Sam Becker

Labs at @google. Previously @vercel + @ideo.

[Sam Becker @sambecker]

So fun reimagining an og app for Liquid Glass. Would never have dreamt of doing this rewrite—original codebase was Objective-C—before AI.

[Sam Becker @sambecker]

If you know me, you know RodentDraw was the first iPhone app I developed. It debuted soon after the App Store over 15 years ago, and eventually became obsolete.

[Sam Becker @sambecker]

Design version: sketch something, wait 2 days, redesign it.

[Sam Becker @sambecker]

Writing something, waiting 3hrs, and reading it again is a super power.

[Sam Becker @sambecker]

@simpsoka omg 16yrs in the making

rodent liberation day basically

[Sam Becker @sambecker]

Thought it would be charming to keep the original $0.99 price from 2010 when rebooting RodentDraw, but it turns out people don’t buy apps anymore 🙃

Henceforth, RODENTDRAW IS NOW FREE

[RodentDraw @rodentdraw]

Turn humans into rodents—for the the first time since RodentDraw v1 was released in 2010!—and so much more

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Download here https://t.co/M8vc5EdsJN

[Sam Becker @sambecker]

@JohnPhamous i feel like in superman when the villains get trapped in polygons and sent into deep space?

[Sam Becker @sambecker]

@MichelleBakels @sentry omg absolutely need one of those

[Sam Becker @sambecker]

@JohnPhamous @simpsoka @elsigh @almonk @glennui @skllcrn @emilkowalski @raunofreiberg @rauchg 🫡 learned so much from you all

next to design engineer definition in oed: portrait of johnpham

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@itsakdev @rodentdraw u won’t believe what I’m cookin

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Things are happening

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@simpsoka @joshwoodward 🖤

[Sam Becker @sambecker]

New scale-aware UI just dropped

[JohnPhamous @JohnPhamous]

@sambecker Each image should be to scale of the animal

[Sam Becker @sambecker]

@JohnPhamous k ill mock it up

[Sam Becker @sambecker]

So, apparently moles are not rodents? Only defensible fix here was to introduce a new "rodent adjacent" menu.

[Sam Becker @sambecker]

@JohnPhamous a capybara is 100x times the size of a guinea pig???

[Sam Becker @sambecker]

Believe it or not we made the same mistake with ferrets in 2010. Only in this business!

[Sam Becker @sambecker]

@cramforce 🫡

[Sam Becker @sambecker]

Seeing pretty wild gains in Next.js 16.2—Snow Leopard releases never disappoint

[Guillermo Rauch @rauchg]

Next.js 16.2 “Snow Leopard” 🐆

i.e.: sheer focus on performance, agentic developer experience, robustness

[Sam Becker @sambecker]

@cramforce When do i go all in on cache components and don’t say 6mo ago