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thomas_witt

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Hi, I am Thomas Witt - a tech entrepreneur & angel investor.

I’m back in founder mode, building Vendis.ai (https://vendis.ai/), a category-redefining AI-native CRM while still backing deep-tech founders through Expedite Ventures.

Coding since age 8 and connected to the internet since ’90, I co-founded my first software company straight out of high school (’97) and, as CTO, built award-winning B2B platforms that served tens of thousands of customers.

Tech Stack: Ruby on Rails since ’09, AWS since ’10, knee-deep in AI for the past five years.

Expedite Ventures is a crew of CTOs/CPOs investing and mentoring at pre-seed, leveraging our network and decades of collective expertise. Got something ambitious? Read our playbook at https://expedite.ventures/playbook

When the screens dim you’ll find me making music, flying, sailing, behind a lens, or in the kitchen.

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thomas_witt··on How I fixed my blog's performance issues by writing a new Jekyll plugin
In my opinion the whole point of Jekyll is not having to use some npm/JS packages and dependencies.
thomas_witt··on How I fixed my blog's performance issues by writing a new Jekyll plugin
Great effort - really happy to see people keeping Jekyll alive.

Q: Why did you decide to rewrite the whole image handling instead of just relying on the jekyll_picture_tag gem (https://github.com/rbuchberger/jekyll_picture_tag) - I am using that since years and it just works just fine.

thomas_witt··on How to Firefox
One thing which is great are the built-in VPN containers. I always have SSH tunnels with SOCKS proxies running and so I can use for certain sites always a VPN. Or just open a new tab which tunnels everything in THIS tab through the VPN. Great feature!

I switched (back) to firefox a while ago after Chrome was simply super sluggish and slow on a MacStudio (!). Not having UBlock Origin is the final killer. Firefox was always super snappy to me and just does everything I want, in a very data-protective way.

Only downside (not Firefox'es fault) is that it can't use Safari's private relay feature.

thomas_witt··on Show HN: Scrivito – The Professional Cloud-Based Rails CMS
Scrivito is a professional cloud-based CMS built for Ruby on Rails.

All you have to do is drop the Scrivito SDK Engine gem into your app and you'll get intuitive WYSIWYG editing, modular page layouts using widgets, git-style working copies for parallel editing and great support. It's the perfect CMS for start-ups running Rails.

There's a 30 day free trial at https://scrivito.com/

I'm one of the founders of Scrivito. Feedback welcome.

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