Jeff Nickel

Today marks one month since I restarted this account. I wanted Cursor and Grok which came with the blue check, so I decided to give it a go. 1700 friends later and I'm in a community! If you're into AI stuff, game dev or design/photography, let's connect if we haven't already!

Iceland #5 Somewhere in the East on the Ring Road. There are so many old abandoned homesteads dotted around the country. This was a quick pull over and get a shot moment.

Iceland #4 Imagine owning this house. This right here is winning. Stykkisholmur, Iceland - 2017

The 30 seconds after you post on X where it says 0 views is the longest you'll ever stare at a number without blinking

Nobody warns you that the hardest part of shipping isn't building or marketing. It's opening Stripe in the morning and pretending a $0.00 dashboard is just "early data"

The indie builder dream: quit your job, build something, be your own boss The indie builder reality: you have 400 bosses now, they each pay you $9, and one of them emails at 2 AM about the color of a button

I've been re-visiting my past photo catalogs and am still in 2017, looking at photos with fresh eyes after 9 years and finding some gems I previously didn't care for. Here is Sheyda from my makeshift home studio I had back then.

This is the vibe today.

Product Hunt comments are just 40 people saying "congrats!" under an app that is at that exact moment, unable to create an account

Game studios will delay a game two years to "get it right," then ship a day-one patch the size of the game

"We're not selling your data" is doing heroic work next to 84 tracking cookies and a "partners" page.

Iceland #4 - Seljalandsfoss during the 'midnight sun' of June 2017. My camera definitely got soaked here!

Thanks to all my new friends! I blew past my 1500 follower goal and am now on the path to 1700! I was almost at 200 replies and 10 posts which has been pretty consistent the past few days. It still feels like "Let's Connect" posts are the only way to get ahead 🤷‍♂️

Every AI launch video now opens with a guy walking slowly through a sunlit warehouse and I still have no idea what any of them do.

Tech X has two moods: "This changes everything!" at 9am "tried it, it was meh" by lunch

Absolutely the truth.

Software used to come in a box with a manual. Now it comes with a Discord invitation and the founder saying "we're moving fast!!"

You can tell a photographer likes a photo when they show it to you and immediately explain the one thing wrong with it. This is Elizabeth. Her front arm drives me nuts. There's just too much of it. It's my fault, not hers.

"Remember this device" is a lovely little tradition where the website and I lie to each other

Blender just finished baking in the lighting for the office level of Skyroom. Such a huge improvement over the default Claude renders!