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Today we at Playbit are sharing our first iteration of the Playbit runtime, our vision for building playful personal-scale software. playbit.app Personal-scale software means programs by you, for you and for the people in your life. An app for your friends isn't very useful if only some of them can run it, so usually these projects have only one option: the web, an abstraction which many apps don't fit well into. We wanted a better solution, so that's what we're building. A runtime designed for highly dynamic graphical apps that are collaborative, with a really good set of developer tools. The Playbit runtime is a bit like an OS, but lives inside a host environment and gives guest code a small system layer to interface with. In practice it’s a minimal ABI-stable syscall interface with well-defined semantics. While we only support macOS in this initial release, our vision is for a powerful multimedia and collaborative platform which you can write your app for once, and run it on any platform. Learn more and grab the macOS app at playbit.app With love and a bit of code, – Edward, Nick, Julia and Rasmus

Rob Hope (@robhope) opened the live podcast panel: "We're not here to host a pity party about Twitter. We're here to spotlight a wholesome time and hopefully spark ideas to bring it back." Four designers. 170,000 combined Dribbble followers. Halfway through, Rogie told the story about his sister's house. Drew and Brian, who helped back then, were sitting right there. Fifteen years later. Nobody was performing. You had to be there.

Our first ever live podcast happened last week at @forum_tokyo - 2 panels. 45 mins each. So many fun moments and insightful stories. Can't wait to share more!

We take things seriously on @YoDotFM 🎙️💦

Almost time… @YoDotFM live 🎤

RT @robhope: ICYMI: I'm hosting 2 design panels at @forum_tokyo next week🇯🇵 and both will be recorded live for @YoDotFM episodes!🎙️ Panel…

👀 give it a spin: yo.fm/ask

🎞️ Big personal news! 🎉 I’m joining Bold Video (boldvideo.com) as a co-founder and going all-in with @marcelfahle to build something ambitious in the AI video space. For over two decades, I’ve juggled many side projects. It’s been fun, energising, and taught me a whole range of skills... but now it's time to focus on one thing and give it all the oxygen it needs to navigate a wild AI landscape. So, what exactly is Bold Video? Bold trains on coaches’ and educators’ videos (tutorials, live streams, meetings) to give their community context-aware knowledge support. tl;dr - you are offline and Bold is your 24/7 AMA. Answers are accurate, personalized and in your tone. Bold comes in two forms: 1. Hosted - where you upload/import your videos into Bold, then customize our pre-designed template (see yo.fm). 2. Headless - where you upload/import your videos into Bold, then use our API to pull videos and our chat experience into your existing platform. Bold does these things well: 1. Serves fast, high quality video with no branding. 2. After bulk uploads/imports, it auto-generates titles, descriptions, chapters etc. (customized to the settings/tone you define). 3. Provides quick search for videos or topics. 4. Helps answer questions for your users, while you're offline. The chat can summarize a video or compile answers across your entire video library. The real x-factor happens when Bold knows a bit about your users, then the answers are tailored to their use-case. It can really feel like magic sometimes ✨ Ok, think that pretty much covers it :) Next up is integrating my course and podcast into the platform. Follow @boldvid for updates! ps. see a need for Bold for your business? Let me know and we can create a custom demo 🎞️🙏

Rob Hope (@robhope) joins the lineup. South African maker behind One Page Love - curating single-page sites since 2008. Built Email Love. Hosts the Yo! podcast. Master of landing pages and indie bootstrapping. 17 years of making things that last. Feb 16-18, Tokyo. x.com/robhope/status…

@robhope @adamwathan @YoDotFM If you're going to be near Shibuya crossing, that would make a neat short series - maybe your rapid fire round?

Podcasts while walking the Tokyo streets? This is gonna be legendary 🇯🇵🎙️ Can't wait to hear those design chats on the move. See you all in Feb! @robhope @YoDotFM

Tok(Yo!)? Season 4?

cooking up some vibe sliders for @inflight with @radbar_1 ❄️🔥

It’s not that we can’t make lean, quality software anymore, but a cultural shift that happened: people expect very different things from computers today (and are generally okay with paying for it with lower quality.) The Web platform today is the culmination of two decades of relentless pursuit of industrial-scale software. A sort of economic minima; the equilibrium between “just good enough” and “checks all our checkboxes” You can’t make top quality software on the web, but you do get “a lot for your money.” Kind of like buying a $15 knife set on Amazon that lasts a few years vs a single $200 knife that lasts a generation. The sad reality for people like myself is that 99% of people don’t care much about what happens beyond fixing the problem in front of them, today, so the Web platform is what we all have to work with.

Next time you use AI to work with a large amount of information: - transcript - notes - documents - whatever Use this as your first "system" prompt of sorts to help you process the information better. raw.githubusercontent.com/mds/floatpromp…

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them “No I went to films.” Quentin Tarantino

Guess who is speaking at @forum_tokyo this Feb! 🙋‍♂️🇯🇵 (how fun are these AI vids they made for each speaker)

Even if AI can do in minutes what takes me hours or months, I still take pleasure in the craft and making something with my hands. I enjoy it, I love the process and feeling of creating on my own. Just because there’s a faster way to do it doesn’t mean you have to do it that way, especially if it doesn’t resonate with you.

@robhope @figma Dear @figma friends Vote for Hope 🗳️ Let’s get @robhope for Config 2026