most underrated AI voice‑typing and dictation tool available.
For a one‑time payment of $29, it’s one of my best technology investments—not just this year, but in recent years as well.
Other tools with the same purpose charge $20 or more per month.
I’ve always missed having this on my iPhone.
After spending five minutes on the iOS app, I found its free version clearly outperforms the free versions of all other iOS apps I’ve tried this year.
@JoshiPax is 💎
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If you ever notice a 1px shift at the end of your animation, use `will-change: transform`.
This will let the GPU handle the animation and prevent any inconsistencies.
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Pick carefully.
“You’re not choosing a girlfriend, you’re choosing your son’s mother.” — @EricJorgenson
That reliability translates to Convex
When ramping up the Dropbox storage system we were growing so fast we completely ran out of disk space in one 30PB storage cell. 0% disk space is a pretty tricky situation - a lot of software needs to write to the disk to run and you can't compact without writing first.
Fortunately there was a separate root disk for each 100-disk storage node. I wrote a script to move a small amount of data to the root disk, mount it via a symlink, run compaction, move it back then on to the next one.
The system evolved a lot since then and eventually didn't even use a filesystem but for a while the fix was to leave a large dummy file on each disk taking up space we could delete in an emergency.
Inside every major tech company is someone figuring out a creative way to recover from something clowny like running out of disk space.
(Dropbox's storage is incredibly bulletproof these days and afaik has never lost user data.)
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📢 Time for an update on my workflow. This one's a 23 min read, so buckle up. 100% organic and hand-written, like an animal. steipete.me/posts/just-talk-…
who is the @saylor for Small Businesses?
