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Porto, Portugal
Joined September 2006
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Teenage Engineering R, from 2017.
NEW: OpenAI’s first product is a mobile, screen-free home smart speaker that a user can build a connection with like an AI companion. Amid Apple’s trade secret lawsuit, the iPhone maker has nothing like it on the market. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Apple faced a similiar issue in 1999 with the Power Mac G4 launch, and they just turned it into an ad.
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
Great to see @FacebookOrigami finally shipping official LLM support. It’s been a while since @alexwidua’s Kami project back in 2023, among others: alexwidua.com/projects/kami
Actualmente, o acesso já é bastante restrito. Só mediante pedido que vai a aprovação, sendo possível consultar as listas num computador, sob vigilância de um funcionário, para garantir que não são obtidas cópias digitais (fotografias ou ficheiros).
Doadores dos partidos e campanhas passam a ser secretos cnnportugal.iol.pt/corrupcao…
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There used to be two playbooks for commercial software:
a) be first to market
b) make the best product
Being first was rarely important, yet so many software companies operate this way. “We must ship by this time next month or we’ll lose.” A shallow way to build, in my opinion.
Now with AI tools having gone from “lol nice JavaScript try again” in Jan 2025 to “damn, nice C program, take the wheel” in Jan 2026, there’s only one playbook that remains: make the best product. Now anyone can “compete” with you if being first is your differentiator.
So don’t make a hundred products or a hundred features quickly just because you can. Instead leverage this “huge cheap skilled workforce” you now have to build something really good, even if it takes time.
You can’t blame timelines for janky scrolling or broken text editing anymore.
Build something that’s meaningfully different, something that you can be proud of a decade from now
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«5 coisas que importa saber acerca da nova proposta sobre crianças e redes sociais»
A proposta será discutida amanhã na Assembleia da República.
direitosdigitais.pt/noticias…
The recurring debate over whether digital designers should code is finally over. It was always just a matter of stubbornness and ability.
Zawinski's Law in effect, though I’d prefer if @Spotify fixed their UI, including not reversing some display settings on every update as a growth hack. theverge.com/news/765771/spo…
A new Bleachers concert just dropped.
youtube.com/watch?v=5WjFuWhW…
Pixelmator acquired by Apple. Been using Pixelmator Pro for over a decade, hope they make Photomator a worthy successor to Aperture. Historically, some of Apple’s best software has come from acquisitions—Mac OS X, iTunes, iWork, Final Cut Pro, and more.
pixelmator.com/blog/2024/11/…
A year ago, my username on @instagram was stolen—not a hack but an inside job. @Meta's support was unhelpful. Friendly current/former employees tried to help. I even tracked down who stole it and had a judicial notification issued, but no luck. Now, the same happened to @javier:
Obituary for a Quiet Life
A man passes away without a word in the mountains of North Carolina, and his grandson sets out to write about the importance of a seemingly unimportant life.
bittersoutherner.com/feature…
Annual reminder that 'Strange Days' is still the best New Year's Eve movie.
imdb.com/title/tt0114558/
One of the best MTV Unplugged sessions comes from Soul Asylum, now released on streaming for its 30th anniversary, with the full set.
open.spotify.com/album/2oK1M…
ALT Soul Asylum - The Complete Unplugged NYC'93
