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Fender is reportedly sending cease and desist letters over Stratocaster-style guitars. A look at what happens when a product design becomes so iconic it stops being a product and becomes a category.
I made an endless racer with my kids using Claude Fable, hours before the US government blocked access to it for foreign nationals and Anthropic had to pull it. This is what we built in the window.
Apple is reportedly building AI calorie tracking into the iPhone. Bad news if that's your startup. A look at Sherlocking, platform power and why value is moving from functionality to trust, community and workflow.
On personal websites, owning your own corner of the internet, and why authenticity is becoming more valuable than reach.
AI has made it easier than ever to ship an MVP. But MVPs are not the finished article. They're proofs of possibility. The real climb begins when you try to make something meaningful that people actually want to use.
The launch of Claude for Design and Google Stitch sparked another wave of "design is cooked" takes. I think the opposite is true. AI is raising the baseline, but it's also making taste, judgement and original thinking more valuable than ever.
How I built MegaWord, a Wordle demake for the Sega Mega Drive, using SGDK, AI tooling, pixel art pipelines and real hardware constraints.
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