Stammy

Better late than never. I wrote 9,313 words for my 2025 year in review. Sold my house, left my last startup Limitless, took a few months off, quit caffeine, had my 2nd year of no alcohol, became obsessed with Claude Code, and started fresh at Sesame. paulstamatiou.com/2025-year-in-r…

@krynsky lovely walk down memory lane, nice tool!

I spent the last week testing out Codex and GPT 5.5 and built an app to create a website visual timelines leveraging the Wayback Machine. Anyone can get the app to generate their own and I created this demo site to showcase a few demo timelines: retrosite.krynsky.com Check out: @Apple retrosite.krynsky.com/timeline/apple… @Stammy retrosite.krynsky.com/timeline/pauls… My site: retrosite.krynsky.com/timeline/kryns… Also available as a 1-click install for @cocktailpeanut's Pinokio Github repo here: github.com/krynsky/retros…

@tonydehnke yea it’s definitely not my workhorse but gets a lot of casual use. I have a work mbp for daily driving. And I use my Mac mini a bunch too (sometimes using Neo to remote into it)

@Stammy Cool, but for most people doing work/dev, the 16gb Air would be the better solution I imagine. Even if it’s a used/refurb M2 to M4.

it's kind of ridiculous that i use my 8gb unified ram macbook neo more than my 128gb unified ram macbook pro. have not touched the mbp in a month. maybe ill have it run ollama gemma 4 for openclaw hosted on my mac mini but i'm leaning towards selling it

@MatthewBerman @jxnlco Kinesis! I used their older wired version for many years. One engineer I worked with had one for over a decade, said it saved his career. I know use a glove80 (same style kbd). Definitely worth it if you have any wrist issues but there’s a learning period

@jxnlco Please explain the split keyboard it seems psychopathic

With codex I don’t need a second monitor I turned it into a standing desk

@pejmanjohn it can if you're pretty methodical about it (close apps you're not using, use Zed over Cursor, enable chrome memory saver, try not to use a large docker etc) great for casual stuff. anything more i'm remote desktop'd into my mac mini (which i do quite often and it's great)

@Stammy How often are you running multiple coding agent sessions in parallel? Curious if neo can handle it.

air is definitely better - i can push the neo hard and i start to worry about swap memory being used and start closing apps. but if you're intentional about what you're doing - eg if doing more coding, prefer Zed over Cursor, etc, you can get by. I've done lots of codex/cc sessions on it.

@Stammy I have been thinking about selling my mbp and getting an air. But you think neo holds up just as good? I mostly just use Claude codex and Figma anyways

@fromedome lighter/smaller than my mbp, so i reach for it more for casual use around the house my mac mini still gets most of the use though, just perma-hooked up to my 2 displays

@Stammy Why Neo so much? Because it’s new? Or something else about it? (Haven’t checked one out yet.)

2000 me would have been thrilled.. Texas Instruments released the Ti-84 Evo graphing calculator. fond memories programming games into my ti-83 and ti-89 there's also an online calculator subscription (of course there is) so you can use it on your computer education.ti.com/en/products/ca…

@lennysan Been using cleanshot daily for years. Excellent app

A few lesser-known products I love and use a ton: 1. cleanshot.com for screenshots 2. supercut.ai replaced Loom for me, so clean 3. textexpander.com for frequent snippets 4. matthewpalmer.net/rocket/ for emojis 5. brain.fm for focus

@pitdesi imagine if they buried an RTX 5090

Someone buried a 150lb chest with $10,001 of cash, somewhere within 7 miles of SF's city hall. This is the only clue. Go find it!

I very often need to steer because I forget to add some detail or clarification in my first message and want to force it through. But I do also like queuing at times - when the things I ask it to do are pretty easy and I can just line up a bunch of small fixes for it to do at once

Do you prefer queuing or steering in Codex? What's your use case for each?

@colin_dunn Nice!!

Last year we sold Visual Electric to Perplexity. The product was sunset shortly after. I knew then I had another company in me, I just didn't expect my next idea to come along so quickly. Working on something new and looking for exceptional people to join the founding team. DMs are open.

@yangyou @p0 love this!

first launch i've shipped at @p0. proud of what this team pulled off. every detail down to the IBM 5153. go hunt the easter eggs >> pioneers.parallel.ai

@renedotwang @detaildotdesign It looks especially bad there. Icons in a menu like that should be preloaded and instant

@Stammy @detaildotdesign depends on context. It works well when the images are "nice to have but not necessary". For example, the Connector selection in Claude app.

Small trick to make the image loading feel better When an image finishes loading, fade it in through a brief blur.

There are two Designs. One of them is dead, the other is more alive than ever. 1. Design as the production of visual assets is over soon. This is unfortunately 90% of design jobs in industry. We won’t even need agencies to create design systems like Gokul thinks - they will get solved in the same breath as the rest of it 2. Design as a general method of problem solving is more exciting than ever thanks to AI dissolving the barrier to entry for most tools. The solution space for most designs have expanded dramatically for those with eyes to see It’s never been more exciting to be a designer, if you can let go of what design used to mean

@raphaelschaad @ephraimduncan you don’t need an account to use it and they take privacy seriously news.ycombinator.com/item?id=356389…

@ephraimduncan why? 🙏

Best VPN service on macOS? (price × speed × app quality × customer service …)

convinced people are using my site for training models on my writing

alright, what is hitting my site this much in the last 2 days. says it's all coming from the X link shortener, but i couldn't find any tweets linking to paulstamatiou.com

@coffeewithone calling @rsms. Someone is using screen studio again 🚨 😅

Taste isn't how something looks. Looks are the shadow taste casts. Rounded corners. Nice typography. The right shade of gray on the right shade of off-white. That's aesthetics. Aesthetics is downstream of taste. Taste is knowing what to build before you build it. It's built on an almost uncomfortable understanding of what the user actually wants, not what they say they want. Steve Jobs didn't sketch the iPod because he loved music players. He sketched it because he understood nobody wanted to manage files. They wanted a thousand songs in their pocket. The device was the answer to an intent, not a spec. Airbnb didn't take off because the design got cleaner. It took off when Brian Chesky flew to New York and photographed hosts' apartments himself, because he understood the real product wasn't the listing. It was trust. Taste led him to the camera before the pixel. Here's what I mean. A recording from @octolane: 1. For a meeting that just ended, the menu shows: Recap. Send follow-up. That's it. Because if the meeting is over, nobody is thinking "how do I join?" They're thinking what did we say, and what do I send? 2. For a meeting that hasn't started, the menu shows: Join Google Meet. Generate prep. Running late. Reschedule. Send pre-meeting note. Different menu. Same button. Because the user's intent is completely different. - Nobody opens a past meeting wanting a Join link. - Nobody opens a future meeting wanting a recap. And yet almost every calendar app shows the same seven options every time, because someone optimized for consistency instead of intent. That's the gap. Taste is building the system that notices: 1. The meeting starts in two minutes and they're still in Slack → they want "Running late." 2. The meeting was 45 minutes ago and nobody showed → they want "Reschedule." 3. The meeting is tomorrow morning → they want a prep note. Because, - Nobody wants to write a meeting note. They want to remember what to bring up. - Nobody wants a "copy link" button. They want to stop being late. - Nobody wants a CRM field. They want to close the deal. The moment a user opens your product and thinks "this is exactly what I was thinking" - that's less about magic and more about the "Taste" compounding over a thousand small decisions about intent. You don't get it from a Dribbble scroll. You get it from sitting with the user. Watching them work. Asking questions that feel invasive. Living inside their frustration for a week. Then removing everything that doesn't serve the goal they came in with. Most teams can't do this. It's slower. It's lonelier. It doesn't fit a sprint. But it's the only way to build something people actually feel. We've spent years obsessing over intent. Every menu. Every empty state. Every micro-moment where a user almost gave up. May 12. The world will know. 20 days from now. 🏎️