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Adam Wiggins
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tools for thought @MuseAppHQ // research @inkandswitch // previously @heroku
Aug 6, 2024 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
tldraw sync is a fast, production-ready library for collaborative whiteboards built with tldraw.

I got to help with docs and the launch blog post (linked below), but first a few observations... Figma has set an expectation for live canvas collaboration (e.g. cursors, viewports, easy share links). If you're making an app with a canvas, users will regard this as table stakes.

But! it's really hard to build.
May 2, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Last but not least: tools for thought is as much about human factors as it is about technology.

Yes, we talk about CRDTs and rendering performance. But we talk just as much about how to best achieve flow state or create comfort in collaborative spaces. There isn't a single place (like a conference) this community gathers, as far as I can tell. But here's a Twitter list to get you started: twitter.com/i/lists/138893…

(Not intended to be definitive—this is just some folks I happened to think of right now.)
May 2, 2021 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
My thoughts on the emerging ”tools for thought” community

↓ I've been lucky enough to be part of many computing communities over the years: BBSes in the 1990s, Linux/open source in the 2000s, Ruby/agile/web in the late 2000s, the Berlin startup scene in the 2010s.
Jan 23, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
.@ccorcos builds up the concept of a relational database from first principles: ccorcos.github.io/filing-cabinet… I've been working with databases for ~30 years, but this piece had me re-examining some things I take for granted.

Wish I had something like this when I was first grappling with indexes and query planners!
Dec 3, 2020 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
It's been almost exactly a decade since Salesforce acquired Heroku. blog.heroku.com/the_next_level

Good time to share a few reflections, especially in light of the Slack acquisition. 1/ Heroku was a hot company in 2010. But we had yet to deliver out our full product vision: the platform was Ruby-only, lacked background processes and a bunch of other capabilities needed for more substantial apps.
Oct 29, 2020 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
[ANN] Ink & Switch begins a new chapter with @pvh at the helm!

Anyone who's been part of the Ink & Switch community this past year knows that Peter is the obvious choice, but for those that haven't here's the backstory… Five years ago, the three Heroku founders started a research lab to explore what's next for productive computing.

The 2015 pitch deck: inkandswitch.com/archive/rdlab-…
Apr 20, 2020 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Lively and useful discussion here, thanks everyone!

Here's my motivations on this, thread👇 1/ First, not the reason: because I think Google is a bad company somehow. They've done a huge amount of good for tech and in the world broadly. And their products are generally excellent. ⭐️
Mar 19, 2019 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Electron has been a game-changer for our lab as a rapid prototyping platform.

A few thoughts... 1/ The developer experience is top-notch. Our team has built prototypes on Windows/C#, iOS/Swift, Android/Kotlin, browser/JS/React, Chrome OS/Chrome Apps/Typescript, Flutter/Dart, and Rust/WASM, to name a few.