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Max Schoening

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9 months

What are some examples of idiosyncratic computer usage? - Use the browser URL bar to turn rich text into plain text. - Open Photo Booth to check the webcam before joining a call instead of built-in functionality.

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A company should not employ more PMs than designers.

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😴 CSS-in-JS ⚡️ Stitches-like variants w/ @tailwindcss

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35GB (7M rows) of data in SQLite. Twitter suggests sharding or switching to another database. Of course!

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We will look at this era as the dark ages of technology. So much content lost. Hopefully we see more of: local-first, multiplayer, and with a document model that doesn’t make your content die after VCs pull out.

Guillermo Rauch

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This looks so good I don't want to use desktop software ever again. Cloud-first, browser-first, multiplayer-first.

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1 year

The way @github does access control is still the 🐐. Need access to an internal tool? Open a pull request with a justification. More products should be pull request inspired.

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7 months

I've been tracking my location (~0.5M data points) for the past year in a SQLite database. In combination with my @Obsidian journal, my credit card CSV data, and my internet browsing history I now have a pretty great year in review.

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2 years

The cursor movement in @Replit for mobile is such a good idea! The ThinkPad nipple for touch screens. 🤯

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2 years

My @github dashboard sidebar is jurry-rigged and I ❤️ it. It's just a Markdown file that I can populate with a GitHub Action. P.S: Before you try it, it's not a publicly available feature and internally has an active user count of 1.

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I want Apple/Google Maps to make their products more malleable. Let me write a quick layer that shows my friends or the midpoint cafe between me and someone I’m meeting. Decompose the app! P.S: Why is “Find My” an app?!

Devon ☀️

@devonzuegel

1 year

Just discovered @googlemaps ' new isochrone feature, which shows how far you can get on foot or by car from a particular point on a map! So cool

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Information density, agency over your data, scalable from novice to prosumer, just enough texture to feel relatable, and fucking fast. 🐐

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this is why we need more apps with an architecture of participation (e.g. vs code, obsidian, etc.) right now every team wanting to make a cool utility has to build the rest of the fucking owl too.

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1 year

What if you could see people's time zones visually when scheduling meetings? @Cron

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$1 billion in ARR. 🎉 The secret: we charge per Dependabot notification.

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I'm going to spend a few hours signing up for a few "Heroku for LLMs" comparing the getting started experiences. Who should I test? - @OLLAMA + @flydotio - @replicate - @basetenco - @modal_labs - Vanilla @awscloud - @awscloud Bedrock – not quite BYOM Who else should I

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1 year

This is why I’m excited about LLMs. I don’t want them to do my thinking, writing, or sketching. I want them to liberate me from having to think like a computer.

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9 months

The amount of work you have to do with a modern JavaScript stack to get to the state of `rails new` is astounding.

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5 months

Zed is now open source! Including the UI framework. Go make things.

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@zeddotdev

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Zed is now open source! Our mission is to revolutionize developer collaboration, building the world's best code editor in the process. After working together in Zed as a small team, it's time to scale up to transform Zed into a collaboration platform.

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2 years

Large language models are going to be more impactful to the future of software design than touch screens. Maybe 10x more?

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1 year

There has been so little innovation in calendar software. The two meaningful additions to calendaring in the last decade have been: Calendly-style scheduling links and Cron’s “block event on [other calendar].” Give me tags, filters, automation, custom metadata fields, image

Geoffrey Litt

@geoffreylitt

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A calendar app that lets me slice my time by different facets: - Focus time vs meetings - Different projects - Zoom vs in-person (v different energy dynamics!) - Stress level (casual chat vs intense meeting) - Fixed vs flexible commitments

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I cannot think of a better example of a ZIRP free tier consequence than: A hit counter powered by a 3-instance database designed to run YouTube.

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@wesbos

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PlanetScale is nuking the free DB behind What should I use to replace the DB on this glorified hit counter? Leaning towards Deno Deploy or Cloudflare KV

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2 years

@brian_lovin I refuse to acknowledge that this is spicy. It takes way longer to draw the fucking owl than to ask for an owl.

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7 months

A significant portion of the internet in your backpack! I was on a plane over the Pacific yesterday (no WiFi). Before taking off I downloaded the OSS Mistral model (ollama run mistral). On the flight I had various general knowledge, programming, and math questions. It got 9/10

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11 months

Thank god for Obsidian, Git, Apple Photos, and IMAP. None of my important data lives exclusively in a cloud service.

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7 months

Meh. I don’t want to hear the same joke over and over again but I do use the same professional software over decades. Serious software for serious output has a learning curve and that’s OK. 👋 VS Code, NeoVim, Blender, Excel, Figma, Bloomberg Terminal, KiCAD

Martin LeBlanc

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A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it’s not that good.

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8 months

ChatGPT voice has had a lot more impact on my day to day than I would have anticipated. I now regularly have long conversations and debates with it. One approach I take often: Me: ChatGPT, is my understanding of [subject] correct? [understanding]… Assistant: No, think of it

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@OpenAI

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ChatGPT with voice is now available to all free users. Download the app on your phone and tap the headphones icon to start a conversation. Sound on 🔊

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1 hour Apple Vision Pro review: 1. I cannot believe how crisp the native UI is – an engineering marvel. 2. Passthrough feels depressing not magic. 3. The thing is heavy and you never forget you're wearing it. 4. The gesture based input is designed for consumption.

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Today’s early-stage startups cosplay PMF. Beautiful landing pages, a privacy policy that makes iTunes jealous, 2FA, SOC2, a NASCAR-level logo wall... If this trend continues, seed startups will soon have an “Investor Relations” tab. Do you have 1,000 daily users? 100? 10?!

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Database dopamine! Every week I get this report from @PlanetScale : - My slowest queries - Changes in storage - Utilization I'm not even a Big Boy™ user of PlanetScale but this is delightful. When dumb queries are slow I am reminded to fix them. When they are fast I feel good

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2 months

“English is the new programming language” is such nonsense. We invent programming languages to strike a delicate balance between precision and concision.

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2 years

@chan_k Exceptional. Can you share anything on the process? How did you tinker on the animations? Did the hardware design come first? So many questions!

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I don’t understand why all these AI hardware companies are trying to ship polished consumer experiences. Make a device for hackers/enthusiasts and iterate. Mimic the early PC era…

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4 months

Modern computing environments are so noisy. Push notifications, "What's happening", emoji barf, ads nested in ads, "Your suggestions", __Trending__, Up Next™, toast toast toast... Quiet software is exceedingly rare.

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7 months

Check out Overland if you want a self-hosted location tracker.

GitHub - aaronpk/Overland-iOS: 📌 GPS logger for iOS devices

📌 GPS logger for iOS devices. Contribute to aaronpk/Overland-iOS development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Max Schoening

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1 year

@OfficialLoganK String concatenation.

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2 years

It turns out that text is indeed a good idea.

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2 years

@adamwathan We’ve discussed it. Requires great framing. GitHub is one of the only social networks where doing–not talking–is rewarded. Would have to figure out how to preserve that.

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5 months

4 world class engineers discussing world class engineering. I want to see this format from @evanwallace , @clattner_llvm , @jarredsumner , @vmg …

Zed

@zeddotdev

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Watch the in-depth interview where @thorstenball discusses GPUI and the big rewrite with our co-founders ( @nathansobo , @maxbrunsfeld , and @as__cii ).

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💜 Erosion Resistance (): We gave it a good try. P.S: This @heroku app has run continuously since the day it was deployed–without any human intervention.

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There are very few high quality remixable tools. This is why I’m extra grateful for: - @tldraw - - CodeMirror

glide-data-grid

A no-compromise, outrageously fast react data grid, with rich rendering and TypeScript support.

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Tyler Angert

@tylerangert

7 months

people underestimate how much the difficulty of making UIs is a bottleneck for how sophisticated our tools are. anybody who has been in / adjacent to the tools for thought space knows this firsthand because we've all been nerd sniped into building our own text editors at some

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I mean, we still play chess and run 100m sprints. Watching humans do incredible things is magical. If anything the Cambrian explosion of fast food content will increase our desire to witness true humanity. Flaws and all…

Erica Brescia

@ericabrescia

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Sora is incredible. Seriously, for how long will we need actors and movie sets?

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1 year

If you use Chat GPT a lot, DM me. I have something I'd love for you to try and get feedback on. P.S: Include a screenshot of a Chat GPT convo you found particularly enjoyable.

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7 months

You can always tell when marketing machines have taken over at a dev tool company. The newsletters are always poorly targeted and have the nutritional density of a rice cracker.

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2 years

This icon makes me want to pick up my backpack and hike for a week.

Oleg Kovalenko

@okovalenkome

2 years

It's adventure time! #SketchDesignChallenge

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10 months

@natfriedman Captchas are getting ridiculous!

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8 months

Sadly the english translation does not do this clip any justice. His (unintentional) comedic timing is impeccable, the shoulder shrug and the jump cut to that dresser, the word choices, and the helplessness in trying to decipher the intention behind these things... This may be

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5 months

I'm looking for an open source codebase that has moderately complex business logic, a fairly sizable database schema, and ideally some user interface. The language doesn't matter. Anything come to mind? If @linear were open source it would be the ideal candidate.

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7 months

It takes about ~3 minutes to get any of the llama models running locally and another ~3 minutes to deploy them on Fly. My kind of infra and DX. Small sharp remix-able tools!

ollama

@ollama

7 months

Large language models are fun, but waiting for your local CPU to crunch numbers isn't. Our friends at have a setup for running Ollama on their GPUs so you can use any model you want. See here for more!

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2 years

@auchenberg No clue. ~P1:D2:E8?

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2 years

Almost all UI exists to type narrow possible input so that a dumb computer can understand what you mean and do some basic arithmetic. That's gone.

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2 years

New Metamuse just dropped where @geoffreylitt eloquently talks about the latest @inkandswitch essay. I was also present.

Muse

@MuseAppHQ

2 years

Metamuse 67 // Dynamic documents With @mschoening and @geoffreylitt • Data detectors, live searches, and language models • The beauty of personal microformats • The @inkandswitch research process • Why Stable Diffusion is like a slot machine

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@adamwathan 🤦‍♂️ You are literally quoted on the original design doc as not wanting a count. I’ll try finding out what happened.

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11 months

Notion was the tipping point for me. I used to keep my second brain in Notion. I thought I could rely on their offline caching. The data was right there, locally cached in JSON but my session had expired. All I could see was a login screen. What I wanted to see was my car manual

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@helenhousandi @github It’s more of a curse than a blessing. I get mentioned on every issue and PR that handles min() and max(). Notifications are useless to me.

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Enjoying these @berkeleygfx inspired "industrial-grade" colors.

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Geoffrey didn't like my suggestion that _final_final_v2.pdf is fine. So, here we are...

Geoffrey Litt

@geoffreylitt

5 months

Recently kicked off a new project at @inkandswitch w/ @mschoening @paulsonnentag @_adamwiggins_ @pvh @orionspeaks ! We're researching universal version control -- here's a bit more about what that means and why we think it's worth exploring: 1/

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OK, here we go...

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We will crave human-only content, human-scale networks, "the algorithm"-free zones, and human-speed "reality" in ways that are not priced in at all... Buy a theater company, start a community garden, and hoard printed books—the good ones; you won't need "The 4-Hour Work Week."

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2 years

Apple makes the best guest badge lanyards. 1) The badge doesn't twist/rotate. 2) They don't rattle. 3) The textile and clip are monochrome. 4) They are subtly color-coded based on access.

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The 2010s Ruby community fostered a rare blend of pragmatism, aesthetics, and craftsmanship. ❤️

Mitchell Hashimoto

@mitchellh

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@cooperx86 Unsure about the financial question but I think the Ruby community, culture, mindset produced the best product thinkers for a decade or so. Even when the products weren’t written in Ruby, the feel was there.

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@bnj Good PMs are even harder to hire. That's the scary bit.

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@brian_lovin No, what ChatGPT gets right is that I can pick up the phone and type. The transcript is right there. The pin is DOA.

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Worth noting many Herokai (including myself) had a cloud-first value in 2012. We celebrated an empty Dock on macOS. Almost everyone has changed their mind since.

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"feature parody" is a wonderful typo.

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@wesbos 🤣 To be clear: I am in no way critiquing your exploit of VC dollars.

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1 year

@TaylorJHolland I don’t think I want to deal with time zone math during my limited time on earth.

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@joshm It would be amazing if Arc were a little more aggressive in becoming a good app environment (aka everything Electron is used for). Example: Let my website donate a global shortcut to Arc. When pressed, I can respond to it regardless of whether the app was an open tab.

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How does this new design prioritize the consumer in any way? Most of the pixels on the screen transmit 0 information. Literally 0. Stop designing software like glossy magazine editorials that look good in a keynote.

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If LLMs are really good at generating code will we see more professional tools that shifted to direct manipulation revert (VCS pun intended)? For example: @KittyCADInc / @openscad (image source: )

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The fact that IDE infrastructure is now largely open source (Visual Studio Code, LSPs) makes migrating from one IDE to another a lot less painful than it used to be. Cursor is "just" another flavor of Visual Studio Code with cool additional AI features. Zed replaces the GUI but

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@simonw @Obsidian @datasetteproj That is how I browse the locations! Thank you for making @datasetteproj . It's the only reason I chose SQLite.

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I tried solving this in 2009. I'm happy to report we have made remarkably little progress. On the other hand I can buy a centralized monkey pic with some decentralized floopsy flops and a chatbot can get me a 1600 on my SATs... God works in mysterious ways.

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If a relative asks you how to send a hundred megabytes of photos to someone (tech stack of recipient unknown). What do you say?

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@zhayitong 👀

Ink & Switch

Industrial research lab working on digital tools for creativity and productivity

www.inkandswitch.com

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@jarredsumner Sure, but first please charge your phone.

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Malleable software principles should extend to malleable hardware.

Notjiam (CryptoHashToys!)

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Finally I finished my first mini macro keyboard for Procreate!

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I can pass every test case known to man for day 3 of Advent of Code yet I'm still not getting the right answer for part 1.

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@skuwamoto @figma Parametric modeling and a CLI (AutoCAD style). I can type faster than I can directly manipulate.

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Morel season means the dehydrator is running continuously. 🤤

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Extremely smart, driven, and rational founders always make the same mistake: They assume that other humans will do the "right" thing given the same information. If they are lucky enough to get enough users to have support tickets, engaging with them is the best cure for this

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7 months

I’m excited… @AriX and @conradev are exceptional computerists.

Software Applications Incorporated

@SoftwareAppsInc

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Thrilled to announce our new company!

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@rauchg Local-first doesn’t preclude collaboration. Also, I’m pretty sure I can still open a Keynote file from 2006. I have one on an old hard drive. I’ll report back. I’m of course not going to defend their syncing. 🤭

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Big if true!

Nat Friedman

@natfriedman

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has trained a groundbreaking model with many millions of tokens of context that performed far better in our evals than anything we've tried before. They're using it to build an advanced AI programmer that can reason over your entire codebase and the

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Can someone point me to a blog post that explains how to set up a modern Python development environment? From what I gather I need: - Something that installs various Python version - Something that sets up virtual environments - Something that installs packages

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I'm more excited about @OpenAI 's keynote today than any other tech keynote in the past 5 years. If these rumors materialize, we're going to see a lot of situated software[^1] being built in the next year. [^1]:

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📜 Here's to the crazy ones! At the beginning I definitely thought @natfriedman was crazy.

Nat Friedman

@natfriedman

5 months

Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000

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This may be the most 🇩🇪 thing I've ever done. "Correct" someone on the conceptual understanding of compound words. 😂 Ger-mansplaining.

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@mschoening

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@sriramk @paulg I have never heard of this word and neither Google nor Google Trends indicate that this is anything more than a clever compound noun (Komposita). See: Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän

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GitHub Actions is now omakase.

Add GitHub CI workflow by default to new applications · Issue #50502 · rails/rails

Now that we'll have rubocop and brakeman by default, I think it makes sense to add a default GitHub CI workflow file to new applications. This will get especially newcomers off to a good start ...

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@koddsson @github I 💯 support this. Fuck Workday.

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4 months

Probably nothing...

Eric Steinberger

@EricSteinb

4 months

Very excited to welcome @karpathy as Magic's latest investor!

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I rest my case.

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“We need to lean into PLG…” The PLG:

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The weather app is the best iOS app Apple makes.

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Also, check out Ollama. In a sea of tasteless AI DX with inscrutable naming and academic jargage it is a breath of fresh air.

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2 years

This is wonderful. I ❤️ internal tool culture.

tobi lutke

@tobi

2 years

Company news: We totally revamped our compensation system this summer. In short, "Flex Comp" now gives everyone a simple UX where you see your total compensation and choose a mix of Cash/RSU/Stock via simple sliders.

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I really wish Apple executives read more books. 😅 We know they like photography, sports cars, and watching movies.

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@awilkinson Microsoft. They own a big chunk of OpenAI, have GitHub Copilot, and the hardware to train all the next models at scale.

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🖥️🖋️ Programmable ink has changed how I think about HCI. Almost every way we interact with computers today is "programmer bullshit". Watch this talk by @szymon_k :

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7 months

This can't be right! Everybody knows that you _have_ to do user testing... Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.

Geoffrey Litt

@geoffreylitt

7 months

I don’t think about the Roman Empire very often, but I do think at least weekly about how the iPhone shipped without any user testing or focus groups

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