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hey timeline, lots of bad vibes and negativity on this platform lately. let’s turn it around. i’ll start. here’s a few designers who’s work I think deserves more eyeballs. @eduardwieandt @dariaiareshko @danbillson @nicforey @luisgurico @eliakuratli @Lauracsc_ @jeanxcrj

@polar_sh new event explorer is now live 👋 miles better than the last one, and an absolute joy to use. have fun.

one of my favourite features on @polar_sh the cost anomaly distribution strip a neat visualization for runaway & cost anomalies

committed to build the best event explorer coming soon to @polar_sh

Canva is laying off 22% of its workforce which is 1271 employees, and this is what their CEO said. We need more founders like thissss.

for 20 years we built dashboards so humans could operate software. now software operates itself, and you just tell it what you want. welcome to the headless era 💫

remember stack overflow

The fact that we still have nuclear weapons tells me people don’t understand them. When I was at Uni, we studied descriptions from survivors of the atomic blasts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I thought it would be like learning about any other harrowing history. I was very wrong. It disturbed me in my bones and never left me. When the atomic bombs detonated in Japan, some of these survivors literally thought it was an alien invasion. This was because the flash was so blinding bright and silent, they had never imagined anything like it before. There was also no noise for those close to the blast. The shockwave hit their ears at the same time as the sound, sending them flying and shattering everything in its wake. This became known as the Pika-Don. For those further away from the detonation, the sound following the flash was deafening beyond description. It was described as an impossible crack, as if the sky had snapped open. This was trailed by a terrifying deep roar that screamed outwards. It was considered one of the loudest events in human history. Then there was the thermal heat wave. It was so hot it vaporised people in the open instantly and other peoples clothes melted into their skin. Many were burned beyond belief and just stood there screaming or silent, as the sky turned black from the dust, ash and debris. Wild firestorms spread throughout the city, as people searched in darkness for their families and friends. But the worst was yet to come. Those that died in the blast were the lucky ones. Over the coming days and weeks, people’s hair fell out. Without explanation those that had incredibly survived, started to confusingly fall ill and perish over time. I don’t want to describe the side effects of the radiation sickness, but it made me cry reading about it. The hopelessness, suffering and courage of the people that succumbed to this, should be mandatory reading for everyone, to understand the true power of nuclear weapons. “I know not with what weapons World War Three will be fought, but World War Four will be fought with sticks and stones” - Albert Einstein

we believe that modern billing shouldn’t require you to file sales tax in every global jurisdiction. instead, we take on that paperwork for you, and wire the net proceeds to your bank account ✨

made a field guide for @polar_sh's new usage engine > monospace & terminal aesthetic > svg's all the way > staggered animation technique > triggered with viewport intersection observers polar.sh/field-guide

You’re telling me the NYC marathon winner is a white guy who was a data analyst last year and had never run a marathon? Much to consider for next year

Runs his FIRST ever marathon. Absolutely smashes the competition. First European to win the New York Marathon in 30 years. Unbelievable.

today we are announcing openrouter for commerce: opencommerce.sh a single endpoint that integrates 5k stores, including Doordash, Amazon and most shopify stores, with payments using Agentcard (Stripe Link and Shop coming soon). we built opencommerce to solve 3 problems: * coverage: one endpoint to integrate 5k stores. agentic purchasing is a core feature for most personal assistants, but not their main business. searching for products and buying on behalf of users shouldn’t be as painful as it is today (e.g. it shouldn’t involve browser automations or dealing with PSPs). opencommerce solves that: 1 tool, every online store. * reliability: 100% uptime. the challenge with browser automations is that they fail (e.g. captchas, bot-detection, etc). we run thousands of tests every couple of hours on every one of the stores to guarantee that the integration works when your user tries to buy something. * speed: responses in under 10s. consumers are used to Amazon speed, and agentic purchases have so far felt like a downgrade. most agents spend minutes finding products before they come back with results. we monitor speed and improve it constantly.

nice brand and site. anyone know who worked on it? polar.sh

vibe check

the prompt box is the purest appliance ever made. type a request, wait, get a result. no gradient, no feel, no getting better at it. the most powerful material we've ever had, and we gave it a microwave interface.

most software is an appliance. you make a request, it returns a result. the best software is an instrument. it puts you in a continuous loop with the material, rewards practice, and lets you find your own voice. build guitars, not microwaves.

I promised to give you all a rundown on how I make these videos. There's no After Effects project behind it. Every frame is code: TypeScript, a browser and a timeline. Here's how it's made 🧵

time to introduce ourselves 👋 we're a small, remote team of 20, scattered across 9 timezones, with a single goal in mind. build the best financial layer for intelligent software. say hi → polar.sh/company

emil widlund here, emil kowalski there… I’ll call my son emil so I’ll be 200% sure he’ll be a goated designer