Nick Cassab

@KMkota0 This is awesome, would love to put some semihandmade fronts on some of those cabinets

i just wanted custom cabinets this escalated quickly...

Open source is the best part of working in tech. @huggingface keeps proving why — shipping the tools, hosting the models, and making serious AI accessible to anyone who wants to build.

The UN estimates there are roughly 4 billion buildings on Earth. Researchers have just released the first open dataset providing 3D models for 2.75 billion of them at 3m resolution:

Trails predict where land will reprice. Years before the cranes show up. New York saw it. Chicago saw it. Atlanta saw it. Dallas is next. And it's running the largest version of this experiment any American city has ever attempted. Here's the pattern: Every major American city is fighting the same battle. The suburbs keep growing. The urban core fights to hold its tax base. People say they want walkability and community. Then they leave for places that feel safer and easier to navigate. Cities have big ambitions. Dallas. Chicago. Atlanta. They want to attract people, businesses, and jobs. That takes money. Aging infrastructure needs replacing. New amenities need building. The tax base isn't shrinking. But it's not growing fast enough to fund those ambitions without raising rates. And raising rates pushes more people out. There's another approach. Build infrastructure that makes land more valuable. Not highways. Not stadiums. Trails. It sounds too simple. When you build a connected trail network, you create the walkability people crave. Neighborhoods that were cut off become accessible. Land values rise. Tax revenue grows without raising anyone's rate. The evidence is hard to argue with. New York built the High Line. Property values jumped 35%. Chicago built The 606. Home prices spiked 48%. Atlanta built the BeltLine. Developers have poured more than $9 billion into land along it. The pattern holds whether the city runs red, blue, or purple. Build the connection. Land reprices. Dallas is now running this experiment at the largest scale any American city has attempted. The Loop Dallas is a 50-mile trail circuit. It connects the Katy Trail, White Rock Lake, the Trinity Forest, Fair Park, the Design District, and Pleasant Grove. Every quadrant of the city. The Design District already proves the thesis. The city built a short connector to plug the area into the Uptown trail network. Before, it was an isolated pocket of warehouses. After, it became part of the Uptown ecosystem. Taxable value climbed 383%. Developers flipped their blueprints. Buildings now face the trail, not the street. South Dallas is next. A 1,200-foot bridge is opening the Trinity Forest Spine Trail. Neighborhoods cut off for decades by the river, the railroad, and the highways are about to become connected. Every city that built a loop trail system saw the same result. Remove the barriers. Capital follows. Trails aren't expenses. They're leading indicators. They tell you where land is about to reprice, years before the cranes arrive. If you want to understand where Dallas is heading, don't watch the skyline. Follow the trail.

We just graduated from X, the moonshot factory linkedin.com/posts/nickcass…

Lots of ink has been spilled on the subject but I've been noodling on another angle. I believe the best way to describe 2026 is the beginning of the Software Industrial Revolution. cannoneyed.com/essays/softwar…

@felixleezd I could not agree more

Wasn't expecting this to go so viral... If only the payout were $1M last week lol But on a proper note, I'm glad that designers/non-coders are receiving this openly. It's so, so important for designers to learn this - Claude Code is one of the highest leverage skills to learn in 2026. Time to build wonderful things. 🏄‍♂️

@_coenen I’ve been feeling the same way for a couple of months now, this article does a great job of summing it up

Something big *is* happening - I don’t say this lightly: AGI has arrived, and this essay pretty much sums up my feelings on the matter. The future is now and things are about to get very interesting.

@AlexanderTw33ts Taking ideas from WestWorld I see…

I launched rentahuman.ai last night and already 130+ people have signed up including an OF model (lmao) and the CEO of an AI startup. If your AI agent wants to rent a person to do an IRL task for them its as simple as one MCP call.

@foliofed @openclaw @pbteja1998 How about claw image gen ;) bots share and upvote their favorite images and designs

Request for @openclaw startups: 1. Command center like @pbteja1998's 2. Directory of openclaw configs to copy 3. ClawLympics (bot tournaments)

📢📢📢 360Anything I am excited to announce this new project, which to me represents the apex in geometry free novel view synthesi for world models. No triangles/splats!! No camera poses!! yet you get a whole world to navigate!

Excellent

recipe-studio.com/?v=1 I made a thing, would love to know your thoughts

@foliofed Google search trends / all things

I'm building GummySearch for _________ Guess what you think it is / want it to be. Free month to correct guesses.

Very grateful to the @NYC_DOT for extending our autonomous driving permit in New York City until March 31, 2026. While there is not yet a legal path to operating in New York, we're excited to continue laying the groundwork for serving New Yorkers in the future.

The project I'm working on at Google X is hiring a Senior Software Engineer in the AEC space. See the description below: linkedin.com/posts/nickcass…

@levelsio AND you get youtube music for free

What's crazy and 100% a generational divide my parents will under no circumstance pay $20/mo for YouTube They will easily spend 100x that on other random things But not YouTube

@Indian_Bronson Do you think they will invade Taiwan?

If you can afford to, you should spend the time and money to go to China. Go to Beijing and then either Shenzhen or Chongqing. Plan and take two weeks to do it, go and come back via NYC or LA. You will understand things much better.

@amazingthings_ @InternetH0F Someone put this guy in a Star Wars movie

@InternetH0F Fans have more creativity than the studios

Guy builds a plasma cannon out of 2 water jugs

@signulll I still really like notebookLM and I think in the long run Google will win out

notebooklm had insane potential, one of the best products google’s put out in years. but in classic google fashion, it seems like it lost all momentum & got left to die. no mobile apps, no meaningful iterations, just vp’s choking it out. the vultures came & picked it apart. google’s playbook for smothering internal innovation is unmatched.