Nick Payne

Founder, talat | • Founder, fitIQ | • Co-founder, freddy |

[Nick Payne @makeusabrew]

My new desktop app, DeskVault, is LIVE and looking for alpha testers! 🎉🥳

If you know the pain of managing multiple Stripe accounts, or you've ever wanted a view of revenue, action items, important events across all of your accounts at once - try it👇

https://t.co/h6ycj4TSF2

[Nick Payne @makeusabrew]

talat is now available on your iPhone and Apple Watch: https://t.co/WvJ6m7xK46

[Nick Payne @makeusabrew]

This is why Carmack is still the bar against which we should measure ourselves. Even (or maybe especially?) in a world where LLMs are writing our code, caring this obsessively about performance is one way to set your application apart from the ever-growing crowd it will be competing with.

brb, off to optimise talat's boot process for the umpteenth time...

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

I had a similar reaction. Everyone should applaud performance improvements, but gauge against the “speed of light”, not just a sloppy competitor. If you are measuring in seconds, you may have already anchored yourself incorrectly.

Structure the UI so you can put locally cached media up just a few vblanks after the process launches.

Structure the server so it can return everything necessary for the dynamic UI in one single query that was kicked off in parallel with the Gfx API initialization, branching to a modern transport protocol for large media files.

You should be able to double click on the launcher and have it responsive before your muscle memory can slam the pointer to a location to click on.

[Nick Payne @makeusabrew]

My friend and cofounder @t_tms had a chat with @the5krunner about freddy. Check out their write up below 👇

[the5krunner @the5krunner]

freddy lets ChatGPT, Claude or Grok read your own Garmin, Oura, WHOOP and Apple Health data, so they answer training questions from your real numbers. The developer's assistant saw his HRV drop from 45 to 35.5 ms in a week and cut his next week back.

His resting heart rate had climbed from 44 to 50 as well, and the key 3 x 2 km run stayed in. It's read-only, free for one source and $49 a year for everything, and it won't push workouts to your watch.

#freddy #running

[Nick Payne @makeusabrew]

We won an award! 🏆

Very proud to scoop Prolific North's "App of the Year" award with @talatapp last week. Glad I ended up wearing a suit 🕺🏻

https://t.co/paVdQL5v0d

[Nick Payne @makeusabrew]

I wrote up a quick comparison between @talatapp and Google's new experimental local-first meeting notetaker, 'Foresight'

https://t.co/MnLt167BG4

[Nick Payne @makeusabrew]

@arvidkahl @jonathan_wilke This is, as always, a spectacularly balanced take. You rock Arvid

[Nick Payne @makeusabrew]

I see, this is what happens when I forget about X for a few days is it? My man @jonathan_wilke kicks Elon out of his castle and turns it into a dedicated https://t.co/dIBDbEkyhr feed?

Congratulations dude!

[Nick Payne @makeusabrew]

@jonathan_wilke So happy for you mate - incredible!

[Nick Payne @makeusabrew]

GitHublet has a new look 👇

shamelessly inspired by my friend and co-founder @t_tms's razor-sharp aesthetic on https://t.co/ygsOs4HMj4

[Nick Payne @makeusabrew]

I wrote a little app I can invoke with a hotkey and type any number into, and it'll bring up GitHub issue numbers ranked by relevance and recency. Enter gives me a preview inline in the window, enter again opens the link on GitHub.

Saves me a ton of time over the course of a day

[Nick Payne @makeusabrew]

@ThePeterMick Hi pete, you typo'd "marketing" there when I think you meant "moar features"

hth

[Nick Payne @makeusabrew]

@rrmdp Oh WOW.

I tried to catch it (in the North of England) but I don't think we got the best of it. That first pic of yours is absolutely stunning 🤩

[Nick Payne @makeusabrew]

TIL. Nice! 👇

[Jonathan Wilke @jonathan_wilke]

Please tell your agents to use text-balance.

Thank you.

[Nick Payne @makeusabrew]

@willwangdev thanks Will! Appreciate the input.

Yep, if it ships at all, it will ship as an easily accessible toggle.

[Nick Payne @makeusabrew]

I'm experimenting with a new transcript layout on https://t.co/SwwTxG8Knh

Left: current view - new paragraph per utterance
Right: condensed view - color coded utterances

Thoughts?

[Nick Payne @makeusabrew]

I wrote a little app I can invoke with a hotkey and type any number into, and it'll bring up GitHub issue numbers ranked by relevance and recency. Enter gives me a preview inline in the window, enter again opens the link on GitHub.

Saves me a ton of time over the course of a day

[Nick Payne @makeusabrew]

This... can't be good. Granted, it's the sum of two people's work, but still.

Pretty abysmal work/life and code/marketing balance

[Nick Payne @makeusabrew]

@jonathan_wilke 👀

[Nick Payne @makeusabrew]

Notifications CTAs are better in the next release of talat.

Today, the "Dismiss" button carries equal weight with the secondary CTA ("Stop recording" in the second shot).

The danger CTA state ("Delete recording") is completely new - a glaring gap in today's notifications 🫣

[Nick Payne @makeusabrew]

@sammkyalo thank you 🙏

[Nick Payne @makeusabrew]

If you use talat - how would you vote?

In fact, why not go one better and answer directly on discord? https://t.co/I3WJBIWSeC