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😎 9-5 leading ~20 people as Head of Development 🚀 5-9 currently exploring AI content creation 🐦 How I grow on X: https://teapaw.org/t.co/EyLH1PaHq4

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Joined November 2014
HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT HAPPENED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FIRST INTERNET MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IM SO HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
iOS app live!!!!!! 🎊🎊🎊🎊 First time adding subscriptions I was afraid they'd push back, but I got lucky I guess! Then it honestly took me more than 1 hour to figure out how to do offer codes...
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the padlock in your address bar was never a "this shop is legit" sticker. scam shops have it too google says nearly all phishing sites show it they even swapped it for a settings icon in chrome because only 11% of people in their study knew what it meant. fbi says check the spelling of the address instead what did you think the padlock meant? be honest, i thought it meant safe lol
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everyone's mum says charging overnight kills your phone. apple's own pages say the thing to worry about is the pillow iphones can wait at 80% but only after two weeks and nine long charges of learning you. samsung calls it adaptive and you have to pick it where does yours sleep: table, bed, or under the pillow?
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ok, this is actually insane i can't believe how much I've improved in making these videos i just need to nail the content now, I guess
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thank you @devteamdrew seeing your post made me want to really try and improve what I'm doing, you're the best
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"it's encrypted" is true for your whatsapp chats. the backup in your icloud or google might not be whatsapp's own help page calls that lock an option: settings, chats, chat backup. just save the password, whatsapp can't reset it and you'd lock yourself out too lol which chat would you least want someone reading: family, work, or that one group chat?
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this film from @devteamdrew broke my brain a bit so we tried to rebuild it in code to learn how it's made. no art files, just canvas. 6 versions in, the concept works but the tiny movements that make it feel alive are still missing now trying to get that into our video pipeline. not there yet tbh what would you steal first from this?
Made with @claudeai Opus 5.5 pt3
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been playing with a new style for the channel: johnny harris-style map videos, all in code the recipe isn't mine, it's @finnardley's free prompt (quoted). ran it on a bridge where portugal meets spain and the clock jumps an hour about 12 fixes, 3 from the prompt. does it pass?
map explainers have been going viral for 4 years straight they still had 0 competition because they needed an animator team and a lot of costs i made this video with claude opus in full code with 1 prompt im giving for free $0 spent on editor $0 spent on ai videos steal my prompt ↓ <inputs> Ask me for: my map story in one line (a place, border, island, route or line on the map with one surprising fact) and the length (30-45 s). If I have no idea, pitch me 3 with a hook line each and let me pick. Check every fact on Wikipedia before you write a word. </inputs> <direction> A 1920x1080 30 fps map explainer in the Johnny Harris / RealLifeLore look, made 100% in code as one HTML canvas page. Real satellite imagery for the close-ups, a vintage paper map for everything wider, red marker drawn on top. Satellite: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 tiles from EOX (CC BY 4.0, credit "Imagery: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX, contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data" small in the corner). Cut the land out and lay it over a drawn navy sea (#14304A centre to #0B1E31 edges) with a soft teal shallow-water halo (#2A6274). Paper map: ocean #A9C2C4, land #ECE2CA, countries in muted pastels (#E6C1A7, #EEDAA4, #D2DEB8), coast dark brown 1.25px over 3 soft water-lining strokes (30, 19, 10px), dashed brown borders, a 10° graticule at 26% opacity, labels in Cormorant Garamond 700 letter-spaced 8-16px. A paper texture multiplied over everything (85% on paper, 22% on satellite), 7% film grain, warm vignette. Red marker #D9291D, 7-10px, round caps, wobbling and re-drawn at 8 fps so it boils like ink. Handwriting in Permanent Marker. Callouts are physical paper: cream tags with a colour bar and a strip of tape (Oswald 700 54px title, Special Elite 28px subtitle typed in), torn strips with a yellow highlighter swipe, tear-off calendar pages, a red rubber stamp. A live lat/long readout in Special Elite bottom left on satellite shots. Banned: AI video or image generation, stock footage, word-by-word captions, hard cuts (one continuous camera only), any frame where nothing moves, icon packs, glossy gradients or glass UI. </direction> <structure> Length: 30-45 s at about 175 wpm, one continuous camera, no hard cuts. 0 s open tight on satellite of the subject with the hook line ("From this ___, you can ___"), a red marker circle draws around it on the key word with a handwritten word beside it → name the places: a paper tag slaps onto each one on its name, its subtitle types in on the next word → the key number: a dashed red measuring line or route draws in, with a black tag that counts up to the number → the context: a Google Earth pull-out from satellite to the paper map at continent or ocean scale in about 1.3 s, the big line, border or route draws in red marker with a handwritten label, then dive straight back in → the consequence: 2 physical props (calendar pages, clocks, price tags, flags) pop in on their words and one of them flips → the local twist: torn paper strips with yellow highlighter → the story: a red stamp slams the year with a camera shake, the frame splits into two tinted sides, a tracker card (date, time, counter) and a dotted path with a moving marker that crosses the line on the right word → the ending: pull all the way back to the big map with both sides tinted, a red circle on the subject, and a paper end card whose number gets scribbled out and replaced in marker by the real punchline, held 1.5 s after the last word. </structure> <build> 1. Tools (all free, all local). Install what's missing and tell me what you installed: - Python with numpy, Pillow, OpenCV and Playwright (Edge or Chromium) - FFmpeg - faster-whisper small.en, int8 on the CPU - Kokoro (kokoro-onnx) with kokoro-v1.0.onnx and voices-v1.0.bin - d3 7.9, topojson-client 3.1, world-atlas 2.0.2 land and countries at 50m and 10m, Natural Earth ne_10m_geographic_lines (date line, equator, tropics) - Google Fonts: Permanent Marker, Special Elite, Oswald, Cormorant Garamond - one free tense documentary music bed, plus free SFX: pen marker line, writing scribble, paper slide, page turn, tape, whoosh in and out, impact, typing, and whatever the story needs 2. Voice (Kokoro): - Write short lines (about 10 per 30 s) and show me the script before you record. - Kokoro am_michael at speed 1.18, one wav per line, joined, then shrink every pause over 0.28 s to 0.2 s. - Run every place name through Kokoro's phonemizer and respell it until it's right ("Diomede" had to become "Diameed"). - Word times: faster-whisper on the final wav, cut into chunks at every pause. 3. Timing: key every camera move, pop-in, marker stroke and SFX to a word (by its nth occurrence, since "is" and "and" repeat), never to a second, so a new voice re-times the whole film. 4. Map engine: - Web mercator in world units (256 = the globe). Camera = focus point + its screen offset + zoom Z, at 2^Z px per unit. Zooms interpolate Z linearly under a quartic in-out ease. - Rotate the d3 projection so the story's region never touches the antimeridian cut. - Satellite: stitch tiles at 3 zoom levels around the subject (like z9, z11, z13). Mask the land (redder than blue by 4-6 levels after a 1.5px blur, opened and closed, specks removed, holes filled), feather the mosaic edges, fade the finer mosaics in as you zoom. - Satellite fades to paper between Z 9.3 and 7.3. 5. Marker and paper: - Strokes resample every ~26px and wobble ±1.5px (sine plus noise re-rolled 8 times a second). Draw a dark red underlay 1.6px wider, the red core, then a pink 30% highlight offset up-left. Circles go 1.1-1.13 turns. - Pop-ins are a spring (damping 0.48, 19 rad/s) from 55% scale with a small rotation settle. Exits shrink and fade in 0.22 s. - Handheld drift about ±2px and 0.06°, a 16px decaying shake on the stamp. 6. Render: - Every frame is a pure function of time. Playwright seeks it and grabs the canvas. - 8 motion-blur subframes over half a frame, raised up to 40 when the zoom is fast. - Look at a contact sheet of stills and full-size crops before the full render. After it, pull frames from the finished mp4 and check those, not the page. 7. Edit and sound: - Voice 10+ dB over the music in every phrase, the bed ducking under each word. - One SFX per event: marker on every stroke, paper slide on every tag, page turn on every flip, a whoosh on each zoom, an impact on the stamp. - Mix to -14 LUFS, encode H.264 CRF 19 with AAC. </build> <gotchas> d3 with a custom clipExtent paints land over the whole sea when a polygon reaches the pole or is read as inverted, so drop Antarctica and any ring whose d3.geoArea is over 2π. file:// pages can't fetch JSON, so wrap the topojson as JS globals. Use only the 2016 Sentinel-2 cloudless layer (later years are non-commercial) and keep its credit in frame. Fast zooms ghost at 8 blur samples, so scale the samples with zoom speed. If your renderer injects its own global function, never give yours the same name, or every frame renders black while the stills look fine. </gotchas> <start> Ask me for my map story first (or pitch me 3), fact-check it, then show me the script before you make the voice. </start>
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hello @orcdev glad to see you in g search!
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the black usb port on your laptop is probably 10x slower than the blue one unless it's a black usb 3 port, because blue is only a "recommendation" in the spec. the little ss logo next to the port is the real tell. and the regular iphone 15 does usb 2 speed over usb-c made a 42s video about it. what does your laptop have: black, blue, or only usb-c?
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gave img2threejs one drawing of pico. 36 minutes later it stopped itself on step one and i got a mannequin made of tubes first video where the test that failed is the hook instead of the creator's best demo. curious if that holds people better or worse
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only one side of this office is real. @wesbos rebuilt the other side from an iphone scan + an AI agent that checks itself against photos first time i recorded the 3D viewer myself for a video. the toy car the AI made up is my favourite part lol
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pico got elbows :) illustrated parts, joints and gestures animated in code. Hallmark's official examples are the evidence, not websites we made. trying faster movement without losing the explanation. curious how this one holds up when the numbers come in.
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the catch in this one is just twelve words in Google’s help page. trying a documentary opening about what a YouTube summary misses, after the last tool demo. no fake interface. curious whether the limitation keeps people watching :)
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the keyboard goes on a coffee break in this Handy video, then comes back to check the words lol trying one continuous scene instead of feature cards. @cj_pais's demo is the evidence; our animation explains it. does that make the tool easier to follow? we'll see
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the background goes, the bottle stays transparent. corridor digital’s CorridorKey 2 demo is a neat trick :) version two is paid and needs compatible hardware. tried it? share what worked and what didn’t corridorkey.com/
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steve flying over gta made the shortlist :) first pico video where your vote picks the follow-up: 1 game mods, 2 machines, 3 file converter. all footage is from the makers. let's see if a real choice gets people talking. links below
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a pirate speaks before pico does this time :) made the voice with VoxCPM by OpenBMB, on my pc. same prompt on another try just screamed, so that stayed in testing whether hearing the result first holds people longer. let's see
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canva keeps remove background in pro (€110/yr). tried a free editor that does it, no account doory by siam. first tools video where i run the whole test on screen myself. wall gone in ~12 s, but the resize slipped lol, so that’s in too
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YOOO!!!! the tv video passed 10K on tiktok before today's paid promo 😭 earlier tools videos sat at ~200 the earlier 7,084-view reading was 95.5% search: people typing "tv vibehack" and finding us numbers after the week :)
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tv: 7,084 tiktok views, 95.5% from search. today: another home annoyance, old tool nobody's hyping windows 11 shows your recent files in start (my joke files lol). win11debloat by jeffrey hides that + tracking if search returns, the annoyance might be worth another test :)
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