Releasing Mercury for personal use today!

The product is almost exactly what we offer for businesses, and the whole product can be tried at demo.mercury.com/?orgKind=perso…

(This is a paid product but nets to free if you keep $5000 in your savings account, at current rates)

Next week during Sessions we’re hosting an expo of AI applications at work. Stop by the expo hall at Moscone to see:

Monumental Labs robot stone carving
Anthropic prompt engineering
ElevenLabs dubbing
Tome sales deck creation
Getty Images image generation
GitHub

“being alive is as special an occasion as it gets” fundamentally altered my brain

me, in a new city after one sip of coffee: “I could live here”

The way Larry David tries to explain Jalen Brunson’s game is hilarious. 😂

Want to try a new AI powered tool we're building at Stripe? My team would love your feedback. Drop your info here: forms.gle/NvpZdb27PiWCAm…

18.7 MILLION 🔥

New website is live ☀️ If you’re looking for a Senior Designer to join your team or are curious what I’ve been up to over the last few years, have a look and get in touch! julius.fm

[consoling a friend after a breakup]

HIM: I won’t find anyone as good as her

ME (just finished watching Moneyball): we’ll recreate her in the aggregate

I'm currently working on a small brand refresh for a pharma startup and was looking for inspo.

I came across these gorgeous scientific book covers from 1960, designed by Rudolph de Harak. He designed over 350 of them!

Enjoyed reading more about Rudolph and his work here:

come join the team exploring the future of how developers build on stripe!

Want to hack on new AI-powered DX at Stripe? My team is hiring in SF: stripe.com/jobs/listing/s…

Hello, WebGPU!

Finally, a modern graphics API that runs on Metal, or Vulkan, or DirectX, or in (some) browsers.

Farewell, OpenGL. I will almost miss you 😉

derek is the lebron james of twitter

Don’t love “home in on” as a phrase when “hone in on” seems to make more sense (syntactically and semantically similar to “zoom in on” or “focus on”) and deserves the real estate of those sounds

This is a fun read! We all need to stay beginners and be unafraid to try new stuff.

And it reminds me how powerful game design can be for learning.

A trillion dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? 1% of global GDP and growing.

Businesses like to get paid in full upfront, customers like to pay over time.

If you accept Apple Pay with Stripe, Apple Pay Later is now default on. (This may be the largest “it just works” rollout we have ever done.)

StockX on Apple Vision Pro is a great way to experience how we’ll shop in the future.

Websites will feel like physical stores