Kubernetes A fun bug I'm always interested in stories about Accidental Complexity—when you waste time dealing with the endless layers of tooling that's required to make a web application today. I'm also super
Development Dark devlog #3: onboarding An annoying thing about coding is that some days you're on fire, producing masterpieces, knocking down obstacle after obstacle. And some weeks, you're trapped figuring out bugs that ultimately come
Development Dark devlog #2: what next? After spending the last week on some extremely urgent things on my plate (helping the team get jobs, moving, infra stability, costs, and legal and transition work), I have time to get back to the product. There's still not a clear sense of what
Software Development Spin up a Slack app in seconds with Dark Seconds is a bit of an exaggeration, but we’ve made it possible to build a full Slack app in less than an hour. You can jump right in (limited
Sql Compiling Dark to SQL How do we make programs in Dark fast, while keeping complexity for developers really low? We recently shipped a new Dark feature that compiles Dark code to SQL. This post
API Building an Office Sign-In in Dark We’ve just released a demo video of Dark. The demo is building out an office sign in application. You choose who you’re visiting (a host) and sign in with your name. I highly recommend watching the video instead of reading this. But…
Developer Tools Unveiling Dark Today we’re unveiling Dark and moving into private beta. Backends today are too complicated to build. Dark is designed to massively reduce that complexity. Dark is a holistic programming language, editor, and infrastructure for building backends. You write in the Dark language, using
Startup Dark Announces $3.5M in Seed Financing Today we’re announcing that Dark has raised $3.5M in seed funding. We actually raised our funding back in 2017, and have been quietly building Dark for the last two years. Our team has developed a holistic programming language, editor, and infrastructure. You
