Jelena Jansson ⚡️

Reinstalling node modules can literally heat up my whole room. Why the hell is my laptop burning like the center of the sun? 😣

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…me accumulating technical debt as a pro these days 😆

I was there for the first time, so not a favourite but it’s definitely a nice one to try. I will try to come back to it from time to time. 🙂

Hope you get an opportunity to visit one day! ✨⭐️

It was good! Brown Buttered Miso. It’s from a place called Midnight Pantry

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Here is a cookie from a small shop in London. A simple treat. Followed by a small moment shared with my husband in a park eating this cookie. I can’t deal with the way the world is escalating since 2016, I am trying to find joy in small things. I feel antidote is to not let them rob us of this.

Yes, they seem solid. I just want to escape AWS / Google ecosystem

Will check those out! Thanks for sending this. I mostly want to stay out of Google / AWS ecosystem if possible

#buildinpublic update:
Cool progress on self generating layout system - now it doesn’t rerender with every change. It’s lots of work ahead of us but abilities we plan to unlock with diskura are exciting for anyone who loves their UI/UX experience 😉

I am thinking of not hosting diskura on google cloud or aws, but something european owned. Any ideas what is worth exploring and is it even possible?
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It does, I agree. The shift is difficult to observe tbh.

2019 had so many female founders building and connecting online. As time went on, climate changed, and it feels like only a few of us are left from that ‘era’. It kinda bums me out. I feel like that Taylor Swift song “help, I’m still at the restaurant…” 😞

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Let me show you very cool chocolate packaging I picked up in Portland from Cloudforest cafe. Isn’t this so cool? 🫨

Sometimes you have to just ride it out until the moment comes. Make connections based on wider interest and work towards having something tangible. Hang in there!

I’m talking about when people leave employment and have a gap before their product is viable, so yes, essentially they leave a certain identity that work used to give (& legitimacy) without the next opportunity taking it over. If it takes a long time, it can be difficult to ‘sit in that’.

The hardest part of building something is the identity void between "not working" & "working on something real." The gap that can last a long time. Most people don't talk about it because it's embarrassing. It's almost universal when building from scratch without external structure.
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Fingers crossed. I tried chasing the market thing, it made me crash out honestly because trends change so fast I don't have money to compete with that. It's VC game that one, now I'm just cozy building something that's reusable. What about you?

I think of it like this - if I want to sell ice cream, first I have to make a lot of ice cream to get good at it, figure out the recipe, and make something I can stand behind. Then, be smart to see where it's best to put the shop up. Then adjust the flavours on the spot week by week. 😉

I don’t think agents are the future of software. It’s just a part of it but saas isn’t dead. People like control and making decisions and safety of their digital ‘worlds’. We are much more attached to our digital spaces than we realise, I just don’t see agents taking that over.

The main motivator was wanting to have customisable software from inception. I’m building a dual stream relationship which means component can change the layout and layout can change the component based on user or dev interaction. Usually its just one way. It allows things to be truly as you wish.

I’m building for internal need first. The goal is to have ability to speed up work, invest early into our system and act quickly later in the market when ready to participate. For now it’s about does what we do make sense/improve what we would do following what’s common and what’s the return.

#buildinpublic update:
- my architecture for the product builder framework is coming to life, things are working together - flows, modes & traits
- I started adding atom components into the system
- soon we’ll be able to generate complex apps across devices

Tech & startups changed around 2023 when we ‘left’ covid era behind. I don’t think it’s just AI, it’s also a generational shift. How we interact with life has changed. I believe we are less hopeful, less playful, which is impacting creativity. Inability to earn from your efforts fcks everything up.

It was a strange time. So much money being pushed around.

I wonder what the premise is these days :)

Remember when everyone talked about web3 for a hot minute a few years ago?

Gotta clear head sometimes

#buildinpublic update:
- walked around the city today to clear head as I had to solve a structural problem about how product generator can work
- managed to find a solution that required me to restructure core folders and how layout engine, modes and what I call ‘atlas’ cooperates
- it’s good now ☺️

That’s the spirit!

#buildinpublic This week I want to make good progress on diskura. I hit a bit of a wall with system design as I am doing something novel and out of my depth. Can’t wait to be at the point when I can show more concrete things. It’s still all under the hood stuff.