Uno, Mr. Bond

Ben Healy! Amazing performance

Introducing the world's best (and open) speech recognition models!

dream shoes

If customers got to pick their own auditor I think many startups would be in trouble

Anyone have a fav Gemini MCP server setup? I’d like to send files/PDFs etc and get data out of them, and I’d prefer to use Gemini for that

Spreadsheets are good, people like them, understand them and reach for them. An improvement isn't something completely different: it's just a better spreadsheet. Many tools would be better if designers embraced this.

People are finally starting to realise how few truly great designers there are, and how disproportionately valuable they are.

And from what I've seen, financial upside accounts for maybe 30–40% of what motivates great people. The real pull is working somewhere that deeply values craft and lets them do the best work of their career.

the linear loading screen is playing pong

There’s always a price for speed. You either pay it up front by forcing clarity, firing fast, confronting confusion, or you pay it at the end, when the company slows down enough for entropy to take over.

Claude Sonnet is less capable today than yesterday. making weird mistakes. anyone else?

The biggest drain on your team isn't the impossible challenges. It's the people who turn simple tasks into complex ones. Keep the simplifiers. Avoid the complicators. It's not easy to spot, often the complicators are seen as having a great attention to detail & high care. But

> be Adobe, 40-year-old PDF jockey > 2025, stock doing a perfect -33% swan dive > “We’ll pivot to AI” says exec on 7-figure retention bonus > can’t ship a model because legal says every pixel needs a 12-page EULA > Midjourney drops v7, makes our Firefly look like MS Paint with a

It’s apparently the time of year where I get all my best ideas because I get a domain renewal email every day

Zero bug policy might sound ridiculous, but we think it's worth it. And it’s faster to just fix things right away than to let them pile up, get shuffled around in a backlog and discussed in various meetings.