App startup time test: Put phone in airplane mode. Open app. Rate of success predicts user retention better than any analytics dashboard.

Unpopular opinion: If your 'AI feature' only works when connected, it's just remote procedure calls with marketing. Real AI works on device. 🤖

My phone can recognize my face in milliseconds but my banking app can't remember my account balance offline. The technology isn't the limitation.

Local-first isn’t “offline mode.” It’s a philosophy: • Own your data • Sync when you want • Build apps that don’t beg the cloud for permission It’s not a fallback. It’s a flex.

New standard in data protection: Quantum encryption hits a new milestone—secure communication now spans 254 kilometers over a live telecom network. [Read more.](iflscience.com/record-breakin…)

Cloud devs: “I just npm install and deploy to Vercel.” Edge devs: “I cross-compiled a Rust binary, flashed it over UART, and prayed it didn’t brick.” It’s not about performance. It’s about the cost of iteration.

This is what ChatGPT thinks I would look like as a dog

now that is the type of serendipity I can get behind particle.news/share/GmCEE

San Francisco - let’s talk advanced materials. We're one week out from Deep Tech Week. On Monday, June 23rd, we’re excited to welcome 350+ founders, investors, and builders to discuss building across the complete lifecycle of critical minerals & material manufacturing.

When will the relentless price hikes for forced ‘AI’ services end? Just received a notification in my Slack. AI is in every app I use but, but I’m still sticking with Anthropic and OpenAI.

Getting deep into it

Light reading for the flight curtesy of DCVC #deeptech report

This flight is going to #SLAY

I’m hiring backend / protocol engineers to build a new product in the Penumbra codebase DMs are open if you understand these systems like this / namada

Sourcerer 🧙‍♂️ not just pixels spitting facts about passkeys Nordic.js

The new limits on Claude messages are ass. Within 2-3 prompts, I somehow hit the limit. Used to be able to use it all day long

May the new year be prosperous for all #Sourcerers.

I'm convinced that Chicago deep-dish "pizza" originated because someone from Chicago visited NYC, heard locals talk about cheese pies, and didn't realize that's what we call pizza.

As corporate as it gets