Design engineer building @digg / @basic_in. (ex. Disney, Eight Sleep, https://xitter.cf/t.co/aGePzQPcIl, Blue Bottle Coffee)

Los Angeles, CA
Joined August 2008
FINALLY! LAUNCH DAY! 🚀 Six months ago, I almost quit after I lost my co-founder. Instead, I went full Founder Mode and bootstrapped this from the ground up. Introducing PicStudio AI — Portraits that look 100% real. Made in the USA 🇺🇸
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🧠 Build features for your MCP before thinking through any UI
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This is Pele, my new rendering library for diagrams and charts, compatible with the latest Mermaid syntax. - 100-500× faster than mermaid.js - 6× smaller bundle - No dependencies - Easy to theme - Responsive to device width In pursuit of making Obsidian insanely fast and cohesively designed, I always found the Mermaid library to be too big, too slow, and too hard to theme. Pele will be the new renderer in the next version of Obsidian, but you can start using it now. Pele [ˈpɛlɛ] is named after the goddess of volcanoes and fire. It's open source under the MIT license. Try the playground!
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“Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.” - Walt Disney
so-so-so proud of @JustinMezzell @addison @maubrowncow for rebooting @digg. thousands of articles per day, tens of thousands of jev decisions, real-time clustering, new topics, digging is back, it's really a fantastic news resource, check it out if you haven't lately. cc: @alexisohanian
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Introducing Graphical. It's a simple, powerful, and fun tool to design visual languages, style components, and work with coding agents to create interfaces that look memorable and feel unique. I hope you'll check it out at graphicalui.com!
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🚨 New on @digg today: Sometimes the same stories can appear in different topics (albeit with different takes), which means that scrolling can feel duplicative. Home can now consolidate cross-topic stories. Expand to see where else it appears. You're welcome!
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Opus 5.5 usage is basically infinite on the $200 plan
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True, true. I did that. More coming tho
One of the dope things that @addison hacked on this morning for @digg: Stories with substories (clustering subsequent/adjacent stories on a parent). Especially fun on announcement days.
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this looks soooo good!!
Crazy week of slinging pixels, code, and product experiences nonstop at @digg. Massive appreciation to @maubrowncow @addison and @kevinrose. We're just getting this thing started.
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Tiny-ass team doing big-ole things.
Crazy week of slinging pixels, code, and product experiences nonstop at @digg. Massive appreciation to @maubrowncow @addison and @kevinrose. We're just getting this thing started.
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I've been using Jev for all kinds of things. This morning I had a realization I kind of like: Use it to make non-black-box embeddings. Instead of an embedding model spitting out 1,536 numbers that mean nothing, you ask Jev questions about each document. The answers become the vector. An email in Cora: "I got charged twice this month, pls fix asap" [is_customer, urgent, about_billing, needs_reply] [1.0, 0.9, 1.0, 1.0] A newsletter: [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.1] A friend asking about lunch: [0.0, 0.1, 0.0, 0.7] Then it's just old-school cosine similarity search. Search "billing issues from customers" as [1, 0.5, 1, 0.5] and the double charge comes out on top. Same idea for our articles at Every: [is_tutorial, about_ai, contrarian, beginner_friendly] Or support tickets: [is_bug, angry, churn_risk, enterprise] Every number has a name, so you can see why something matched. Need a new dimension? Add a question. Want urgent stuff first? Change the query vector. Trying this in @CoraComputer now to make search fast.
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This is so fucking good.
The race for AGI Script: Sherpa by Pocket FM Video: Seedance 2.5
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Very small team at @digg, but we're bringing the classics back, one by one. ⬆️
The Digg button is back. Signed in? Tap the arrow beside a story’s score when you find one that deserves more attention. Your tap can help it climb...
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fact: there is very coordinated, well-funded operation behind the ‘10% chance AI kills us all’ rhetoric
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I love this so much.
i dug up 200 map animations dating back to 1927, free to weave into your work movingimagearchive.com/colle…
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These Seinfeld bloopers are pretty brilliant, especially the one with Janeane Garofalo
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Minimax H3 Viggle animate Character swap
Viggle-Animate Minimax H3 😃 Fined tuned replaces video characters using just a single repainted frame. It handles the absolute hardest motions—jumps, full kicks, whipping heads without smearing through the frames 👇 huggingface.co/Viggle/Viggle…
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Maybe the internet wasn’t a mistake.
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Google needs to buy Instinct, they need that product DNA, Notebook isn't going to cut it. Instinct, Muse, Grok Bot, etc., are social ai. I've seen this play out before... I was at Google+ for 3-months running mobile, I tried buy instagram but I was two steps down from Larry, so I didn't have the pull (Kevin had told me Zuck was sniffing around), my SVP said it was 'too expensive.'.. killed me. I bounced to Google Ventures.
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Not everyone is self-motivated. If you have friends trying to create new things, encourage them. It goes a long way. Most of my projects I have stuck with, someone said something they probably have no idea they were a big reason I stuck with it.
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Let's fix 3 major brands. Which is your favorite fix? Disney+, 47 Brand or Kind? Which major logo should I fix next?
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