Most people watched the eclipse. Anil wanted to chase one from the edge of the sky.
He's the kind of person who assembled his own telescope, a "backpack observatory" he could haul out to darker skies, taught himself astronomy night after night, and once nearly discovered an asteroid on his own. No aerospace degree. No institution behind him. Just years of quietly getting good at things nobody asked him to learn.
From the outside, the Sunset Shadow Mission looks like any other high-altitude balloon flight: a capsule, a camera, a launch.
From the inside, it's various filaments, countless redesigns, and one maker who spent months refusing to let a single part go wrong.
For us, this was never only about a single flight. It was about betting on the people who care too much to stop, and making sure that care gets seen, whatever the sky decides.
Let's Make It Fund exists for people like him.
Thanks to Anil Monnier, Anthony Salsi, and the team who chased the sky with us.
You are a maker in your own way. Here's how Let's Make It Fund backs your next idea 👉 https://t.co/6oCoFZ6lwy
nobody tells you this about grok bot
one guy spent a week reading everything about @bot: 600+ posts, 300 reels, 60 hours of video, the docs.
what he found:
> all your bots share ONE computer - same files, same cookies, same logins
> a 15-min routine = 96 runs a day. one hourly routine "can use a week of usage in a day"
> the terminal is a back door: type claude, log in your own Claude Code, drive it from your phone
plus 3 things xAI hid on purpose.
the full list, with every source, is in his article below 👇
DEEPSEEK UPDATED V4.1-FLASH AND OPENED SEARCH AND FETCH API TO EVERYONE
the model got stronger than the last one, solves tasks faster and gives shorter answers, which makes it cheaper to run. the weights are up on Hugging Face, and the new version is live on the website, in the app and via API
where it beats Claude Opus 5:
- DeepSWE v1.1: 77.0 vs 74.0, with GPT-5.6 Sol at 73.0
- Automation-Bench: 60.5 vs 50.3
- Agents' Last Exam: 35.4 vs 28.6
the jump over the previous Flash is big:
> Terminal-Bench 4.0: from 31.2 to 42.3
> ProgramBench: from 20.3 to 29.1
on HLE (56.3), Terminal-Bench 4.0 (51.8) and NL2Repo-Bench (75.3), Opus 5 is still ahead. the numbers come from the company itself, and each benchmark uses its own evaluation method
search runs on DeepSeek's own engine: $0.75 / 1,000 calls per endpoint
I make videos with Claude the way you’d cut a record
one groove at a time. each groove is a step, and each step leaves a file behind
> reference spec.md
I give Claude a video I want to match
it breaks down why it works: the pacing, where the first motion lands, the cut rhythm
> data data.json
real numbers before anything moves
every figure keeps its source, so nothing on screen is made up
> story story.md
three sides: hook, proof, payoff
one point and one hero number, decided before the motion
> motion Scene.tsx
every frame written as code with Remotion and a motion-design skill
nothing random, so every word, number and timing stays editable
> direct timing.ts
when something skips, I say it in plain words:
“title is a beat late”
one line changes. the rest of the record stays exactly the same
ship final.mp4
it plays it back, checks it against the reference, and waits for my approval
why this beats one big prompt:
you always know which groove is off
fixing one part doesn’t break the others
no video model, so no re-rolls and no surprises between versions
when the needle skips, you fix the groove. you don’t press a new record
full setup, the prompt and the 10 open-source skills are in the article