Craig Aucutt

Hard to top a California Golden Hour 👌

With this new update, one of my favorite new features is the focused mode for documents, tasks, and files. With various controls you can really create your moment of zen.

New favorite feature unlocked! a Spatial Canvas to see all docs, tasks, files for a space in a interactive canvas. Where I can link, zoom in/out and have my agents help drill in. More to come soon.

In the spirit of building in public, I want to share some updates to a tool I’ve been making on the side to help me at least eliminate subscriptions and boost productivity. It's a productivity tool with a suite of modules. Such as files, tasks and more wrapped into one

It's sad that at Evernote we had this over 12 years ago. Had it all in our hands 😭

@joshpuckett dang... a lot to process😶

In case anyone is wondering, if you apply a 30-50% cut to the Top 50 public software companies... ...that's something like 250,000 to 500,000 humans. 😔

Under the Hood No. 2 is set for March 19th in San Francisco. Join us for a fireside chat with @BenSchleuniger , Co-Founder & CEO of @OrbitalOps_ . Register via the link below.

AMEN

San Francisco is so expensive that someone making $109K a year is considered low income. The average teacher salary is $103K. Believing that we can have a functioning school system and therefore a functioning city when teachers are getting paid poverty wages is INSANITY.

On the first day of the SF educators strike, over 10,000 striking educators, students, and community hit the streets with @UESF, demanding the schools students deserve. The strike will continue to build across the city until the district agrees to a fair contract to support all students and their educators. @WeAreCTA @AFTunion @NEAToday @MorePerfectUS

@jinen Wow big news! Congrats @jinen and team!!

big news: we're spinning out gather into a profitable independent company, and our AI team is joining figma! building gather has been the honor of a lifetime. i'm deeply grateful to the team and customers who made it all possible. i’ll be a townsperson forever, but i’m excited to become a figmate soon 🫡. more in our founders' letter below.

@garrytan A shame that you view it that way, Teachers get constantly gutted benefits/pay, laid off, cut programs, more student load, lead schools, and 1/10th the budget of homelessness and public works budget. They are asking for bare min at best.

UESF deciding to strike and hurt the educations of tens of thousands of students when there is no expected actual benefit to the teachers is borderline malfeasance on the part of the union. Lurie is right to call for a return to the table. If they don’t we know what this was really about: UESF pleasing their Sacramento state union CTA. Putting Union boss politics over the kids again.

@DanielLurie You should push more for teachers. They do what most don’t want to. They fight for the community. The district has 1/10th the budget of public works and 1/10th the budget you put towards homelessness. They have lead filled schools, gutted pay, gutted jobs, gutted support.

For the past week, I have been in direct communication with UESF and the school district, and I have continued to provide support from the city to help them come to an agreement.    Both sides made important progress yesterday, and I am incredibly appreciative of the hard work of our educators and the district.    Now, it is critical that they continue the conversation so our kids can stay in school. I have made my office available to both parties, and I have told them that I will be available—day and night, as long as it takes—to reach an agreement that supports our hardworking educators while keeping the school district on the path to fiscal stability.   In the scenario that an agreement cannot be reached today, I have asked both UESF and the school district to agree to three additional days for conversations to continue—that would allow kids to stay in the classroom and the adults to keep talking.    Our students and our parents need certainty ahead of tomorrow. I know everyone participating in these negotiations is committed to schools where students thrive and our educators feel truly supported, and I will continue working to ensure that.

San Francisco teachers have set a strike date of Monday, Feb. 9. Barring a major turnaround at the negotiating table, teachers will walk off the job on Monday. It would be the first teacher strike in San Francisco since 1979. missionlocal.org/2026/02/s-f-te…

Such a great brand and website for @faunarobotics faunarobotics.com/company Love this kinda spin on humanoids.

Seeing the various ways people are using @openclaw Has me feel conflicted. A part feels dystopian especially large use of it for random stuff, part is impressive, powerful. so torn mashable.com/article/what-i…

@joshpuckett Great idea, always been a pain point.

got this—very roughly—working with Base UI this morning 🤔

New Tools for a New Era. Coding agents like Claude and Cursor have dramatically reduced the time it takes to go from idea to functional software. But the experience of designing and refining with them sucks. One reason for this is that while the terminal is an incredible tool for communicating direction with language, it is a terrible tool for defining and exploring visual and interactive objects. Here is one idea for how we might fix a small part of that. In the old world, when you wanted to create a transition or animation in your app, you would type some code, refresh your local server, and click to run your animation. It probably wasn't right, because after all no one can know what 'cubic-bezier(0.3, 0.05, 0.45, 1)' really feels like when you read it. You need to see it. Feel it. Interact with it in a real world context. So you'd edit some values, save, refresh, and keep guessing and checking until it felt right. Today, you can write a quick, single-use tool that's a visual studio for designing animations. You can then configure some components and containers common in all apps, and explore different animations in real time, adjusting key properties, and getting it just right. Then, you can copy a highly detailed prompt (or export a skill containing all your animations) that captures your intent and direction with perfect clarity. Paste this into your terminal and your agent instantly implements it everywhere. To me, this is an improvement over the old world, and a better way to work in today's. I'm extremely excited to see the ways in which our ability to rapidly create software will shape how we design software tomorrow. Feedback, ideas, and critiques welcome!

Nvidia’s hall is a work of art #CES2026