David Kurkov

building @steelmanpress

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@gregcello the barbarians are at the gate

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@mbateman these have been a hit to print:

https://t.co/AYRxuxNAp3

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@simonsarris you're not gonna believe this

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@OfficialJoelF @Um_tal_de_diogo wait, so shooting the arrow isn't what caused poseidon to turn against odysseus? i'm so confused

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@MTSlive first day of the new PandemicBench btw

https://t.co/iV8VWnLusz

[Arthur B. @ArthurB]

We're still so early

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@So8res Scary!

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@Tesla everything reminds me of her

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@krispuckett opus 4.6 all the way

[matt palmer @mattyp]

Here's how I made the @cursor_ai announcement video:

I built the scene off a real Wii Menu - I used Dolphin Emulator to run an emulated Wii on my mac that I screen recorded in 4k

I used Cursor with Grok 4.5 to dig around in the Dolphin system files. This allowed me to modify the look of the Wii menu - add custom channels and create arbitrary messages

From there, I broke down the scene:

- I wanted a custom message in the messages folder to start the video
- I wanted a "Cursor" channel for the announcement

The channel art presented some challenges - Wii uses obtuse formats for system graphics (TPL, BRLYT, BRLAN), this meant I couldn't just drop in MP4s / PNGs

Rather than struggle with that, I reverse-engineered the tile by installing Homebrew - a tool for modding the Wii - and duplicating all of the custom Homebrew assets

It was much easier to ask Cursor to modify existing assets rather than create new ones. Then, I replaced the logos with a high-quality Cursor image obtained from our brandkit

The fun part was the Channel preview (below) - I used Playwright to extract the raw HTML assets from Cursor dot com, and manipulate them into a format supported by the Wii

That allowed me to create a high-fidelity preview - the video felt like visiting the Cursor homepage.

Finally, clicking "Start" loads the dynamic Cursor graphic.

I bugged a teammate for that asset, then used a video editor to patch it in along with some stock music I sourced from @epidemicsound

Finally, I added a CRT effect with @remotion to give some extra nostalgia and synced up the track to key transition moments... voila!

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@normonics the roasting will continue until morale improves!

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FelonBench is the only benchmark that matters

[Sauers @Sauers_]

UPDATE

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@CristinCulver @travisk was he commuting to or from work? ;)

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@dhh they exist! it's @arenamagdotcom

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new linkedin feature just dropped

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why doesn't it just work 😭

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at some point every person is compelled to make their own bookmarks manager for X

nobody chooses this

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@dahbiahmed correction, it was 100% necessary

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he made them do the thing

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when did grok chat start using a remote computer?

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@JLopas Epic!!