Taylor Baldwin
@taylorbaldwin.bsky.social
co-founder Jamsocket • YC W22
generative art • data vis • classical piano
previously at Datadog, Uber, NYTimes R&D
generative art • data vis • classical piano
previously at Datadog, Uber, NYTimes R&D
Today marks 15 years in NYC
July 24, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Today marks 15 years in NYC
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Built for collaboration, compute, and AI sandboxes, the startup @jamsocket.com finds the right partner to scale its vision.
Feat. @paulbutler.org, @taylorbaldwin.bsky.social
Feat. @paulbutler.org, @taylorbaldwin.bsky.social
Jamsocket’s Session-Lived Infra Gets a New Home with Modal
Built for collaboration, compute, and AI sandboxes, the startup finds the right partner to scale its vision.
bit.ly
July 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Built for collaboration, compute, and AI sandboxes, the startup @jamsocket.com finds the right partner to scale its vision.
Feat. @paulbutler.org, @taylorbaldwin.bsky.social
Feat. @paulbutler.org, @taylorbaldwin.bsky.social
Came across this short improvisation I threw together years ago, and now I'm itching to get back into music visualization. vimeo.com/manage/video...
Vimeo
vimeo.com
May 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Came across this short improvisation I threw together years ago, and now I'm itching to get back into music visualization. vimeo.com/manage/video...
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I created a 3D visualization that shows *every* attention weight matrix within GPT-2 as the model generates tokens!
April 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I created a 3D visualization that shows *every* attention weight matrix within GPT-2 as the model generates tokens!
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After my post on smuggling arbitrary messages through unicode, some people asked me if AI could decode it. Gemini Flash is pretty fast at it! Have had good luck with Claude too. So far no dice with OpenAI models.
This uses block.github.io/goose/ and forevervm.com
This uses block.github.io/goose/ and forevervm.com
February 13, 2025 at 12:49 AM
After my post on smuggling arbitrary messages through unicode, some people asked me if AI could decode it. Gemini Flash is pretty fast at it! Have had good luck with Claude too. So far no dice with OpenAI models.
This uses block.github.io/goose/ and forevervm.com
This uses block.github.io/goose/ and forevervm.com
One of @jakelazaroff.com's first projects at @jamsocket.com, and he totally knocked it out of the park 😍
Want to learn about building local-first apps? Check out Learn Yjs, our interactive guide to Yjs! Featuring three lessons jam-packed with explorable explanations and coding exercises.
Learn Yjs by Jamsocket
An interactive guide to the Yjs CRDT library.
learn.yjs.dev
January 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
One of @jakelazaroff.com's first projects at @jamsocket.com, and he totally knocked it out of the park 😍
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Something cool coming tomorrow 👀
January 13, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Something cool coming tomorrow 👀
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Catching up on some great #ptpx mail from the last few weeks. @revdancatt.com above and @taylorbaldwin.bsky.social below
January 12, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Catching up on some great #ptpx mail from the last few weeks. @revdancatt.com above and @taylorbaldwin.bsky.social below
Rayon is one of my fav examples of Ambitious Software™️ on the web
Read our interview with @bastiendolla.bsky.social, cofounder of Rayon. We talk about why Rayon replaced their database with Jamsocket, building Rayon V2 and features like version control.
jamsocket.com/blog/why-ray...
jamsocket.com/blog/why-ray...
Why Rayon replaced their database with Jamsocket
jamsocket.com
January 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Rayon is one of my fav examples of Ambitious Software™️ on the web
Received some beautiful pieces from @whitekoalaart.bsky.social today!
December 31, 2024 at 3:26 AM
Received some beautiful pieces from @whitekoalaart.bsky.social today!
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My experiments with unpredictable mediums continue. This image is a single line drawn with a Bic Cristal ballpoint. I greatly prefer the artifacts caused by this type of pen when creating these works. The less reliable, the better!
#Art #PenPlotter #GenArtClub
#Art #PenPlotter #GenArtClub
December 27, 2024 at 9:33 PM
My experiments with unpredictable mediums continue. This image is a single line drawn with a Bic Cristal ballpoint. I greatly prefer the artifacts caused by this type of pen when creating these works. The less reliable, the better!
#Art #PenPlotter #GenArtClub
#Art #PenPlotter #GenArtClub
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extremely rad slice of Manhattan for #ptpx from @taylorbaldwin.bsky.social
December 24, 2024 at 7:51 PM
extremely rad slice of Manhattan for #ptpx from @taylorbaldwin.bsky.social
Had some questions about how these are made. Here's the quick version:
Using a dataset from the city, I pick an area of Manhattan, draw a circle around it, project the building geometries into 2D, remove hidden edges, then generate an SVG for my pen plotter to draw! Each one takes 20-30min to draw!
Using a dataset from the city, I pick an area of Manhattan, draw a circle around it, project the building geometries into 2D, remove hidden edges, then generate an SVG for my pen plotter to draw! Each one takes 20-30min to draw!
A selection of the plotter art postcards going out this week as part of #ptpx2024 #penplotter
December 19, 2024 at 1:26 AM
Had some questions about how these are made. Here's the quick version:
Using a dataset from the city, I pick an area of Manhattan, draw a circle around it, project the building geometries into 2D, remove hidden edges, then generate an SVG for my pen plotter to draw! Each one takes 20-30min to draw!
Using a dataset from the city, I pick an area of Manhattan, draw a circle around it, project the building geometries into 2D, remove hidden edges, then generate an SVG for my pen plotter to draw! Each one takes 20-30min to draw!
A selection of the plotter art postcards going out this week as part of #ptpx2024 #penplotter
December 18, 2024 at 12:49 AM
A selection of the plotter art postcards going out this week as part of #ptpx2024 #penplotter
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Y-Sweet + BlockNote gets you pretty darn close to a Notion-like experience. Get a working version with our tutorial: https://docs.jamsocket.com/y-sweet/tutorials/blocknote
December 13, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Y-Sweet + BlockNote gets you pretty darn close to a Notion-like experience. Get a working version with our tutorial: https://docs.jamsocket.com/y-sweet/tutorials/blocknote
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the most important part of this announcement is that this will save me, personally, $55/mo by switching waypoint.jakelazaroff.com away from cloudflare
December 6, 2024 at 2:49 PM
the most important part of this announcement is that this will save me, personally, $55/mo by switching waypoint.jakelazaroff.com away from cloudflare
Gotta love a free room upgrade 😍
December 6, 2024 at 7:53 AM
Gotta love a free room upgrade 😍
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@jamsocket.com & @extism.bsky.social gang 🫡
December 3, 2024 at 10:42 PM
@jamsocket.com & @extism.bsky.social gang 🫡
So happy with how this turned out!
my first @jamsocket.com project 🎉
get up and running with a realtime collaborative multiplayer app in literally less than 30 seconds
get up and running with a realtime collaborative multiplayer app in literally less than 30 seconds
December 3, 2024 at 9:17 PM
So happy with how this turned out!
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🐟 some musings on how we might use LLMs
🐠 to interact with text at multiple levels of abstraction
🐡 inspired by the fish-eye lens
🐠 to interact with text at multiple levels of abstraction
🐡 inspired by the fish-eye lens
December 3, 2024 at 4:31 PM
🐟 some musings on how we might use LLMs
🐠 to interact with text at multiple levels of abstraction
🐡 inspired by the fish-eye lens
🐠 to interact with text at multiple levels of abstraction
🐡 inspired by the fish-eye lens
I think we're ending up with something like this. A kind of hand-drawn, sketchy feel.
Did a lot of segment merging and line sorting to make drawing faster, but will ultimately have to wait until after vacation to see if these can actually print in a reasonable amount of time.
Did a lot of segment merging and line sorting to make drawing faster, but will ultimately have to wait until after vacation to see if these can actually print in a reasonable amount of time.
November 29, 2024 at 6:07 PM
I think we're ending up with something like this. A kind of hand-drawn, sketchy feel.
Did a lot of segment merging and line sorting to make drawing faster, but will ultimately have to wait until after vacation to see if these can actually print in a reasonable amount of time.
Did a lot of segment merging and line sorting to make drawing faster, but will ultimately have to wait until after vacation to see if these can actually print in a reasonable amount of time.
Spent some time writing a hidden segment removal algorithm today. Mostly happy with the results.
November 28, 2024 at 12:20 AM
Spent some time writing a hidden segment removal algorithm today. Mostly happy with the results.
Some in-progress screenshots for this year's plotter art postcards.
November 27, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Some in-progress screenshots for this year's plotter art postcards.