Adam Schuck

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Canva's new Magic Edit feature is insane. 🤯

News: Canva announced a number of 'Magic' AI-based software tools for editing images and creating templates and presentations. CEO @MelanieCanva tells @Forbes the Australian unicorn is "focusing on our own race" as competitors launch their own AI tools. forbes.com/sites/alexkonr…

Running a company: 2020: can you survive a pandemic? 2021: still here? we’re going to give all of your competitors $100m series A rounds. 2022: wow, you made it? okay, all engineers cost $600,000/year now. 2023: nice job! okay, we’re going to take away your bank account.

Extraordinary to see so much talent and experience walk out the door from Twitter in a single day. Amazing you all lasted this long! 🫡

@satanjeev Bano! Pretty sure you reviewed my first line of code at Twitter. The man, the legend - congrats on a great run. 🫡

And just like that, after 12 years, I have left Twitter. I have nothing but love for all my fellow tweeps, past and present. A thousand faces and a thousand scenes are flashing through my mind right now - I love you Twitter and I’ll forever bleed blue 🫡💙

@Ity 11 years, congratulations Ity. More than most! Best of luck for your next move.

after 11 beautiful, life-changing years, I resigned from Twitter today. Thank you for the ride of a lifetime Twitter! Thank you to all my teammates over the years for making this an experience I will remember forever - its been an honor and a privilege #OneTeam💙

The Canva team has been hard at work with new features like our responsive websites. The main challenge, however, is to convert a Canva design to a responsive website at scale. Read how @bennym5 and team solved this challenge canvatechblog.com/css-absolutely…

The rise of @canva, the $40 billion design juggernaut f-st.co/9l4pZWg

Fun little trick in the Sunday New York Times crossword yesterday: the central theme clue was "The better of two sci-fi franchises", and regardless of whether you put Star Wars or Star Trek, the crossing clues worked

"Too often, managers feel the best way to add value is by fixing someone’s problem. But managers are not solution vending machines." Couldn't agree more! @TheGrandWorld's @ahossain24 and Mindy Zhang serving up wisdom today! review.firstround.com/the-best-manag…

Agree completely re importance of standardisation. One huge pain point back then: CI and build tools differed by repo. I vividly remember the tooling making it so hard to merge to one repo, that my team abandoned and moved our project to another repo (science).

Amazed I missed the excellent linked write-up by @peterseibel 6 years ago. Explains why Twitter's tech stack and development efficiency was such a mess when I joined in 2011! Valuable lessons on the importance of investing in developer productivity as your team scales.

Learn how we combined the classic and modern to build our Auto Focus feature! Now our users can make their photos look like they come from a high-end camera canvatechblog.com/how-canva-comb…

@evanderkoogh en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolin…

I have been trying to find an image of that slide on some conference sometime last year I think that went along the lines of: It takes an order of magnitude more energy to refute a lie than it is to make one.

New @Canva valuation: $40B 🚀 But don't miss equally impressive & impactful news: @MelanieCanva @cliffobrecht pledge lion-share of their equity to Canva Foundation. Adding to 1% Pledge, creates a philanthropic powerhouse. @canva is about value + values 🙏link.medium.com/3VFd0g7syjb

Canva is now one of the world's most valuable startups after raising at a $40 billion valuation. I spoke to CEO @MelanieCanva about her plans -- and why she and cofounder @cliffobrecht are pledging away 30% of the company, most of their wealth. forbes.com/sites/alexkonr…

@NSWHealth Are 60+ year olds in the eligible areas eligible for priority appointments too?

Priority vaccination appointments have been expanded in eligible areas. Anyone aged 16 – 59 can now book in for a priority appointment. Book now: nsw.gov.au/covid-19/healt…

@mikeee Interesting! I'm wondering how this fits in, vs AWS MTurk, Crowdflower etc. Is one of the key ideas here the global reach of taskers?

Excited to share an project I've been working on... Task Mate is an experimental crowdsourcing platform to help companies build more inclusive products around the world. We're currently in Beta in India and Kenya. taskmate.google.com

Fantastic to see the Tech Council of Australia @techcouncil_aus coming together, building a unified voice for the tech community here.