We’ve rebranded to Born and are announcing a $15M Series A to build the future of digital life through AI friends. Learn more at born.com/press

Already dropped it on first day 🫠, at least it doesn’t break instantly like the 15

Went on Amazon to buy “The Scaling Era” from Stripe Press only to find out that I’d already bought it back in May

We are hiring world-class engineering talent obsessed with building the future of consumer AI. born.com/#careers

Crazy how the talked about video has caused chaos in popular open source youtube.com/watch?v=YFkeOB…

We built this onboarding flow in React Native that feels better than most native apps Here’s how we did it: ① Patched react-native-screens for a custom transition ② Button and stepper are rendered on top of the stack ③ Synced button state across screens via context The

RE: Stacked Diffs on @GitHub After discussion w Taylor Blau, we can implement stacked PRs/PR groups already (in fact we kind of do with Copilot) but restacking (automatically fanning out changes from the bottom of the the stack upwards) would be wildly inefficient. To do it

Can’t believe it’s been a year since we’ve started with godot

Noteworthy here is the few milliseconds from changing the clothings to the screenshot, making this specific combination of clothings now be available to all of our hundreds of thousands of users immediately via a unique hash. Making each device handle this computation instead

Today, we’re officially releasing React Native Godot to the public. For the first time, every React Native developer can create games with an amazing UI on top. This unlocks a new era of apps and games. github.com/borndotcom/rea…

We’re in the news tab 🔥 Born

Easy perf optimization in react native, turns out you can use getComponent from react-navigation to lazy load the entire module, meaning it doesnt affect app start and RAM usage until it actually navigates. Left is normal import,right is lazy and navigating to the heavy component

We let the Internet down today. Here’s our technical post mortem on what happened. On behalf of the entire Cloudflare team, I’m sorry. blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-20…

In a couple hours, we'll be rolling out About This Account globally, allowing you to see the country or region where an account is based. This will be accessible by tapping the signup date on profiles. This is an important first step to securing the integrity of the global town

Today we introduce Friends and preview Life, as we continue shaping the future of AI companionship. Pengu evolved into Friends. A platform of trustworthy, fun, and social AI characters designed for moments that matter most. Pengu for social connection, Mellow for learning, Bao

The first of many

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I’m excited about the AllBirds AI pivot because this is the first completely pure act of retardmaxxing in the public markets and I’m so on board with watching that journey play out.