Michael Birk

[Noah @noah_bino]

Spent 3 weeks building a texting app slower than email. Messages fly at pigeon speed — LA to NYC takes 22 hrs. Sometimes the bird dies & the message isn’t delivered.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Exclusive posters for the 10th anniversary of ‘YOUR NAME’.

🎨: @danieliev

[shadcn @shadcn]

Alright. I want you to read this.

Earlier today, I released a new component.

What you see is the finished result.

What you don’t see are the days of planning, research, testing, designing, simplifying, throwing ideas away, and trying again before I felt it was ready.

Within hours, it had been copied and ported to another framework by pointing an agent at my code.

Of course, it’s open source. They were allowed to do it.

And I’ve been around long enough, with multiple successful products, that I don’t care.

But what if this was someone’s first product?

What if they spent months building it, launched on Friday, and by Monday it had been cloned by agents, repackaged, and made free?

What happens when your second product is copied?

Your fifth?

Your tenth?

What happens when every new idea immediately becomes the next prompt?

What happens when your roadmap, your changelog, and your launch announcements become someone else input prompts?

What happens when models become good enough to copy bigger ideas?

What happens when “just execute better” stops being the answer?

What happens when “just build bigger” or “think wider” stops being enough?

What happens when both ideas and execution become cheap?

What happens when the creator pays the full cost of creativity but everyone else pays nothing to reproduce it?

What happens to creativity when AI makes copying effectively free?

What happens to the will to create when AI makes copying effectively free?

Look, copying is not new.

Copying at this speed, cost, and scale is.

People will tell you to think bigger.

But nobody starts "bigger".

Every one of us here started by making something small.

You keep going because, somewhere along the way, the work is rewarded.

Maybe people use it.

Maybe they pay for it.

Maybe they simply recognize the thought, effort, and care that went into it.

Copying once demanded effort.

You had to study the work and understand it to copy it.

That effort created appreciation for the person who made it.

Not anymore.

Creativity begins with small steps.

If we make those first steps feel pointless, we don’t just lose small products.

We lose the people who might have gone on to build the big ones.

We are uniquely positioned here.

We get to use and experience this life-changing technology before almost everyone else.

How we use it will set the default everywhere else.

That default will spread to writing, design, music, research, and every other field where someone still has to take the first creative risk.

We can use AI to build great things.

Or we can use it to strip every new idea for parts.

We decide.

[Ayo👋 @akwaabaaa]

Category: Fitness apps

[Brandon Sanderson @BrandSanderson]

Brandon is back with the Weekly Update! (Wasn't he wearing those clothes last week?) His new trilogy, co-authored with Janci Patterson, starts with Blightfall, coming September 1st. Pre-order your copy now!

https://t.co/s06hYlKDj6

[Simon Hintermann @Aurumek_]

Today is my birthday (turning 30), which is the only time each year when I ask you for a repost if you like my art.
Have a good day! 🦦🌿✨️
- Simon

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

First trailer for the 4K remastered re-release of ‘YOUR NAME’.

Returning to theaters on August 14.

[Aaron Francis @aarondfrancis]

Extremely excited to announce that I'm (finally) joining the @laravel team!

Today is my first day as the VP of Marketing and Community. I love this community and I couldn't be more excited to join the team.

This is the era of builders, and Laravel is the best way to build.

[Brandon Sanderson @BrandSanderson]

After many months of work, I'm thrilled to announce the first draft of the Mistborn screenplay is DONE! Just in time to celebrate the book's original publication, twenty years ago this month. Do please remember that this is just an early step in a very long process, but I'm terribly excited by how it turned out!

[Sea of Stars @seaofstarsgame]

This new key art by Bryce for the Sunset Edition 🤩

Hi-res version this way: https://t.co/KdVzHLuCfS

[Sumit Kumar @TweetsOfSumit]

Wir suchen wieder: Backend Engineer!

Talentierte Engineers mit starkem bias to ship 🚢. Wir haben noch ein paar richtig große Dinger vor in Parqets Phase 2.

Wir bauen die Wealth Infra der Zukunft.
Bewerbung via parqet dot com slech jobs 😉

Einsteigen 🚀

[HeroUI @hero_ui]

HeroUI Native Pro 1.0.0-beta.3 is out 🚀

📈 AreaChart — stacked, ranges, gradients
🎯 ChartCrosshair — Skia rule + RN tooltip, shared by every chart
🔵 ChartIndicator — themed double-dot press marker
📁 EmptyState — finally stop hand-rolling zero-data screens
🎚️ Segment — Tabs-based segmented control

[Mattia @mattiapomelli]

Introducing Sleek References

A collection of unique design styles for mobile apps.

Reuse any style for your next app in one click.

Link below.

[Connor @CDawgVA]

Now that cyclethon 5 is over it's quite difficult to put into words how amazing of an experience it was.

We managed to raise $1,475,000 dollars for an amazing cause. The @immunedeficienC foundation.
It's a pleasure year after year getting this crew together to raise money for them.

We battled hills, rain, wind, sand, hail all to put on a show for you and I'm so lucky to have friends that make this journey what is it. Chris is not only the most British man of all time, but an amazing friend who always is up for the challenge and even on the most challenging of days will come out with a one liner that suddenly has everyone rolling.

Mouse always brings the cheerleader energy we need and gives all of us motivation to keep peddling, mouse shows us that through determination and perseverance anything can be done and we're lucky to always have her rooting for us.

Pete despite being the loudest human of all time, has an unmatched energy and positivity that we all strive for. Without him the highest of heights can't be reached. And I wish to one day be able to tap into an ounce of his pure charisma.

And of course the crew behind all of the Ian, Paul, Nabi and the mods work tirelessly to make sure we can give you the best show and without them it would be messy.

I'm not really sure why I made this post. Just wanted to make sure these people who worked really hard and allowed us to raise this money for charity got their credit. I'm lucky to call all of these people friends.

Thank you for your support, the viewers who turned up everyday to throw money and eagerly comment made an atmosphere that was infectious. Without you guys we wouldn't do this. So truly from the bottom of my heart thank you for an amazing event and I hope to bring you many more in future.

See you next time. 🫡

[Chris Broad @AbroadInJapan]

15 days, 1,200km cycled and $1.4 Million RAISED for the Immune Deficiency Foundation! ✨A MASSIVE thank you to everyone who tuned in and supported our monstrous journey from snowy Aomori to the chaotic streets of Osaka.

This was the 5th Cyclethon and undoubtedly the most challenging. The first few days were painfully tough battling Siberian gales on the northeast coast, being relentlessly pelted with hail and endless rain. By Day Three honestly I started to think I wouldn’t make it to the finish line.

But by week two, contempt at choosing the Sea of Japan coastal route soon gave way to spectacular weather, serene fishing villages and stunning mountain passes. The winds turned in our favour and the concept of hope returned once again.

We were joined by amazing guests from start to finish, thanks to Ironmouse, Schlatt, Garnt, Rob and Felix for keeping our spirits up along the way. And of course to the incredible van gang of Ian, Paul, Nabi and Ryo for their support everyday of the trip.

Pete as always was the ultimate hype man, and of course, a huge well done to Connor for once again making this event happen and for firing up so many people around the world to get involved!

It’s been an absolute honor and privilege as always to be a part of the greatest community on Earth.
Thank you so much guys 🍻 Please pray for my legs.

[ironmouse🇵🇷😈💖 @ironmouse]

ive been walking on the treadmill everyday for 20 minutes these past two weeks. i will see you guys for cyclethon 7 💪😂

[Connor @CDawgVA]

$1,470,000+ raised for the immune deficiency foundation. Cyclethon 5 done. 🫡

Thank you for all the support.

[Connor @CDawgVA]

THE FINAL DAY OF CYCLETHON STARTS NOW! 🫡

ONE LAST DAY TO RAISE THAT MONEY!

[Connor @CDawgVA]

DAY 14 DONE! $1,055,000 RAISED! AND WE STILL HAVE 1 FINAL DAY 🤯🤯🤯

The squad had done a fantastic job and we're nearly at the end. See you guys tomorrow for the final day.

[Connor @CDawgVA]

DAY 14 THE PENULTIMATE DAY OF THE CYCLETHON! 🫡

MOUSE JOINS US ON THE BIKE! 🫡

1 million raised today?!