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product design studio @ shopify. prev: @instagram, Apartment List, Trek. [email protected]

Seattle, WA
Joined May 2009
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designer-as-magician, Design Methods, 1992
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10/10 movie, wow
This is everything. Nathan Fielder & Lance Oppenheim's YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING featuring Elizabeth Holmes is now playing in theaters nationwide.
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Why is the lighting totally flat? Did anyone care enough to try on this one?
When their son is kidnapped, a politician and his wife scramble to raise the ransom and make decisions that could tear their world apart. Ben Affleck, Kerry Washington, Gillian Anderson, Steven Yeun, Luis Gerardo Méndez, and Adriana Paz star in ANIMALS. Now playing.
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i've really come to love @pidotdev the more i use it
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why wouldn’t they just use ai for this? are they stupid?
It would take 8 hours for Pixar's computers to render a single frame of Toy Story in 1995.
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Chris Aalid retweeted
"an infinite slop machine, a portable casino, and a 24/7 surveillance device." "an infinite slop machine, a portable casino, and a 24/7 surveillance device." "are you getting it?"
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i want to love herdr (great worktree support out-of-the-box, nice to have everything in ghostty), but i still find it kind of clunky compared to something like cmux 🤷
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how does he keep doing it
YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING, a documentary by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim. Featuring Elizabeth Holmes. Only in theaters this October.
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yeah but the reason people would actually want to watch this for more than half a second is if something is actually at stake? Maybe if there is some kind of tension??
Nike spends $2M on a stadium shoot for a 10-second hero shot. 40-person crew. 3 days of permits. 2 weeks in post. Stunt doubles. Insurance paperwork thicker than the script. This creator generated the entire sequence on a laptop for under $80. A guy sprints across a stadium roof at night, leaps off the edge, free-falls into a sold-out arena, and lands on a giant football in the center of the pitch. One continuous shot. No crane. No drone operator. No safety harness review board. The toolchain behind this clip: > Kimi K3 wrote the full shot sequence: rooftop sprint, jump arc, mid-air hang, landing impact, crowd reaction timing > Kling 3.0 generated the fluid body physics and night lighting on the roof > Seedance 2.5 rendered the free-fall, wind on the shirt, and the ball deformation on impact > ElevenLabs produced the ambient stadium atmosphere and crowd noise > CapCut handled speed ramps, color grade, and final export A traditional production house would need a stadium rental at $150K, a stunt coordinator, a medical team on standby, and 6 months of liability clearance. This entire sequence was prompted, rendered, and exported between dinner and sleep. AI didn't replace the stunt double. It replaced the entire stadium booking.
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why is codex obsessed with using the browser
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Chris Aalid retweeted
roommate purchased a smartphone-sized slab of obsidian and has been holding it instead of her phone to reduce screentime
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Toronto 🇨🇦 📍
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I'm curious about this:
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The Parthenon of mobile design
Remember spending hours studying the UI and interactions in these?
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As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.
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You have to buy subscription eggs with NFC for this thing to work?? Seriously???
NEW: Cheffy just launched a robot that cracks and cooks your eggs. Egor automates breakfast by cooking eggs 7 ways, while Toastr syncs your toast so everything finishes together. -Automatically cracks eggs with no shells or mess -Cooks eggs 7 ways, from sunny-side up to hard boiled -Makes up to 2 fried eggs or 6 boiled eggs at once -Schedule breakfast ASAP, on a timer, or for a specific time -Steam-finishes over-easy, over-medium, and over-hard eggs without flipping -Toastr syncs toast timing with the eggs Bundle priced at $349.
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I don’t get the dunks on this. Yes it’s using a shitload of external gear, lighting, etc but it is still fundamentally *shot on an iphone*
What Apple actually means when they say shot on iPhone
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