My mind is also starting to shift towards this.
Both because of increased belief in human ingenuity and because of decreased belief in human ability to downgrade comfort expectations.
Degradable plastic, lab meat, carbon removal tech. It’ll work out. I hope it will. It has to.
Started a thing 5 years ago. Spent a few days, realized the scope made it unrealistic, walked away.
Coding agents have made it feel within reach.
In the evenings, on the side, I am making 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬.
I bet you didn’t consider the wurst case
The only bad thing about Sketch is how impossible it is to google for shit and not hit tons of generic “sketch” stuff.
New Aerospace 0.20 can print the current window’s layout mode. Means we can add icons to Sketchybar.
I wonder if, in this new agentic coding world, the old we can’t justify both iOS and Android apps is obsolete? What if you now make the one you prefer first, but faster with AI, then when demand is there, make the agent of the moment clone it to the other platform – or maybe 85% there – and you just bring home the details?
They call these feeds “For You” but it’s not for you. It’s for them.
Powerful stuff as always from Jack Conte, CEO of Patreon.
Some open questions of course – like, how would Patreon try and filter stuff if it had as much as say X or YouTube?
Also, ads are actually kind of great for funding internet distributed digital stuff.
They aren’t the enemy, they’re just ads.
The reality is that creators want as many eyeballs and earholes as possible. And only so many want to - or are able to - pay. Bless their hearts, they’re the best. But because of the scaling of digital media, you don’t actually need everyone to pay.
My take is Patreon (and my own 10er!) are super important, wonderful services that work great on their own or alongside the ad-bound platforms.
Planning and finishing the project becomes the biggest task. You wrote 100,000 lines of whatever? Done in an afternoon.
You came up with an original idea, carefully managed scope, beat edge cases and presented it with a clear description in a tidy package?
How did you do that?!
Incredible video on Reinforcement Learning.
Maybe if I get an MCP that’ll tell me to drop it: it’s marketing week
More and more I'm starting to believe every major issue we caused has a solution to it once we actually start to get close to it becoming a massive problem. Refreshing way to not be a doomer.
You daily dose of good news: Chemists have finally developed a type of plastic whose lifespan can be programmed - it can be made to break down after days, months or years, depending on the design. The innovation uses chemical building blocks inspired by natural polymers (like
