Let There Be Light

DevCon was eye-opening. It was the first time the Timeleap team traveled together, and we got the opportunity to discuss our internal policies, our vision for the future, and how we can improve our services. We also got to meet some of our users in person, which was a great experience.

In Bangkok, we realized that we've lost touch with our roots. We've been so focused on building the best product that we've forgotten about the people who use it. Comparing our social media accounts with other tech companies, we realized that haven't had a lot of content about the technologies that we make.

There are two tech companies in Europe that I've worked with that have taught me important lessons. One, which shall not be named, is an e-commerce company with four developers and more than two hundred non-tech employees. The other is a software company where more than eighty percent of the employees are developers or tech-related. I want Timeleap to be the latter.

I want Timeleap to be a company where developers are the majority. I want us to be a company that is known for its technology, and we are taking the first steps to make that happen. Read below to find out all the changes we're making.

New Website

This one isn't that much of a news to our users, but we've launched a new website tailored to developers. We are rewriting our documentation, our front page, and our blog to be more developer-friendly.

We made our own documentation generator, which we're calling Tiramisu. It enables us to integrate our blog and docs seamlessly with the rest of our website. It's flexible and extensible, which allows us to add custom plugins and features. Things like code playgrounds, interactive examples, plots and more are now possible.

Check the source code of this page here.

New Content Team

It was one of the most difficult decisions I've had to make, but we've decided to let go of our marketing team. We are now a company that is run by developers, and content creation is now integrated into our development process. We have weekly strategic meetings to discuss what content we should create, and soon you should see a lot more content from us.

OG Image Generator

We've built an OG image generator that generates images for our blog, docs, and other pages of our website. It's a simple tool that allows us to generate images with custom text and font sizes. We want to keep it simple and focus mainly on the content, but we also want to make sure that our content is shareable on social media. The preview image for this page, and the below image are generated using our dynamic OG image generator.

This image was generated using our OG image generator.

Community Changes

GitHub is the largest social platform for developers, and we've decided to centralize our discussions there. Soon, we'll transition our Timeleap Enhancement Proposals (TEPs) to GitHub and begin using GitHub Discussions for technical conversations.

Collaborators, contributors, and users should now rely on Tiramisu and GitHub for submitting feature requests, performance improvements, security updates, API changes, ecosystem enhancements, and other proposals.

This shift to GitHub enhances our appeal to developers and provides a direct link between proposals, code changes, and sample implementations. It also allows us to seamlessly integrate and reference these proposals within our documentation.

As part of this transition, we will be deactivating our Discord server. Telegram will remain available for casual conversations, but we strongly encourage users to use GitHub or our forum for technical discussions. Bug reports, TEPs, and feature requests should be submitted on GitHub, while how-to guides, tutorials, showcases, and other community-driven content should be shared on our forum.

Finally, all official announcements will now be made exclusively on our Twitter account.

Conclusion

We are making a lot of changes to Timeleap, and we are excited about the future. We're close to the end of the year, and we have a lot of exciting things planned for 2025. Stay tuned for more updates, and don't forget to follow us on social media to stay up to date with the latest news and updates from Timeleap.