Owen Williams ⚡

Some personal news 🐶

@gauravvohra Once you know you can’t go back

@ow Yes

literally the best setup is dual wielding a regular mouse in one hand and trackpad in the other don’t @ me

@richchetwynd @iwantmyname @Cloudflare It does .co.nz as of this month apparently! Now I just need them to support Willia.ms so I can move that lad over

@ow @iwantmyname @Cloudflare Yeah I dont think it can do .co.nz either but for the heavy hitters like .io etc it's well worth it.

Wow just found out I can save thousands of dollars annually on domain renewals by moving them from @iwantmyname to @Cloudflare For example a .io renewal price drops from $99/yr to $50/yr

seeing a chart of my pull requests in the stripe codebase over time is a very telling visualization of how much my role as a design manager has changed with AI in the mix 😅

@benjaminsehl @Shopify @ShopifyDevs sick

5 more days! Excited to share that I'll be giving a talk at @Shopify Dot Dev about a TON of DX improvements we’ve been working on. It’s going to change the way you build stores. You’re not going to want to miss this!

@intrater Not at all!! It’s less weird than you think, brain seemed to just accept it as the gestures being available are so nice

@ow Serious question. Are you ambidextrous?

@yashad It’s the best, gives your wrist a break, nice for gestures… easy

@ow 👀 what is this magic, tell me more!

@mkuegi Double decker

@ow hear me out on this one: mouse ON the trackpad.

@riccardoerra Oh yeah that’s a wicked loadout

@ow Almost agree. Trackball in one hand and trackpad in the other.

@stephenhaney You get it!!!

@ow trackpad to the left of keyboard for gestures or to take over secondary pointer duties while the right hand is typing. this is not a game.

@kayvz @maticrobots So good I flew back from the US with one since they don’t ship here. TSA was…extremely confused 😂

Hard not to be giddy hearing a robotics ceo show you their incredible little robot

@krispuckett @claudeai Been thinking of doing this for like design decision logs when vibing too

I’ve been making these local html pages for this stuff since Jan. But the new artifact updates from @claudeai make it so much easier to work just from mobile. 1. Ask it to do an element by element design review. 2, ask it to do a thorough code review. 3. Have it make an interactive artifact for both decisions and actions Claude and you need to make.

@tylr 🫡

new job this week

@tmknsm @blocks This is so rad @brian_lovin @intrater another amazing internal tool!!

I'm building a tool at @blocks that takes any idea and builds feature-rich React prototypes to spec with our actual apps, in 1 minute. One-shot an idea, export it to agent, prompt on it, polish it, deploy it, generate a PRD + more, straight to the company brain. Here's a demo:

@sophshepherd I like to think the AI appreciates my manners and works harder bc of it lol

I think Claude knows I’m British based on how much I say please and thank you in prompts

@clairevo @chatprd !!!!!

I have spent a bazillion tokens (official count) on codex/gpt-5.5 and claude fable tokens, and have a pretty damn good prototyping app inside @chatprd in early access 👀

@clairevo Omg congrats!!!! Impressive!

Blink and we did it (last week -- while I was busy touching grass.) How I AI has now over 100k subscribers on youtube 😎 It's been a super fun year of being everyone's AI mom, and I can't wait to share more with you all. Come hang: @howiaipodcast" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@howiaipodcast

@AdamWhitcroft !!!!!!!

Garage just grew a little bigger.

@benjaminsehl @thekitze Endorse

@thekitze Toronto >>>

i've never been this deep into researching a move to the usa or canada there are billion reasons not to but i feel the pull for some reason our top choices are toronto and boston for now, both of them with major pros and cons turns out healthcare in canada is worse than in usa?? wtf we are used to just throwing money and getting a specialist on the same/next day in poland, even tho we pay for public health