Gerardo Baro

@avstorm Never thought they’d be this bold.

WhatsApp quietly updated its branding

@markgurman “Water wets”

The MacBook Neo is kind of like the iPhone mini. The same folks praising it all over social media are the ones who would never trade in their Pro for it. It’s clearly the best $600 laptop on the market - but few are going to switch away from the high-end. It’s about new buyers.

@SzAriel Ojalá pudieran hacer rollback a la app web, que no funciona desde hace meses en Safari.

Shipping product is easy. Rolling back is wisdom. Probamos poner el icono de la app de Mercado Pago amarillo… y la gente lo confundía con Mercado Libre. Aprendimos. Hicimos rollback. El icono vuelve a su color. 😉 #ValePanquequear

@tim_cook @Max33Verstappen Is it ever coming to other countries’ Apple TV subscription?

Thanks for the tune up @Max33Verstappen. Next time, we race.

@signulll So, basically a Forward-Deployed Engineer working under a PM?

the most underrated hire right now is a great product person. when i say product person i'm def not talking about a product manager. perhaps i think there has to be somewhat of a new role. i don't have a good name for it yet but maybe something like "product thinker".. someone with an intuitive grasp of the product as it exists, where it's soft, where it sings, & how to iterate it toward something even sharper. in some sense, this person has to cohesively hold in their head where this product should be 2 years from now & work backwards from that. i say this cuz when building was hard, engineering was the bottleneck & the status hierarchy often reflected that. building is no longer hard. which means the variance in outcomes has shifted almost entirely to judgment on what to build, how to sequence it, & how to talk about it. & the story matters as much as the thing. internally, it organizes the team around a shared model of why. externally, it shapes the interpretive frame users bring to their first experience. you can't retrofit narrative onto a product & expect it to land, it has to be load bearing from the start. the rarest version of this person sits at the intersection of culture & deep technology. someone genuinely bilingual. they know what's technically possible & they know which cultural currents are real vs. ephemeral. that combo is what separates products that feel inevitable from products that feel assembled. before ppl clap back with this person has always been valuable, i know.. i am just saying now they might be the most *important* person in the room. their value compounds like never before.

@bcherny Phenomenal, never thought this would ever come out!

A small quality of life detail: you can now press tab to add more instructions when accepting/rejecting a permission prompt. We tried probably a dozen iterations of this UX over the last few weeks before deciding to ship this one. Let us know what you think!

@regyperlera @Duderichy You can, in fact, just use Spotlight. It converts to your currency by default, and you skip opening any app, which is quicker.

@Duderichy Brother. I did not know 😭

this is built into the iOS calculator app

Microslop

@bryan_johnson The problem is not death, but a life not lived. If people at 80 were able to move like 40, that would absolutely be cool. More so than “immortality”.

I’m going to try and achieve immortality by 2039. One year of time passes and I remain the same biological age. I invite you to join me. The search for the fountain of youth is the oldest story ever told. It’s been the dream of dreamers for millennia but always painfully out of reach. For the first time in the history of life on earth, in just the past 24 months, the window has opened for a conscious being to realistically strive for this goal. It is an absolutely insane moment. We currently do not know how 2039 immortality will be achieved. There are new, promising therapies that can turn back the clock decades, but they’re buggy. Sometimes they mistakenly cause cancer. We gotta fix that. But we know immortality is possible because nature has already solved it. This isn’t a physics problem like trying to travel faster than the speed of light, it’s a biological engineering problem that evolution has cracked multiple times. The freshwater hydra constantly regenerates its own cells and doesn’t succumb to senescence. It is effectively ageless. The "immortal jellyfish" (Turritopsis dohrnii) can revert its cells back to a youthful state and restart its life cycle indefinitely. Lobsters produce an especially active form of an enzyme called telomerase that preserves their telomeres and keeps their DNA from degrading as they age. We need to port the software to humans. 2039 is a reasonable target because of the accelerated, AI-driven rate of innovation. AI is morphing from assistant to scientist.  It is powering current researchers with previously unimagined capabilities to enhance discovery and development. That, coupled with enhanced biomarker measurement, creates a closed-loop system of improvement that will speed things up dramatically. This is what I’ve been doing for six years. As crude as longevity technology is today, the improvements I’ve personally seen are stunning. I started as a worn-down, inflamed, aged 42 year old who’d broken himself on the rocks of American food slop and entrepreneurship martyrdom. Six years later, my body largely operates at elite 18 year old levels. That includes my cardiovascular system, fertility, strength, and hormones. Not all is well though. I have mild to moderate hearing loss in my left ear that we can’t fix and my brain is anatomically age 42 (I’m 48). Still, unreal results. My team and I did this by following the scientific method. We measured the biological age of every organ. We referenced the best scientific evidence on how to slow aging and rejuvenate.  We methodically completed these protocols and measured again. Rinse and repeat. We could do so much more and faster if we had better measurement and better therapies. Both of which are cooking all over the world right now. To speed things up now, I’m currently having thousands of Bryan Johnson organ clones built in a dish. This will allow me to test drugs and other molecules against my biology to accelerate learning and save my body from potential mishaps. Yes, we’ll make mistakes. Hopefully they won’t be fatal. And of course there’s always bad luck to contend with. But I trust in fate and I believe that destiny is going to grant the human race the pleasure of achieving the ultimate: immortality. While immortality would certainly be cool, the real (secret) objective is to focus our collective attention on a positive goal. Something that helps us feel hope and excitement for the future. I personally love the idea of having a child-like mind, 18-year-old physical vibrancy, and a lifetime of wisdom. This 2039 goal is as much about AI as it is about us humans. It’s about how we survive giving birth to superintelligence. It’s kind of a big deal. We haven’t done it before. A lot can go wrong. I figure that one of the best ways to improve the probability that we build safe AI, and don’t kill each other in the meantime, is to transform our shared aspirations from yolo to don’t die. Right now, we are a suicidal species. We do all kinds of really primitive shit. We unnecessarily kill ourselves with what we eat and how we live our lives. Companies make profits from killing other people with their products. We trash the only home we have. We celebrate these things as virtue.  It’s really fucked up and backward. Soon enough we’ll realize just how infantile we are right now. The 2039 goal points us in the right direction. To say yes to life and no to death. Defiance even. If you’re interested in doing this with me, I’ll continue to share everything I do for free. I’m also going to build this out in Blueprint. We’ll help you do exactly what I’m doing, at a fraction of the cost and effort, alongside an aligned and motivated community. I think this is the coolest goal imaginable. I find it hard to believe that of all the people who’ve lived, it’s us who get the opportunity to have this moment. I pray that we have the courage to appreciate the sacredness of our existence. I pray that we will be brave enough to defend her amidst the onslaught of all the forces that would try to end her. We don’t know, but we may be the only intelligent life to exist in our corner of the galaxy. I pray we will be warriors, caretakers and stewards of existence and honor the gift that has been bestowed on us.

@WilliamBryk Looks and feels absolutely great. But does the consumer want a search engine that “feels like a database” though?

For the past 30 years, we've been stuck with ok web search. Our search tools give us an incomplete understanding of nearly every topic, and most people just accept that. But now transformers have gotten good enough to build the right type of search engine -- a search engine that feels like a database. No consumer search product has since offered this, until today. The form factor of this type of search isn't 10 links or an AI summary, it's a table of information, a table that's as long as you need it to be. For example, "find me all the novel embedding training papers from the past year" is an important search that Google or ChatGPT can't do. It's the same with searches over people, companies, products, apartments, literally anything. The web should feel like a database of all the world's information that you could filter and sort with natural language. Today, we've updated Exa's homepage to have a fast, smart, free search engine. It always outputs a table and you could make that table as long as you want. Everyone should be able to experience this database-like experience over our collective information. It's not perfect search yet, but it finally feels quite good and more useful than popular search tools. This is just the start. As we continue to train our search models and scale our infrastructure, every month exa.ai will get smarter and faster. I'm not satisfied until humanity gets the search engine it needs, the database of the web that is now finally within reach. And you shouldn't be either.

@fatih Midori is phenomenal, the best writing experience I’ve ever had, specially for MD Cotton notebooks, which I heavily recommend.

Probably the best paper so far I used. It has some tactility and is like a butter with my fountain pens. Highly recommended. I also tried several other brands, like Tomoe River, TN, Leuchtturm, Moleskine (was the worst), but nothing comes close to it. Only con is, it doesn't have a proper cover. If you want to carry it with you, you need to protect it well or buy an additional cover. Because it's in A5, there are tons of options, which is nice.

@wabi Got it, thanks!

@gerardobaror the six digit invite code will show on the page that first appears when you click the download button. if you still don't see it, DM me your email and we'll get it sorted for you!

Hey @wabi, I got an "off the waitlist" mail, but now the app is asking me for an invite code. What's up with that?

@sarahdrinkwater @wabi I want to try it so badly.

Have a bunch of @wabi invites if anyone else wants a play (it's beautiful)

@pqoqubbw Tasteful UX 🤌🏽

added a small delay on interaction to remove annoying accidental flicker on hover

@badlogicgames Does it support CC question mode?

The most hilarious part is that Claude Sonnet 4.5 is a gazillion times faster this way compared to using it via CC... The stats displayed in pi on the left are accumulative across all requests, while the context stats in CC are only for the last message.

@Caol_MacCormaic The problem will be when AI slop starts getting awards

@naveedg Real nice! Would be great to offload instructions, such as reminders, groceries and whatnot.

i'm building a ring to whisper thoughts to. 45 days in.

@peer_rich Why would anyone develop an AI that generates cancer?

hey what about cancer

@sketch Been away from Sketch for a while, saw the news of the Tahoe revamp and thought “if it only had an MCP”. No more excuses, will be trying it out!

It’s Friday. The weekend is for hacking away at fun projects. So here’s our MCP server! Connect Sketch to your favorite AI clients to explore designs, answer questions about layers and styles, generate assets, and so much more. skt.ch/ff4v0hg