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Design Engineer @snowflake (via @crunchydata) — Head Coach @terminaldotshop — Married to the girl of my dreams @littlealison93 — Psalms 118:24

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Joined October 2009
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@willking
Will King
4 months
What if you could turn your voice into a video game? (try it for yourself 👇)
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@designertom
Tommy Geoco
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I spent a large part of my career doing enterprise level b2b design work. And it’s for this reason I’ve been so interested in exploring the other side of the coin these last few years. Some great examples of juice in design:
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@willking
Will King
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Use `element.setPointerCapture` when building UI with draggable interactions. Avoids losing the pointer events for the currently active element when the mouse moves out of the elements bounding box.
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Will King
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People who chew gum and pop it repeatedly in public spaces (aka airports)
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@willking
Will King
3 days
Many experiments incoming...will be using this to build an agent-native Web Audio DAW.
@danshipper
Dan Shipper 📧
4 days
NEW: i wrote a complete technical guide to building agent-native software (co-authored with claude) it covers: - the five pillars of agent native design (parity, granularity, composability, emergent capability, self-improvement) - files as the universal interface - agent
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@MichelleBakels
Michelle Bakels
3 days
We have our CFP for AI Engineer Miami OPEN!
@AIEMiami
AI Engineer: Miami
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Don't miss your chance to take the AI Engineer: Miami stage! ONLY 21 days left to apply! ⬇️
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@willking
Will King
6 days
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@willking
Will King
6 days
The feed here is wild in SF compared to Alabama...
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@willking
Will King
6 days
We need to dig into this @joshcirre
@danshipper
Dan Shipper 📧
7 days
we're only building agent-native apps @every now here's what that means: traditional software architecture: you write code that defines what happens. The computer executes your instructions. agent-native architecture: you define outcomes in natural language. the agent figures
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Will King
6 days
"Helps get over procrastination on grindy tasks" This matters more than *one shot-ing* some cRaZy app
@DanielcHooper
Daniel Hooper
6 days
My C programmer thoughts on Claude+Opus 4.5: 1. Bad at writing code: wrote O(n²) algorithm when O(n) possible. I wouldn't commit its code without review. 2. Responds well to feedback "make this algorithm linear". You have to already be a good programmer to know how the code
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Will King
6 days
Oh, now this is VERY interesting
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Will King
7 days
Well this is a first, my neighbor on this flight is a cat.
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@willking
Will King
7 days
lol @aarondfrancis, Jennifer and Ali should start their business complaint podcast together. 🤣
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@simonswiss
Simon Vrachliotis
7 days
I... have been laid off from Laracasts. 😭 Pretty bummed out, but AI did, in fact, take my job. I'm looking for a new opportunity! ♥️
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Will King
7 days
Definitely not me checking my email this week for an email from the React Miami crew...
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@willking
Will King
7 days
Heck load of spackle and caulk ✅ Paint test ✅ Fly to SF tomorrow and leave everything half done ☑️
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Will King
8 days
Beadboard ✅ Heck load of spackle and caulk ☑️
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@willking
Will King
7 days
First day of school. Do I have to call you Master Ali now?
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Will King
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Beadboard ✅ Heck load of spackle and caulk ☑️
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@willking
Will King
8 days
Cursor saved my Sunday afternoon. Had a client reach out this morning that their website was down. Turns out the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" approach to not moving their website to Cloudflare finally ran out of luck. Instead of waiting until I got home later I kicked off
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Will King
8 days
Ali: Do you think that's Chance The Rapper? Will: You mean the guy charging his Tesla at the Montgomery Target?
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@willking
Will King
9 days
Sounds familiar: "you’re steering the model toward a region of the space where the next steps are both plausible and useful." Great read btw
@threepointone
sunil pai
10 days
new post: where good ideas come from (for coding agents) https://t.co/qjbSAwnjrS thought about why some people cook with coding agents, and others bounce off. my take: llms are "thought completers" traversing idea-space - so good results come from good navigation: constraints,
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