will to code

The reason that apple created such great products is because they weren't competing with anyone They spend years on a product because they have their own standards to deliver

"Competition is for losers" >>>>> The big downside of competition is that people start shipping out of anxiety "I need to build this quickly and ship before the competition" The luxury of knowing you are unbeatable.... by refusing to compete >>>>> You use your time to release something truly astonishing The big difference is that they work because they feel they have to, you work because you feel like bringing the new thing into the world, if your work isn't perfect then you won't release it... no pressure

This was a fun lil project GitHub

For today I want to build a humble calculator that does basic arithmetic with rust + gpui

It's #friday Time to chill and build something

The supreme first principle > it's all just data

I've been a pixlr user for a while now Well today I just learned that its all just a <canvas>. Its like they took something extremely flexible and molded it... and then that molded my mental model of how I edited images. I've accepted it as a given without ever questioning it for years now. The key lesson here is that I can make my own <canvas> with my own rules. There are no rules.

Tokyo has 40 million people That's a lot

Experimenting...

Image gen is so addictive 🫠 And I'm not even half decent at it It fails a lot to capture what I have in mind and that makes me want to create my own art. And I think this will be the case for most people as well. > people start using image gen models > the models stimulate their imagination > ai fails to fully capture their vision > people learn how to create art ✨ Whose building the ai that teaches people how to "art"

How did I miss this gem

This is how I use my API to generate gifs

Gifs are now supported /gif <prompt> @the_image_gen_bot

#friday has come again 😋

We could do it better and it wouldn't even be that difficult X's incentive is to monetize everyone, ours will be different

Timeline so far - Monday: Built the API layer - Tuesday: Switch to Cloudflare for Videos and Images - Today: Added Support for Video Generation Models #buildinpublic

Man I love infrastructure so much 🫠 I am looking at Cloudflare's docs and everything is just so beautifully crafted. The clarity feels so good! They have won we over completely