Caleb Meredith

@calebmer.com

solo founder. building a microsoft office you actually want to use (https://alpine.inc). previously infra at meta, early airtable, oss

NYC blizzard today: Mamdani has closed the roads but there's one thing bringing new yorkers out to meet mother nature… The dog has to pee Cute dog snow photos is a good excuse to show just how easy it is to create a beautiful image gallery in Alpine:

Just one more link bro. I swear bro its behind just one more link, I swear ^ Me in Zoom meetings You know what's better than a link? Having the information you need right in front of you That's why everything in Alpine (the all-in-one work app) has rich previews:

How many browser tabs do you have open right now? Too many! You're losing time context switching We solve this in Alpine (a new all-in-one work suite) by opening a mobile phone sized window you can use without breaking your flow state Check it out:

Slack + Notion's search are woefully primitive Excuse me for getting technical, this is what Alpine search uses: > LLM embeddings in a vector db > NLP for searches like "my posts from last month" > Affinity score to boost the most relevant stuff > BM25 keyword matching

I have a problem. I'm obsessed with craft. Alpine took 3 years to launch because I cared (too deeply?) about every pixel You can see this in tables. I played with many tables while building ours and we have the slickest implementation I've seen. Check it out:

I was asked "how does Alpine reduce context switching" on ProductHunt. The answer so obvious you'll never look at your Slack + Notion setup the same way again To mention a doc in Alpine you hit @, type a bit, select and get a little in app preview That's it that's the post

slack violates a fundamental principle of design: fitt's law the amount of time it takes your eye to move from one bit of the screen to another is based on how far apart they are the time i wasted reorienting after opening a thread, sheesh glad i’m not using slack anymore

apple notes is where i kept all my tasks for years even at companies that used jira! or linear! that's why in our task tracker app we made it as easy to create a task as it is to create an apple note. ZERO friction

emojis are out they're boring. everyone knows the ten good ones. they aren't expressions of your personality anymore for alpine.inc we've commissioned custom illustrations you'll use instead to react on posts, chats, and more with a radial picker inspired by video games:

it's easy for a great engineer to become a good ui designer good ui design starts with systems thinking. how does this new element create harmony with everything else on screen? at alpine.inc we're training our engineers to be designers too (example in reply)

little details matter: 1. our share button in its hovered state 2. our share button in its hovered state on a colored background (eww 🤢) 3. our share button in its hovered state which blends with the colored background (ooohh 🥹)

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How does ATProtocol verify timestamps? From some quick searching…it doesn’t? This seems dangerous and could lead to all sorts of social engineering attacks from a self hosted PDS. Are relays also recording ingest time and can we trust that as a more reliable timestamp?

@danabra.mov Bluesky question (as your my feed’s Bluesky person), how does Bluesky plan to monetize? Just struck me that there are no ads in my feed and if Bluesky did have ads someone could create a new adless client.