Ben Swift - 班班

Running experiments to design a life of freedom, travel, and creative work. Building apps, learning languages, following curiosity. Laravel & iOS

[Ben Swift - 班班 @thebenswift]

@aidasio You did awesome!

[Ben Swift - 班班 @thebenswift]

@PovilasKorop @LaraconUS It was great to meet you Povilas!

[Ben Swift - 班班 @thebenswift]

Went to @LaraconUS for the first time.

I hadn’t been to a tech conference since WWDC16, so I wasn’t sure what to expect.

Had a great time meeting new people and felt really welcomed by the @laravel community!

[Tibo @thsottiaux]

Evening! We’ve gotten lots of great feedback on the new ChatGPT desktop app (which we didn't get totally quite right on the first try), and as a result, we've made some changes.

1/ ChatGPT conversation history and projects are now visible in the sidebar. Also, your Chat and Work history now sync across web, mobile, and desktop. Local tasks still stay on your computer.
2/ You can now easily switch between Chat and Work modes inside ChatGPT on desktop, which is now also consistent with how it shows on web and mobile.
3/ Nothing is changing for users on Codex mode. It's still the OG and best at what it does.

And overall we're continuing to fix paper cuts and improve performance, reliability, and efficiency.

Keep up the feedback, hope you like the updates!

[OpenAI Developers @OpenAIDevs]

Your Codex activity now has a home, and an easier way to share it.

Codex profiles show your activity graph, streaks, lifetime tokens, peak daily tokens, and top features like plugins and /fast mode.

Private by default. Share a card when you want to.

[OpenAI Developers @OpenAIDevs]

More of the iOS app loop, now inside Codex.

The Build iOS Apps plugin lets Codex view and test your iOS app in the in-app browser, open SwiftUI previews, and hot reload edits without leaving Codex.

[Tibo @thsottiaux]

Hatch a pet now in a codex app near you. It makes me actually more productive too by having the context follow me around as I multitask.

Please no comments on us having too much fun, we are also working on capability maxing 👀

[Ben Swift - 班班 @thebenswift]

TaiwanSounds is now live!

https://t.co/3nBLs7pTPF

[Ben Swift - 班班 @thebenswift]

I'm at Day 7 of the experiment to get this project live on the App Store. Yesterday I felt some builder's resistance and questioning my process and whether this is even worth doing. But I'm gonna power through

[Ben Swift - 班班 @thebenswift]

Beta testing TaiwanSounds with a couple of friends. One thing that has come up that I have been concerned about before is audio quality as I recorded sounds with my phone. For v1, it'll be good

[Ben Swift - 班班 @thebenswift]

Landing page is live! https://t.co/r98J5wLvFX

[Ben Swift - 班班 @thebenswift]

I'm running a 2 week experiment to get TaiwanSounds on the App Store. So far I'm 3 days in and have built the basic prototype. Need to finish adding some data. Today I'm working on getting a landing page going. Just going to reuse the current web app one with some tweaks

[Ben Swift - 班班 @thebenswift]

I've wanted a solid morning routine for a while. Not much has worked. I think I finally built it: https://t.co/WIreWeO1LX

[Ben Swift - 班班 @thebenswift]

@Nicolascole77 Books

[Ben Swift - 班班 @thebenswift]

Shipped something fun today 🎧

BopoSounds: A Zhuyin soundboard for learning Mandarin phonetics!

Check it out: https://t.co/mugK9lZ4ed

[Ben Swift - 班班 @thebenswift]

I recently shipped my first creative project in years, a huge win in the life I'm building. Read about it here: https://t.co/RZrzHV9Xbk

[Nicolas Cole 🚢👻 @Nicolascole77]

I asked 195,000 people for the best book they read in 2024.

These 14 turned up the most (so they will make for great reading over the holidays):🧵

[Ben Swift - 班班 @thebenswift]

Building momentum can be challenging but it is so important for making progress towards goals.
https://t.co/pcbGrwO07P

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.

[Ben Swift - 班班 @thebenswift]

Join me as I document my learning experiments on X!