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Well that escalated quickly! (😮‍💨11 mos) Really proud to announce that @newthing_co has been acquired by @joinbenjamin. @TheCodeBender and I will join the team in product and engineering leadership roles to bring AR rewards to as many people as possible! venturebeat.com/games/benjamin…

Check out this way you can get a sun tan whenever you want for $1000/hr (which is its only practical application, of course) reflectorbital.com

@jrgarciadev Interested!

early access is open → heroui.studio/early-access

This used to take me hours. I animated the Claude logo with two prompts and got this

Come and join me on.design 👀 (saw @rogie post this) on.design/claim?ref=aubr…

@fffabs Pencil.dev by pencil.dev

Where is the other way round? Figma to Claude Code? I have yet to get a 100% version of my designs coded by Claude. Any ideas?

@RealSkyHartman or an XDR. It's literally your main tool, why not advocate that to make the best you need the best?

I’m really not sure why anyone thought that in 2025 Apple designers were printing off physical material and using bubble glass objects to see how liquid glass might look in the real world as a real part of the design process. The more surprising thing is that I don’t see a single Studio Display in the real design studio pic.

This is still such a goat feature.

The next time you hear Dave Portnoy claim he knows anything about what he's talking about...remember he has no idea how to even use a hammer. #GoHawks #SBLX

@a16z Everyone will converge to become product makers into a singular tool (or type of tool)

“There’s a Mexican standoff happening between product manager, designer, and coder.” Marc Andreessen on how AI is reshaping core tech roles: “Every coder now believes they can also be a product manager and a designer, because they have AI. Every product manager thinks they can be a coder and a designer. And every designer knows they can be a product manager and a coder.” “People in each of those roles now know or believe that with AI, they don’t need the other two roles anymore.” @pmarca on Lenny's Podcast with @lennysan

@JuanArreguin @benfryc @DevonMoodley @devinsfountain @willking @losmontoya_ @scottperket @drewwilson @miggi @rogie Yes. Will send

Y'all know anyone? @benfryc @DevonMoodley @devinsfountain @willking @losmontoya_ @aub @scottperket @drewwilson @miggi @rogie

Hello world, do I know any motion designers open for contract work? #motion #design #contract

@alessio_joseph If they offered you the gig (right now) would you go?

Agree! They do, esp for the luggage pass through which I like to do in the airport up until I’m in the jetway. Brown buffalo has vertical access for the conceal - but no water bottle pockets, the standard issue has the features but it’s a half zip (same w the civic half zip). Lots of vertical ones don’t have luggage straps or water bottle pockets though. It’s like some tortious blend of imperfections lol

@aub This guy’s reviews are amazing - youtu.be/9v9BfH1TjwU?si… - evergoods does too much sideways access for my liking :/

I've had the Timbuk2 Authority Backpack for 10+ years now and it may be time for a new bag. While I love it I'm also wondering: is there a 🐐 backpack i should consider??

@benblumenrose If you don’t care about full clamshell the CHZ (half zip) they redid this year and its pretty smart. Looks less like a turtle shell (a caveat of the CTB20 imo)

@aub The evergoods could be the one - need to look into it. You’ve gone down this road before ;)

@benblumenrose Not only that, but I own or have owned most of the packs on that list in addition to the GoRuck GR1

@benblumenrose Right now it’s the Standard Issue (but I just got it last week). For almost all of the past year it was the CTB20 and every now and then I’d switch to the concealpack. Functionally - the CTB is an almost perfect pack (comfort, size, materials, quality, design, features)

@aub What’s your daily carrier?

What are your thoughts on work that you can't really get "help" or collaboration on? (FWIW I don't paint so I'm making an assumption here and if it's whack forgive me, but have never seen two folks holding one paintbrush).

Painting is still the only thing where I can shut literally every voice and outside pressure down and just be. It's very lonely and hard work to be a painter.

@garrytan If they were further along with ai and could've trained behaviors for macro and micro they could drastically reduce the interruptions/friction. but alas.

Anyone else think MacOS really went a bit overboard on the "Allow" security modals? It should not be controversial that I am using Microsoft Excel to open a spreadsheet in my Dropbox folder.

@bryce The real angel VCs

Spouses with good jobs are the unsung heros of the startup world.

@benblumenrose @bykahlil @superpower They will let you upload Labcorp and Quest

@bykahlil @superpower For @superpower, don’t you have to do the labs through them? Will they just take data from other labs?

What’s the best product for taking years of blood labs and giving you ongoing insights/actions?