Thomas Drach

"Easily the best book in-category I’ve read in years; on par with Don Norman’s The Design of Everyday Things in terms of insight per page" from @skominers

QA for Designers

Someone at @a16z must really like the book!

TIL romaine lettuce is a source of protein

BREAKING: Coinbase has signed @benjitaylor as Head of Design at @base

@soren_iverson can we do the opposite 😅

iOS apps get bigger the more you use them

@0xdiid nearly perfect should work

Efficax 2.0 hasn't been released because I want it to be perfect, and perfect is a high bar, but SO MUCH MORE has been done for the community in the meantime.

Did some napkin math yesterday. Across 2800 transactions through all 5 versions of Efficax, it has saved the community just about $750k in gas fees at current prices. This also means the @nounsdao grant I got last year resulted in a 10x return for the community at large.

@sarthakgh No more tweeting before 9am for me

@thomasdrach i was sarcastic

Rents are falling in Austin because Texan landlords and corporations are less greedy than those in the biggest metros run by Democrats

@readswithravi One of these solves a problem. The other one doesn’t. Ugly’s got nothin to do with it.

nearly perfect @thomasdrach nearlyperfectbook.com

Sponsor gas for users with a paymaster from @coinbase Docs coinbase.com/developer-plat…

I buzzed my hair. If you see me be cool k?

@0xdiid Torn between any Colon Stetson soundtrack (bias toward The Menu or The First) or The M Machine Metropolis* *breached contest rules with multiple options I forfeit my submission.

I need a new hyperfocus album to listen to. Winner gets 1 reserve MITG, current floor .14 Rules: - 1 submission per person - comment under this post w/ the album title & artist, no links - contest ends when an album grabs my attention from start to finish Preferences below

@0xdiid @macbethAI cheat code indeed

@macbethAI Social Network soundtrack is absolutely a cheat code for hackathons and long coding sessions cc @thomasdrach

@rish_neynar audibly chuckled

palantir this palantir that how about you palant some herbs in your garden

Apple should buy Anthropic and 1. Redevelop Siri (long overdue) 2. Integrate Claude everywhere. Xcode and Safari come to mind (kinda surprised more Gemini isn't integrated into Chrome tbh) Running models on-device also aligns with their privacy-first positioning. Plus, can't they put AI into GarageBand and stuff? I fail to accept the best use of AI we get out of Apple is emoji creation. But it won't happen because they rarely buy and integrate software companies now (RIP Steve) and aren't Amazon/Alphabet the two largest investors in Anthropic? I can't even spotlight search for an app these days without my phone crashing. They got a lot going on.

It feels like the world is leaving Apple behind. If they don’t make a move fast I don’t know theyll be able to catch up. What should they do? Admit defeat and buy Anthropic? Get into the AI hiring war?

@0xdiid @betty_nft You’re on to something

@betty_nft @thomasdrach any insider info here?

Have we had a design person talk about the base circle to base square move yet or is this web3’s fruit of the loom cornucopia?

@TomDrach @willyf @skominers Will get you one, by hell or high water. Need to pass this down to your kids (they'll never know). It's OUR legacy now.

@willyf @thomasdrach @skominers (I also hope that when people will see it on my coffee table and read the title, they’ll assume it’s an autobiography and think I’m that self centered)

"Easily the best book in-category I’ve read in years; on par with Don Norman’s The Design of Everyday Things in terms of insight per page" from @skominers

Reach out to @WilsonCusack @dmericliu or myself if you have any questions or ideas 🟦

And link to docs is here: docs.base.org/base-account/r…

If you didn't hear, we just shipped brand new resources for signing in with @base. Making it easy for developers to leverage all of the users on Base, while making payments simple. Complete with our open source Figma file: figma.com/design/L8K5htt…