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Build things.

Beacon, New York
Joined June 2009
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Rob Trahan retweeted
LinkedIn crowd is going to go ape-shit when they hear about JEV next month btw
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Effort creates trust
details are how users read effort. They can't see your code or your late nights - but they can feel whether someone cared about the spacing. care is the one thing you can't fake..
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Rob Trahan retweeted
Anthony Bourdain once said RATATOUILLE is the best food movie of all time. “The best restaurant movie ever made, the best chef movie. The tiny details are astonishing: •The faded burns on the cooks’ wrists. •The ‘personal histories’ of the cooks. •The attention paid to the food. •And the Anton Ego ratatouille epiphany hit me like a punch in the chest–literally breathtaking. I saw it in a theater entirely full with adults–and the reaction to that moment was what movie making was once–a long time ago–all about: Audible surprise, delight, awe and even a measure of enlightenment. I am hugely and disproportionately proud that my miniscule contribution (if any) early early in the project’s development led to a ‘thank you’ in the credits. Amazing how much they got ‘right.’”
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Airbnb stuck their entire customer journey up on their office walls. Drawn by a Pixar animator, pinned where everyone walks past them daily. 30 frames. 15 for hosts. 15 for guests. They call it "Snow White." Chesky stole the idea from a Walt Disney biography in 2011. Every new product idea has to answer: → "Which frame does this serve?" If it fits a frame, that determines the owner, who prioritises it against their KPIs. If it doesn’t fit a frame, it doesn’t serve the customer, and doesn’t get shipped.
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Rob Trahan retweeted
me and @claudeai
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Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Avail Lavgine did not say this. This is from the satire site Clickhole originally published in 2015. clickhole.com/find-out-what-…
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Rob Trahan retweeted
i often think about this..
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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
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Rob Trahan retweeted
Steve jobs absolutely cooked with this: "It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people. Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them."
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ZION WILLIAMSON YOU ARE ON ONE
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Rob Trahan retweeted
The Saints have the best quarterback in the NFC South. And he's on a rookie second-round contract.
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Tyler Shough to Saints fans
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Tyler Shough 22/27, 333 YDS, 2 TDs, 0 INT vs TEN Today. FIRST SAINTS QB 4 GAME WINNING STREAK SINCE DREW BREES.
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Introducing FLORA, Your Intelligent Canvas. Every creative AI tool, thoughtfully connected.
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This Tom Brady clip on @TheHerd is sensational. A must-watch. nitter.gq/JoeA_NFL/status/188827…
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Didn’t expect Ben Affleck to have the most articulate and realistic explanation where video models and Hollywood is going
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GOLD MEDAL GAME WINNER 🎬🥇😂
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Rob Trahan retweeted
Since its Election Day, never forget when Deez Nuts got 9% of the vote in North Carolina in 2016 😂
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Scientists have been communicating with apes via sign language since the 1960s; apes have never asked one question.
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Goals are for people who care about winning once. Systems are for people who care about winning repeatedly.
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