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Today marks 22 years since I created photo community @500px. Happy birthday!

Rough estimate is 500 billion views by now.

best wallpaper ever

Real innovation for the office workers

@0xProject @zerion @matchaxyz @privy_io Oh nice! I've seen people walking in those fancy feather-soft sport shorts 🩳🏓🎾

Safe to say, PadelCon was a movie 🤩🍿 👉 If you're still at DevConnect, reply to this post with a 🎾 for a chance to win PadelCon merch before you go home! (More ways for non-attendees to win soon!) Special thank you to our partners @zerion, @matchaxyz and @privy_io 💚✨

@0FJAKE @qrcoindotfun @kondodotfun @BaseColorsNFTs Wow, I got 3 apps as well... but they are #18, #70 and #161. So much to catch up... What's your secret?

What I'm working on: @qrcoindotfun: a daily auction for attention. @kondodotfun: batch swap tokens to clean your wallet. @BaseColorsNFTs: the NFT collection for every color on the internet. Currently the top 3 mini apps on Farcaster.

@0FJAKE @farcaster_xyz Good stuff!

I run the top 2 mini apps on Farcaster. Outside of the @farcaster_xyz team, I probably want the protocol to succeed about as much as almost anyone. So if you're into crypto and you're not yet on Farcaster, I'd encourage you to give it a try. DM me. I'll onboard you personally.

@nejatian AI is struggling with @ sign...

Our Q3 Financial Open House (known by corpo types as "earnings call") will be on November 6 @ 5 pm. We got some great feedback on how to make sure every day shareholders can be involved. We'll share some details soon.

@nejatian And what about those who rejected YC?

So is Opendoor. Our last 3 engineering hires have been YC founders I think. DM me if that’s you.

@thisismahmoud Can you imagine what @privy goes through...

Business as usual

@rburton @tobi @DamiDina I'm no Tobi haha, but I'm on MBP14 and generally pick "lightness" over "pro". Many people I know get beefed up 16" pro. I tend to go smaller and lighter.

@ev_jpeg @tobi @DamiDina Do you code on a Map now? What's your current preferred machine?

Economic growth is literally everything. People fondly remember the times of high GDP growth and treat the ones with low growth as the dark ages. Growth means positive sum thinking becomes the optimal strategy and this is the bedrock of civic society. We must build more companies and export products to make Canada better. No other mechanism exists. The schools are obscuring this fact and media often distorts it. Kudos to the Globe for getting it right here. Nature is healing?

@tarunsachdeva @build_toronto @wonrobot Oh this is fun indeed. Looks like people are just trying to solve their own problems (ie contacting city to fix something), and the more they get involved the more the see that city, too, needs to step up a bit!

@ev_jpeg @build_toronto This is so awesome The winner of the PROGRAM Toronto hackathon won on a very similar concept - created by Arushi @wonrobot. 311 is the perfect interface to make Toronto more programmable by its citizens

Toronto's digital services are stuck in the past – a patchwork of portals, paper forms, and outdated processes. From paying taxes to renewing permits, residents face a maze of separate logins, different formats, or long wait times. Take the City's recent rollout of the Vacant Home Tax. Homeowners were required to declare their property status online, but the portal was poorly designed, confusing, and error-prone. Of the 167,000 properties that received a bill, about 108,000 charges had to be reversed due to the poor rollout. It doesn't have to be like this. @tarunsachdeva's memo lays out a plan to make Toronto observable, so city data is open by default, programmable, so core functions can be securely accessed by others, and digitally native, so services are designed for the online world first. 1️⃣ Create a unified digital platform – Rather than juggling multiple system and logins, create a unified platform that will service as the single front door for all payments, permits, licenses and service requests. 2️⃣ Redesign workflows for automation and accountability – Many of Toronto's services could be delivered in hours with routine cases automated 3️⃣ Open APIs and expand open data – The city should focus on secure backend infrastructure that enable the public to spark innovation with dashboards, tracker, and real-time service metrics 4️⃣ Build AI-native experiences – Many of Torontonian's daily frustrations – confusing portals, unclear forms, long routing delays – are exactly the kinds of problems AI can help solve Toronto has the opportunity to make its services, simple, fast and reliable by treating digital delivery as essential infrastructure. With these changes, we can modernize City Hall. Full memo below:

@rburton @tobi @DamiDina I only had a plastic MacBook but loved it nonetheless. Great tool for inspiration.

@ev_jpeg @tobi @DamiDina @ev_jpeg what's ironic about that Mac laptop, it's the first Mac I got myself. I originally "hated" using it, but then fell in love with it.

@tobi @rburton @DamiDina What a lovely machine to work on!

@rburton @DamiDina PowerBook G4

@lucyhargreaves4 @build_canada Yep, this is where maplewatch came from maplewatch.xyz

have you joined @build_canada yet? buildcanada.com/en/get-involved

@nejatian @Opendoor Personally, in office work boosts my productivity because the fridge is further away.

Today is @Opendoor’s first day back as an in-office company. Our wonderful office manager put a gift on every desk in our office.

@ethereumfndn @lindaxie @jchaskin22 @farcaster_xyz See if you can answer this though...

Farcaster Mini App Showcase Join @lindaxie and @jchaskin22 as they explore and test out @farcaster_xyz mini apps in real time. September 29th @ 6pm UTC x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@nejatian Condos?

We are going to launch a new buyer product in a couple of markets very soon. Which markets should we start with? We need to test this before going national.