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★ Delight developers in ecosystem-enhancing, easy to copy ways
Some thoughts on the role of platforms (especially open ones like the Web) and how to think about long term progress.
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Dion Almaer
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Bringing nuance to a knife fight, surprisingly older than @bgalbs. AI Dev @ Google Labs. Prev: Google, Shopify, Ajaxian & more. 🌥: @almaer.com 🧵: dionalmaer
🌎🕸 Katılım Nisan 2007
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Big fan of remixing projects and canvases!
Drafted@DraftedAI
WE JUST GAVE ARCHITECTURE A REMIX BUTTON See a home you like, use it as inspiration, and Remix it into one you love.
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"If we are honest — and scientists have to be — we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality. The very idea of God is a product of the human imagination. It is quite understandable why primitive people, who were so much more exposed to the overpowering forces of nature than we are today, should have personified these forces in fear and trembling. But nowadays, when we understand so many natural processes, we have no need for such solutions. I can't for the life of me see how the postulate of an Almighty God helps us in any way."
— Paul Dirac, Remarks made during the Fifth Solvay International Conference
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Fred and team always build such nice APIs
fks@FredKSchott
Introducing Flue — The First Agent Harness Framework Flue is a TypeScript framework for building the next generation of agents, designed around a built-in agent harness. Flue is like Claude Code, but 100% headless and programmable. There's no baked in assumption like requiring a human operator to function. No TUI. No GUI. Just TypeScript. But using Flue feels like using Claude Code. The agents you build act autonomously to solve problems and complete tasks. They require very little code to run. Most of the "logic" lives in Markdown: skills and context and AGENTS.md. Flue is like Astro or Next.js for agents (not surprising, given my background 🙃). It's not another AI SDK. It's a proper runtime-agnostic framework. Write once, build, and deploy your agents anywhere (Node.js, Cloudflare, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, etc). We originally built Flue to power AI workflows inside of the Astro GitHub repo. But then @_bgiori got his hands on it, and we realized that every agent needs a framework like Flue, not just us. Check it out! It's early, but I'm curious to hear what people think. Are agents ready for their library -> framework moment?
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Christianity is one of those beliefs that can sound normal when you grow up around it, but once you step outside it and look at it critically, a lot of it starts to feel very absurd.
You’re told to believe extraordinary claims like virgin births, resurrections, miracles, demons, answered prayers, and a God who controls the universe, yet the evidence is usually faith, old stories, and personal feelings. If these same claims came from any other religion, many Christians would reject them immediately.
Then there’s the problem of suffering. We’re told God is all-powerful, all-knowing, and loving, yet the world is full of war, disease, disasters, starvation, and children dying painfully every day. If someone has the power to stop that and chooses not to, calling them loving becomes difficult.
The Bible itself raises problems. Christians call it perfect truth, yet believers disagree on what it means, split into countless denominations, and often choose which verses are literal and which are symbolic depending on modern comfort levels.
Many biblical stories also look like products of ancient people trying to explain the world before science: floods covering the whole earth, talking snakes, demons causing illness, humans made from dust, women from ribs. If written today, most people would classify them as myths.
And then there is God’s silence. If God wants everyone to know him and have a relationship with him, why is his presence so unclear that sincere, intelligent people across the world honestly do not believe?
When you step back, Christianity can look less like revealed truth and more like a man-made system built from fear, hope, tradition, and the need for meaning. Once faith is removed from the equation, much of it stops looking sacred and starts looking strangely human.
Yẹmí@KR3Wmatic
What do you find the most absurd about Christianity?
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The DESIGN.md upgrade is officially live in Stitch! 🚀
Yesterday we open-sourced the spec, and today we are giving you more tools to use it:
📄 Start with DESIGN.md: Attach a DESIGN.md right at the start of a project. Don't have one? Our new wizard will help you extract one from your code base or the web.
🔄 DESIGN.md to Design System: Upload a DESIGN.md file to generate a Design System on the canvas.
🧩 Token Support: Design Systems now support design tokens from DESIGN.md! Add them to your file and Stitch will seamlessly incorporate them.
🗑️ Clean Up: (You asked, we listened) You can now easily delete a design system.
We’re excited to build the open design standard together. 👇
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@bengoodger And your first docs…. “Did I really write thhhhhhat?” Or code lol
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An underrated part of rejoining Google is the fact that your stuff is still there, frozen in time. "What's the value in seeing your old calendar?" you ask... Well, for silly sentimental things like when I put a reminder to myself for my first date with the woman who would become my wife, for example. Or the time off taken for my wedding, honeymoon, and the birth of my kids. It's like I never left. I'm not crying, I'm just chopping onions for a lasagne for one...
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Announcing Cloud Run Instances:
A New Primitive to manage individual Cloud Run instances instead of through predefined resource types, starting in seconds.
Designed for asynchronous, long running, background agents needing isolated, on-demand compute.
Priced at $5.70 / month for 1 CPU (shared) + 1 GiB
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🪡 @stitchbygoogle app’s DESIGN.md format is now open-source! Designers can seamlessly transfer design rules across projects, tools, and platforms to keep generated UI on brand.
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I now have a common pattern for formatting my @stitchbygoogle layout, that you can see at work in the video below.
I make variations of my screens and diverge and explore. Then, I pick my current first choice, favorite it, and then Cmd-K => Format.
It's like prettier for code, for your canvas. It groups design system card, puts your screen types across the top with variants below.
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DESIGN.md is one of my favorite things that Stitch is doing! If you know, you know.
Stitch by Google@stitchbygoogle
Today, we’re open-sourcing the draft specification for DESIGN.md, so it can be used across any tool or platform. We’re also adding new capabilities. DESIGN.md lets you easily export and import your design rules from project to project. Instead of guessing intent, agents know exactly what a color is for and can even validate their choices against WCAG accessibility rules. Watch David East break down this shared visual language in action👇. New capabilities and links in 🧵
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George Washington believed that vaccinating his troops against smallpox was the key to winning the Revolutionary War and our independence. A founding father from 250 years ago had a better understanding of science and military readiness than Pete Hegseth.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost
Breaking news: The military will no longer require U.S. troops to receive the annual flu vaccine, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, rolling back what he described as “overreaching mandates that only weaken our war-fighting capabilities.” wapo.st/4dZY8UL
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We don’t want DESIGN.md to just be some ramblings on design. We want to evolve it with the community to be something that becomes free form yet also has real design elements.
Stitch by Google@stitchbygoogle
Today, we’re open-sourcing the draft specification for DESIGN.md, so it can be used across any tool or platform. We’re also adding new capabilities. DESIGN.md lets you easily export and import your design rules from project to project. Instead of guessing intent, agents know exactly what a color is for and can even validate their choices against WCAG accessibility rules. Watch David East break down this shared visual language in action👇. New capabilities and links in 🧵
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Personal update: I've joined @GoogleLabs. Excited to build new ways to learn & get stuff done!
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I’ve confirmed that Context .ai was “audited” by Delve for SOC2
Redirects now deleted but trust.context.ai used to redirect to Delve themselves
You cannot make this up…
Armin Ronacher ⇌@mitsuhiko
Of course it was SOC 2 Type II compliant.
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@1ovthafew Oh they have the right, and I’m glad they shared it as it tells us what they stand for. Thus we can have that debate, and decide how we want to contract them for etc.
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@dalmaer So you might be forced into just debating the merits of their arguments. Because … that’s how a liberal democracy works?
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A private company with this kind of “manifesto” disgusts me. At least they are telling us who they are. Now we need to act.
Palantir@PalantirTech
Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. 5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed. 6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way. 8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice. 12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war. 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia. 16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn. 17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives. 18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within. 19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all. 20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim. 21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what? Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska techrepublicbook.com
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