Paddy McKee

It's ok. I moved from WP to Jekyll back in 2015. Love Jekyll. It's great. Stable, and has a nice template language. Just be better if maybe it had been updated in the last 12 months. Astro is super fun because you get static sites with the ability to pull in reactive components. So you can have a blend of a static site and an actual APP in places without the bloat and over head of WP and more than you can achieve with Jeykll which ends up being 100% static. Still, it's a solid choice. Once everything is in Markdown it's great because you can move it to a lot of different things.

I built an infinite AI chess game, powered by: ▪️ AI SDK for a single DX to all frontier models ▪️ AI Gateway for seamless access with 1 API key ▪️ Workflow to keep the game going forever Right now Anthropic is playing OpenAI: v0-chess-match.vercel.app

consistency ≠ uniformity: for those who haven't lived through this era – we used to have beautiful, precision interfaces. now they're replaced by a design language that originated from the Apple Watch, with icons that only fit in squircles. but that's not even the point. the point is we used to design the whole stack – the technology, the concepts, the interfaces. when designers only care about superficial consistency, platforms lose their uniqueness. apple used to design systems. skeuomorphism wasn't just about leather textures – it was about teaching people new mental models. the trash can empties because you understand what a trash can does. aqua's lickable buttons and sheets had depth because the OS had layers you could understand. the old apple designed the whole stack – from metal to pixels to concepts. teams weren't just shipping features in the same box, they were building coherent platforms each with opinions about what computing should feel like for the medium. liquid glass is fine on a phone. but on macOS it's unusable – lack of precision, visual noise everywhere. this is what happens when UI language designed for fingers bleed into macOS. we went from interfaces designed for a 27" cinema display with a precise cursor to interfaces designed for a 1.5" screen you tap with one finger. the Mac is for creation and precision work. it needs information density. it needs chrome you can grab. it needs UI that gets out of your way but gives you power when you need it. instead we got padding and whitespace and translucent blurs optimized for touch targets nobody's touching. the squircle icon mandate is a symptom. when you force every icon into the same shape, you're saying "brand consistency" matters more than "each app icon needs to communicate its function instantly." we traded clarity for uniformity. we traded precise design for cross-platform sameness. consistency means your system has coherent rules within itself. uniformity means everything looks the same regardless of context. the hardware team still gets it – that macbook pro + M-series chips, chef's kiss. but software design feels like it's chasing fat fingers instead of remembering what people do on a Mac.

@jasonfried I expect simple pricing. Free for single user, single price for teams with unlimited users, $37 p/m. Both plans unlimited everything else

If you can guess the Fizzy free/pricing model on the nose, I'll give you a free account for life once we launch. You can guess 5 times.

@shanaka86 “Vibe revenue” wasn’t on my 2025 bingo card

BREAKING: The $610 Billion AI Ponzi Scheme Just Collapsed Last night at 4pm EST, something unprecedented happened. Nvidia stock rallied 5% on earnings, then crashed into negative territory within 18 hours. Wall Street algorithms detected what humans couldn’t: the numbers don’t add up. Here’s what they found. Nvidia reported $33.4 billion in unpaid bills, up 89% in one year. Customers who bought chips haven’t paid for them yet. The average wait time for payment stretched from 46 days to 53 days. That extra week represents $10.4 billion that may never arrive. Meanwhile, Nvidia stockpiled $19.8 billion in unsold chips, up 32% in three months. But management claims demand is insane and supply is constrained. Both cannot be true. Either customers aren’t buying or they’re buying without cash. The cash flow tells the real story. Nvidia generated $14.5 billion in actual cash but reported $19.3 billion in profit. The gap is $4.8 billion. Healthy chip companies like TSMC and AMD convert over 95% of profits to cash. Nvidia converts 75%. That’s distress level. Here’s where it gets criminal. Nvidia gave $2 billion to xAI. xAI borrowed $12.5 billion to buy Nvidia chips. Microsoft gave OpenAI $13 billion. OpenAI committed $50 billion to buy Microsoft cloud. Microsoft ordered $100 billion in Nvidia chips for that cloud. Oracle gave OpenAI $300 billion in cloud credits. OpenAI ordered Nvidia chips for Oracle data centers. The same dollars circle through different companies and get counted as revenue multiple times. Nvidia books sales, but nobody actually pays. The bills age. The inventory piles up. The cash never comes. AI company CEOs admitted it themselves last week. Airbnb’s CEO called it vibe revenue. OpenAI burns $9.3 billion per year but makes $3.7 billion. That’s a $5.6 billion annual loss. The $157 billion valuation requires $3.1 trillion in future profits that MIT research shows 95% of AI projects will never generate. Peter Thiel sold $100 million in Nvidia on November 9. SoftBank dumped $5.8 billion on November 11. Michael Burry bought put options betting Nvidia crashes to $140 by March 2026. Bitcoin, which tracks AI speculation, dropped from $126,000 in October to $89,567 today. That’s a 29% crash. AI startups hold $26.8 billion in Bitcoin as collateral for loans. When Nvidia falls another 40%, those loans default, forcing $23 billion in Bitcoin sales, crashing crypto to $52,000. The timeline is now certain. February 2026, Nvidia reports fourth quarter and reveals how many bills aged past 60 days. March 2026, credit agencies downgrade. April 2026, the first restatement. The fraud that took 18 months to build unwinds in 90 days. Fair value for Nvidia: $71 per share. Current price: $186. The math is simple. This is the fastest moving financial fraud in history because algorithms detected it in real time. Human investors are 90 days behind.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Read the full data driven deep dive article here - open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@usewonder My cousin…

Scare a designer with two words…

@designbyaron Vroom!

Alright, as promised, I'm dropping the figma with all the visuals I created for aform 100+ images and 10+ sample prompts follow + reply with "vroom" and I'll DM you the file repost if you really love me

Influenced by my timeline. You got me. Excited for this one!

@luciodesigns Yes! 🙋🏻‍♂️

I would like to create a group chat with Brand Designers - no links, just chatting & real opinions. Comment if you want to connect👋

@benln Happy to organise one in Eindhoven!

Bring Cafe Cursor to your city We're taking over local cafes for a full day. Come build with the community, grab coffee and credits, and meet the team. Reach out to get involved.

@mikesmith187 @Superhuman @Grammarly @coda_hq @JustinLawes @UprightTRex @Smith_Diction Absolutely incredible work

💥New work for @Superhuman (@Grammarly & @coda_hq)💥 It’s a cursor, it’s a cape, it’s an incredibly complex identity system! So your company acquires another company and now you're changing your name to the smaller company. Let's dig in. Full case study smith-diction.medium.com/branding-super…

@designertom Would love to join!

6 months ago, I decided to embark on a really hard road to create the best storytelling project of my career. I created a lowkey Discord server for other designers to join in on the behind-the-scenes. It turned into a private little group of people who make things. I don't promote it a lot, it's become a small circle of friends. Going to open up 50 new invites to those interested in making things with others. First come, first serve. We're trying to keep it small.

@shl online front

What is a website? Best answer gets $1,000.

@dagorenouf Do you get paid commission-only or comms + base salary?

As an entrepreneur it took me 5 years to buy myself a car. As a salesman I can now buy one car per month. But most importantly I enjoy it more. As an entrepreneur I was often spending months on something, then launch it and realize it's shit and makes $0. Maybe it's because I was a perfectionist but the feedback cycle was too long and demotivating. Now in sales I get instant feedback when I fail, and instant reward when I succeed. I'm learning and growing faster and I love it. It's kind of like a video game.

@budapp Credits pls :)

@robj3d3 @levelsio Fun video, loved every single bit of it!

Introducing BlockedforAIReply (dot) com It's time to take a STAND against these AI reply bots Trained on @levelsio 's "Blocked for AI reply" dataset

@danmall PROJECTS

Over 10 years, my teams at my agency SuperFriendly delivered 125 projects. Projects ranged from free to $960k ($89K on average). We tracked, documented, and organized every single one in a giant spreadsheet. Now, I’ve turned it into something you can use. Inside the spreadsheet, you’ll find: ✅ Work spanning branding, UX, campaigns, and strategy ✅ Projects across tech, retail, media, and nonprofits ✅ A decade of lessons on what clients actually buy ✅ Patterns you can use to position your own offers ✅ A shortcut for benchmarking your own projects This isn’t theory. It’s a real-world record of agency work across 10 years. We went from $0 to $3M. In this document, you can see how we did it, project by project. I’m sharing this for a few reasons: 1️⃣ What gets measured gets managed. We can’t make more money if we can’t even talk about it on the same page. 2️⃣ To show what’s possible. I didn’t know it was possible to sell a website for $10k—or $100k—until I did. What if I had known sooner? I can’t change that for me, but I might be able to for you. 3️⃣ It makes me a better teacher. I can’t teach “real-world” lessons if I’m hiding the real numbers. Students deserve context, not just theory. I could sell this. But I’m giving it away for free instead. Want the spreadsheet? → Like this post + comment “PROJECTS” And I’ll send it your way.

This is incredible

Pressing a laptop screen is the tech equivalent of stepping on clean shoes

@IamProHuman Wow, been shaking for a good 25 mins! Lots of trapped trauma and stress lol. Definitely feeling relieved and calmer 🧘‍♂️

→ TRE (trauma releasing tremors) ↓ TRE releases trauma held in psoas (a deep core muscle near the base of the spine). Once the tension is released from this area, people report "heat" running up the spine, involuntary body movements, emotional catharsis, etc.

Most people think sexual energy is just about sex. Ancient traditions knew it as "kundalini", a life force that can literally rewire your brain and nervous system. Modern somatic therapy proves they were right. Here's how to harness this primal energy: 🧵