We’re announcing something new today: Motif - music that moves with your yoga class. Instead of static playlists, the music follows the structure and energy of a class and adapts on the fly.

Here, enjoy Monty Python's "Argument Sketch" as performed by vintage speech synths -- and some musings on why expressive speech synthesis performed by hand is so special. (plus some music) cdm.link/argument-sketch-on-…

yes claude you can have your seams

Alice Coltrane, Jazz Jamboree (1987)

NeXTSTEP is such an enigma in the grand scheme of computer history. It’s like the modern equivalent of your nerdiest developers leaving to spend a decade fucking around with low level kernel drivers and UI frameworks that customers don’t understand and sales guys don’t know how to sell. They make no money for years, but they also hard launch the computer animation industry along the way by accident. Then, on the cusp of irrelevancy, they come back, immediately stop being nerds and go on to lead the greatest product led development cycle in history. Nobody ever remembers Steve Jobs as the object oriented inter-process-communication guy, but he was. He personally hired the original designer of the Mach kernel. What the hell?

/tell-me-what-to-do

1990, and publishers discover computer graphics and PostScript typefaces...

Microsoft Windows 95, Sapporo Black Label Beer, Japan (1995)

Asking Meta's Muse what happens to my data:

current status

how many more clips of dhh shouting on my timeline

This is the most novel Jev-based idea I've heard so far

western visual culture is unravelling because we don't respect the art of the Vibey Full Page Color Magazine Advert anymore. in this essay i will

"wow is it a whole cottage industry now to vaguepost about AI developments, and damn are my cognitive shields not evolved for this" 🤝

Sorry, this is pure FUD. Google API keys are very simple, people just don't follow very simple steps. All you need to do is: 1. Sign in to google cloud console 2. Create a new project 3. Enable billing on that project 4. Search for numerous "services" that you need to enable for that API 5. Find out there are more you need to enable to actually make it work 6. Go and enable them. 7. Create the key 8. It still doesn't work and you keep wondering why and then spending days with customer support (after many different wrong AI generated answers that lead you to a wild goose chase), you find some hidden webpage that oh wait, you need to create a key in ai studio for this now 9. ai studio says you are only on tier -43 so you can only do transactions of less than $0.2 in a day 10. Then you go to openrouter and make a key and use it. It's extremely simple.

> the logical destination is for anyone to be able to develop the product from within the product, and for the product to become the IDE itself. alan kay has entered the chat

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IDM starter pack video with Anthony Fantano @theneedledrop is out now ! we discuss Aphex Twin, Skee Mask, Flying Lotus, Autechre + more for 45 minutes. hope you guys enjoy this conversation.

Here's Rhys' practical guide to shipping an MCP your users want: - Your MCP should be able to do everything your dashboard can Yes including things like deleting resources. The way to make this practical inside of an agent while not having things be unsafe is to deep link them into your product from inside the MCP - Do not ship lazy loading / codemode inside of your MCP CodeMode is a harness detail. Most harnesses (Claude / Codex / OpenCode) support codemode now, the problem is if you have two codemode MCPs they don't compose nicely (Executor v2 will still support CodeMode, but, will start to default to a transparent tool proxy for better clients) - Ship a search docs / skills tool Agents love these and it helps give them more understanding of your product MCP is getting skills over mcp which will help here in the future - Have a deep link into product tool Let the agent generate a URL that brings them into your product, people still want to use your dashboard and data visualization! They just don't want to click through things - Customization I think this matters less over time, but, you can allow people to select 'toolsets' of things to connect with to clients. Some clients don't support customizing tool selections and then it's also nice to have tool permissions set to the auth token - Let people OAuth from whatever client they want Please stop putting restrictions on which clients can authenticate to MCP servers, your users hate it, it doesn't improve security, all it does is add more friction PostHog and Sentry are my two 'AI native' companies to look at today, they both have an excellent onboarding, MCP / CLI experience, if you need a place to learn from look at them To be honest though, while all the above is helpful just shipping your API spec + CIMD OAuth to it is enough for 99% of agents to have a good experience