Justin French (@justinfrench) 's Twitter Profile
Justin French

@justinfrench

Jeans and a black tee since 2003. Seek first to understand. COO with @up_banking and @ferocia. Also into 🤖 and 🥁and 🌮.

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Chris Aitchison (@cmaitchison) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We’re scaling the team that leads the industry in banking innovation. If you are a software engineer and that sounds interesting to you, get in touch! up.com.au/careers/softwa…

Adam Wathan (@adamwathan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Quick demo of this CSS-driven configuration coming in Tailwind CSS v4 — creating a new `font-comic` utility by just creating a new CSS variable under our new `@​theme` directive. No JS configuration file, all the same theme customization flexibility 🤩

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Ok, what are some credible alternatives to Backblaze. I pay them $100s a year, but their safety freeze keeps inexplicably tripping, can't be disabled, and their "solution" is "check all your files then reinstall" backblaze.com/computer-backu…

Justin French (@justinfrench) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This! We need LLMs to be more useful, which means knowing stuff and doing stuff for us. And it would be awesome if every app got this capability instantly. Another disconnected chat bot is dead in the water.

Lulu Cheng Meservey (@lulumeservey) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Yesterday I saw the wildest CEO talk maybe ever, and finally learned what Tobi was building that Saturday in May. So Shopify kicked off their 2024 Summit, and Tobi was the first speaker. He gave a short talk; it was just ok. Typical CEO speech, not bad, but kind of meh (he

Ethan Mollick (@emollick) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Long context windows seem to work quite well for AIs retrieving information, but what about reasoning? This clever paper has real human readers of recent novels generate complex questions that require reading and understanding the entire book to answer. LLMs do not do very well.

Matt Wensing 🐙 (@mattwensing) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The winning paradigm for most companies is small doses of AI everywhere, not a monolithic oracle. All of the ChatGPT cargo cults are building the latter.

Chris Hoffmann (@stlchrish) 's Twitter Profile Photo

My dad’s warehouse was in a not-so-great part of the city. He needed to buy several adjacent homes to expand his business— and was able to buy most of these homes for $15,000 each. These were homes with boarded up windows, no AC, and very run down. But one gentlemen refused to

Euphemia (@euphemia_invest) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Up is on track to hit 1 million customers in October, just in time for its sixth birthday. We couldn't be more proud to see this awesome company continue to grow with an inspiring and towering mission for Bendigo Bank. Read more: bit.ly/3ynQRvm

Euphemia (@euphemia_invest) 's Twitter Profile Photo

An awesome new podcast episode is live, with Grant Bissett from Caligra, a new computer company building cutting-edge workstations, with a novel user interface for unmatched productivity in technical workloads. Chatting to Dom Pym and Judy Anderson-Firth, we discuss how Caligra is off to

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🏡 Home Truths: Episode 2 🏡 The series that uncovers the real journeys of first-time homebuyers, as told by the people who lived them. In this instalment, we met Christian & Candice, who managed to save for and buy their Melbourne home👼 Watch now 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=AkUuhk…

🏡 Home Truths: Episode 2 🏡

The series that uncovers the real journeys of first-time homebuyers, as told by the people who lived them.

In this instalment, we met Christian & Candice, who managed to save for and buy their Melbourne home👼

Watch now 👇

youtube.com/watch?v=AkUuhk…
Australian FinTech (@austfintech) 's Twitter Profile Photo

.Up introduces Australia’s first in-app group money feature in #banking australianfintech.com.au/up-introduces-… #australianfintech #fintech #tech #financialtechnology #finance #payments #digitalpayments #mobilepayments #digitalwallets #mobilewallets #digitalbanking #groupmoney #money

Ethan W. Anderson (@ethan_is_online) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I've plotted the most expensive McDonald's burger and the least expensive MacBook over time. This analysis projects that the most expensive burger will be more expensive than the cheapest laptop as soon as 2081

I've plotted the most expensive McDonald's burger and the least expensive MacBook over time. This analysis projects that the most expensive burger will be more expensive than the cheapest laptop as soon as 2081
Justin French (@justinfrench) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Working with Apple Shortcuts is horrendously painful in the age of LLMs and agents. We need prompting, editable source, idempotent installs, running from CLI without install. If Shortcuts is still limited to a UI builder this year, Apple blew it in the era of agents.