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An entire generation of non developers are being onboarded to products built for developers because of AI. Exampl: a very non technical friend has built a bunch of business automat…

He was talking about Excel. Google Sheets with a tiny fraction of Excel features destroyed Excel except for a tiny minority of hardcore finance and Windows users.

Fair enough. But tides do shift. A lot of today’s terrible patterns (like flat design) were born in the late 2000s and early 2010s. The current generation of UI and UX folks—for si…

My hope is that the new generation of designers/UX people question and reject many of the UI/UX patterns made popular in the past 15 years and go back to the 90s for inspiration. R…

The problem is that CSS continues to be a pain in the ass, even as it evolves. There is no other reason why something like tailwind should have the traction it has.

This is what C2PA is trying to do: https://c2pa.org/

40% (and growing) of Apple’s profits are from services. Margins on services are 3x of hardware. Apple doesn’t make money directly when you doom scroll but a lot of App Store revenu…

No. I don’t want Apple to make LLM Siri. I do wish they would become the company unlocking creativity instead of shackling it. I will give you one specific example: iOS has extreme…

It’s not JavaScript if you can’t make an html page locally and open it in your browser without things like an http server or need to transpile.

Dumb question: why do news websites have such a hard time keeping users logged in? Like I can go an entire year without getting logged out of gmail. But can't go more than a few da…

I've been stunned by how many smart people talk so casually about LLMs becoming better at math. Do they just forget that a calculator that is wrong 1% of the time is a de facto cal…

Good luck. I lost access to my Facebook account of 18 years a few years ago due to some 2fa bug (it tells me to enter a code from the fb app which doesn’t have that code.) Despite …

Closest thing I’ve used is the mighty: https://bemighty.com/products/mighty-audio-screenless-connec... Downside is it doesn’t allow mp3s. I’ve been making my own meditation mp3s us…

>I think the real question is if someone other than Steve Jobs was running Apple, would they have gone the same way the companies you listed go as well? John Sculley already answer…

Hi, just responded to Jérôme's email. I originally sent a twitter DM and will continue over email now that we are connected.

(I work on the Images product at Cloudflare) While I continue to dig in to the specifics of the billing and support issues described, I can confirm this bit from the blog post: if …

>From where I sit, $4.8 million in cash is plenty of runway for 100 people LinkedIn shows ~350 employees with about half of them in the US. $4.8 million is far from plenty to pay 3…

Agree 100%. Lived in the Tenderloin for 6+ years before moving to a nicer part of SF.

>Credit card companies are anti-porn. False. Credit card companies are simply protecting their business. From what? The laws and court rulings that make them liable for damages fro…

Uzi Nissan was one of the more interesting people I met as a freelancer in college. He replied to a craigslist ad and we met for coffee. He had some crazy ideas (and conspiracies:)…

>I feel like others lose opportunities by not doing the same IMO it is a slippery slope to see this as opportunity too strongly. Sure, doing the right thing may be net beneficial t…

Could not agree more strongly!

What's a better alternative in your view?

Softlayer was solid at providing colo and dedicated servers. But they were never really architected with the cloud in mind. The pivot to cloud came later on. I always wonder why IB…