We acquired our 15th Autoglyph (#239, a symbol set 6) earlier this week. 

It's our first large acquisition in some time. Feels good.

You can learn a lot about how a startup operates based on what time periods they cite for product features/bug fixes/customer service issues.

Some cite hours/days/weeks while others cite months/quarters. The difference couldn’t be more apparent.

Music

Today's background music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_4qfdnLO4I

1/ Matt DesLauriers (@mattdesl) is one of the most respected figures within generative art and creative coding, and Meridian is his most celebrated work.

Next in our “Collecting The Algorithm” series is a deep dive into Meridian and its creator. (🔗 below)

New @curated editorial on @mattdesl's Meridian algorithm!

Collecting exceptional crypto art and culture | curated.xyz

This is…ughhh…your captain speaking. We’re…ughh…showing you a glimpse of the future.

// My first starlink-enabled flight and it is incredible. Will reshape productivity during flights and how some folks commute. I can actually get work done now.

Got a DEXA scan yesterday.

Using chatgpt to walk me through the results and understand the different metrics is surprisingly very useful.

(Highly recommend these scans to measure muscle and body fat changes over time).

I made it. Now considering a career pivot into being a content creator.

Warpcast

Tiny design feedback: Make the border of a quoted cast darker to better differentiate from the new cast's text. 

They sort of bleed into each other, which makes it feel like a lot of text overall (when the quoted cast is text heavy).

Introducing a new way to render on-chain digital art for both digital and print:

💥 Create high-res images & GIFs 
🖼️ Generate print-ready files
🎨 Customize the art 

Learn more 👇

1/ Very excited to launch a new @curated product -- The artwork renderer.

We want to help collectors enjoy and share the on-chain digital art they own, either digitally or with prints.

We think this is the easiest way to generate high-res images, GIFs, and print-ready files.

Playing around with playground.com given their launch today. 

Making subsequent edits by specifically referencing what you want to change feels like a much better UX and is one I've been looking for.

(Launch thread: x.com/Suhail/statu...)

Memes

mood

Founders

Since today's meta is sharing Farcaster invite stories, here's some tough love for consumer founders: you're probably not schlepping enough.

If you strategy to get more users is to open your code editor, you're avoiding the actual hard thing of talking to users and then having them silently reject you after a few days.

The first version of our Farcaster app didn't work on mobile and didn't have follows, at replies, native image uploads, etc.

Go talk to potential users. A lot.

https://paulgraham.com/schlep.html

Super liking this cast.

Also, finally found the initial invite I got to Farcaster from @v early on.

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

*slams a four shot espresso drink*

Quite good so far. A lot of highly tactical advice for those building in consumer from the 🐐 (@nikitabier)

*slams a four shot espresso drink*

Quite good so far. A lot of highly tactical advice for those building in consumer from the 🐐 (@nikitabier)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7ucJRiXEpJRahOZZKEWPjj?si=3j4241WmSzSQSuJvlRqR5Q

Base

Today is the day: view.art is now live!

view.art allows you to curate and showcase onchain art anywhere. 

This is the technology we built to run our exhibitions around the world @brightmoments. 

In the spirit of /onchainsummer it’s now available for anyone to use. 

Post your channels below 🤝

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UlgXIL0-3g

What is a niche interest you’re deeply into?

Screens

Old school Futurama was very good. So many layers to the jokes and they aged well.

The new episodes just don’t hit the same way.

Shower Thoughts

TFW you turn on noise cancelling in your headphones and the outside world becomes ~silent feels like a superpower

Co-founder @curated | Angel investor @ todd.capital | YC alum | Farcaster fan | toddgoldberg.com

Todd Goldberg

@todd