🌱 We're launching the Fataplus Product Design Bootcamp!
The first specialized bootcamp teaching product design for African agricultural technology - with Figma at its core.
🧵 Here's why this matters:
1/ Africa has massive potential in agricultural technology but lacks skilled designers who understand both farming contexts and modern design tools.
2/ Our 12-week intensive program bridges this gap by teaching:
Agricultural UX patterns
Mobile-first design for rural connectivity
Design systems for agri-tech
Figma mastery from basics to advanced prototyping
3/ What makes us different: ✅ Free for qualified students (pay-it-forward model) ✅ Real agricultural projects with actual farming data ✅ 70% job placement rate within 6 months ✅ Taught by agricultural technology experts
4/ We're looking for:
Agricultural professionals wanting to transition to design
Tech entrepreneurs building farming solutions
Students passionate about sustainable agriculture
Anyone eager to design solutions that farmers actually want to use
5/ Applications open now for our first cohort starting in January 2024.
Ready to design the future of African agriculture? Apply at:
https://t.co/bXmcnANYcY
This is privacy-filter-nemotron-v2, our fine-tune of OpenAI's privacy-filter, running on-device via MLX on a Mac Studio (M3 Ultra). 55 fine-grained PII categories. Weights on Hugging Face:
https://t.co/agIwnBrtte
gemini 3.5 flash is free now 😳
google quietly made their newest flash model free-tier eligible. no credit card, 1M context window, and most people are still posting about the old 2.5 models.
what you get for $0:
- gemini 3.5 flash (google's newest, free tier)
- gemini 3.1 flash-lite for high-volume cheap calls
- full 1M token context on every free model
- 1,500 requests/day, native multimodal (text, image, audio, video)
- openai-compatible, one base url change
full setup (2 min):
step 1: grab a free api key
> go to https://t.co/bvoogVXOtj
> sign in with any google account
> click "get api key", no billing setup
step 2: point any client at gemini
> works in cursor, cline, claude code, anything openai-compatible
> or just prototype in the studio ui and hit "get code"
step 3: pick your model
> gemini-3.5-flash for the strong one
> gemini-3.1-flash-lite for cheap high-volume steps
important:
- pro models left the free tier april 1, flash and flash-lite only now
- free-tier prompts can be used to train google's models, don't send sensitive data
- limits are per project, extra keys don't add quota
- 1,500 req/day resets daily, plenty for building and testing
frontier-class model + 1M context + $0
while most guides are still telling you to use last-gen models
save this, the free tier shifts almost monthly
Good news for designers/creatives!!
The UK has officially expanded its Global Talent Visa with a dedicated pathway for the design industry.
If you're a graphic designer, UX/UI designer, product designer, brand designer, industrial designer or work in any eligible design field, you may now have a clearer route to live and work in the UK without needing employer sponsorship.
For designers looking to take their careers global, this is a major opportunity.
Open source library of motion effects - Kinetics now has 99 animations.
- CSS + React version
- Prompt version for your AI coding agent
https://t.co/gmkIc4z4mn
Introducing ZCode, the official development environment for GLM-5.2
- GLM Coding Plan subscribers: now 1.5x usage quota in ZCode
- BYOK supported: works with your existing subscriptions and APIs
- Available on macOS, Windows, and Linux
Download now: https://t.co/Peepqv4XSx
We are rebuilding Hydrogen from the ground up with @Shopify.
It's agent-first, runtime-agnostic, and runs anywhere JavaScript does. Learn more and try the Next.js developer preview ↓
https://t.co/Lxl4j3DVc4
Doom scrolling but make it educational 🤓
Introducing Short Video Overviews in NotebookLM! Turn your most complex sources into 60-second, vertical videos that deep dive into any concept.
Rolling out now to Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers on mobile & web (free users soon!)
Forget trying to design everything in Figma. You can build your own design tools with AI.
Introducing Toolcraft - a starter kit and UI library for building beautiful creative apps. It's free and available for you today.
npx @pixel-point/toolcraft create
Use it to build apps to stylize images, create WebGL shaders, Three.js scenes, animations, photo editing tools, or whatever else needs a canvas and controls.
Toolcraft gives you the full architecture in a single solution. It comes with:
- plenty of UI components: sliders, pickers, timelines, curves, and more
- built-in canvas, export, and toolbar setup
- AI instructions to help the agent deliver a great result to you
With Toolcraft, you don’t need an extensive prompt. Just explain what type of visuals you want to build, attach references, and wait.
It’s been a game changer for our design process.
Watch the full video on our YouTube channel with all the details and examples.
The 3 main 'prep' activities in software development are:
- Discuss: figure out what to build
- Research: summarize world knowledge to aid discussion
- Prototype: build something to aid discussion
First question: did I miss any?
Second question: how was it not obvious that AI would be really fucking helpful here
I’ve been tinkering with some new skills for my skills repo over the weekend, and it seems like there’s so much untapped potential for design engineering skills.
/emil-design-eng skill can already help you a ton, and it’s doing more than 100k installs already, but there’s more to come soon.
I plan to add more fine-tuned skills for specific use cases, but since AI produces non-deterministic results, there’s still quite a bit of testing to do as I want the answers to be precise and correct.
In the meantime, you can try the two existing skills:
https://t.co/BQ3QdOdPya