Ben Keogh 🏴

Product designer, 25+ years. @weareprecode @uselayoutdesign

[Ben Keogh 🏴 @benkeogh]

FarmTech is insanely interesting.

[Danny Bernstein 🍇🥬 @bernsteind]

autonomous robot driving through the field at night. no chemicals. no pesticides. just UV light killing pathogens and pests while everyone sleeps. this is @tricrobotics.

this is what chemical-free pest control looks like at scale.

[Danny Bernstein 🍇🥬 @bernsteind]

autonomous robot driving through the field at night. no chemicals. no pesticides. just UV light killing pathogens and pests while everyone sleeps. this is @tricrobotics.

this is what chemical-free pest control looks like at scale.

[Ben Keogh 🏴 @benkeogh]

Hoping this due gets his interview with @elonmusk

[Ti Morse @ti_morse]

Set is ready @ElonMusk

We built it 25min from downtown Austin and can shoot anytime in the next 7 days on 1h notice.

Humanity is on the verge of becoming a multi-planet species and spacefaring civilization.

My goal with this interview is to help people viscerally feel what that future is going to look like and get everyone excited to help build it.

[Ben Keogh 🏴 @benkeogh]

@theryanhayward Hey @theryanhayward check out https://t.co/yp7gx05RjY

[Layout @uselayoutdesign]

Three new kits just landed in the Layout gallery

Airbnb, Clay and Mixpanel are now fully explorable. Browse their colours, type, spacing and components, then pull the design system straight into your AI coding agent.

Build on-brand UI in seconds → https://t.co/7eneGN1Hpr

[Layout @uselayoutdesign]

Layout changelog - 23 April 2026

New:
-Light and dark Figma Variables sync as separate tokens -Sync colours and spacing from Figma Variables
-Spot and fix token gaps between extraction and layout.md

Improved:
- Clearer extraction state and Variables controls in the plugin
- Friendlier token role pickers in the Design System page
-Smarter, cheaper AI generation with Opus 4.7 and prompt caching

Fixed:
-Inspector edits keep responsive Tailwind classes
-Cleaner sidebar on settings pages

Full changelog: https://t.co/zg3t75UgVc

[Andrew Qu @andrewqu]

When I spend 1M tokens and the <div> still isn't centered

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️The von der Leyen quote is one of the most revealing things a European leader has said in the last decade and almost nobody is going to process it correctly.

“The cheapest energy is the one you don’t use.”

That is a sentence spoken by a person presiding over civilizational decline who has decided to reframe the decline as virtue. It’s not a policy statement. It’s a theological position. The energy crisis isn’t a problem to be solved by producing more energy. It’s an opportunity for Europeans to need less. To want less. To consume less. To live smaller lives in smaller apartments heated to lower temperatures with less travel and less activity and less economic output. The scarcity isn’t a failure. It’s the goal.

This is the thing Americans and everyone outside of Europe cannot fully grasp about where European elite thinking has landed. They genuinely believe that reducing European energy consumption is morally good regardless of the economic consequences, because European consumption is tied to European environmental guilt which is tied to European colonial guilt which is tied to a broader belief that European civilization has been net negative for the world and should shrink. The energy crisis gives them political cover to implement policies that would otherwise be unpopular. Now they can say circumstances force the reduction when the reduction was always the plan.

Von der Leyen is not an aberration. She represents the consensus view among the European political class. Macron believes this. Scholz believes this. The entire EU Commission believes this. They don’t say it this directly usually because it polls badly, but every major policy they implement is consistent with this worldview. Degrowth is not a fringe academic position in European politics. It’s the operating framework at the top.

The American version of this framing would be “the cheapest energy is the one we produce ourselves at scale.” That’s what actually reduces cost and increases resilience. Building more nuclear, extracting more gas, expanding the grid, investing in new production. The European version is the opposite. Don’t build anything. Don’t extract anything. Don’t produce anything. Just use less. And when citizens can’t heat their homes or fly for work, frame it as virtue.

This is why Europe can’t recover from the current trajectory. The recovery would require a complete reversal of the ideological framework that produced the decline, and that framework is held most strongly by exactly the people who have the power to change it.

They’re not going to reverse it because they don’t see the trajectory as a problem.

They see it as necessary and good.

[Layout @uselayoutdesign]

One prompt. Four design systems. Four completely different sign-up modals.

The AI didn't guess any of this. Layout gave it the design system.

Same prompt. Your brand.

https://t.co/7eneGN1Hpr

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

If you made $500,000 per day, every single day since the Great Pyramids were built, you would have less than half of what the US govt has borrowed since June.

[Matt Thornhill @ThornhillMatt]

About to hit 100 users on @layout_design.

Hundreds more on the waitlist. Design teams from Fortune 500s, major fintechs, global e-commerce brands, streaming platforms, even national government services.

All hitting the same wall: AI generates UI fast but doesn't know your design system. That's the problem we're solving.

First 100 are the hardest. The fact that these teams found us organically tells me we're onto something.

Request early access at https://t.co/gDIcctGwLY

[Ben Keogh 🏴 @benkeogh]

@mikefutia BANANA

[staysaasy @staysaasy]

My new favorite insult is calling someone’s job a Claude skill.

[Ben Keogh 🏴 @benkeogh]

@BiggestComeback @dpolehn And mine

[Ben Keogh 🏴 @benkeogh]

@paolo_scales GUIDE

[paolo trivellato @paolo_scales]

I booked over 147 calls in the last 30 days

ONLY thanks to LinkedIn

You can literally steal my whole inbound + outbound system for yourself

Will not be gatekeeping anything...

RT + reply "GUIDE" and I'll send it to you

[Matt Thornhill @ThornhillMatt]

Creme is live.

Browser-based live coding for music. Zero installation. Sub-150ms latency.

What you get:

Simple pattern language for beats and melodies. 54+ effects for sound design. AI assistance to generate code from descriptions. Polyrhythmic support for complex grooves. Works on any device with a modern browser.

This one's for the bedroom producers and code-curious musicians.

https://t.co/vrAmYUUt4D

[Ben Keogh 🏴 @benkeogh]

@pierreeliottlal CLAUDE

[Matt Thornhill @ThornhillMatt]

The problem with every Airdrop alternative I've tried:

Snapdrop: Need browser open on both devices
Bluetooth: Painfully slow, constant pairing issues
Cloud sync: Upload, wait, download, wait
USB: MTP is a disaster on Mac

What I want:

1. QuickShare from Android
2. Mac appears in the list
3. Tap
4. File arrives

That's it. That's the entire feature spec for Flyng.

[Ben Keogh 🏴 @benkeogh]

@aakashgupta If you like Ralph, you should check out PreClaude:
https://t.co/njeqWd8rPF - 27 slash commands, 16 specialist agents, and Ralph autonomous builder — all pre-configured and ready to use.