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So fun reimagining an og app for Liquid Glass. Would never have dreamt of doing this rewrite—original codebase was Objective-C—before AI.
If you know me, you know RodentDraw was the first iPhone app I developed. It debuted soon after the App Store over 15 years ago, and eventually became obsolete.
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It happened! I’ve open sourced my exif-based photo blog as a (near) zero-config @vercel template. It uses all the things:
◆ Next.js App Router with Server Actions
◆ Next.js Image
◆ Next Auth
◆ Vercel Postgres
◆ Vercel Blob
◆ Vercel OG
Template → vercel.fyi/photo-blog
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Every year I make a website for my sister for her birthday—each one significantly weirder than the last. ohmygodzoeturned.com/29
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It's that time of year again, i.e., The Pumpkin Spice Latte of the frontend world—come join us!
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Got a new camera and decided to build a photo blog from scratch and dive into Vercel’s state of the art:
◆ Next.js App Router
◆ Next.js Server Actions
◆ Next.js Image component
◆ Vercel KV
◆ Vercel OG
◆ Vercel Analytics
Demo → photos.sambecker.com
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Vercel is looking for a Product Designer keen to make building for the open web faster, more accessible, and full of delight. Come join our incredible team.
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Nothing captivates me more than building custom UI for hopelessly narrow applications. In this case, comparing my running pace (in minutes per mile) with @rauno's (in minutes per kilometer).
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What a pleasure getting to hear your CEO talk about the craft of delivering software at a design conference
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An amazing thing about Fuji digital cameras is that they come with film-inspired color simulations, which apply incredible color science directly to in-camera jpgs—no RAW files necessary. I’m beyond psyched to offer film simulation parsing as part of exif photo blog.
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Underrated : streaming granular status from a long-running server action. No idea how I would have done this without the Vercel AI SDK.
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Tailwind's migration utility is SO good. Would not have shipped this tonight without it.
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Looks simple but this took so much coordination between JS + CSS—uses registered @ properties, which introduce a lot of dynamism to the spec. So fun hoisting state up to CSS and watching modern browsers render it so beautifully.
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Best part collaborating w/ @raunofreiberg? Literally portfolio shots before hackathon's over.
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Watching things like this get built never ceases to amaze me. Incredible team. So much craft. 🖤
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Absolute blockbuster design book unboxing. Now what? I'm supposed to throw this sleeve out? Thank you @standardsmanual ✨ it's glorious
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Added support for cameras last night!
Where should I focus next: robust tag management, improved display of non-3:2 images, more visual customization?
As always, latest @ photos.sambecker.com
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Coming soon to exif-photo-blog: AI-generated photo captions, streamed by the incredible @vercel AI SDK
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Realize this is probably a comp but if this poster exists IRL can someone at @github please send it to me? (seen on this exquisite launch site for Mona Sans: github.com/mona-sans)
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The best part of using monospaced fonts is finding terms that are the same amount of letters—who knew all my cameras had the same character count?
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Just landed in SF ✈️ for my first ever Next.js Conf! Tech in the real world is my favorite kind of tech.
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Did it even happen? So grateful to have been a part of Next.js Conf this year. This is a special community.
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Can’t believe I waited this long to make a custom 404? Fun detail: clicking home locks in the color theme.
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Early Jules adopters—what's working for you, where could we do better? Keep the feedback coming!
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It has been brought to my attention that our OG image featured an unforgivable border overlap condition. Please approve this changelog retraction @JohnPhamous.
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Thanks for going all out Figma and making my first Config so special—relatedly, I’ve never seen so many designers in one place?
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So proud of this team. Will be installing Geist on literally every side project from now until forever.
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Thank you @LeaVerou for reminding everyone of @EdwardTufte's distaste for (low data-density) pie charts #smashingconf
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If you know me, you know I make a totally insane website for my sister every year for her birthday
ohmygodzoeturned.com/31
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Attention Fujifilm lovers! Looking to add recipe inspection to my EXIF photo template. What’s missing from this schema? Anything you’d remove?
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Been thinking about custom environments since joining Vercel. I am unreasonably excited about this work.
We've been working on improvements to @vercel based on your feedback.
Today, customizing environment settings (like branches, domains, and more) is spread between multiple pages. We'd like to make environments more "built-in", including creating custom envs.
What do you think?
ALT Creating a custom staging environment, allowing you to have more flexibility on how you handle domains, branch settings, and more.
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We've been sketching on a few concepts: drafted tasks, task dependencies, and overall task orchestration. We'd love some feedback on a couple ideas.
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Can’t get over to-do app Things by @culturedcode—first task manager I’ve used that made a measurable difference to my productivity. Also, it’s gorgeous and a delight to use. Worth studying for anyone serious about product design or behavior change.
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For so long I’d been afraid to combine projects into a single monorepo (despite the irresistible benefits of shared types). So excited by the effort we’re putting in to making monos accessible, collaborative, and powerful.
vercel.com/blog/vercel-space…
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Thanks for everything Figma (and all the wonderful people I met). Once again, leaving inspired and energized.
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Just got my ticket for @Nextjs Conf — claim yours!
nextjs.org/conf/ticket/sambe…
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Ran my first race in 10+ years. Didn't realize how much I'd missed it. Seized the opportunity to add race cards to my nerdy distance converter, which helps address the cavernous kilometer/mile divide at work km-mi.com/5/km/in/23:40
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Software's not complete until someone's uses it. At Vercel we share little bits of software called Preview Deployments, which auto-update, collect comments, and do many other things. "Recents" keeps track of all the Previews you interact with, making collaboration more seamless.
Preview deployments you have recently viewed or deployed are now easily accessible in the dashboard.
vercel.com/changelog/recent-…
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Today’s guilty (i.e., nerdy) pleasure goes to CSS - THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE 4TH EDITION yes I preordered this several months ago for MARGINAL SAVINGS cannot wait @meyerweb @estellevw
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Link to role👇
vercel.com/careers/senior-pr…
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Switching to server rendering for more control over photo blur (used as a fallback while images load in). Needed new tools to get it just right.
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Uses query params for dead-simple, React Server Component-based infinite scroll—huge shoutout to the React/Next.js teams for making this buttery smooth (+ @leerob for teaching me this technique)
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Contextual menus are my love language
New stuff alert: Improved task controls and other 💅 UI delight
- Pause, resume, and delete tasks—without losing your sense of place. Available from sidebar and repo view.
- You can even quickly copy task urls!
- Non-urgent task icons are now more recessive
- Certain hover states—which did not look good—have been toned back.
- System messages have more consistent padding and borders
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Needless to say, this was labor of love—please send feedback directly, or post to the repo
github.com/sambecker/exif-ph…
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Making collaboration work at scale requires a bunch of little design optimizations, each making the experience *slightly* smoother. Being able to share a link the second it’s generated is something I’m so excited to have been able to contribute to. More tiny upgrades on the way.
You can now share Preview URLs immediately, without waiting for the build to finish.
vercel.com/changelog/share-y…
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Beautiful toasts, care of @Emil’s Sonner
github.com/emilkowalski/sonn…
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Had so much fun crafting not only the viewer experience, but also the developer installation experience, complete with a post-clone setup wizard (made especially easy by Next Auth)
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Come work with @JohnPhamous and so many other incredible people
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To me, the most interesting software features balance simplicity and depth. Really fun to add information density to our product without sacrificing accessibility.
Modern production apps are made up of complex, globally distributed, infrastructure.
What I love about @vercel is that you bring the framework code, we handle the rest. But we don't obscure the rest.
You can now visualize your deployment outputs: vercel.com/changelog/detaile…
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Pairing file storage with serverless apps sounds straightforward but it's often not. Such a lovely addition to the frontend cloud. So excited for this API. vercel.com/storage/blob
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Often find myself numbering things (designs, features) with leading zeroes, e.g., 01, 02, etc. Mainly so numbers visually lineup before/after '10' but I think I also do it because it's inherently optimistic? Like, there might be a hundred of these, who knows?!
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What a privilege working with talented folks who make wondrous things like this a reality—so much more to come
Today, Jules grows up. We're officially moving out of beta. This is a huge milestone, made possible by our incredible community of beta users. To celebrate, we're launching our most significant update yet.
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Love watching us build. But even more, I love watching us build things that help us build things.
v0.dev is 100% full-stack @vercel
◆ Built on @nextjs App Router
◆ AI by the @vercel `ai` SDK (sdk.vercel.ai)
◆ RSC & SSR Streaming on @vercel Functions
◆ Mutations via @nextjs Server Actions
◆ Data in @vercel KV (vercel.com/storage/kv)
◆ Flags on @vercel Edge Config
◆ Builds by @turborepo
◆ Social cards by @vercel OG Images
I encourage you to go and build your own AI-native products!
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Also, learned a thing or two about harvesting EXIF data from images, seen in these nerdy OG cards
photos.sambecker.com/photos/…
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Thanks for everything KVG. Wouldn't be here today if you hadn't responded to my ZEIT support ticket and signaled how much you—and Vercel—care about design. Hopefully one day I can return the favor. Best of luck with whatever comes next. I know you'll do amazing things.
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Not only do individual photos get OG images featuring rich EXIF camera data
photos.sambecker.com/p/M3jLY…
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Just got my ticket for #nextjsconf by @vercel, claim yours!
Let's make the Web. Faster.
nextjs.org/conf/tickets/oct2…
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But photos grouped by tag get grid-style images
photos.sambecker.com/t/door-…
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While designed for mirrorless/SLR cameras, images taken on iPhones get cute little apples in their OG images
photos.sambecker.com/p/WXxjE…
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Code if you're curious!
github.com/sambecker/exif-ph…
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So fun challenging myself to think of interesting ways to communicate groundbreaking Jules capabilities. Unrelatedly, (1) pretty pleased with these tentacle arm rests and (2) team spaces 4lyfe.
Jules now has web search built in.
It will proactively search the web to find the latest documentation, related implementations, and up-to-date information for your task. This means you get more accurate code from the jump, so you can spend less time searching and more time shipping.
Read more at: jules.google/docs/changelog/…
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It's Nextmas! Exhilarating to experience from the inside. So proud of so many teams here.
Let’s make the Web. Faster.
Our keynote starts in 1 hour. Join us.
nextjs.org/conf
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Shoutout to the whole Jules crew who poured their blood, sweat, and squid ink into this product
Introducing Jules, an AI coding agent powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro.
Jules works asynchronously across your repo on tasks like fixing bugs or refactoring, helping you cross multiple things off your to do list at the same time. Plus, stay updated with Codecasts, a daily podcast of your repo's recent commits.
Try it for free, globally, at jules.google.com
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TY! Right now images are in S3 but definitely Vercel Blob once that exits private beta. Would love to open source—just want to tighten up a few things (nested layouts, ISR, etc.).
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Still don’t know how I snuck into this 🐐 pen. I learn new things every day working alongside these incredible designers.
Have you met the ▲ Design team?
@almonk @gennyxdavila @sambecker @skllcrn @glennui @kevinrupert @joebell_ @itsmegbird @VDowns_UX @dizzyup @horizonchasing @emilkowalski @raunofreiberg
↳ vercel.com/design
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