Matt Chiera

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[Matt Chiera @MatthewChiera]

VR gaming has made amazing strides over the past few years. I remember playing Virtual Boy in the 90’s, and now we have this...

[Eden Dranger @Eden_Eats]

5 Stages of Girl Scout Cookie Season:

1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
5. 436 boxes of Thin Mints

[Chase Lean @chaseleantj]

Midjourney version 6 was released two hours ago, and it's incredible.

I compared it to the previous version 5.2 across 15 very different image categories.

Here are the results:

[Artificial World @ARTiV3RSE]

I asked chatGPT to create 8-bit/pixelated versions of famous modern landmarks in DALL·E 3. The results are beautiful.

1. Fallingwater House

[juan @juanbuis]

spotted some wild UI in the swiss alps the other day

beautiful to see it in its natural habitat 🥹

[Sabrina @sabrinaesaquino]

every time you think you're a good programmer remember that roller coaster 2 was programmed entirely in assembly with no bugs by only one guy

[Brooklin Nash @realBrookNash]

Great content starts with a good brief.

But you can't pull a good brief out of thin air.

This is the template we start with each and every time.

[tom ッ @tom_antok]

HTTP status codes explained

[Luke Jordan @lr_jordan]

I built a niche site that was worth $1,000,000 less than a year ago

Now I've got a decision to make:

a) Pivot the entire business, or

b) Start over and build a new business from scratch

I broke down the full journey, what went wrong, and what's next in this 11-minute video

I've been overthinking the perfect way to publish this and maximise what I'm working on next

But I think getting it all out there and moving on is the best decision for me right now

Any questions? Happy to answer everything below!

[gaut @0xgaut]

Someone built a frontend to Reddit that looks like Outlook so you can browse it all day at work without worrying about who is looking over your shoulder.

I love the internet.

[˗ˏˋmewtru´ˎ˗ @trunarla]

Here’s how I built one of the COOLEST hover effects you’ve ever seen 🔥

[Product Hunt 😸 @ProductHunt]

If the code works, don't touch it

The code:

[annie-mai @anniemaisocial]

LOVE this cheeky out-of-home (OOH) campaign from Impact 👏

[Neal Agarwal @nealagarwal]

Working on a password game with increasingly unhinged rules.

what are some rules I should add?

[0xDesigner @0xDesigner]

Take a break from doom scrolling and enjoy some brain candy.

Here are 16 oddly satisfying "pull to refresh" animations.

🧵👇

[Jack Appleby @jappleby]

When this guy went viral for holding a beer instead of an iPhone, @MichelobULTRA went real-time marketing.

Within 48 hours, the brand:
- made him their social spokesperson
- gave him his own merch line?!
- took him to the next PGA tour stop

A social case study + analysis 🧵:

[Matt Chiera @MatthewChiera]

@amandanat I started using Trello for note taking. Works quite well.

[Aleksandr Volodarsky @volodarik]

Sunday read.

This is hilarious. Engineers are competing who creates the worst UI on Reddit.

I think the winners are:

1/ Enter your phone number

[Matt Chiera @MatthewChiera]

@GoogleMyBiz Thanks, Tim. I just sent a DM.

[Matt Chiera @MatthewChiera]

@GoogleMyBiz We're running into an issue where a previously closed GBP location is now appearing in Search (instead of the actual open business location). I've gone through the steps outlined in the support articles to no avail. Can you help?

[Matt Chiera @MatthewChiera]

@GoogleMyBiz Thanks, Tim. I don't see how search ranking would cause this though. This pertains to brand name search and there isn't any brand competition. Plus, the new GBP profile is much better optimized (Profile Strength ="Looks good!") I tried opening a support ticket, no luck there.

[Matt Chiera @MatthewChiera]

@GoogleMyBiz Hi Lee, thanks. The odd thing is that the correct GBP has been showing in Search for the last few months, however, this week the old profile is now displaying, even though it's been marked closed for months and doesn't even appear in Google Maps. Any idea why this might be?