Brandon Mathis

Work: @VESYLapp (prev: @EnveloopHQ)
Projects: & have a wonderful wife and kids, and I follow Christ.

[Brandon Mathis @imathis]

Me: Alright kids, let’s get in the car. Did you all go potty?
Eloise: I went potty in my mind.

I need to get this kid tested for something.

[François Best @fortysevenfx]

npm needs to change their logo

[Brandon Mathis @imathis]

No amount of reframing success or purifying our values can fill our cup, for we were made to worship and only in relationship with our creator can we be fulfilled.

John 4:13-14:
“Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

[Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag]

Brian Chesky shares why the saddest day of his life happened the day after Airbnb went public at $100B:

"We go public, we have a hundred billion dollar valuation. It's one of the best days of my life. The next day, I go on a Zoom meeting, and it was like it never happened."

"It became like the saddest day of my life. Because I realized, I got all this adulation, and I don't feel any different."

"Adulation is like a cup with a hole at the bottom. You keep filling it in, thinking it's love, except it just keeps coming out the bottom."

"That made me reevaluate what I'm doing this for. I want to do things for pure intrinsic reasons. Do the work like you used to do, like when you were a kid. It was light. Just make stuff. Make it for yourself."

"So many entrepreneurs focus on what they want to be. "I want to be a giant tech founder. I want to run a billion-dollar company." Instead of focusing on, "What do I want to make."

There's no way to fail if you're making what you love."

[Dmytro Krasun @DmytroKrasun]

I made https://t.co/Ihv3IPlwao to explain gravity to my kids. They can just play with mass and see how it bends space.

You don’t have to explain concepts anymore. You can build them!

[Matt Whitman⚡ @MattWhitmanTMBH]

I wrote a Bible Field Guide with Harper Collins/Zondervan and it comes out in a week in the U.S. It's built to make the big picture of the Bible make sense by asking questions of each book that we all ask when we're deeply invested stories we love.
This is a reliable companion for serious Bible readers and newcomers alike.
It's also the kind of thing that would make a ton of sense as a graduation gift.
Here's a link: https://t.co/THPqB3oLuh

[Brandon Mathis @imathis]

@Shpigford https://t.co/BUPqjHt7W6 - not self employed but I use this instead of health insurance.

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

This Easter, I invite you to look at Jesus, consider what he said and did, and ask for yourself what I believe is the most important question you will ever answer: Did he really leave behind an empty tomb? And if he did, what does that mean for you?

This video was made possible and in collaboration with my friends at @ChildlikeMedia.

[OPM @mihirtwt]

`overscroll-x-contain` should be the default for any horizontal scroll container on the web.

by default sideways trackpad swipes trigger browser back navigation and users hate this

add this CSS and respect their intent

.scroll-container {
overscroll-behavior-x: contain;
}

[Brandon Mathis @imathis]

@hkfoster @allanbranch Hah, ours is a little more chill than that. This place is pretty awesome though. https://t.co/JbN7VofDxn

[Brandon Mathis @imathis]

Wolfenstein 3D. Not DOOM. 😑

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

🚨: A petri dish of human brain cells just learned to play DOOM

[Brandon Mathis @imathis]

@pie6k It’s so much better! Check out https://t.co/IpA7282CRE to for realtime translation between other color spaces.

[Brandon Mathis @imathis]

I jumped out of my chair and cheered. My kids think I’m crazy for going from knowing nothing about curling to being totally captivated, but I’m unashamed. This was amazing.

[Philly Sports Sufferer @mccrystal_alex]

ABSOLUTE. CINEMA.

GOOSEBUMPS

[TANSTACK @tan_stack]

We released a new TanStack library this week.

Introducing TanStack Hotkeys!

Setting up keyboard shortcuts is supposed to be easy and only take a few lines of code, right? Well, there are enough small "gotchas" that can eventually add up to an annoying amount of complexity.

[Brandon Mathis @imathis]

“Funny ads! I actually laughed.

Thankfully, that’s nothing like how we plan to do ads! We have way better taste. Also, ads will only appear on the free tier. We believe free AI access is important to society and this lets us offer even more to those who cannot afford it. We’re proud of that.”

Confident and classy. Ah well.

[Sam Altman @sama]

First, the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny, and I laughed.

But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest. Our most important principle for ads says that we won’t do exactly this; we would obviously never run ads in the way Anthropic depicts them. We are not stupid and we know our users would reject that.

I guess it’s on brand for Anthropic doublespeak to use a deceptive ad to critique theoretical deceptive ads that aren’t real, but a Super Bowl ad is not where I would expect it.

More importantly, we believe everyone deserves to use AI and are committed to free access, because we believe access creates agency. More Texans use ChatGPT for free than total people use Claude in the US, so we have a differently-shaped problem than they do. (If you want to pay for ChatGPT Plus or Pro, we don't show you ads.)

Anthropic serves an expensive product to rich people. We are glad they do that and we are doing that too, but we also feel strongly that we need to bring AI to billions of people who can’t pay for subscriptions.

Maybe even more importantly: Anthropic wants to control what people do with AI—they block companies they don't like from using their coding product (including us), they want to write the rules themselves for what people can and can't use AI for, and now they also want to tell other companies what their business models can be.

We are committed to broad, democratic decision making in addition to access. We are also committed to building the most resilient ecosystem for advanced AI. We care a great deal about safe, broadly beneficial AGI, and we know the only way to get there is to work with the world to prepare.

One authoritarian company won't get us there on their own, to say nothing of the other obvious risks. It is a dark path.

As for our Super Bowl ad: it’s about builders, and how anyone can now build anything.

We are enjoying watching so many people switch to Codex. There have now been 500,000 app downloads since launch on Monday, and we think builders are really going to love what’s coming in the next few weeks. I believe Codex is going to win.

We will continue to work hard to make even more intelligence available for lower and lower prices to our users.

This time belongs to the builders, not the people who want to control them.

[Kyle Mann @The_Kyle_Mann]

Tried a new board game this week and was not impressed. Lots of flaws.

1. Only one scenario - Most games these days have dozens of scenarios you can play. This game starts the same every time. Very low replayability. Will probably get old fast.

2. No campaign mode - Every game is a standalone experience. This feels pretty lazy. Where are the Legacy style booster packs we can unlock? Where are the persistent changes, character upgrades, etc.? Just sloppy design work.

3. Crude miniatures - Yeah, they're kinda nice in a minimalist way, but it feels like they were just cutting costs here. No big bucket of plastic minis I can paint. Very low detail renderings on the small soldier pieces in particular.

4. No expansion packs - Adding on to the replayability problems is the fact that no new content has been announced. It's just good design and business sense to have the first 2 or 3 big box expansions already in production when the base game hits. But this is just a core set without any new content on the horizon. So the meta will probably die pretty fast.

5. New players are at a disadvantage - You have to play this game more than 2 or 3 times to find any kind of viable strategy. So new players are at a huge disadvantage. When I play a game, I want everyone to feel included so all players should be getting like 400+ victory points

6. Only one way to win - The only way to win is by taking the other player's king piece. That's it. No alternate paths to victory or other strategies to pursue. Just take the king and you win. Boring. I really would have liked if you'd been able to win by building up your kingdom peaceably, or pursuing alternate routes like farming, trade, or earning favor with a visiting monarch or something. As is, the game really pigeonholes you into just one approach.

So yeah. I won't be revisiting this one. Sad, because it feels like there was a lot of potential here that was wasted by some short-sighted design and development decisions.

[shadcn @shadcn]

Introducing shadcn/create – Build your own shadcn/ui

Customize Everything. Pick your component library, icons, base color, theme, fonts and build something that doesn’t look like everything else.

Now available for Next.js, Vite, TanStack Start and v0.

[Brandon Mathis @imathis]

@commandcast @JoshLeeKwai Wow. Amazing. You could have done half the jokes and still pulled it off. Way to commit!

[Brandon Mathis @imathis]

@RhysticStudies This was my first set when I was a kid. I didn’t know anything about magic but even then I could tell it sucked. Yet somehow I still have a misguided fondness for Thrulls.

[Brandon Mathis @imathis]

@mattcassinelli Having tripped over some stuff while hunting down my AirPods, I just figured they were trying to prevent idiots like me from stumbling around in the dark.

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

Lazygit is exceptionally good software.

It's like software's greatest hits. Clear, quick, easy to command, drive-by-keyboard if you want, contrasty, glanceable, peacefully powerful, the list goes on.

So impressed.

https://t.co/n1XQf5ogmC

[Tropical Cowboy of Danger @FlynonymousWX]

A thread of videos from today’s flight into Hurricane Melissa

In this first one we are entering from the southeast just after sunrise and the bright arc on the far northwest eye wall is the light just beginning to make it over the top from behind us.