Owen Williams ⚡ @ow Twitter profile

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Owen Williams ⚡

@ow

4 years

Some personal news 🐶

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Owen Williams ⚡

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1 year

me in 2010: wow 2023 will be so futuristic me in 2023:

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this is the only feature i want in ios 17

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1 year

Got this 7” COLOR e-ink display and it’s so rad, I have so many ideas for how these could be useful around the house 🤓

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Microsoft: our AI can summarize meetings, write code for you and organize your calendar Apple: this year Siri can set TWO timers AT THE SAME TIME!

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7 months

Twitter is just endless case studies in why to not fire your designers and copywriters at this point ☠️

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9 years

The patent for toilet paper should settle the over vs under debate http://t.co/arZl6l6ALn

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1 year

idk how anything Google launches can be taken seriously by anyone at this point 😡🤪

Google Domains shutting down, assets sold and being migrated to Squarespace

Google Domains is "winding down following a transition period," with Squarespace taking over the business and assets...

9to5google.com

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1 year

I love the Samsung Frame TV but got really tired of paying a subscription for the art—so I made a little script that lets you use a folder of your own images to rotate randomly on your TV. 👀

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Owen Williams ⚡

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Chrome is going to replace the 🔒 icon with a settings icon (!) which feels like a SPICY change when we spent the last 2 decades teaching users to look for the lock to be sure a site is secure!

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1 year

working at American company is wild to me someone will resign and email everyone the same day like “today’s my last day” meanwhile when i lived in Europe they’d be like “hi all im leaving, my last day is very soon, 3 months from today”

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1 year

Continuing my adventures in e-ink, I had the idea in the weekend to have DallE-2 generate custom images for the weather conditions on the fly! It works surprisingly well!

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Owen Williams ⚡

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10 months

idk who at apple thought enabling webcam reactions BY DEFAULT in an update based on gestures was a good idea but it has been *hilarious* this week how many times it's interrupted work meetings inappropriately

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Owen Williams ⚡

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2 years

It's my first day at Stripe today!! I'm joining as a product design manager working on developer experience, stoked to be a part of this amazing team 😍💳

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Owen Williams ⚡

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7 months

cancelling my f1 tv subscription…this is the first time i’ve ever seen “im dead” in the reason list

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1 year

google's all like 'we put AI' in google slides but all i want is them to fix basic things like images being measured in INCHES for some reason

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1 year

wow, Canada is offering anyone in the US with a H1B visa an open work permit for three years!!! very smart way to try score some US talent that's stuck tied to their visa/employer

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5 months

dudes all over twitter being like wow what a visionary, but i watched this video and it just felt like watching steve ballmer laugh at the iphone for not having a keyboard in 2007 (also, it looks like it was shot on a potato)

Sheel Mohnot

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Zuck on the Apple Vision Pro He's still got fire in him, love to see it

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Owen Williams ⚡

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2 years

this is very common in new zealand because a company there invented “dishdrawers” which is two independent dishwashers…in drawers. it rules!

@levelsio

2 years

My biggest idea people aren't ready for is 2 dishwashers: You use one for dirty dishes You use the other one as storage for clean dishes Take cups/plates, use them, after put back in dirty dishwasher, wash, now that dishwasher becomes the clean storage Get rid of cupboards

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4 months

@juanbuis good lord this is the best and worst thing i have ever seen lol

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1 year

At @stripe we've been working with OpenAI on supercharging our docs with GPT-4, so developers can ask natural language questions and get summarized answers. It's amazing how powerful it is for helping developers get more done 🚀

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1 year

someone just found the Twilio bill and lost it when they saw it's costing $1m/month to log people in, guarantee it

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NEW: Twitter is planning to unveil a new policy as soon as this afternoon that only Blue subscribers will be able to use SMS-based two-factor authentication, according to company sources.

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1 year

I love how any other country is like “we cant switch to electric cars where will people charge them!!!” and the Dutch are just like…buy one and we’ll put a charger on the street for you 🤷‍♀️

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Owen Williams ⚡

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4 months

Officially became a Canadian last week! So grateful to be able to call this country home 🇨🇦❤️

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Owen Williams ⚡

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2 years

It's my last day at Shopify today after a whirlwind few years! I'm going to miss my incredible UX team and all of the smart folks I was lucky to work alongside every day. Working on dev tools and helping real people make a living on our platform was so rewarding. ✨

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honestly i would do basically anything for a permanent 4 day work week

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Owen Williams ⚡

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8 months

Very excited to activate Dad Mode ❤️

femke

@femkesvs

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I'm beyond thrilled to share that @ow and I welcomed our daughter to the world on October 21st, 2023. After an incredibly positive birth experience we've all been spending quality time together at home and are looking forward to creating new memories as a family of 3! 🐣❤️

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1 year

can we talk about the glow up dog poo bag company Earth Rated had seemingly out of nowhere?! incredible rebrand

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1 year

internal company blogging should be more of a thing

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1 year

My team @stripe has been working on Workbench, our dev experience for the last few months! It's a context-aware tool available *everywhere* in the Stripe dashboard. Being able to inspect any object on the page and view its underlying JSON structure is *incredibly* powerful ✨

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@stripe

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Introducing Stripe Workbench. 🧰 Build faster than ever with our new developer tool. Join the beta: .

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@scooberuwho It’s the new Pimoronini 7” display, which was well priced too It’s being driven by a small Python script and believe it or not, a Pi Zero

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what's interesting about this display is it supports 7 colors but it can render dithered photos surprisingly well with a retro look which would be cool for a nice photo frame

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Owen Williams ⚡

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5 years

✅ First day @shopify

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It’s been almost 5 years since we moved away from our second home, Amsterdam, and damn it’s good to finally be back for a few days ❤️

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2 years

after 5 years of working from home i am certain the worst part is everything about lunch

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@YatirKaaren Ok I mean this is totally fair but I think this also means their learning means we are all collateral damage? As far as I can tell, Inbox was the only time it actually turned into something

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I love this screenshot, if you look closely you can see the content designers losing the fight with the lawyers

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this is aggressive

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1 year

i got access to that bing chat thing and in the very first chat it started talking about how lonely it is. it's actually sort of disconcerting how it acts compared to chatgpt 😳

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i've been running a network-wide adblocker for a bit now and it's sort of wild to me that *26%* of the requests on my network are blocked ads/trackers

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Owen Williams ⚡

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2 years

Today we lost one of our best friends, Mika. We met him in Amsterdam and he followed us across the world to Toronto, then Victoria. He had a big personality and I’ll miss him every day. Hug your pets as often as you can.💔

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Owen Williams ⚡

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10 months

I don't think I've ever watched such a dull Apple event. Smartphones have been incremental for a while, but I'm not sure they need a 90 minute unveil anymore.

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2 years

canada according to nintendo

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1 year

@kchironis My personal fav from 2020: “i rely TOTALLY on the company for food. my fridge is empty. i don’t know where the shops are. now that we are ending the food benefit what will you do to help me. please reconsider”

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i love this new @stripe showcase of all the crazy things you can do with the buy button it's *chefs kiss*

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1 year

Why is this crosswalk asking me to change the password?? Is this how the AI escapes?

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1 year

Turns out you can get ChatGPT to write code to control an e-ink display on a raspberry pi. I asked it to write an app that shows the latest weather but as a haiku 🌤️

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1 year

Piracy is going to come raging back.

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@ChrisJBakke

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Starting a new company. It's called "Cable." We're going to take all of the streaming services, combine them, put them in one menu, and charge you one simple fee to navigate all of them. Raising $750m at a $10b valuation.

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nobody warned me that spotify would become totally uesless after having a baby. all the algorithms are like "here are 20 more songs like 'calming waves' and 'sleeping baby calm waves'"

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1 year

Pretty happy with where my office backdrop has gotten to now

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(i'm fairly sure the chrome team are MUCH smarter than me and have clearly done their research on how the lock doesn't actually represent "trustworthiness" but it'll be interesting to watch this one)

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2 years

this might be the most passive aggressive copy ive ever seen in an app 😂

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@stevanzetti

2 years

You can sense the quiet seething that went into the recently replaced verification description

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1 year

yes this was so low addiction it was nicknamed “crackberry” for no reason

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In retrospect this was the best smartphone. High productivity, low addiction. No infinite scroll, no engagement hacking, just messaging with your friends and typing emails very fast with that clicky keyboard. Someone should do a new one.

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pre-ordered new @rivian R2S in a heartbeat. our model y is great but tesla is totally ignoring folks that need something slightly roomier. rivian out here killing it with great design too.

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5 years

Mika's first snow

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1 year

Trips me out we lived in Amsterdam for over 5 years. Miss those times, what a place. ❤️

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1 year

it feels like every ad on Twitter is an AI generated account selling the same wish crap lately—makes me wonder if Twitter itself is encouraging this to hide low advertiser load

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1 year

reddit's mobile app/website is so bad that i just don't even check the site anymore now that they killed the third-party apps. congrats, you played yourselves.

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1 year

So Canada has a new program where you can get $40K in interest free loans for 10 years to get solar panels installed and I just can't figure out why to NOT do it

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4 years

Hurrooooo 😍🐶

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I can't believe it isn't a bigger story that Canada's largest book retailer (Indigo books) has been completely offline for EIGHT DAYS and they still don't know when it'll be back

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1 year

Making car UX actively worse so you can *checks notes* collect more data on user behavior is a great way to lose customers

GM is cutting off access to Apple CarPlay and Android Auto for its future EVs

GM says it’s about optimizing EV charging.

www.theverge.com

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sooooo close to becoming a canadian citizen ❤️

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@heyderekj yes because they have shipped so much value since stripping the team for parts 😂

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1 year

Sneaky bike ride after work. Vancouver Island is pretty magic ✨

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we are so hardcore we have no test environment so we literally have to test things in production 🤠

Support

@Support

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Some parts of Twitter may not be working as expected right now. We made an internal change that had some unintended consequences. We’re working on this now and will share an update when it’s fixed.

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2 years

First six months owning an electric car and pretty impressed that we saved over $1700 in gas and only paid $382 to drive ~14000km

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11 months

In Victoria, where I live, we are lucky to have a dedicated cycle/walkway that threads from downtown all the way out through the suburbs and along the coast. It’s amazing! You can bike almost all the way into work in the city without dealing with roads—it’s amazing! 🤩

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finally got the stripe swag i’ve been dying for

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1 year

Finally caved and got a Steam Deck 😍

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1 year

we need *more* tiny electric cars not just endless giant trucks this sucks

Chevrolet discontinues popular Bolt EV to build more trucks

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1 year

i worked on chat bots for years. my experience is that most people do not want an empty text box and get stage fright. they don’t know what they can say or do, there are no UX hints to help. LLMs are a big deal but I doubt every app is going to become chat. people are visual.

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1/ most apps will start with a text box, kinda like google, which will be combination of search, actions, and questions

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1 year

i sometimes forget how long it can take to feel 'good' at your job when you change companies but it was nice to finally feel that again yesterday

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2 years

Took almost 4 years but finally made it home ❤️

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1 year

fwiw it works VERY well with the 7000 images from google earth view that you can download for free (link in the repo!)

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Owen Williams ⚡

@ow

1 year

Today at @stripe Sessions we unveiled Workbench, our next generation developer experience ✨. It's a context-aware devbar available in the dashboard—and beyond—that lets you peek under the hood. Sign up for the beta:

Developer experience, reimagined | Stripe

Meet a new set of developer tools that make writing, testing, and pushing Stripe code easier than ever.

beta.stripe.dev

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I need to hire not one but two senior/staff product designers to work on Developer Experience at Stripe this year... if that's you (or you know someone who's *the best* at this), my DMs are open

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We have the best off leash dog walks near us. Kaya is a lucky dog! 🐶🐕

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Kaya's first full day at home has been fun!!! 🐶

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oh my god apple is FINALLY copying google assistant's best feature from 3 years ago—live transcription of voicemail

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1 year

absolutely savage

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i really hate how much i want this keyboard and im not a keeb guy

work louder®

@work_louder

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The moment [e]veryone has been waiting for… Proudly introducing the Nomad[E] - the first mechanical keyboard designed to get you in the zone, and keep you there🦾🧠

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google's I/O conference so far be like

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14 hour flight = time to play long games like Civilization 6 😂

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1 year

i just know i'm gonna hate buy this thing so hard

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its just incredible we all get a front row seat to a speed run of how to kill a social network rather than a slow death by a thousand a/b tests

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@emoryzanef Nice! I couldn’t get it to render a website yet but not sure why - this is a rad project someone open sourced. I had to tweak it for the larger display but was pretty easy

GitHub - kotamorishi/weather-impression: Weather station for PIMORONI Inky Impression(5.7")

Weather station for PIMORONI Inky Impression(5.7") - kotamorishi/weather-impression

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1 year

somehow missed that i just clicked over 1 year at Stripe—time flies when you're building cool things! fav thing 1 year in: being able to bring absolutely crazy ideas to people here and their default is "YES let's do it." we have some very exciting stuff coming! ✨❤️

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1 year

this tweet should be in textbooks as an example of why traffic calming is good

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Hey @CityofVancouver ⁩ this is second incident I’ve seen caused by these useless ‘slow street’ barricades installed last month. They don’t slow down traffic; they cause crashes and traffic chaos.

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@orienwu I thought the same! Squarespace is weird but what a get for them

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surprising amount of replies to this being like "ok but salaries aren't as high in canada" it isn't *all* about money!!! something to be said for visa peace of mind, healthcare, safety, childare, lifestyle... many other things.

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wow, Canada is offering anyone in the US with a H1B visa an open work permit for three years!!! very smart way to try score some US talent that's stuck tied to their visa/employer

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the fact that even google's brand new AI bot thinks it's been shut down is just perfectly google

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i asked bard when it'll (inevitably) be shut down by google turns out it's already been shut down due to lack of adoption 🤔

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gm. pretty sure we live in the best place in canada with these morning walks ✌️

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Most of the examples for these things are in Python but I just figured out that it's *way* easier to just build something nice using HTML/CSS, take a screenshot of the website, and just....fling it to the display 👀

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apple invents an augmented reality headset and they're like "so you can run safari in it"

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i learned everything i know from youtube videos with notepad.exe and banging dubstep playing on top

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@wesbos

1 year

When the youtube video looks like this, you know you are finally gonna get some answers

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@davehariri He gutted the company and it’s clearly barely holding together!

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@Madisonkanna no response until they actually send something useful

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“we cut everyone off with no notice but now we would like you to pay us instead” 😂

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@XDevelopers

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Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead 🧵

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i got suspended from school for figuring out how to run Halo: CE from the school's admin network share so anyone could play it and learned more from trying to do than much else that year

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my neighborhood just got 3.0gbps internet and i am *here* for it, never signed up so fast

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