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@tjcages

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founder @cryptothegame_ 👀🌑 (acq by @uniswap 🦄) ~ internet nomad

New York
Joined February 2012
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2 months
Raptor Text by Superior Type
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2 years
Twitter why???
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1 year
was building a @nextjs starter kit for myself and got distracted
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9 months
might be the most niche thiing ever but just built an app to convert & compress screen recordings by 90% 👀
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3 years
@CNN Fixed it for you: “Woman believes everything she sees on the internet”
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1 year
inspired to make a living color palette
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Colour palettes pulled from the full range of Dieter Rams Braun products. By @cgpov
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9 months
90% compression ~19→1.9mb mp4 🤏 for screen recordings is easy af nice 2hr project next i'll make it automatic (or mostly)
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9 months
might be the most niche thiing ever but just built an app to convert & compress screen recordings by 90% 👀
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1 year
working on the intro animation
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2 years
raising on @PartyRound as easy as
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8 months
it’s finally here Stripe, live — the first time stripe has publicly shared live stats check it out
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Patrick Collison
8 months
Stripe, live: .
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4 months
Threejs has influenced my creative style more than any other technology
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4 months
new UI reveal 🤭
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3 months
motion experiments
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9 months
sup sup sup
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2 months
It's official, @cryptothegame_ has been acquired by @Uniswap 🎉🦄 So proud of our tiny dream team & thankful for the legendary players who gave us a shot :) More excitement to come for S3 👀
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1 year
woah you can embed shader code in notion 👀
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2 months
@0xgaut The Alchemist & The Giver – top tier short stories
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2 years
@juanbuis I thought your macbook was just the keyboard for a second
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8 months
adding video previews to your website is an amazing way to level up the polish & feel
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1 year
did you know you can animate individual svg paths 😌✨
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1 month
Discovered a strange webgl reveal effect
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6 months
sound on
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1 year
wow with @vercel analytics why would I ever use GA again ???
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10 months
give it a shake 🎱
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10 months
~ glass iris ~
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3 months
Latest project: A unique way to show off a suite of new, amazing developer tools for @stripe
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1 year
through the looking-glass
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9 months
not using this so whassup
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4 months
I've been keeping up w @AntimetalCloud for a bit now & continually am impressed by the weird experiments they ship Their lightheartedness & fun attitude differentiates their (would be) complex product from the rest of the pack I'm a huge fan of anyone making the internet more
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7 months
interactive & audio-responsive webgl fuild – actually mind blown at this
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8 months
there’s a reason i start all projects w react three fiber now 🫢 beautiful interactive graphics right out the box — never imagined it’d be this easy re @cryptothegame_ 👀
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1 month
Looking for a 3d character designer / modeler for a high profile job – pls send recs if you know of someone phenomenal!
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10 months
latest collab: embed @stripe checkout launch 4 wild sites in 1 to show off the new feature + check out our surprise items 🫶 already sold out of some 🥲
@stripe
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You can now embed Stripe Checkout into your site. Try the demo: .
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9 months
ok i love
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2 years
a wonderful, personal touch to an incredible tool bravo @pacocoursey @raunofreiberg
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4 months
shit i accidentally set off the threejs nuke
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11 days
Sidebit by @Uniswap
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4 months
1/ Earlier this week, we unveiled a sneak peek of @cryptothegame_ S2 & I can honestly say it's the work I'm most proud of 🤍 I wanted to share a few S2 experiences to anticipate & what inspired them Also my first thread ever?? Let’s dive in…
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9 months
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5 months
who knows how to make this in threejs
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1 year
@browsercompany the only way to prevent web designs from looking like wild word art now is to build in webgl on the canvas 🙃 although a word art world does sound fun
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2 years
@jasonfenske13 waiting for this guy to say TRIPLE KILL OVERKILL KILLTACULAR
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8 months
new twitter tab appeared you know what that means get zapped @arcinternet
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2 years
it’s friday my guys
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2 months
Ooey gooey branding concept 🫠
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9 months
@brian_lovin @CleanShot literally same that was the inspiration lmao wasn't planning to but sure why not!
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1 year
i ain't paying for the ferry no more
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@thatguybg Rains is the way (i’ve never talked to a girl tho)
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4 months
Seared my retinas making this
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9 months
aaaaaaaaaand ACTION 🎬
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9 months
sup sup sup
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1 year
latest project – @stripe buy buttons check out the demo for some wild ideas to get you started & maybe an easter egg or two 🥚🥚 try them out for a surprise!! 👀
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Introducing 🆕 buy buttons. 🔘 Easily embed a buy button on your site 🎨 Customize it to match your brand ☎️ Use a custom call to action Try the demo: .
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motion blur shader
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10 months
~ glass iris ~
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4 months
incredible to express myself through interface design like this ✨ @cryptothegame_ was a labor of love all the way through to the brand, art style, sound design, UX, etc. would love if you checked it out (or just left on as background music 🤍)
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4 months
new buttons
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8 months
state management is hard. esp when taking backend requests to animate frontend so @cryptothegame_ we built a tool to do it for us it mimics the user journey via state changes to make sure everything’s aligned & allows for more nuanced animation (it even works backwards 🙃)
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1 year
v excited for this
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6 months
this is the best thing i've ever built in my life
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18 days
Spotted in this morning’s @MorningBrew @JoinAutopilot_ 👀📈
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5 months
CTG returns 😈 we are so excited to announce SEASON 02 ANON ISLAND coming soon — if you missed S1 get ready for an emotional rollercoaster of twists, alliances, & betrayal details to come 🤫
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3 months
We out here
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2 years
starting @PartyRound press [A] to start
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invert strokes
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smoothest glsl blur i’ve seen yet wow
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For a recent (unreleased) project I got to play around with SDF shapes to create lens blur effects on interaction — #shaders #webgl #threejs
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4 months
Thanks for trying this with us (it's the most crypto crypto thing we've done) – and thanks for the feedback We'll hit ya back tomorrow with something better Today's new immunity challenge is to go for a run & touch grass (we sure need it lol) 🙃
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Dylan Abruscato
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1/ I wanted to quickly address today's challenge. We were excited to partner with adidas and onboard the masses. But I hear you loud and clear; it's not landing. Players are at the center of CTG. Our intention is to create an immersive, fun, player-centric universe.
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This was unexpected... CTG is on the @TelevisionAcad 2024 Emmy Awards Ballot 🤯 We're proud to create a new category of live entertainment game shows & see this kind of recognition already
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7 months
this sounds exciting
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2 years
well that was fun
@capitalxyz
Capital
2 years
Founders, need a site refresh? Reply w/ your startup's current website We’ll redesign & build it for you right now
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sup sup
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sup
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sup
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gm who's still alive?
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Probably the most wild threejs site i’ve ever seen, would love to know how it’s done
@abeto_co
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Latest project: new landing page for @IglooInc , made in collaboration with the creative team at @ourbureaux 🧊 #webgl #threejs
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10 months
currently in love w this design aesthetic
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@tjcages
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6 months
today is the finale of @cryptothegame_ a bit bittersweet, this has been more incredible than we could have ever imagined i want this last moment for S1 to be spectacular for all of you, the final contestants, those eliminated, & every one else watching from the outside today
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4 months
SOLD OUT ... 13 minutes after opening to the public Congrats to those who secured a Season 02 spot! For the rest of you, you might get lucky snagging a spot on our marketplace (open all season long 👀)
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2 years
Never have I been more excited to join a team @PartyRound 🎉🎉 And im stoked for people to check out the drop! Try to catch ‘em all 😎
@jordihays
Jordi Hays
2 years
Thrilled to announce that @tj_cages is joining @PartyRound 🎉 Tyler built us a drop while interviewing & it was so good that I had to share it. Choose a founder & collect investors on your cap table, Pokémon style
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Rediscovered some old intro animation experiments
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6 months
Crypto: The Game – Season 01 has come to an end Massive congratulations to @MFL_tw for winning the 36.9Ξ (~$100k) by overwhelming jury vote!! Incredible season, dramatic moments, bonds created & broken, all in the pursuit of being the one sole survivor So happy to have brought
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4 months
tomorrow 👀
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8 months
𝙽𝙴𝚆 𝙿𝚁𝙾𝙹𝙴𝙲𝚃 𝙳𝚁𝙾𝙿𝚂 𝙱𝙻𝙰𝙲𝙺 𝙵𝚁𝙸𝙳𝙰𝚈 __
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4 months
video previews in iMessage
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1 year
pushed an update to @capitalxyz site, making it easy for returning users to access their funds
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2 months
if at first you don't succeed try the same fucking thing 20 more times
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1 year
who can make me a video like this
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2 years
i just updated @capitalxyz to @nextjs 13 hehe
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8 months
one of the biggest projects of my career (done in record time ~2 weeks all in, ~6 days for frontend)
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3 months
Best interviewing hack: Give ppl something tangible & tailored to judge rather than a resume Built this in an afternoon after my first interview & prolly wouldn’t have landed the job if i hadn’t 🎉
@DylanAbruscato
Dylan Abruscato
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@mprkhrst This is like when @tjcages created his own Party Round drop, sent it to us, was hired immediately, and the rest is history.
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1 year
final-judgement.exe
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11 months
beautiful moments from @with_delphi lp
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8 months
experimenting w new @cryptothegame_ placeholder LP – thoughts?
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1 year
a mood(board)
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Do i do it..
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2 years
2022 yielded 22 in flight personal projects finished only 6, still working on 11 my main priority was delivering for Capital but I’m excited to double down on personal work for 2023 while living in NYC
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2 years
today @capitalxyz just launched a MASSIVE update, business CHECKING accounts earning 4% APY 🎉 a first of its kind & a huge win for the founders we're supporting – if you haven't already, now would be the time to switch ⏳
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@capitalxyz
Capital
2 years
Introducing the world’s first high-yield checking account for startups. Earn 4% on all funds raised on Capital, or transferred in from another bank 🏦 Get started today at
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Looks familiar 🤔 Large scale social games fits the MSCHF vibe, curious how this one pans out – sure there will be takeaways for CTG
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3 months
need to sleep for 3 weeks straight.. jk im leaving for coachella tomorrow AHHHH
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4 months
.ping { animation: ping 2s cubic-bezier(0, 0, 0.2, 1) infinite; animation-delay: 2s; } @keyframes ping { 75%, 100% { transform: scale(2); opacity: 0; } }
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