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I wonder what pressures gen z to feel like they need to speed run vulnerability? The intentions are always pure, I think it comes from a place like “I want to be close to you, I don’t want to exchange surface level small talk.” But, there’s a level of vulnerability that can only be built with time, repetition, consistency… The type of vulnerability that comes from passing the tea and salt shaker across the dinner table a hundred times over. Or maybe it comes from a pressure of not wanting to be perceived as boring or corporate. Not wanting to be walked away from a party whispering “they only care about my job” or “ugh only small talk,” I don’t know. Maybe it’s not a bad thing either :) but I think I need the small talk, the build up. Tell me about how sunny it is in SF and how much you love the trees, and I’ll listen. And then on our 10th time talking about the sun, maybe we can talk about when it rains, too.

📣 PSA: Replit is hiring across engineering, product, design, and business. If you're someone like me, you might get more excited by problems than job titles... Well here are some I'm tackling right now: > What primitives (building blocks) do we give users? How do we define them? Where should they live? > How do we intuit success in agentic workflows? When should feedback loops be asynchronous or synchronous? > How do we help maintain, scale, and monitor vibe coded Apps? Come help me and so many incredible people work on these problems. If you're interested, DM me or respond with a project you're proud of! ❤️

First website I've built with Claude's help; actually crazy to experience how easy it is. Make your own little emoji garden. 🌱

Hosted a cozy wine night at my 300sq ft studio :) surprisingly I managed to fit ~20 people… The best part was everyone was forced to socialize because there was nowhere to hide

Replit is hitting Korean media and my parents are proud 🥹

SOOOOOON 😊 We've been working incredibly hard for this. Excited for everyone to experience it soon.

This was fun to build :) also great blog post /reference to the Calculator Construction Set

A friend asked me recently what I would do if Figma disappeared overnight. How devastated would I be as a designer? My answer surprised him initially, but eventually he understood. I said I would largely be fine. To begin, at least 60% of my design work already is either in writing or drawing on Excalidraw. Most of the work is trying to figure out the mechanics and related systems. To be honest, one of the biggest things I would miss about Figma is writing ideas on a spatial canvas beside higher fidelity mock-ups. Then, especially if I’m working with a design system, most of my explorations are around layout and interaction design. Both of which are things that are now much easier to prototype in code… This isn’t to say I don’t actually use Figma anymore, I definitely still do! But it’s become less of a necessity. And frankly, I think it’s exciting for designers to have more optionality in the tools we use.

Your startup has a diversity problem if there wasn’t a single mention of Midnights and Taylor Swift during your standup today

The second time I hike the Sea-to-Sky Summit in Vancouver, I am 25. The first time I hike this mountain, I am 15, six months post-operation from major spinal surgery. I just got the go-ahead from my doctors to go on longer walks. However, I am still barred from running, lifting more than 10 pounds, and participating in any activity that requires physical impact. Five months earlier, I had just finished learning how to walk again. I am hiking this mountain on a pathway that the bulletin board at the beginning of the trail promised would be easy. I keep walking, but the trail progressively turns into more rocks than soil, more tree trunks than wildflowers. It doesn’t take long for my parents and me to realize we’ve ended up on the full summit hike—the one for advanced hikers. At this point, we are too deep into the mountain to go back down, leaving us with no choice but to hike the whole way up and take the gondola down. For the next three hours, we are all silent. All I think about is putting one foot in front of the other. Then I fall. I feel my body hit the ground, and I could swear I hear my bones echo with the metal rods in my spine. Four months later, I find out that I need repeat surgery because the metal in my spine had not fully mended with my bones. They had been loose, moving for the past few months, pinching parts of my nervous system. I would have another surgery a few months later and go through the same process of learning how to walk again. I would end up spending the majority of my high school years not being allowed to run and being terrified to fall. I’ve spent many hours contemplating whether that fall was the major cause of the failure of that first surgery. I’ve also spent many hours trying to stop contemplating the fate of that fall. The second time I hike the Sea-to-Sky Summit in Vancouver, I am running up the mountain. I’m chasing the clouds, and when I catch up, I’m rewarded with rain. My body moves faster than I think, and I look out ahead of me.

I wonder what pressures gen z to feel like they need to speed run vulnerability? The intentions are always pure, I think it comes from a place like “I want to be close to you, I don’t want to exchange surface level small talk.” But, there’s a level of vulnerability that can only be built with time, repetition, consistency… The type of vulnerability that comes from passing the tea and salt shaker across the dinner table a hundred times over. Or maybe it comes from a pressure of not wanting to be perceived as boring or corporate. Not wanting to be walked away from a party whispering “they only care about my job” or “ugh only small talk,” I don’t know. Maybe it’s not a bad thing either :) but I think I need the small talk, the build up. Tell me about how sunny it is in SF and how much you love the trees, and I’ll listen. And then on our 10th time talking about the sun, maybe we can talk about when it rains, too.

📣 PSA: Replit is hiring across engineering, product, design, and business. If you're someone like me, you might get more excited by problems than job titles... Well here are some I'm tackling right now: > What primitives (building blocks) do we give users? How do we define them? Where should they live? > How do we intuit success in agentic workflows? When should feedback loops be asynchronous or synchronous? > How do we help maintain, scale, and monitor vibe coded Apps? Come help me and so many incredible people work on these problems. If you're interested, DM me or respond with a project you're proud of! ❤️

First website I've built with Claude's help; actually crazy to experience how easy it is. Make your own little emoji garden. 🌱

SOOOOOON 😊 We've been working incredibly hard for this. Excited for everyone to experience it soon.

Hosted a cozy wine night at my 300sq ft studio :) surprisingly I managed to fit ~20 people… The best part was everyone was forced to socialize because there was nowhere to hide

The second time I hike the Sea-to-Sky Summit in Vancouver, I am 25. The first time I hike this mountain, I am 15, six months post-operation from major spinal surgery. I just got the go-ahead from my doctors to go on longer walks. However, I am still barred from running, lifting more than 10 pounds, and participating in any activity that requires physical impact. Five months earlier, I had just finished learning how to walk again. I am hiking this mountain on a pathway that the bulletin board at the beginning of the trail promised would be easy. I keep walking, but the trail progressively turns into more rocks than soil, more tree trunks than wildflowers. It doesn’t take long for my parents and me to realize we’ve ended up on the full summit hike—the one for advanced hikers. At this point, we are too deep into the mountain to go back down, leaving us with no choice but to hike the whole way up and take the gondola down. For the next three hours, we are all silent. All I think about is putting one foot in front of the other. Then I fall. I feel my body hit the ground, and I could swear I hear my bones echo with the metal rods in my spine. Four months later, I find out that I need repeat surgery because the metal in my spine had not fully mended with my bones. They had been loose, moving for the past few months, pinching parts of my nervous system. I would have another surgery a few months later and go through the same process of learning how to walk again. I would end up spending the majority of my high school years not being allowed to run and being terrified to fall. I’ve spent many hours contemplating whether that fall was the major cause of the failure of that first surgery. I’ve also spent many hours trying to stop contemplating the fate of that fall. The second time I hike the Sea-to-Sky Summit in Vancouver, I am running up the mountain. I’m chasing the clouds, and when I catch up, I’m rewarded with rain. My body moves faster than I think, and I look out ahead of me.

Replit is hitting Korean media and my parents are proud 🥹

Made this diagram for work internally, but lowkey a great overview of Replit's core system + external systems you can connect to. Create an app with our Agent and get databases, auth, and deployments out of the box. & Make your app more powerful using integrations!!

A friend asked me recently what I would do if Figma disappeared overnight. How devastated would I be as a designer? My answer surprised him initially, but eventually he understood. I said I would largely be fine. To begin, at least 60% of my design work already is either in writing or drawing on Excalidraw. Most of the work is trying to figure out the mechanics and related systems. To be honest, one of the biggest things I would miss about Figma is writing ideas on a spatial canvas beside higher fidelity mock-ups. Then, especially if I’m working with a design system, most of my explorations are around layout and interaction design. Both of which are things that are now much easier to prototype in code… This isn’t to say I don’t actually use Figma anymore, I definitely still do! But it’s become less of a necessity. And frankly, I think it’s exciting for designers to have more optionality in the tools we use.