Daniel Ashcraft

🚨NEW FULL FOOTAGE of Alan Ritchson (Reacher) in a street fight with his neighbor Ronnie Taylor in Tennessee. It captures exactly what caused Ritchson to snap and beat the crap out of Taylor.

Tired of shipping megabytes of JS just to render a webpage? I built Hyperspan. 🚫 0kb client JS 🚀 File-based routing ⚡ Streaming content 📝 HTMX-style Server Actions with Zod validation 🏝 Dynamic Islands for React/Preact, Vue & Svelte No magic. Just TypeScript.

That’s fair — I’m not saying people literally think D3 is new. I think I’m reacting more to the framing than the intent. A lot of posts read like a capability breakthrough vs a workflow/accessibility breakthrough. The latter is still huge — I just think it’s worth being precise about where the real change is. Your optimizing your engagement for inclusivity and positivity, i'm frustrated with issues around accuracy of framing and for overstating novelty.

@Dashcraft89 I think that's kind of the point? No one here is saying that d3.js is novel, nor anywhere else as far as I'm aware? TBH I think you are misconstruing enthusiasm as naiveté. We're just excited that the barrier is lower and the possibilities are higher. That's all.

Design a dashboard - anything you want; the sky is the limit - and ask Claude Code to create it for you in d3.js. Then test and iterate. You'll never see the current UI-driven visualization tools the same, again. At least, I can't.

I’m not arguing against accessibility. AI making D3 usable for more people is great. My point is that some of the reaction reads like people just discovered custom visualization itself, when D3 has been a gold standard for years. The novelty is AI lowering the barrier, not the capability existing.

@Dashcraft89 I don't think it's that difficult to empathize and understand that the fact that it has been around a long time is part of why it performs so well with agents, and why non-technical people or people from SSBI / low-code / no-code tools can suddenly use these. Not just engineers.

@kurtbuhler My issue stems from what I perceive to be the “oh wow” pikachu face people have who have been engineers for a long time …. discovering D3, one of the oldest visualization libraries that made it from the JS dark ages. Maybe I’m too naive to this phenomena

@Dashcraft89 Nope its not new at all. But for those of us who have been using SSBI tools, it makes it a lot more accessible and easy. let's cut the gatekeeping, no; gate's open come on in.

@AOC And porn and weed and social media and …….

This is sad. I know as a politician these companies are going to spend a billion dollars against me for saying it but 🤷🏽‍♀️ Pervasive gambling is not good for society. It turns life into a casino, traps people in addiction & debt, surges domestic violence, and fosters manipulation.

@DataChaz @openclaw Crashes and loses session constantly, takes 20-30 seconds to re establish between messages :/

🚨 Anthropic just dropped its 🦞 @OpenClaw competitor Meet Dispatch. A new research preview in Claude Cowork that completely changes how you interact with AI. Here’s how it works: 1️⃣ Pairs your phone to a persistent Claude session on your desktop 2️⃣ Message tasks on the go, come back to finished work 3️⃣ Executes code in a secure, local sandbox Your files stay 100% local and private, and Claude asks for your approval before touching anything Sure, the desktop needs to stay on, but the flexibility is insane. Rolling out now to Max users (Pro coming soon). Time to pair that phone! 👀

This is 10x more impressive than Babe Ruth calling his shot in a baseball game

Me grandma, when she tell Claude make thing for bingo? No make fancy app. Just make cute little toy. Show friends at bingo hall. They go "ooh ahh". That all. This guy? He make big calculator with shiny buttons. Now he say "gimme enterprise fortress software! Secure! Authenticated! Big boy load!" Hah! Watch caveman brain melt when real weight drop on it. Me take two pipe. Smash together. Wrap with magic white tape. Slap on yellow goo. Now me industrial piping mechanical mega-engineer supreme? No. Just caveman with sticky hands. Same thing.

I know Silicon Valley startups don't want to hear this..... But the combination of someone in the trades with deep domain expertise and Claude Code will run circles around your generic software. I talked to Cory LaChance this morning, a mechanical engineer in industrial piping construction in Houston. He normally works with chemical plants and refineries, but now he also works with the terminal He reached out in a DM a few days ago and I was so fired up by his story, I asked him if we could record the conversation and share it. He built a full application that industrial contractors are using every day. It reads piping isometric drawings and automatically extracts every weld count, every material spec, every commodity code. Work that took 10 minutes per drawing now takes 60 seconds. It can do 100 drawings in five minutes, saving days of time. His co-workers are all mind blown, and when he talks to them, it's like they are speaking different languages. His fabrication shop uses it daily, and he built the entire thing in 8 weeks. During those 8 weeks he also had to learn everything about Claude Code, the terminal, VS Code, everything. My favorite quote from him was when he said, "I literally did this with zero outside help other than the AI. My favorite tools are screenshots, step by step instructions and asking Claude to explain things like I'm five." Every trades worker with deep expertise and a willingness to sit down with Claude Code for a few weekends is now a potential software founder. I can't wait to meet more people like Cory.

✅ ACQUIRED @arian1_11 built WishPrime after WishTender shut down. He first tried listing it on Acquire, but the listing process asked for too much paperwork. So he listed it on TrustMRR instead. A few days later, he sold his virtual wishlist startup for $2,500 👏🎉

Just acquired a SaaS for $2,500 on @TrustMRR! 🎉 Verified revenue, secure escrow, and smooth process. Highly recommend for serious buyers.

@kenwheeler But i'm 100% trying to get in, cash out, and get the fuck out. I am going to be a farmer or some shit. Old 1950's John Deere combine. Square body chevy. Pond on the property with some acreage to hunt on. Seems good to me.

almost all ai best practices and techniques are basically astrology and have a 2 week shelf life. i think im gonna spend my time learning other non tech domains instead

I bought some existing applications that don't have any AI support and created a product in a space that traditionally has a lot of manual entry. I think there's a moat between now and 6 years from now taking entrenched and old industries into the future. The ideas of "private" or "on premise ony" infrastructure is going away, we can wrap or reverse engineer almost anything now with AI and brute force for 200$.

@vlucas @honojs @nextjs I thought you said @nestframework my bad, next is alright ish

@Dashcraft89 @honojs @nextjs Are you talking about Next or Vercel? I have my own issues with Next for sure, but haven’t heard of phrasing like this being a reason before.

The State of JS is out. Hono is the No.1 back-end framework for developer satisfaction! 2025.stateofjs.com/en-US/librarie…

@vlucas @honojs @nextjs It’s soooooo slow if you’re not using fastify etc there’s a ton of performance penalties in the wires that connect the domains.

@honojs Congrats to Hono - it is well deserved. Strikes me as odd that @nextjs is rate so low though, seeing how the actual real world usage is so high.

I'm just testing if my media automation thingy is working right.

@Jaredkotter That’s cheap, I’m in Oklahoma my quote was 2,277$

With my wife quitting her job we are having to figure out health insurance. The current quote I have seems really expensive. $700-$800/ month for family of 4. Is this normal?? Also hear so much about insurance not paying out claims. Any business owners have any recommendations??

@DeanTTraining 5’9” ~175lbs

“170-180 lbs is really light for a man” But if you’re around 5’ 9” with good muscularity, this is almost EXACTLY what you SHOULD weigh If average height and lacking muscle…you SHOULD weigh <150 Fat dudes will now assemble in the replies & tell me all the reasons I’m wrong…

@BarbellFi How many sqft? Appliances? Custom carpentry or cabinets? New lighting? Moving plumbing around? Opening up walls or floor plan?

My buddy wants to redo his kitchen Contractor quoted him at $90k He’s 32 with a wife & 2 young kids Here are his options to pay for it: HELOC at 7.25% Loan from Dad at 4% $100k high yield savings Was saving to buy a rental property How should he pay for the kitchen? 🤔