Imagine every pixel on your screen, streamed live directly from a model. No HTML, no layout engine, no code. Just exactly what you want to see.
@eddiejiao_obj, @drewocarr and I built a prototype to see how this could actually work, and set out to make it real. We're calling it Flipbook. (1/5)
I’ve been reading C.S Lewis’s autobiography and just stumbled upon this glorious anti-car rant, followed by an insult so delightfully rude and sophisticated at the same time.
More than that, it’s also a meditation on the psychological and spiritual costs of human progress:
“I measured distances by the standard of man, man walking on his two feet, not by the standard of the internal combustion engine. I had not been allowed to deflower the very idea of distance; in returned I possessed 'infinite riches' in what would have been to motorists 'a little room.'
The truest and most horrible claim made for modern transport is that it 'annihilates space.' It does. It annihilates one of the most glorious gifts we have been given. It is a vile inflation which lowers the value of distance, so that a modern boy travels a hundred miles with less sense of liberation and pilgrimage and adventures than his grandfather got from travelling ten.”
C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy, 1955.
Had the privilege of joining Daniel Stih on his podcast, Solutions for Change, to talk Nexion and explore the paradox of loneliness in our hyper-connected age.
Daniel is a thoughtful problem solver, deeply human-centric, and our conversation dove into why meaningful relationships suffer today and what Nexion is doing to solve it.
Huge thanks to Daniel for creating a platform that highlights these critical solutions. Listen here: https://t.co/TKtDpnNtbQ
The reality of building web apps in 2025 is that it's a bit like assembling IKEA furniture. There's no "full-stack" product with batteries included, you have to piece together and configure many individual services:
- frontend / backend (e.g. React, Next.js, APIs)
- hosting (cdn, https, domains, autoscaling)
- database
- authentication (custom, social logins)
- blob storage (file uploads, urls, cdn-backed)
- email
- payments
- background jobs
- analytics
- monitoring
- dev tools (CI/CD, staging)
- secrets
- ...
I'm relatively new to modern web dev and find the above a bit overwhelming, e.g. I'm embarrassed to share it took me ~3 hours the other day to create and configure a supabase with a vercel app and resolve a few errors. The second you stray just slightly from the "getting started" tutorial in the docs you're suddenly in the wilderness. It's not even code, it's... configurations, plumbing, orchestration, workflows, best practices. A lot of glory will go to whoever figures out how to make it accessible and "just work" out of the box, for both humans and, increasingly and especially, AIs.
There's never been a better time to learn how to program, if for no other reason than to understand the technology that you use every day just a little bit more.
@friedberg Liked this at first — and think it’s an exciting idea to make every American a direct beneficiary of the stock market. But… another way? One that doesn’t hitch a big safety net to the same “ROIC” dynamics that rule seemingly every other facet of US life? Seems harmful, socially
LOOOOL at this point Sacks and Musk and Thiel are just putting shit in front of him to sign off on. Cardano, Ripple and Solana as strategic reserves for the United States of America. Can we please just start buying TSLA stock directly with our “DOGE savings” and get it over with?
@auchenberg@GoogleAI *all* Google APIs come with a tax in that you have to learn to auth against & navigate the cloud platform generally. Never as easy as consuming a point solution. Hope they find the will & way to unwind this… IIWII for now 🤷🏽♂️
@kelseyhightower But — why?
Reminds me of Telco convos: If a customer jams reset on their modem 3x, then calls customer support — does the agent know without being told? Ofc “no”.
What’s missing here? Willpower?
Could $GOOGL buy Figma, double down on being the Cloud for Creators, borrow some designers & become fun again? Consumer apps need a soul.
Microsoft portfolio arc, but with less stodgy productivity tools.