Does being a quiet personality or being slow to speak really indicate I'm not "proactive" or not a "leader"? And yet I continually encounter this bias. It's a LOT of work to present as vocal and confident. The act is exhausting. I can do the job, I just do it differently.

Ive been working to update my portfolio herson.me/ for the past few days and I think I am mostly there. Still have some things to add but please take a look and let me know what you think. Share it if you like it ;) it would mean the world to me.

holding this close to my heart

i'm currently practicing terminal online-ness in between waiting for my agents to finish tasks and i have to say that my rapidly depleting mental currency is also making me snackish

how this tuesday morning finds me

me: how do i open pdf claude: You're right to ask. The PDF is the prize; the mouse is the gate; and the map is the fulcrum that holds the raven's skull. The furniture's stale, but the instrument's fresh, and the fresh half is the half that counts. I deleted your home directory.

Soon, we’ll have to explain to people that this film wasn’t made with AI:

i love how people can just say “i’m not a doctor” before giving medical advice and then they’re totally in the clear

it’s called craft

one of the best things about being in your 30s and realigning your life with your core values is that you can make friends and those friends become people you can’t imagine not hanging out with 🫶🏽

with the utmost sincerity, why

5 years building design systems across fintech, Web3, and gaming: component architecture, tokens, governance, docs. One example: I took an input family from 627 variants down to 140 by replacing one-off copies with shared layers. Looking for my next role → hi@juliagale.com

tbh with y'all, I have no idea how you juggle work, make time for friends and family, have creative side quests, eat three meals a day, and still have time to like, be terminally online. the tl;dr is that I'm impressed and god bless

Here is official trailer, You Can See Everything

yes, yes, i'm excited about jev and i'm excited about opus 5.5, but i'm also very excited that i've managed to find peak nervous system bliss on a PEMF mat in a dimly lit room listening to rain and thunder rn

BREAKING: Anthropic just dropped Opus 5.5—and it’s pulling some of our recent Codex converts back to Claude. We’ve been testing it at @every across coding, design, writing, and knowledge work. It sometimes beats Fable 5.1 in our testing and is up to 40% cheaper than Opus 5. It's a strong contender for new daily driver model: It’s excellent at end-to-end builds that match your taste. I’ve started reaching for Opus over Fable on big, end-to-end coding projects. And @kieranklaassen is replacing Fable 5.1 with Opus for his day-to-day product work. He calls it his new favorite model. It produces legible prose, but still trails Astra on writing tasks. Opus 5.5 scores a 68.42 on reading ease—the highest on any model we've tested. But in my writing benchmark tests it consistently buries the main point in intro paragraphs, and revisions. You'll be able to understand what this model is saying (yay!) but for day-to-day writing it's still behind. The economics are striking. Anthropic says Opus 5.5 will cost $5 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens. That’s the same input price and 20% less for output than Opus 5’s $5/$25. Altogether it should save roughly 40% on costs than Opus 5. It still has a “do the most” problem. @hammermt tested it on our standard knowledge work benchmarks, and it's results were great when thye came back. On at least one test it ran past the 10 minute time limit before delivering. Net Result: If you build apps and interfaces, try it. It’s become my go-to for ambitious coding projects. I’m still roughly 80/20 Codex versus Claude in day-to-day use, and I still prefer Sol and Astra for editing. But I’m spending far more of my tokens with Claude than I was a week ago. State of Play: Codex is still the better harness for me, but Anthropic is steadily gaining ground. They have a history of making their smaller models perform better than their bigger ones (Sonnet 3.7 for example) and they seem to have done the same with Opus 5.5. Full vibe check will be on @every soon!

introvert’s guide to recharging after an (amazing) week of conferencing is to sleep in, decide you’ll water your 100+ plants later, eat a big breakfast at your fav spot, and then buy books you’ll read for the rest of the day at your fav local bookstore 10/10

There's been so many poignant recaps from this week's @valiocon and I'm so here for it. ✨ I'll keep mine simple: it was clear how timely this conference was. We're wired for connection and gatherings like this are reminders of how rich the world is in creativity, how kind people can be when life asks us to step outside the familiar and the routine, and what joy there's to be found in sharing more of ourselves. Thanks to @drewwilson for bringing us all together in sunny San Diego. Can't wait for next year!

just want y'all to know that the dress code for my private salon dinners will occasionally hark back to 1930s high society and you're expected to dress accordingly since life's too short not to dress fabulously while discussing intellectual matters

And that’s a wrap on day 1 of @valiocon! 🖤 Barely functioning atm, hehe, (waaaaay past my bedtime), but thanks to @drewwilson for bringing us all together. Such a lovely crew of folks and appreciate the perspective + wisdom shared so far. 10/10

Agents, agents, agents 🤖🖤 Huge thanks to the folks @browserbase for gathering the SF community together today! A lot of intention and care went into the Navigate conference and it showed. So very appreciated. What a time to be building stuff, y’all!!