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Nobody’s going to like to hear this but … Nextdoor. Especially if it’s a B2C app, ND is your best source for early testers and users. Source: got my first paid users for my first e…

I had ~4 hours on a flight home yesterday so had fun building my first-ever macOS menubar utility (took me longer to figure out how to build a pretty DMG folder). Free to grab from…

Saccade uses ARKit face tracking to measure which image you actually look at longer in a side-by-side (well, top-and-bottom as it runs in portrait mode) comparison. Import a set of…

My little nights/weekend project: 13 days from hyperlocal social validation on Nextdoor to live on App Store, this is my first-ever iOS app. And I absurdly, embarrassingly underest…

Hey HN! I'm a founder first, lawyer second. I understand code stacks well enough to explain them, but I've never been able to actually build software, and this has been a chip on m…

Forget the bathroom doors; can we at least bring back proper shower stall design that uses full-length doors instead of the 1/3-length piece of glass? More glaringly, those of you …

I'm the inaugural section chair and I'd love to build out our leadership team with other attorneys who code.

RIP Jane Goodall. Not to make a flippant pun but, thank you indeed for all the good you brought to all of us. By discovering humanity in our chimpanzee cousins, you helped us see t…

Flying very fast from ~W > ~E; i.e., from Marin County, appeared to be coming from Mt. Tam headed over Tiburon. Confirmed NOT ISS (was below horizon then); confirmed NOT airplane (…

But I think this animosity is very much expected, no? Even I felt a momentary hint of "jealousy" -- if you can even call it that -- when I realized that we humans are, in a sense, …

My newsletter is sad :(

Subject, basically. Somebody really needs to build an AI plugin/extension for gmail that creates an email digest (simple bullet points) of all your newsletters. Optimally: it can f…

I've loved reading Dan Ni's fantastic daily tech newsletter TLDR over the past year or so; I'm sure many (most?) of you subscribe to it too, and if you don't, you totally should @ …

So this may be a fairly common concept to many people, but weirdly, it only occurred to me a decade or so ago, and I've really come to love it; it's helped put me in the correct me…

After years of cruising along on autopilot, it's time to find Twibble a new home. It's either that, or just pull the plug. If anybody's interested, please write me at marc at twibb…