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Paris metro, Place d'Italie: friend.com
"Je ne laisserai jamais de vaisselle dans l'évier."
("I will never leave dishes in the sink.")
SF billboards sell infra for agents. Paris gets pitched an AI friend.
Which city's ads say more about where AI is heading?
ALT friend.com poster in a Paris metro station at Place d'Italie showing a white pendant and the text 'Je ne laisserai jamais de vaisselle dans l'évier.'
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Why photograph billboards at all?
A photo doesn't tell you whether a product works. It keeps something narrower: what was visible, in a place, at a moment.
From the RingRing journal, "Reading the AI era from the street":
ringring.day/blog/reading-ai…
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Backend lesson I keep relearning: anything that creates something (an account, a record, a job) should be safe to run twice.
Double tap, retry, flaky network: same result, one object.
Idempotent flows are boring until the day they save you. Where did duplicates bite you?
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Building on RingRing.day: if you photograph AI ads in your city, you'll be able to sign up as a photo contributor yourself.
First name, email, confirmation, consent. A password to sign back in, and a 30-day session so you're not logging in every time.
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Spotted on Folsom Street, SF: Render, "Don't skimp on the backend. Effortless infra for agentic apps."
Half line drawing, half lion, stitched together from tiles.
Even the billboards are talking to agent builders now.
In the Street Archive: ringring.day/sightings
ALT Render billboard on Folsom Street, San Francisco: 'Don't skimp on the backend. Effortless infra for agentic apps.' with a lion made of tiles
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Monday question: what's one thing you'd never want to hand over to AI, even if it did it better than you?
It's one of the five questions we ask on RingRing.day, every year.
ringring.day/interview
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Does a product need a manifesto in its main menu?
On RingRing.day I'm putting ours right next to "Companies". It's the page that explains why the Wall and the interviews exist at all.
Would you click it, or skip straight to the product?
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Before merging a menu change, I checked it in the browser from 320px to 1280px wide, mobile menu and active-page indicator included.
Nav bugs love the in-between widths nobody looks at.
What's the narrowest screen you still test for? #webdev
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16th St, SF. A Muni bus wrapped by Qodo: "Your favorite coding agent's favorite review agent."
Agents reviewing agents, rolling past Uber's offices.
So who reviews the reviewer? #AI
ringring.day/sightings
ALT A San Francisco Muni bus on 16th Street wrapped in a purple Qodo ad reading Your favorite coding agent's favorite review agent, in front of a glass Uber building
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Tiny bug, very visible: this photo is about the Radium truck ("Cut your AI bill in half").
But centered crops in thumbnails kept showing the Bay Bridge and cutting off the truck.
ALT The Bay Bridge in San Francisco with a white Radium truck at the bottom of the frame reading Cut your AI bill in half
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The fix: one crop rule for this photo, anchored bottom-center, so the truck and its ad stay in frame in thumbnails, carousels and grids. The original file isn't touched.
How do you handle focal points: per image, or automatic? #webdev
Most AI conversations ask what comes next. We'd rather ask: how does it feel to live through this?
Five questions, the same every year. Earlier answers stay as they were, and new ones sit beside them.
ringring.day/blog/same-quest…
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Build note on RingRing.day: the manifesto is moving into the main menu, right before "Companies", on desktop and mobile.
It now opens on one line: "What gets us out of bed."
Then the questions we want to explore together about AI: social, philosophical, ethical.
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Folsom St, SF. A hiring ad from Fillmore by Metaview on the wall of Oasis: "get the right butts in seats."
Right above it, a Golden Girls billboard.
Recruiting AI and an 80s sitcom sharing one corner of SoMa.
Would this ad make you look twice?
ringring.day/sightings
ALT Folsom Street in San Francisco: a Fillmore by Metaview mural reading get the right butts in seats on the Oasis building, with a Golden Girls billboard above
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Sunday question: what's one thing you believe about AI today that you'd want to hear yourself say again in 5 years?
That's the idea behind RingRing.day: same questions, every year, sealed until it's time.
ringring.day/interview
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Added an animated green ribbon behind an entry screen. Then spent more time making it polite than pretty:
- a visible pause button
- respects prefers-reduced-motion
- stops animating when the tab is hidden
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