Zinger

Fan of bringing people together, good food, house music, internet friends, and New York City — or any combination thereof (em dash my own)

[Zinger @thisiszinger]

btw I maintain a list of DJs, burners, and fellow house music enthusiasts and am adding to it every day

works great for catching up on stuff throughout the week, finding new friends to follow, and it's electric on the weekends

lmk who else I should add!

https://t.co/Os6oVpAObJ

[Zinger @thisiszinger]

@GSkrovina Congrats Garrett!

[Rajvi @rajvishah30]

today someone in office said that “worrying is the worst way to use your imagination” and that’s easily the best thing Ive heard all week

[Jip @jipvandervelde]

grug is probably the first Apple Design Award winner built by two designers using Codex to write the code.

We didn't prompt "build me an award-winning app, make no mistakes.” It did not wake up one morning and decide the world needed grug. We did. We wanted to build it and AI was the tool that helped us take it all the way there.

Ever since we started building with AI a few years ago, we got bolder. You stop killing ideas just because they sound too hard to build. You get weirder when trying things becomes cheap enough to be silly again. You start following the strange little thought further than you normally would.

That is how grug happened.

AI can write your code. It can help you move fast. It can make impossible things feel possible.

But it cannot care. It cannot make your app memorable. It cannot make your app feel like it has a soul.

You have to bring the taste. You have to stay incredibly close. You have to take small steps, make thousands of tiny decisions, throw away good-enough work to get to your best work, and protect the thing that made the idea worth building in the first place.

grug would not have been this memorable if we didn't have Codex to go all-in on all the crazy ideas we had. If we had not decided to make the whole thing hand-drawn. If we had not spent days and nights obsessing over every detail, every animation, every interaction, every tiny bit of weirdness.

That is the difference between slop and something with a soul.

And I think that is why this award means so much to us. Not because what we were able to do using AI to build grug, but because Apple recognized the care we put inside all the weirdness.

For the past 15 years, so many of our ideas stopped at the mockup. They were too weird, too small, too hard to explain, too expensive to build, too unlikely to survive a meeting. Now designers like us can build the fun little things. Designers like us can ship the crazy ideas. Designers like us can make unreasonable little things and see if the world cares.

There are plenty of people who do not get grug. That is totally fine.

We do not try to build for everyone, because when you do you end up building for no-one. The people who get grug really get it. And if it makes their morning feel a little lighter, that is all that matters to us.

Make the weird thing. The right people will find it.

grug no wait for permission.

grug back sun rise.

[Zinger @thisiszinger]

@winternet "i know a perp"

[Zinger @thisiszinger]

@ktrivs @ldf_gm i heard they fell in finance at the agentic love summit

[Maxx @maxxthedesigner]

week 3 of keeping my version of “shabbat”, a Saturday without technology

what I’ve noticed;

- it really is the damn phones; most of my neuroticism stems from my attention being constantly fractured

- in the morning my mind is still racing, but by the afternoon the dust starts to settle and I enter this deep sense of mental relaxation

- I feel a kind of boredom I haven’t felt since I was a kid, just staring at the clouds, playing board games, reading

- ideas start to emerge because of it

- able to read for hours

highly recommend, especially for creatives and terminally online people

[New York Metro Weather @nymetrowx]

Go outside.

[Zinger @thisiszinger]

@benspringwater Excited to check it out!

[signüll @signulll]

hiring is the highest variance decision in an early startup. one bad hire at n=4 isn’t just a 25% drag, it resets what normal looks like for the whole team. this is esp true if that not great fit person is “senior”. they bring down the entire culture.

one great hire does the opposite, & recruits the next five. the asymmetry is huge.

take this lesson to heart from my failures lol.

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

Bookmarking tweets and not going back to them has become an epidemic

[emma @emmajo]

the human spirit was not designed for this much time online

[Zinger @thisiszinger]

we just hit 400 members on front left!

let me know who else I should add

https://t.co/yDLjDiG2eg

[Zinger @thisiszinger]

btw I maintain a list of DJs, burners, and fellow house music enthusiasts and am adding to it every day

works great for catching up on stuff throughout the week, finding new friends to follow, and it's electric on the weekends

lmk who else I should add!

https://t.co/Os6oVpAObJ

[Zinger @thisiszinger]

@Bonecondor I’m trusting you birb

[New York Metro Weather @nymetrowx]

Wednesday's Weather Rating: 10/10

MIDWEEK MAGIC!! High temperatures near 80° F with glorious sunshine continuing all day long, comfortable dew points and a beautiful breeze. That's the secret formula, man. The vibes are immaculate out there today!!

[Georgios Konstantopoulos @gakonst]

everybody's building the same thing. the IDE of the future replaces code with prompts, file viewer with thread viewer, and turbo bundles the building lifecycles (plan, design, build, deploy, monitor, fix, etc.)

but who's gonna figure out collaboration? do you make every component real-time multiplayer? bullish sync engines.

who's building the sync engines of the agentic future? cf durable objects, partykit, zero etc.

[Zinger @thisiszinger]

@doofdooflover @TerryTwoBags Sending

[MuFAWSA @mufawsa_]

notice how all the burners that are winning are the friendliest people you will meet in the scene

[Zinger @thisiszinger]

@notcainer Nah that’s Martinez Brothers

[Zinger @thisiszinger]

Am I the only one who thinks Rampa's B2B at Pacha on the 13th will be with Prospa? They don't currently have another show booked and are playing at Surf Lodge the next day

[Zinger @thisiszinger]

If this is true the market is wildly underpricing the tickets right now, still going for tier 1 GA at $100

Assuming because of unannounced B2B + people were a bit uncertain whether they would actually open on time (seems like they are for sure now)