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@PrettierCode, @excalidraw. Developer Expert Alumni @Google. Open source at

[Excalidraw @excalidraw]

Introducing lasso selection!

A more freeform selection method when you need the extra precision, or the versatility.

Pick from the toolbar, or use Option/Alt+Drag.

Added by @_ryan_di 💜

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The tower has caught the rocket!!

[Lea Verou, PhD @LeaVerou]

I hit Cmd+S on @excalidraw and saw this. OMG this is so cool!! 😍 Did web apps finally get the capability that native apps had since the 60s of storing and reading local files?!? Which API is this??? WANT!

Edit: It‘s the File System Access API, thanks @RyanCaoDev!
https://t.co/SB2K4rAWrM
I was vaguely aware of it but hadn’t realized the user experience it provides is that smooth. Amazing! 😍

[vjeux ✪ @Vjeux]

Cloudflare is famous for sourcing randomness from lava lamps, if you wanted to invent your own source of randomness, this week’s challenge is for you!

[Excalidraw @excalidraw]

Continuing with the text wrapping improvements, you can now set the text width even during creation. Simply drag with the text tool.

There's a minimum distance before the text enters the wrapped mode so there aren't false positives.

By @_ryandi 💜

[𝕃𝕚𝕡𝕚𝕤 @Lipis]

@excalidraw link?

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

66 years apart

[𝕃𝕚𝕡𝕚𝕤 @Lipis]

2023 Was Just a Warm Up https://t.co/zTnSNiggT8

[𝕃𝕚𝕡𝕚𝕤 @Lipis]

@eurosport Content is not available in my location?? WTF?

[vjeux ✪ @Vjeux]

It's a good reminder that I'm living in a bubble. A very big bubble but that's only 3% of all programmers! https://t.co/40dMZXw79U

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

I’m very excited to share our work on Gemini today! Gemini is a family of multimodal models that demonstrate really strong capabilities across the image, audio, video, and text domains. Our most-capable model, Gemini Ultra, advances the state of the art in 30 of 32 benchmarks, including 10 of 12 popular text and reasoning benchmarks, 9 of 9 image understanding benchmarks, 6 of 6 video understanding benchmarks, and 5 of 5 speech recognition and speech translation benchmarks. Gemini Ultra is the first model to achieve human-expert performance on MMLU across 57 subjects with a score above 90%. It also achieves a new state-of-the-art score of 62.4% on the new MMMU multimodal reasoning benchmark, outperforming the previous best model by more than 5 percentage points.

Gemini was built by an awesome team of people from @GoogleDeepMind, @GoogleResearch, and elsewhere at @Google, and is one of the largest science and engineering efforts we’ve ever undertaken. As one of the two overall technical leads of the Gemini effort, along with my colleague @OriolVinyalsML, I am incredibly proud of the whole team, and we’re so excited to be sharing our work with you today!

There’s quite a lot of different material about Gemini available, starting with:

Main blog post: https://t.co/NzSycJl7aE

60-page technical report authored by th Gemini Team: https://t.co/CEdMRyYSLo

In this thread, I’ll walk you through some of the highlights.

[Excalidraw @excalidraw]

We've added support for Class Diagrams for Mermaid-to-excalidraw! 🚀

This also means that text-to-diagram is now more powerful! 🔥

Made with 💜 by @aakansha1216 and @dluzar

https://t.co/NunLKqrvl8

[vjeux ✪ @Vjeux]

The transformers.js project is looking for contributors to implement a streaming version of Whisper, so that you can do real-time audio transcription in the browser. This is going to be so useful for podcast-style websites. Anyone interested?

https://t.co/nQEf2aupjP

[Excalidraw @excalidraw]

Taking things up a notch, we're releasing the text-to-diagram feature! 🔥

Using AI to generate diagrams from plain text. 🧠

Unlike wireframe-to-code previously, you don't need your own API token — everyone can start generating right away! 💪

https://t.co/NunLKqs3aG

[Adrian Guery @AdrianGuery]

🚀 Today's Top 5 JS Projects & their stellar contributors! 🌟

1. Crawlee - @jancurn, & @B4nan
2. Draw-a-ui
3. Payload - @JamesMikrut, @elliothimself, @jacobsfletch, & @jarrodmflesch
4. TinaCMS - @logan_anders0n
5. Excalidraw - @dluzar, @aakansha1216, & @lipis

[vjeux ✪ @Vjeux]

Folks at Algora did an amazing landing page for the prettier in rust bounty! https://t.co/fp8Atj5SaQ

[Excalidraw @excalidraw]

Mermaid support has landed to Excalidraw 🔥🔥

We support Flowchart and Sequence Diagrams!
More chart types will be added soon!

Made with ❤️ by @chunrapeepat and @aakansha1216

Try it out and let us know ���
https://t.co/74IIueHhs1

[𝕃𝕚𝕡𝕚𝕤 @Lipis]

Me and @tzador just released a new version of Books by AI.

Create knowledge based books with whatever your interests are: History, Self-growth, Business, Technology, etc..

Give it a try!

https://t.co/pXcA0tWNnZ

[Excalidraw @excalidraw]

Grid mode now easier to work with — cells in groups of five! 🏁

By @arnostPleskot 💜

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

Has anyone ever made a PC VR spatial audio setup that used fixed speakers in a room so no headphones are necessary? Ideally apps would directly mix for the speakers, but you could also “reverse spatialize” head tracked headphone audio to world locked speakers.