Copy, marketing and social for @sketch + @elyxdesign. Former tech journalist. Also: dad, husband, fussy coffee enthusiast, occasional runner.

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TIL that people argue about Monzo vs Revolut the same way people argue about design tools and the need for us all to touch grass has never been greater.
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No-one: Absolutely no-one: Formula 1 journalists: “Antonelli rues”
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Hot take: this is an entirely fine copy length for a hero. The real issue is that we’ve all got brain rot and decaying attention spans.
4 lines of header and an em dash Who actually thinks Stripe’s new website is good?
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Advertising planners doing their research before writing “ people are more connected but have never been more divided” as the insight.
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Would love to know the mental gymnastics it takes for a founder believe it’s a good idea to have a bot send unsolicited replies from their brand account to try and get engagement. Everyone’s dealt with a reply guy, and now you’re automating that at a rate of 3 replies per minute.
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Happy to have played a small part in a big launch today. The @elyxdesign team have built something pretty special! Plenty more to do and show, though. We go again tomorrow. 🫡 elyx.design
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Responding to all feature requests with “we have to pace the frontier” from now on.
A few folks have asked if we’ll take Oklab and Oklch beyond gradients but we have to pace the frontier.
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Can’t ship working autofill, can ship a review prompt in the UI. What an incredible fall from grace.
Got really excited about @1Password offering native macOS autofill, but so far the experience has been: 1. Select a login item (if it appears) 2. Enter master password 3. Nothing happened, go to step 1 4. Oh you now enter your macOS password 5. Maybe you get a password autofilled if you’re lucky So, it’s 2Password, when it works.
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For a lot folks, this is going to be better than throwing a clanker from one of the big labs at their use case. Really great to see someone doing something different in this space!
Today we're launching Desert Ant Labs: a European frontier AI lab building on-device intelligence. 18 models across audio, vision, and text. SDKs for Swift, Kotlin, and JavaScript. No tokens. No logins. Nothing leaves the device. desertant.com
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This is by no means a comment on any of the individuals in this photo, but as a work environment this would absolutely fry me.
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Got really excited about @1Password offering native macOS autofill, but so far the experience has been: 1. Select a login item (if it appears) 2. Enter master password 3. Nothing happened, go to step 1 4. Oh you now enter your macOS password 5. Maybe you get a password autofilled if you’re lucky So, it’s 2Password, when it works.
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Freddie Harrison retweeted
shout out to any parent here that shifts from a crazy llm dopamine rollercoaster for 8hrs to the complete opposite of it and trying to play calmly with play doh and magnatiles
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You can just make things (to stretch with)
I stopped lifting and started stretching. Of course every app I tried was terrible or didn’t let me do the one single thing I wanted. Control my workout from my watch. So I just built one. apple.co/4gP8uGH
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Is anyone building a decent screen recording app? Feels like a very overlooked market.
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Still happily team half-bounce.
I love how many people are attaching to the "half-bounch" startup time metric. I used to do paid macOS dev ~20 years ago and most macOS devs I knew then used the bounce metric! Back then multiple bounces was the norm due to HDDs. One bounce really wasn't possible until SSDs. We've lost this obsession and its time to bring it back.
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There’s an ageing population and low birth rate where I live and @AskNationwide know it. Not talking to the students themselves but the parents and grandparents of students. Gotta respect the hustle.
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🆕 Better stacks! Blurs on groups! Glass and fade combined! It’s update day! 🆕 First up, we’ve added min/max sizes, relative sizing, negative gap and z-index order options to stacks. Plus a whole bunch of smaller improvements, all based on your feedback. ↓
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Freddie Harrison retweeted
Your lower back as soon as you turn 30
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