The Candid Startup

The Candid Startup is a home for my startup ideas, my writing about those ideas, and open source prototypes and implementations of those ideas.

You’ll find a variety of content here. There could be deep thinking about industry trends and startup ideas, juicy gossip from my days at Autodesk or lab journal entries documenting my progress.

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• Jun 30, 2025 Front End

  Unit Test Code Reuse with Vitest

  I’m a strong believer in unit tests. I try to get close to 100% code coverage with my tests. Which means I have a lot of unit test...

• Jun 23, 2025 React Spreadsheet

  React Spreadsheet: Optimistic Update

  I recently made my spreadsheet data interface more explicitly asynchronous. I naively updated VirtualSpreadsheet to use the newly asynchronous setCellValueAndFormat API. After discovering that the...

• Jun 16, 2025 Front End

  Asynchronous React

  Last time, I naively updated my spreadsheet frontend component to use an asynchronous update API. Everything looked like it was working, until I added some latency to the...

• Aug 2, 2022 - Jun 9, 2025 React Virtual Scroll Cloud Architecture Spreadsheets Autodesk Blog ...

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