Product & Technology @F5. I love making things.
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Made Spool.
It's a browser-based photo editor that uses WebGL 2.0 to emulate film. It has a procedural grain engine, 12 distinct film profiles, and keyboard shortcuts.
All processing runs locally on your GPU. Your photos are never uploaded to a server.
What did you make today?
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There are going to be 3M followers of /r/WSB in a few days. Invest $3M into $GME. That’s roughly $1 per WSB follower and you’ll have amassed a loyal army behind you forever. When we’re done here, you’ll be renaming it from Citadel to Chatadel. 💎🙌🚀
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The @beffjezos / @GillVerd reveal
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Editing RAW photos shot with @halidecamera is insane. Thank you, @sdw, @sandofsky, and team.
As someone who has been shooting + editing photos taken from digital and film cameras for almost two decades, I still can’t believe these photos were #shotoniphone.
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Pulling off a heist like this would require an elaborate amount of planning + doing recon undetected in someone's environment for a very long time.
Possible that it's an external hacker.
Unlikely.
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I loved Creative Selection by @kocienda! This book *actually* details what it’s like to design, prototype, build, test, refine, and iterate on real-world software. The anecdotes around closing the rendering gaps in Safari spoke to my heart. bookshop.org/books/creative-…
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Tons of quiet tech “layoffs” right now. I’m seeing a 2-3X increase in the number of applicants.
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I may have resolved my Safari ghost tab issue!
If you're having this too, here are the steps to resolving the issue:
1. Stop syncing Safari w/ iCloud on all devices. You can change this in settings on your Mac, iPhone, iPad, etc.
2. On your Mac, open up ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Safari/Data/Library/Safari and delete the following three files:
- CloudTabs.db
- CloudTabs.db-shm
- CloudTabs.db-wal
3. Restart Safari on all devices.
4. Re-enable syncing.
5. Enjoy a clean slate. Finally.
Will see how this goes over the coming week. I may have to write and alias a command line script if this keeps happening.
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5M+ people are more educated about how broken and twisted our financial system is.
Imagine if 1% (50K people) harness their emotional energy and channel it to build something better.
Today’s system can’t become obsolete if nobody builds.
We have the tools. We need the people.
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I never invested, but a few things:
1. You had ample time to withdraw. Why wait until Monday? This was a code red situation.
2. Isn’t the fund US-based? Weren’t you on FTX US? Again, you had until Saturday to act.
3. I’m surprised that client funds weren’t in offline wallets.
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"Being yourself is worth it, but don’t expect it to be easy or free. You’ll have to put energy into it continuously."
- Jeff Bezos
"I would strongly advise against betting against me."
- Beff Jezos
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Your incumbent takes nights/weekends off and is trying to figure out how to vibe code at scale.
That’s why you can win.
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I’m about to order Starbucks in India using my real name and crossing my fingers that the motherland gets the spelling right. 😂
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Cruising the Pacific Northwest this morning for tea, I spot cherry blossoms — a car under a tree, petals scheming to bury it by spring’s end.🌸
I brake hard, jump out, and snap a pic with my iPhone.
Worth it.
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Today, we can “program” art with artificial intelligence + an imagination + the English language.
The rate of daily method/model iteration to improve output quality is nothing short of surreal.
Thank you @jaimeblascob for pulling me into the wormhole and burning GPUs this week!
ALT /prompt nonhuman intelligence
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Daughter: Do ghosts visit us at night?
Me: There are no ghosts.
Daughter: We’re all ghosts, papa.
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Two years ago, we had just GPT. Now? An incredible array of models: large, small, open-source, closed-off—Grok, LLaMA, Claude, Gemini, the list goes on.
They’re not just spinning text anymore; they’re multimodal titans, cranking out stunning images, writing source code like devs on steroids, reasoning like gods, and pillaging the web for knowledge.
People need to quit obsessing over scaling laws and start building.
Yesterday’s limits will not exist tomorrow.
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The qualification + quantification of invisible forces (gravity, electromagnetism, nuclear forces) in our universe has been a tangentially fun learning journey. There are interesting parallels to how we think about building secure and resilient systems, products, and companies.
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Capitalism disguised as safety. Wait until you pay more to unlock a less guardrailed version.
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My 4-year-old and I play together every morning.
Recently, we've had fun making art with #MidJourney. I love watching her expanding imagination conceive of and recombine creative prompts. There are no restrictions or silly ideas. It's pure play.
Truly magical & delightful exp.
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It was great to see colleagues, peers, and friends at #BlackHatUSA after 3+ years. Weeks like these make me realize how much I’ve missed connecting, brainstorming, and debating with other people. The future of security is bright.
ALT A glowing Wynn Las Vegas at night.
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I never thought I'd be getting more honest, factual, and hard hitting journalism from a Twitter account called @AutismCapital than @nytimes.
Hell of a timeline we're living in.
#FTXbankruptcy
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Listening to Frank Ocean’s “Endless” at 6am in Amsterdam while catching up on work and prepping for a busy week ahead ✌️
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Designing and illustrating children's books and graphic novels previously required mastery and years of training. This barrier is going away but a few more things still need to be addressed + developed:
1. Licenses
2. State (e.g. posing the same character in different places)
I hope that generative art leads to a renaissance in the Graphic Novel - an incredible and underrated art form.
Without an artist, I'd never be able to make one. But with AI art, maybe I can.
h/t @ka
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The most overlooked component in modern data center architecture is the DPU. It's transforming how we handle networking, storage, and security at hyperscale.
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You know you've found your life partner when you both greet each other with a Mark Hoppus-inspired "hello there" from Blink-182's "I Miss You" and can't help but chuckle. 😄🎶
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In this AI moment, your competitive edge isn't what you build, but how you bring it to market.
Win by leveraging your unique distribution advantages and relationships in targeted niches, then compound that success with experience.
The moat is in GTM.
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Out: A company marketing itself as "an operating system for X."
Examples:
"An OS for the mind."
"An OS for personal finance."
"An OS for cyber risk."
You realize that normies don't know what an OS is.
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Apple's traditional model (annual major operating system upgrades tied to new hardware releases) seems increasingly at odds with how fast AI is changing. Google and Microsoft are shipping + iterating on AI features at a breakneck pace, while Apple appears to be stuck in a more traditional, waterfall-like mentality. Tim needs to cook.
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Sitting on a flight to Seattle and watching Oppenheimer (for the first time) with closed captions while listening to The Voidz. It’s a mood.
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I used an AI toolkit to extract the main objects in an image and then asked GPT-4 to generate a fictional short story from the extractions.
It gave me the plot for MF Captain Planet. 🌎🔥💨💧
Where you at Ma-Ti? ❤️ 😂
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The freedom that comes with age is the culmination of authentic selfhood.
What younger generations misinterpret as cognitive cringe is often the deliberate rejection of cognitive restraint.
They've calculated the cost of conformity and found it no longer worth paying.
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"And lastly, my friend, co-founder, and former colleague Dieter Bohn and I made one of the first prototypes of our new news feed in Google Docs almost two years ago. My dude, it shipped."
Release note feels. Love your show @reckless and @backlon. theverge.com/2022/9/13/23349…
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Finished reading Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by @carlorovelli. The book provides clear and concise explanations that unroll the biggest facts/theories we have of our universe. Wish this book existed 25+ years ago! bookshop.org/books/seven-bri…
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The best part about flying back to the US from Europe at sunset is that the glow lasts 4 hours. #shotoniphone
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The capabilities of OpenAI's GPT-4 Vision model deserve a lot of praise.
After conducting ~80 classification tasks with it, the model displayed an impressive success rate approaching 100%.
Here’s hoping that the 100 requests per day limit gets lifted soon. 🤞
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Incredible days in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
ALT An aerial photo shortly after takeoff from Jackson Hole Airport (JAC).
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The hairs on my arms stand up every time the red lightsaber appears. It's just the best. #MayThe4thBeWithYou
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In: A company marketing itself as a solution to a well-understood problem.
Let's redo those glossy statements using simple English:
"Learn to meditate."
"Master your finances."
"Manage your cyber risk."
All are easier to understand, and we no longer need decoder rings.
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I’ve stopped doing internet deep dives on people (Google, LinkedIn, social) ahead of meetings.
I *actually* enjoy connecting with people w/o prior research. I’m much more engaged and have zero preconceived notions.
These conversations are more memorable + interesting IMHO.
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Perhaps my favorite thing I've stumbled upon tonight with GPT prompts:
`I'm a five year old. Please explain why zero knowledge proofs and rollups matter for cryptocurrencies like Ethereum. By the end of your answer, assume that I'm a PhD from Cornell in mathematics.`
Amazing.
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Feels like you need a PhD to understand how Ethereum works.
Spent the weekend consuming blogs+papers+videos trying to grok Ethereum. Between layers, ZK proofs, txn ordering…it’s just a lot of dense foundational learning.
Real question: how will normies understand Ethereum?
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Wrapped up another week in Tokyo. After 20+ visits, I'm still baffled by how this city just works. Leaving in awe, yet again.
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Completely agree with #1. I talk to companies all the time that skip this and end up debugging in production. No bueno.
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Apple leaks talking about building robots but I can’t get my damn iPad to run macOS. Yes, I’m probably going to die on this hill.
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow was excellent. It might be the best coming-of-age fiction I've read. I loved the world building + experimental storytelling + following the detailed character journeys. bookshop.org/books/tomorrow-…
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Solana is already operating at Visa scale.
It's less about performance at this stage and more about building out applications and use cases. Solana has a great dev community and a growing number of interesting apps.
It's possible that SEI can get there...but Solana is here today.
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And almost all of them are using $COIN to custody the BTC. I assume that all of the bps would factor in Coinbase fees…so what exactly is their slice of the pie from 24 bps?
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Staring long into a large language model's runtime execution reshapes your perception of thought
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The progress in deep tech is astounding, especially in space travel.
Where we once saw a televised rocket launch maybe once a year, SpaceX has now increased this to about 95 times annually.
This is both awesome and inspiring.
This surge isn't limited to space exploration; it's evident across various sectors like aerospace and defense, nuclear power, synthetic biology, personal therapeutics, autonomous vehicles, androids, and the advancement towards AGI.
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Making pancakes for the kids and listening to music this fine Sunday morning. Gearing up for another 25-mile ride for later today and I need the carbs. 🥞
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Apple should lean into its true strength: world-class hardware. Ditch the AI software race and become the neutral platform powering the best models + agents.
It’s the enterprise play — be Switzerland, not OpenAI. Let others build the brains; you build the body.
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From an idea to space within 3 years. Incredible trajectory, pun intended, @zebulgar and the @VardaSpace team!
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I really need to spend time learning more about thermodynamic computing. What/who are the best resources to learn from?
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The most exciting software drop in 2024
Beyond privileged, ecstatic, and emotional to debut Figma Slides (aka Flides) to the world today 🎁
It has been incredibly challenging and rewarding to build a product that leverages the power of the @figma platform and feels accessible to *anyone*
We can't wait for you to tell your stories.
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