Fred Oliveira 🧠

Most things that cause me anxiety are coordination problems.

very much feels like this new cursor UI wants to be its own thing, fully separate from its VS Code base. It's been going in that direction for a long time - starting to feel like the time has come.

@steveruizok font rendering is the bane of all design tools

this one one of the most impressive things I've ever seen. I'm going to yeet this into tldraw, our text measurement has been impossibly hard to improve

@_chenglou good choice of text there ;)

3. Multi-columns magazine layout, but _responsive_ and dynamic chenglou.me/pretext/dynami…

My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces): I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept): Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow

@badlogicgames they say it's Mythos now

@NPCollapse @ControlAI that is the struggle of the founder! Onto the next one. Godspeed - @ControlAI is lucky to have you. As are we all!

@f @ControlAI Those people you describe definitely exist, I have had the immense privilege of working with many of them, but finding them took hiring and firing many many not so good people!

I have joined @ControlAI as US Director and have moved to Washington DC! If you're in the area, give me a shout! If you want to read my retrospective on Conjecture and lessons learnt, link in next post. Excited for a new chapter!

@NPCollapse @ControlAI Basically I'm saying: surround yourself by people who live and breathe the mission, but who can read the room and know when they should explore vs exploit. Apologies if any of this is clearly wrong - again, casual external observer who is a fan of what you've done over the years

@NPCollapse @ControlAI I'm a very firm believer in giving people the trust and agency/ownership to do great work, but not everyone is fit for that position. You do need creative people who can defend (and run with) ideas, to do the things you were trying to do at Conjecture. That balance is *hard*.

the word "vibe" served us well for a while there, but please. No more.

@stewartbrand I think the play button is only visible on the main gallery page. These are awesome, though.

@pdrmnvd not having the workflows is what causes the midlife crisis now

men in their 40s used to have cool midlife crisis but now they just have agentic workflows

@jaloway @kepano all of the above.

@kepano What do you mean? Are you speaking of AI generated apps, software lacking QA/not used by the developer, or something else?

You can still instantly tell when an app lacks the human touch. I can't commit my time to something if I see that the creator is not willing to commit theirs.

@NathanpmYoung and don't stop at the people who died so far. Think of the people who will die in the future because of this decision too.

I don't like being vindictive, but from an incentives point of view I want people who make disastrous decision and brag about them to never be able to work in politics again. How many people have died because of this decision? That is what I want us to think about.

sex is good but have you tried ensuring your country is far more vulnerable to coal/oil shocks?

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

the economic impact of AI is out of this world

regardless of how you feel about Bernie Sanders, this is such a great idea for a video: youtube.com/watch?v=h3AtWd…

@DevDad @cursor_ai by "most people", do you mean "me, I'm talking about myself and my biases"?

@cursor_ai Most people are on mobile now a days surprised there isn’t an app yet

Composer 2 is now available in Cursor.

@marcxdlc well, good thing i was in the kitchen

@f cooked

this just happened: I walked into my kitchen and my brain goes, in quick succession: "I need to clean this; no I don't, I'll have Claude do it; wait; oh no" I am fried.

@goncalossilva @playdate @todoist @MichaelMofina holy shit. @MichaelMofina this is god-tier 👏

Who would've thought @playdate needed a @todoist client? @MichaelMofina did, and it's BRILLIANT. Crank to complete is *peak* UX.