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Welcome to Drafted
What this place is for, what you will find in it, and how to read it without an account, a cookie or a tracker.
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Content: the media layer
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Building Dev Universe
The parts of Dev Universe one at a time, and how it began with Drafted.
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Building Drafted
How this site was made, one decision at a time: what I chose, why I chose it, and what broke along the way.
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Curious to Coder
Finding the curiosity that already exists in you, and following it far enough to build something with it.
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Dev Universe
What Dev Universe is: one connected ecosystem for learning, creating, teaching, sharing and building.
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Welcome to Drafted
What this place is for, what you will find in it, and how to read it without an account, a cookie or a tracker.
Community: turning an audience into a network
Content creates an audience. Community turns that audience into people who interact with one another.
Content: the media layer
Writing, video and a discovery feed: three platforms with three different jobs, instead of one post copied everywhere.
Conversation: Vazhviyal
Vazhviyal explores life through conversations with interesting people, well beyond technology.
Dev Universe Weekly: connecting everything
One newsletter as the single subscription point for the whole ecosystem, a weekly digest instead of another stream.
Education: turning knowledge into learning
Content can teach one concept. Education goes further, with structured learning: a course brand and live workshops.
How Drafted started
I started writing on Medium and was not consistent. The limits I kept running into were the platform's, so I built a place of my own.
Open source and ventures: the Inflate family
A path from ideas to experiments to software to organizations: Inflate AI, InflateEd and Inflate Ventures.
Products: helping people execute
Knowledge and intellectual property, turned into things people can actually use.
The AI Library: an open knowledge layer
A long-term project: a high-quality, open-source platform where people can learn AI and help improve what is taught.
The personal layer: Lyf as Dev
Not everything needs to be educational or technical. Lyf as Dev is where the personal side of Dev Universe lives.
A blog that is just files
Why Drafted is built once and served as plain pages, and why the build only runs when I ask it to.