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HEGalloway··on Advertising Without Signal: The Rise of the Grifter Equilibrium
tracking via cookies (that expire after X days) or some kind of identifier in the CRM
HEGalloway··on June.so Acquired by Amplitude
I was quite surprised to see the acquisition! I think they never found PMF because they pivoted upmarket and were trying to do too many things.

Even though I'm not a customer of June, I've always rooted for them from the sidelines. They were a different kind of YC company; these days, you only see AI slop companies coming out of YC.

Seems like the founders lost hope in it and probably sold it to Amplitude to have a soft landing instead of a complete crash and burn. Since both are YC companies, i think this was an internal nudge towards a sale. But can't say for sure, i think the founders will share what truly happened in a few years once they're contract expires. Anyways, good luck to the founders!

HEGalloway··on The Vietnamese Computer Scientist Who Made Toy Story Possible
I came across this guy last week when I was learning about implementing basic lighting in shaders and Phong lighting is the starter for that. So I looked him up and what a tragic story.
HEGalloway··on Debunking Devin: "First AI Software Engineer" Upwork Lie Exposed [video]
I was quite skeptical of this. I've seen another company claiming to do the 3d generation do the same with their demos, they outsourced the "3d generation" part to low-wage workers in 3rd world countries and claimed the models to be generated by AI. I see this as a future trend to get investor money and do the rug pull.
HEGalloway··on Sora: Creating video from text
This is a great technical achievement, but in a couple of years time this will be as interesting as AI image generators.
HEGalloway··on Show HN: Reparenting DOM elements: stealing a video from under the nose of React
this is cool! What would be a good usecase?
HEGalloway··on Tachiyomi – It's Joever
we're sooo barack
HEGalloway··on Netflix never used its $1M algorithm (2012)
That is me with mubi! I keep paying but I rarely watch any films. I find that I need to be in the right headspace to watch any serious stuff but when I do, I do watch a couple of them and I don't really mind paying. I like to joke that I'm their ideal customer haha.

Unlike netflix where I downgraded my plan to the lowest tier, there's literally nothing on it and they also keep on cancelling good tv shows. I think they should focus on serious stuff and work with more indie directors. But then again I can't blame them because they're just following the trend.

HEGalloway··on Airtable acquires Airplane
> dev tools businesses are hard

I understand why dev tools business are hard, i'm just curious as to what makes them hard? I know one of the things that make it a difficult sell is that devs don't buy much but what else?

HEGalloway··on Airtable acquires Airplane
maybe all they need is a layover?
HEGalloway··on Airtable acquires Airplane
pretty sure they only acquired it because of the word "air" in the name

/s

HEGalloway··on Model suggests asteroids that come close to Earth are torn apart by its gravity
very cool that earth has it's own defence mechanism
HEGalloway··on Deep in the wilderness, the largest beaver dam endures
This very much reminds me of timber born. It's been a while since I played the game but it was all about building dams, facing droughts and water conservation.
HEGalloway··on Write a note to your spouse every day
yessirwhatever