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A central team should wholly make design systems without outside contributions, and any component built by any team should be made, documented, and maintained there. They will only succeed if a company has more than one design system.
Prompt-Brush is the first non-AI Generative Art model. Artist Pablo Delcan created an art project that involved asking his audience for illustration prompts and creating what they asked for. Delcan quickly built a website to showcase the results after the project went viral.
2024 will bring cross-browser support for nesting, :has(), container queries, and more. It's never been easier to write great styles without additional tooling. Designers and developers might not need Sass and Less anymore.
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data.ai’s 2024 State of Mobile report looks at how apps across each consumer category performed in 2023 and predicts where they’ll be headed this year. The average time spent on mobile rose to 5 hours per person per day on average in 2023, a 6% increase from 2022. Users are spending more time on social, but they’re not posting as many updates to their feeds. Most people's mobile time is seemingly going to entertainment and in-app shopping.
The GPT Store is now live. It lives in a new tab in the ChatGPT client on the web and features a range of GPTs developed both by OpenAI’s partners and the wider dev community. Users must be subscribed to one of OpenAI’s premium ChatGPT plans to access the GPT Store.
JUMiNGO, a German shipping platform, saves customers up to 80% by passing on wholesale discounts from partners like UPS and DHL. It initially struggled to get new users to try its platform. Research uncovered that potential users were concerned about being locked into a long-term commitment. Less than 50% of desktop visitors scrolled to the site's “how it works” section or saw the full explanation of benefits. As a solution, JUMiNGO's team created a sitewide benefits bar below the site header, highlighting the lack of subscription or monthly fees. This resulted in an 8% increase in transactions.
This post breaks down a 12-day welcome email series from Zitsticka, most known for its pimple patches. It makes comments on what was done well and areas for improvement. The brand does a great job in incorporating bundle offers, formatting the layout of its product recommendations, and using ‘science-focused’ copy.
Tips for dominating LinkedIn in 2024 include scheduling content ahead of time, posting at the same time daily, and repurposing your best content. Recommendations include using Taplio as an AI writing assistant and auto-plugging comments to your posts to save time.
A compilation of 10 GPT apps to try as the GPT Store is now live. Cold Mail engages prospective customers with personalized cold emails based on your offer’s URL and the URL of the customer’s website. VideoGPT generates stunning videos. ResearchGPT searches 200M academic papers from Consensus and drafts content with citations.
Getty Images introduced Generative AI by iStock at CES 2024, leveraging AI models trained on its iStock libraries to produce licensable images and artwork. The feature will cost $15 per 100 generated images and comes with $10,000 in legal coverage for copyright issues.
Stanley grew sales from $70M in 2019 to $750M in 2023, offering a good case study in savvy modern marketing. Growth sparked from using customer feedback for product development, leaning heavily into collabs, and borrowing from “drop culture” to create a frenzy for products. To grow in 2024, brands should create built-in product growth loops as well as monetary incentives for promoting the product and not undervalue branding or product design.
Sentry removed advertising cookies and user tracking from its website in June 2023. The move had mixed impacts on attribution models, marketing reports, Google Analytics, and other aspects of performance marketing. Despite challenges, the company adapted its targeting, bidding, tracking/reporting, and procurement strategies to operate successfully in a cookieless environment. This guide provides tips and creative solutions to going cookieless.
This article discusses 3 main problems with the current conception of Growth. First, it’s become too focused on acquisition and consequently overlooked retention, activation, and pricing. Second, it focuses on short-term hacks or shortcuts instead of scalable growth models. Lastly, it lacks a multidisciplinary approach that includes strategic collaboration with other functions within the company. Growth should instead represent a data-driven mindset focused on rapid experimentation across every stage of the user journey.
This founder was able to bring over 100,000 visitors to his brand websites using Reddit, without spending a dime and with barely any followers.
TikTok Shop faces criticism for selling unconventional items, impacting brand safety concerns.
75% of consumers worry about fake reviews, yet 76% of brands think they are already on top of it.
Netflix's video pipeline has transformed from Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) to 4K and High Dynamic Range (HDR) support, increasing its efficiency needs. The Netflix team transitioned the pipeline from a monolithic platform to a microservices-based one called Cosmos. Cosmos allows Netflix to deliver features faster. The team breaks down in this blog post how exactly they determined service boundaries while breaking up monoliths into microservices.
Most people have varied perspectives on git commits, with roughly equal numbers thinking of commits as either diffs or snapshots based on a poll. Git internally represents Git commits as snapshots and uses packfiles to store snapshots efficiently. However, no mental model is “wrong” as long as it provides a solid intuition for everyday Git usage.
Having positional authority alone is not enough to make people comply willingly. Influence is necessary to get things done, whether at the team level or organization level. It is required for turning ideas into reality, finding larger scope, and aspiring to senior management or C-suite roles.
This article discusses the dilemma of whether React components should run on users' computers or on servers. Components requiring instant interactivity, like a counter, should run on the client (user's computer) to provide a smooth user experience. On the other hand, components that rely on server-side data should run on the server. The article poses questions about how to split components across different environments while preserving React's advantages so you can make the best decisions for your application.
Shoelace is a library of web components that works with all frameworks and is fully customizable with CSS.
Next AI News is a full-stack re-creation of Hacker News using Next.js. It uses Next.js 14 features, including App Router and React Server Components.
The book “Tidy First?” introduces the concept of "tidyings," which are small refactorings that don't change program behavior, but make it easier to implement behavioral changes. It’s important to structurally prepare code before implementing behavioral changes. A balance must be struck between the time value of money and optionality in software, highlighting the need to create a structure that supports quick changes.
AI startup Rewind initially started as a meeting recording and transcription product and eventually pivoted towards enhancing human memory using AI technology. It achieved viral success by looking at both qualitative data during manual onboarding and quantitative data around product usage to figure out how to pivot correctly. To generate hype around its launch, it told a great story around its product, was transparent in its mission, and created a memorable demo.
Google has been announcing layoffs throughout the company, including in Ads, Search, Assistant, Maps, Android, and Core.
Resend, a programmatic email application, was recently hacked due to a leaked database key.
A free MIT course teaching software performance.
Nitpicks are usually trivial and have no business impact. Code that doesn’t follow a style guide shouldn’t be considered a nitpick, but rather something larger.
The Rabbit R1 is a $199 standalone device about half the size of an iPhone powered by a 'Large Action Model'. It has a 2.88-inch touchscreen, a rotating camera for taking photos and videos, a scroll wheel/button for navigation, 128GB of storage, and a battery that lasts all day. The device runs on Rabbit OS, which features a universal controller for apps that can control music, order items from the internet, send messages, and more. It is trained on how to use existing apps for itself and has a dedicated training mode for users to teach it tasks, so developers don't have to do anything to support the device. A 26-minute-long introduction video from Rabbit about the device is available in the article.
Matter Casting is a casting feature that will initially only support streaming content from Amazon's Prime Video app to Echo Show devices. The feature will support Fire TV in the coming months and a range of video services later in the year. Matter Casting is designed to be interoperable across platforms. While both Apple and Google worked with Amazon on the Matter Home standard, neither company has announced any plans to support Matter Casting.
A small trial on military veterans suggests that ibogaine, a potent psychedelic drug, could be used to treat traumatic brain injury (TBI). The study found that veterans with TBI symptoms such as post-traumatic stress disorder and depression had the symptoms decrease by more than 80% on average after treatment. Ibogaine seems to have a broad, dramatic, and consistent effect. The data supports launching rigorous trials to test the drug.
Microsoft and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have found a new battery material using AI and large-scale cloud computing. The material is a new kind of solid-state electrolyte. It could lead to batteries that are less likely to burst into flames compared to lithium-ion batteries. While the material still needs to be tested to see whether it is a viable alternative to lithium-ion batteries, the finding demonstrates AI's potential for speeding up material discovery.
Spin is a bash utility that improves the Docker experience. It can replicate any environment on any machine and centralize infrastructure from a single configuration file. Spin dramatically improves the developer experience when working with Docker using officially supported features and best practices.
AI Gateway is an interface between apps and hosted large language models. It streamlines API requests to LLM providers using a unified API. AI Gateway is fast, with a tiny footprint, and it can load balance across multiple models, providers, and keys. It has fallbacks to ensure app resiliency and plug-in middleware as needed.
People think that AI is going to replace a lot of jobs because everyone thinks that everyone else's job is easy. The desire to remove humans from the equation is based on ignorance. Even with the wildest of innovations, people still matter, and this can't be avoided. People want to appeal to other humans and be seen and understood.
Nvidia’s G-Sync Pulsar uses a novel algorithm to reduce motion blur and pixel ghosting. The technology can help with the visual discomfort caused by some strobing effects. It will require monitors to have Nvidia's chips built into them. The first monitor with the feature is the Asus ROG Swift PG27 Series G-Sync, which will be available later this year.
Quick Share for Android is a unified method of sharing for Android and Chromebook devices developed through a collaboration between Google and Samsung.
The addition of a Just in Time compiler, which compiles code on demand as it is run, could be one of the biggest changes to the CPython Interpreter since the Specializing Adaptive Interpreter was added in Python 3.11.
AI Toolkit is a header-only C++ library that brings finite state machines, behavior trees, utility AI, and goal-oriented action planning to game NPCs.
The layoffs will affect roughly 500 jobs - in 2023, Twitch lost several top executives, announced that it would exit South Korea, and laid off 400 other employees.
People now get content served to them via algorithms rather than searching out content for themselves and sharing it with friends.
Intellectuals are being poached from academia by simple market forces and replaced with people who stay in academia due to an inability to thrive in corporate settings for various reasons.
Rabbit created a large action model (LAM) that goes with its R1 pocket companion computer. The company's R1 device is a reimagination of the computer and smartphone, powered almost entirely by its LAM.
OpenAI is offering news publishers between $1M and $5M a year to use their content to train its AI models.
Intel has announced an AI-focused chip for the automotive sector. Described as "the first-generation AI-enhanced software-defined vehicle system-on-chip," the announcement marks a strategic shift towards AI PCs and automotive AI applications.