Nick Dazé

You haven't had your best idea yet.

[Nick Dazé @nickdaze]

@adamwathan I think https://t.co/CAF0X3tzZj has been down since last night. Any info?

[Nick Dazé @nickdaze]

Nothing makes me happier than bringing great people together. Thank you, @jvedi @pinecone for bringing the talent and creativity of the Los Angeles tech community together to trade notes about agentic AI.

There are so many problems to solve, and that’s where the fun is.

[Nick Dazé @nickdaze]

The last AI Agents Happy Hour was so fun, @jvedi and I are going to do it again. This time, co-hosted by @pinecone! We want to see what you're building and learn from your experience. Blow my mind, and I'll buy you a beer. Wednesday, May 27th at Gulp in Playa Vista. Tell your agent to put it on your calendar.

https://t.co/qvMRTd8QXV

[Nick Dazé @nickdaze]

@azzabazazz Try OpenWebUI

[Nick Dazé @nickdaze]

I still can't stop thinking about this.

[Jesper Vos @jesper_vos]

One of my favourite little details in the new COLLINS website is this responsive border-radius.

--margin: calc((100% - var(--max-width)) / 2);
border-radius: clamp(1rem, calc(1.5rem - var(--margin)), 1.5rem);

https://t.co/mokwcgE2eM

[Nick Dazé @nickdaze]

@garrytan Connecting mine to 15 years of Kindle highlights, Twitter bookmarks, and web clips (already in Obsidian) has been a game-changer for interest + personality.

[Nick Dazé @nickdaze]

@Noahpinion Very curious what you think “learning” would look like for not parties. Series of posts?

[Nick Dazé @nickdaze]

design system decisions have a natural topological order

[Nick Dazé @nickdaze]

I feel cursed for loving RSS so much.

[Nick Dazé @nickdaze]

9:05PM - User message about a bug.
9:07PM - “looking into it now”
10:18PM - push a fix
10:20PM - “we should be in business” message
10:25PM - user: “worked!”

This really happened last night.

I’m not an engineer. I’ve always loved shipping software, but this AI loop is different.

And i love it.

[Nick Dazé @nickdaze]

https://t.co/GQttBDMBqW

[Nick Dazé @nickdaze]

2 things can be true at the same time. 1) @openclaw is the most important UX shift in AI since putting LLMs in a chat in late 2022. and 2) this is nowhere near ready for mainstream use. Huge value will be created by simplifying the hell out of it

[Nick Dazé @nickdaze]

@LukeW A UI is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it’s not good. (Not original, but I think about that quote all the time.)

[Nick Dazé @nickdaze]

I’m working on something for home gardeners — especially if you’ve ever killed a plant and blamed yourself. Can I steal 10 minutes of your time? DM me or reply here.

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

I think we're in the Roman Republic dilemma at this point. You can't let people get away with this level of constitutional overreach without punishing them.But to punish them is to play right into the partisan tit for tat retribution cycle,which was what plagued Rome.("Lawfare"?)

[Nick Dazé @nickdaze]

Day 10. Feedback from early Newsie users: "I go to add content and I get lost."

The original modal was built with AI. Functional? Yes. Friendly? Not even close. It asked users to find RSS feed URLs and gave them a tutorial on how to do it. Inside the modal.

This is the real story of building with AI. It gets you to v1 fast. But the gap between "it works" and "people actually want to use it" — that's still on you.

New design just shipped:
• "Follow a website" instead of "Add a new publication"
• Paste any URL, we find the feed
• No jargon, no tutorials, bigger buttons

Keep the feedback coming. It's making Newsie better.

https://t.co/KR6pUTGtEz

[Nick Dazé @nickdaze]

9 days in with Newsie. 40 of you are with me, reliving the glory days of Google Reader. (Thank you for your feature requests!)

Shipped since last week:
* Dark mode!
* @mentions (with autocomplete) to friends in share messages
* Threaded replies
* Reply notification emails
* Unified 'Friends' page
* Combo friend search
* Floating article toolbar when scrolling long articles
* Prefetch next n articles for faster UX
* Two-step onboarding (follow sites, pick a username)
* Email an article to anyone's email! (Designed to look like GR 🥲)
* An admin interface so I can triage content problems
* List virtualization, Redis caching, and bulk operations
* Optimized API response sizes, query patterns, and session caching
* Lazy loading with skeleton loading states
* Mobile UX improvements across the app
* Responsive toast positioning by viewport
* API security hardening against common vulnerabilities

What do you want to see next?

[Nick Dazé @nickdaze]

Voter ID is one of those "duh why don't we do it, 80% approval" ideas that completely falls apart once you think about implementation.