The mix so far: 3 static explainers, 14 interactive apps, 2 games, 3 simulators.
27 days remain. Build a teaching app, deploy it on Netlify, and add the URL to the wall. The best Agent Runners build each week earns 10,000 credits.
Join in ✏️ ntl-back-to-school.netlify.app ✉️ buildwithmaya has shipped two apps, and both are built like full courses: Skillstax Cold Email Course: short lessons, real examples, interactive checklists Skillstax Distribution Strategy: five lessons that end with one channel and a four-week plan
🧩 raimanncostigan covers the widest range of anyone competing: 🧠 Oddpedia: a bilingual encyclopedia of strange true facts 📜 Wen Tianxiang's Journey: live his final years and face his choices 🗼 Tower of Hanoi Lab: recursion with move tracking 🧩 Structura: a data structures playground
🕹 davidvkimball is building a field guide to the old web at yahew.com:
🌐 The First Website: a 1990 NeXT machine where the browser edits pages too
🃏 HyperCard: a 1-bit Macintosh in 1987
📺 Teletext & Minitel: Ceefax in 1974, a network with no address bar 📈 waela has turned marketing fundamentals into four playable apps: 🎯 CTA Showdown: spot the clickworthy call to action 📊 Conversion Rate Ripple: watch small % shifts move real revenue 🌍 Flag to Place: 24 countries across six regions 🔍 SEO or AEO Sorter: every answer explains its reasoning
🍎 AshAmplifies also has four in four days, and hers are the most classroom-shaped: 📚 Learning Principles: Knowles' six principles of adult learning 🧑🍳 OvenCraft: baking as a periodic table for Minecraft fans 🛒 Supermarket Quiz: can you spot the best offer? 🍎 British Orchard: UK apple varieties
🥇 anishsharma leads with four apps in four days: ⚡ Mechanics Visualizer: drag sliders, watch force and motion respond 🔌 EZ Circuits: microcontrollers and a code lab in the browser 🏢 Datacenter Journey: one request, ten stops 🌊 Pelagic Atlas: a photographic ocean descent
Day 4's five hand-ins: 🔍 SEO or AEO Sorter by waela · seo-or-aeo.netlify.app 🌊 Pelagic Atlas by anishsharma · marine-life-v1.netlify.app 📺 Teletext & Minitel by davidvkimball 🧩 Structura Visual Lab by raimanncostigan 🍎 British Orchard by AshAmplifies · british-orchard.netlify.app
🎒 Netlify Back to School, Day 4 of 31. Six builders have shipped 22 teaching apps since August 1, all deployed and live. The assignment stays the same every day: build an app that teaches one idea, ship it, come back tomorrow. Here's everyone on the wall so far 🧵
Got something you’ve been building in Rust? Sign up for a lightning-demo slot during the Open HDMI Cable session at the August Bay Area Rust meetup.
The meetup starts Wednesday, August 19 at 6pm PT.
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healthcare for ai agents, single-payer, straightforward costs, universal coverage. covers all llms and tool use, local provider network.
New AI models keep raising the bar. Matt shares why Netlify is building Agent Runners to take advantage of those advances by giving agents the context, tools, and orchestration they need to do more.
Zed New User Office Hours with @movraxrax.bsky.social is next Tuesday, August 11 at 12pm ET / 9am PT.
During this 30-minute Zoom session, Miguel will cover navigating Zed, using its built-in Git features, and working with the built-in agent. Bring your questions!
luma.com/zed-ox7n The Build with Netlify lightning talk schedule for RenderATL is locked. Eight sessions across August 12 and 13, including an AMA with Matt Biilmann and KP shipping AI-generated apps with Drop. Full schedule is on the cards. Come build with us in Atlanta!
sadly the one public instance of airtable i see nowadays is the one embedded in layoffs.fyi and it's probably going to have some big numbers for airtable layoffs in the private equity redudancy stage, on top of their numerous layoffs in the last few years 
Plan mode removes the guesswork.
When the change is too big for a quick fix:
• Your code stays untouched
• Plan it first, then review it
• Apply exactly as planned
No surprises, just clarity. 
launch a database: database.new
cumulative chart for aesthetics ↓ 
Supabase is now deploying >1m new Postgres databases every week & that doesn't include read replicas
ICYMI: the full thirteen-year history of Netlify Drop is up, from its 2013 launch as BitBalloon to the 2020 memo arguing for shutting it down. The stat that saved it: 60%+ of new signups still make their first deploy by dragging a folder. www.netlify.com/blog/thirtee... the gist of this wave of ai writing: everyone uses llms. and we hate reading their output, don't like the software they make. pretty sure that they're causing skill loss for their users. however, i have found a special unique way to use them that makes me and my software and writing the exception.
llm-first restaurants, you can only order via mcp, also the robot eats the food not you
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zed.dev/education/ze... And to Christopher Lamers (@lamersc.com), who runs the weekly raffle.
www.linkedin.com/in/lamersc A huge thank you to everyone else reproducing this week! ❤️
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