Jad
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Jad
@JadLimcaco
Design and frontend at // Prev: design systems @intuit @Poynt @SmartRecruiters // Laker fan // Probably tinkering with AI
Katılım Ekim 2009
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Shapes now have face colors! I know this seems pretty basic...and it is. I should have added this earlier.
I just love how buttery smooth everything is!
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@ScriptedAlchemy I wish I had this trading bot 2 days ago when I entered new positions 🤦♂️
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My take? I did it.
I went $35k to $10M in 21 months (286x) going all in 1 stock at a time - no options, no margin, no crypto. And shared every trade live on Reddit as "Sir Jack".
Concentration makes wealth. Period.
Most people want to make life-changing money, not 7%.
They also need simplicity.
People are dumb.
Swing trading 1 stock at a time focuses research, concentrates gains, and avoids getting rugged.
It's the best way to get started actively trading.
I full endorse it.
(also the fund manager stat is stupid af bc it's much different trading your $1000 vs millions in AUM)
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Kevin’s right. All in $VOO or $SPY. Sure. Cause 95% of fund managers can’t beat the benchmark yoy consistently. What makes you think you can? Oh wait he meant all in an individual stock? Then no way Jose. Bad Kevin! Bad take!
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NEW LONG FORM VIDEO: The rise of Din Tai Fung: The world's most successful restaraunt?!
Din Tai Fung is one of the most successful, yet surprisingly low-profile, restaurant chains in the world. With each location averaging a staggering $27 million in annual sales, it more than doubles the next best performer in the industry. The story began with a penniless immigrant in Taiwan who started selling dumplings from a roadside stall. Today, that humble beginning has grown into a $600 million global empire. What sets Din Tai Fung apart is that they built this powerhouse by defying many of the standard rules of modern business. This video breaks down exactly how they did it.
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@adamwathan Love how the dev community has responded. Rooting for y'all!
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@DanHollick Sorry to hear about this Dan. Big fan of your work and Tailwind. And this is such a classy letter and it was insightful to read about your perspective on each member of the team. Best of luck on the book and looking forward to reading it!
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Cat's out of the bag - just wanted to say thanks to everyone who reached out. I'll reply to all the DMs eventually.
I'm going to work on the book while I figure out what to do next. I'm fortunate enough to have some options so don't feel bad for me. I was paid well to do a job I loved with people I admired and it had to come to an end at some point.
They had to make a tough call to keep the business alive and it was the right decision - I'm only sad because we can't all carry on working together.
I'm not a guy who makes career plans but I have one rule when choosing where to work, I need to be the dumbest person in the room. At Tailwind, I learnt just how much dumber I can be. I felt like the special needs intern - discovering new and exciting ways to not know stuff.
You probably think I'm talking about programming stuff but I learnt more from @steveschoger about design in 18 months than most of my career. I thought I was done learning about design. We have almost opposite skillsets so I was blown away by stuff he finds simple and vice versa. For a guy who literally wrote the book on design there is absolutely no ego there. Just a dude who really loves designing stuff.
I can't tell you what a joy it is to work with @reinink - what a relentlessly positive guy. A Labrador in human form. I'm convinced there isn't a task you could give him that he wouldn't figure out. He has the very rare skill of being able to do the last 10% of anything as well as the first 90%. A stone cold finisher. I already miss hearing "Good morning!" on our call even though it was 3pm - I think he just liked saying it.
I've never met anyone with a higher quality bar than @adamwathan - completely unafraid to throw months of work away if it's not right. You might think that sucks as an employee but it takes about 5 seconds to realise "oh yeah, this is shit". There's no blame there, we all made it shit together and we'll make it less shit together.
I have this toxic trait where I hate almost anyone else's writing style but I adore Adam's. Once he's written something it feels like there's no other way to say it. We also share the same distaste for not understanding something but I'm sure his capacity to learn stuff is a magnitude greater than mine. Lastly, I don't think people understand what a nice guy he is. Genuinely tortured when he feels he's let anyone down, so there's no way he's made this decision lightly.
I came to think of @malfaitrobin and @PhilippSpiess as almost a single being - they spent most of every day pair programming - and so it's sad that their consciousness has been split. Every time I'd join their call I'd get motion sick from the speed Phillip moves around his IDE. I have no evidence, but I think he has it neuralinked into his brain. He thinks at triple speed and talks at double speed. Just an incredible programmer you could throw into any company and he would instantly improve it.
Robin is staying and I can see why - he's been with the guys since day one and there's no one who knows more about Tailwind on the planet, even Adam. What a lovely dude too - if you can get past the dad jokes which, despite never getting more than an eye-roll, he continues with unabated. He has the skills of someone twice his age and experience but with the attitude of someone young and eager to help.
Before there was AI, there was @jordanpittman. If we ran into some gnarly bug we'd just ask Jordan and he's be like 'oh yeah that's a bug in safari from 2016 and here's every github issue we've ever received that relates to it'. And then the motherf*cker would just go fix it. Obviously not Safari, but with like any other open source library he would just go make a PR. Didn't really matter if he knew anything about the repo or language - I'm pretty sure he could write COBOL if necessary. When chatgpt is doing a web search, it's just sending Jordan a DM.
Last, but not least, is @petersuhm who is also staying on. There is literally nothing Peter won't do. He's supposed to be a programmer by trade but at Tailwind he does everything no one else wants to do. Payroll? Peter. Support? Peter. Someone selling Tailwind Plus templates on the dark web? Peter. He's been doing a great job basically selling companies on the idea of supporting Tailwind and bringing in revenue to help keep things alive. By the way, if you're reading this and your company depends on Tailwind you should sponsor them. Reach out to Peter.
I'm always going to be team Tailwind - I'm rooting for them and I hope they can turn it around and hire us all back someday. Monetising open source was an unsolved problem before AI and it's only gotten harder.
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@nainar92 @nbrichtova @heyitsbeaaaaaaa @oliver_wang2 @m__dehghani Whenever I do those 2x2 or 3x3 grids, it’s very hard to consistently prompt it not to include a border. I’ve tried many different prompt variations and nothing consistently works.
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👋🏽 I'm a PM on Nano Banana, let's just call me the Naina that goes banana over images. If you have any feature requests you find a-peel-ing or any big ideas you want to plantain into the team's brains, comment away!
cc @nbrichtova @heyitsbeaaaaaaa @oliver_wang2 @m__dehghani @19kaushiks
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Fun icon set created with @NanoBanana Pro. I didn't even tell it what icons I wanted, just told it to include a basketball, a Figma icon and other icons for a designer's portfolio website.

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PSA: our team is online 24/7 helping customers scale with Gemini 3 Pro and Nano Banana Pro, please let us know what you need (including higher API rate limits)!
My email is Lkilpatrick@google.com
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@boardisfun Also my wife posted on her IG and a bunch of her mom friends kept asking what it was and they wanted to get it for Christmas 😂
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@boardisfun Ours came in yesterday and the kids love it so far!
Only feedback so far is all the videos and photos show it without a cord so I thought it would be able to be operated wirelessly. It's a bit annoying to have the cord on our dining table or coffee table.
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Introducing Board – the first ever face-to-face gaming console that combines the best of board games and video games into one beautiful new platform.
Place a piece on the Board and it knows exactly what it is, where it is, and what it can do. And every piece unlocks entirely new ways to play, together.
Buy it now. board.fun.
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@kevintwohy Ordered. It's so cool, can't wait to play with the fam on Thanskgiving.
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@CarmichaelDave Float dribble. Hand never goes under the ball. You can technically take as many steps as you want in between dribbles.
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Doing a backyard project right now and I thought about doing this but went the GC route and while things have gone okay so far, I started feeling like I shouldve subbed everything out myself. I’ve already been using ChatGPT and youtube for every step anyway to make sure they are doing things right.
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We got quoted $124k to finish out our 900 sqft walk up attic.
It’s a fair price for what we want, from a general contractor friend I trust.
We’re instead using ChatGPT to coach us and sub out all the work ourselves.
The subs we’ve chosen have us at about $67k for the same work.
Here’s the problem with cost+ agreements: The general contractor isn’t incentivized to quote out each job from 5-15 guys to get the best price.
He just needs a decent sub, and then he marks that up 20%.
So it’s a double whammy. You pay inflated subs’ cost plus 20%.
I told my friend beforehand I might go this route btw.
The rough plumbing went in this week. I’m sure we’ll go over budget, but that’s to be expected. There’s a big gap between 67k and 124k.
We’re also paying another 3rd party to inspect every stage along the way.
Please leave some negative comments below to put a chip on my shoulder to ensure this project goes perfectly.
I’ll return and report.
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