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The founders' urge to rewrite the whole frontend from @chrismessina.me's feedback instead of shipping the feature you pulled and all-nighter for.
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The Clean Air Vehicle Decal program is ending as of Sep 30. "...vehicles with a CAV decal will no longer be eligible to pay reduced tolls or travel in carpool High-Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes with a single occupant. You may receive a citation if you violate HOV-lane laws or do not pay tolls."
Not sure it normalizes it; it reads as pretty straightforward and factual, even if it elides historical context, or adds the term "unprecedented" (which seems implied at this point).
1984 is going great.
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Apps #5, 6, and 7 of the top Developer Tools in the App Store are vibe coding apps
Bridging the open social web under the Bay Bridge! 😊
Superhuman (now owned by Grammarly) has added a calendar mode switcher to its sidebar. Clearly we'll see Docs, Spreadsheets, and Presentations icons there soon too. 👀 #NewSuperhuman
Not where I expected to see a Trump tarriff take effect
The cobbler's children have no shoes.
ICYMI, Spotify for Mac has losslessly updated its app icon. #NewAppIcon
Today hashtags get a bad rap. They can be spammy, overused, and stray far from their original purpose. @chrismessina.me, who was the first to advocate for hashtag use on Twitter, notes the problem wasn’t the hashtag itself, but the incentives that corrupted their use. Full episode out now.
RIP Typepad everything.typepad.com/blog/2025/08... #deadpool
One's not better than the other per se, but property rights, once established, tend to grow and disenfranchise over time.
I was thinking about this angle... what if the mods for a dominant subreddit are asshats? Once again, you're left with gatekeeping and politics... whereas hashtags are a battle royale that demands constant upkeep and participation.
I don't mind longstanding grievances against the hashtag. It's the Johnny-come-latelies that annoy me.
made my point:
Sorry, I know I'm daft. To summarize, what is your entire point?
Users will tell you how to evolve a product no matter what. Product design is the process of assimilating all of these requests and mashing them through constraints, while also maintaining an eye towards overall coherence and usability. As a product leader, I wouldn't outsource my role to users.
"...since Twitter launched users had been asking for a way to follow someone for only specific topics they were interested in." Yep, that was me! 😊 factoryjoe.com/2007/08/25/g...
Children of the iPhone will never know what this was
I agree with your point about copying community infra badly. -- This conversation is challenging because we're bouncing around in timeframes, constraints, and considerations. -- I originally addressed your critique of the hashtag and asked what you would have proposed in 2007.
It appears that you're sidestepping the point of my question. Twitter launched "proper" communities in 2021 (they still exist). No one I know uses them. Why do you think these are the correct solution when they were tried and seem to have failed?
Is the source public?
Curious... Given the constraints (e.g. 140 characters and SMS), how would you have solved the problem differently?
Awesome #hashtagiversary birthday gift from Julius Moorman. [On this date, 18 years ago, I published the blog post that defined how hashtags should work. 🤓]
You're both correct. Hashtags aren't forums. They're temporary conversational autonomous zones. They're meant to be disposable and unowned. If you want to gatekeep, get a room, a mailing list, or a domain. You can germanate a colony from a hashtag, but not the reverse.
You're both correct. Hashtags aren't forums. They're temporary conversational autonomous zones. They're meant to be disposable and unowned. If you want to gatekeep, get a room, a mailing list, or a domain. You can germanate a colony from a hashtag, but not the reverse.
Took the money and ran?
Take the money and run. $TRUMP
Happy 18th #Hashtagiversary little buddy! #️⃣🎂 You've grown up to be so strange and unique — to become your own symbol on the world that's often both loved and reviled. Fundamentally you remain true to your purpose: to grow and evolve with and alongside culture, as always. #IDemandHashtags
Product Hunt going hard after that SEO juice with a new footer. #NewProductHunt
Ok but was it radioactive?
Seems highly likely, but is it fair to assume that everyone has a phone that can handle passkeys now? Pretty bold to see HealthEquity write off conventional login for passkey-only authentication...!
New sherif in town!
What are the exit conditions to consider our politics "fixed"?
Getting amped for tomorrow's @raycast.com Enthusiasts Meetup (8/9) in San Francisco! We'll have a great mix of presentations, vibe coding AI extensions with @warp.dev, and some food and drink. But to join us, you'll need to RSVP — get on the list!
Ok sure it's his platform, but if you open the X Mac app, there's now an enormous banner promoting "Grok Imagine", followed by a tweet from the guy too. It's like Russian state media but larping as an American social network. #DeadTwitter
Burbberry® is about to lose their ™!
That's a load of bs
This is a selfie, right?
ATProto 🤝 @ap.brid.gy 🤝 ActivityPub
🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻 #IDemandHashtags #DeadTwitter
Ooo fightin' words! 😝 Very curious to see if these protocols can somehow get aligned — i.e. let's grow the ENTIRE social web, and not re-balkanize with a bajillion non-interoperable protocols!
So, ActivityPub, right! 🤓 But congrats on the launch — hopefully the network is fixed!
Dia Pro just appeared in Settings when I updated to v0.40.3 (66398). www.reddit.com/r/diabrowser...
Installing gpt-oss-20b via @lmstudio-ai.bsky.social My hard drive is mostly now just filled with LLMs lmstudio.ai/blog/gpt-oss
Welcome to the Transparent Society, David Brin © 1998.
After great success working on the health of conversations at X, I'm sure she'll do great with human health! #DeadTwitter
@diabrowser.com leaked their $20/month Pro pricing: Includes - Chat with your tabs - Custom Skills - A best-in-class browser - Dia unlocked. Chat as much as you want, without hitting limits.* Would you pay for Dia?
The inner teenager in me finds it amusing to no end that the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) just launched a new military service called Cyber Force. www.csis.org/news/csis-la...
My force is truly disturbed. But I'm also expanding into possibilities
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I'm co-hosting a @raycast.com + @warp.dev community meetup in San Francisco on August 9 at 6 PM! What can you expect? 📣 WIMR demos from attendees 🛍 Raycast + Warp merch 🍻 Snacks and drinks This one's going to be a lot of fun! RSVP for your spot. Spaces are limited!
That's a feature of aggregation. As the poster, you shouldn't have to worry about that if you're posting publicly. It's not possible for you to predict everyone who might want to see your hashtagged post. You should add relevant tags and let the system control who the content gets routed to.
I get what you're trying to do, but DM'ing implies "secret" content; since anyone can "DM" a hashtag, who controls the audience? If you DM "#NBAThreads" but we don't following each other and I DM "#NBAThreads", who sees our posts? The hashtag is metadata for a post, not an audience.
Yeah, the proposal I made BEFORE the hashtag was what I called "whispering tweets", where you prefix your post with ! and it doesn't get fanned out to your followers — kind of a way to post to your profile w/o spamming everyone. factoryjoe.com/2007/08/25/w...
Oh behave, Slack!
It sounds like you want to post a group context? You should post publicly and then let the feed aggregators decide relevance of your post to your audience. Alternatively, as I originally proposed, clients could let users mute hashtags they're uninterested in. bit.ly/tagchannels
Update TestFlight app; there's a home feed takeover redesign for the film. $SPOT #NewSpotify
Ahead of earnings, Spotify hints at becoming a video-first platform to rival YouTube. Push notification goes out for @mileycyrus.bsky.social's new "concert film". Open the app, it says "Watch on your TV for the best viewing experience." $SPOT #NewSpotify #notifs
Perplexity for Mac now supports MCP You'll need to install the Perplexity Helper Service to punch through Mac App Store sandboxing to enable it. #NewPerplexity #ReleaseNotes
X has changed its Quick Actions menu to include "Ask Grok", "New Message", "New post" (sic), and "Search". #DeadTwitter
Rerunning the simulation
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Coinbase Wallet is now Base. It’s cleaner. www.producthunt.com/posts/base-a... #NewAppIcon
@windsurfai.bsky.social just added the ability to "speak into the chat rather than having to type things out". #NewWindsurf
🤢 Trump Media Applies for AI-Related Trademarks 🤮 Trumpwaifu 👨🏻❤️💋👨🏻 Grokwaifu = artificial general stupidity
Cursor for Music is trending on Product Hunt! Had a blast helping Sundar Arvind nail his launch — including an easter egg for @rrhoover.bsky.social 😉 Sundar's a passionate DJ and now building AI tools to creatives get in the flow of making music... don't miss his launch video:
Coming soon to the USA: Mexican Coke!! 🇲🇽
Live by the TAB TAB TAB Die by the TAB TAB TAB www.techmeme.com/250716/p33#a...
New xAI job just dropped: Fullstack Engineer - Waifus x.com/i/jobs/19452...
Love this improvement to the @raycast.com developer docs!
Simpler times.
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I don't see the resem... oh wait.
To be clear: this is in the Grok app, not X... Yet.
Say hi to Ani.
🆕 Grok has added two voice mode AI companions to their app. The first two characters include Ani and Rudy, with a hidden setting that enables "Bad Rudi". What could go wrong? #NewGrok #ReleaseNotes
4. Make hosting free
We could have had the Apple Car with a highly sophisticated voice agent (Siri), but instead we’ll get a Cybertruck with MechaHitler (Grok). How did we end up on this timeline?
Partiful is now... Partifruit? #NewAppIcon
Everything is browser
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