John Potter

CEO @ Rye Labs - building tools for SMEs at CIAL Dun & Bradstreet. Design engineer. Former NFL kicker. Creator of

[John Potter @johnmpotter]

Loved these thoughts from @jenny_wen on how the design process is changing due to AI.
Something I've been feeling. More and more we're building dev-first vs design-first. Designers are still critical, but in a new type of role.

https://t.co/SfwroddEdj

[John Potter @johnmpotter]

Anthropic War Room: "So this was like really bad, but could make a really great customer case study"

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We believe this is the first documented case of a large-scale AI cyberattack executed without substantial human intervention. It has significant implications for cybersecurity in the age of AI agents.

Read more: https://t.co/VxqERnPQRJ

[John Potter @johnmpotter]

Love randomly seeing npmtrends screenshots in the wild. It’s visuals like this that help indicate where the js community is moving. Downloads aren’t everything, but they are something.

[Zeno Rocha @zenorocha]

Two years ago, Resend was the new kid on the block.

Many people told me, “We don't need another Email API.”

But if you focus on quality, there's always space, even in a super crowded market.

We still have a looong way to go, and there's so much more to build, so back to work.

[John Potter @johnmpotter]

Hadn’t heard of OKLCH before. Cool way to build consistency across a color palette for people like me that struggle with color.

[Jakub Krehel @jakubkrehel]

What are OKLCH colors?
https://t.co/5ELMmVEOWf

[麦 ⌇Baku @_baku89]

Super excited that our paper, co-authored with @junkato, on parameter-tuning widgets for creative software has been accepted to #UIST2025. It’s my first academic paper ever, which makes it way more special. #tweeqjs

https://t.co/pjwcjumLmF

[John Potter @johnmpotter]

Content alignment should be the first design skill any developer learns. These look cool, but what feels “off” is the alignment and spacing. A few small changes make a huge difference.

[21st.dev @21st_dev_old]

Check out this sleek Upload UI component! Perfect for keeping users informed during uploads. Loving the clean design by kristen17.

Link in thread ↓

[Chris Nicholas @ctnicholasdev]

Streaming AI chat messages have introduced a new UX challenge.

In apps like Whatsapp, messages are short and arrive all at once. Pinning messages to the bottom of the chat makes sense—it's expected, and works well for human interactions.

But AI chats are a new paradigm ↓

[John Potter @johnmpotter]

Solved?

[John Potter @johnmpotter]

Why is "npm run dev" @cursor_ai's kryptonite?

[Prathyush @prathyvsh]

Here’s a thread on Semantic Zoom — a UI design pattern that is becoming prominent in the design scene with AIs enabling multi-level text summaries.

[Ege @egeberkina]

Since Midjourney announced that they support creating videos with specific start and end frames, I had to try it.

So I retextured the images with the JSON below and then used start and end frames to create a short video!

Prompt 👇

[John Potter @johnmpotter]

TIL that the annoying little prompt that tells you to start a new chat automatically passes context to the new conversation. No more "please summarize this conversation so I can start a new chat".

[John Potter @johnmpotter]

Love this “Add New” button

[rico @_heyrico]

Other design view 👀

[John Potter @johnmpotter]

Smart ad buy from @claudeai for those long tail unsearchable error strings. Not sure if i've ever seen this before.

[John Potter @johnmpotter]

Context switching when you wait for the AI to return definitely kills the feeling of flow, but I’ve never had more fun “coding” than right now. Building is getting closer and closer to moving at the speed of ideas.

[Aiden Bai @aidenybai]

coding isn't fun anymore :(

i haven't had "flow state" for months, but i'm more productive than ever with Cursor agent

[John Potter @johnmpotter]

@itsmechase @aidenybai I really think it’s this. Context switching is the enemy of flow - doesn’t matter whether the task you’re switching to is productive or not.

[John Potter @johnmpotter]

Ad styles that could never have been real in the first place will be the first to gain social acceptance. Focusing on inanimate objects reduces the ick factor. The decor may be too general for an IKEA ad but could easily be Amazon.

[Min Choi @minchoi]

This Veo 3 prompt is literally ~$100,000 VFX ad🤯

Prompt in comment

[John Potter @johnmpotter]

@kentcdodds @jacobmparis Absolutely. I'm kind of surprised that it doesn't do this out of the box. I didn't notice this as prominently until that last month or so, so maybe an update changed behavior. Curious if it's something cursor rules could fix or if it would take more than that.

[John Potter @johnmpotter]

@jacobmparis Exactly, I almost always have the service running already!

[John Potter @johnmpotter]

Why is "npm run dev" @cursor_ai's kryptonite?

[John Potter @johnmpotter]

Today my junior dev proposed an in-memory cache for a service that is going to process millions of records - no redis, no eviction policy.

Normally my senior dev would catch this.

The problem is that my junior dev and my senior dev are the same Cursor.