Benjamin Lotan 🦑

🤘We're launching a new thing --> printkit.dev 📸🖨️Photo printing API for agents! Great products from @socialps + super-easy integration. I first built this for our team/agents to use internally, but we decided to make it public. Let me know what you think.

@levelsio Try setting it up with printkit.dev - no stripe integration needed… let me know if you want any help with anything, I can make any updates needed… 🫡

Ok I managed to make the code generated interactive so every idea is really becoming an app now Obvious next question, why not just generate every idea automatically and add Stripe to it and launch them?

@MatthewBerman @agentmail We’re building an agent-centric photo printing API. Check it out: printkit.dev

Who is building products and services for agents? @agentmail and here.now are super interesting. Who else?

Tried a new board game this week and was not impressed. Lots of flaws. 1. Only one scenario - Most games these days have dozens of scenarios you can play. This game starts the same every time. Very low replayability. Will probably get old fast. 2. No campaign mode - Every game is a standalone experience. This feels pretty lazy. Where are the Legacy style booster packs we can unlock? Where are the persistent changes, character upgrades, etc.? Just sloppy design work. 3. Crude miniatures - Yeah, they're kinda nice in a minimalist way, but it feels like they were just cutting costs here. No big bucket of plastic minis I can paint. Very low detail renderings on the small soldier pieces in particular. 4. No expansion packs - Adding on to the replayability problems is the fact that no new content has been announced. It's just good design and business sense to have the first 2 or 3 big box expansions already in production when the base game hits. But this is just a core set without any new content on the horizon. So the meta will probably die pretty fast. 5. New players are at a disadvantage - You have to play this game more than 2 or 3 times to find any kind of viable strategy. So new players are at a huge disadvantage. When I play a game, I want everyone to feel included so all players should be getting like 400+ victory points 6. Only one way to win - The only way to win is by taking the other player's king piece. That's it. No alternate paths to victory or other strategies to pursue. Just take the king and you win. Boring. I really would have liked if you'd been able to win by building up your kingdom peaceably, or pursuing alternate routes like farming, trade, or earning favor with a visiting monarch or something. As is, the game really pigeonholes you into just one approach. So yeah. I won't be revisiting this one. Sad, because it feels like there was a lot of potential here that was wasted by some short-sighted design and development decisions.

A Call for New Aesthetics: newaesthetics.art.

@michelleefang Amazing

if you're vibe coding or building over the holidays, i want to gift one of you a 6 month subscription of claude pro to support <3 just drop a comment below. merry christmas!

@jakedahn So good! I have to think about this more.

I made an Oblique Strategies plugin for Claude Code Oblique Strategies is a deck of cards Brian Eno made in 1975 — cryptic prompts to break creative blocks. Things like: • "Honor thy error as a hidden intention" • "Faced with a choice, do both" • "Trust in the you of now" The unexpected interestingness: vibecoding is weirdly similar to making music in a studio. You're improvising, layering, iterating. Sometimes you get stuck. /oblique-skills:oblique draws 4 random strategies. You pick one, decide how to apply it, and let it season your session.

@drewburchfield Thanks, I’m planning to test it out in the coming weeks. 🙏

@benjaminlotan Totally built out of necessity and was surprised no one had done it yet! Selfishly wanted to get a "catch up quickly" view of an inbox. Now expanding into Inbox orchestration type toolset. Let me know what you think if you get a chance to try it.

@drewburchfield hey. i saw you made the helpscout MCP, (thanks!). i was curious to chat with you about that, any context on why you created it? (feel free to DM me)

did i mention that this is totally nuts?

it’s still so insane to me that we did this

thinking about this again

Can confirm, this is amazing and worthwhile. 🤯

Great review. I look forward to reading the book

I’m trying it out. See you here?

Multi-wire saw cutting countertops with diamond wire.

@omead Incredible!

Best video I’ve seen of the most epic launch of S25! From Matamoros, 🇲🇽

Still blows my mind that reasoning ability comes out of next word prediction

The flock dynamics of sheep being guided through a gate with the assistance of sheep dogs. 📹 rural.riley via TikTok