Unit tests are great for making sure buttons click and forms submit but they are completely blind to a modal moving 5 pixels to the left or a background color bleeding into a header.
We started running automated headless browser screenshots before and after restyling PRs to catch silent layout breaks.
We're into the last week of November, which is a little nuts to me. It feels like last week we rang in the 2025 new year celebrations. There's been a ton of new products launch this year, unsurprisingly a lot of them with "AI" in their name. What product or products stood out to you the most?
For me it has to be @Wispr Flow, it's completely changed the game on how I interact with my devices, I rarely find myself typing anymore. Even this post was dictated through Wispr Flow.
I noticed one interesting thing. Many solo founders are more present on X
Those VC-funded are trying to get a better position on LinkedIn (which makes sense since it is a professional / career / b2b platform
not so many tho is present or active on the biggest ones, where there can be the most consumers (Meta/IG) and when I found such a business owner there, he usually was by the pool in swimwear. Some posts even didn't look good or appropriate :D Personally, if someone has a bigger audience, some status and a huge company, I would expect more formal posts or at least locking the account, or creating a separate one that is more representative.
Winners from Vercel Day are confirmed. Top prize, a meeting with Vercel Ventures plus Startup Perks, goes to Nitrosend : it gives AI agents their own email inbox, so they can sign up for things and reply on your behalf instead of routing everything through yours.
Four more walk away with Vercel Startup Perks: Alert Grouping by DrDroid collapses a flood of monitoring alerts down to the ones actually worth waking someone up for. Paradigm turns any goal into a personalized, adaptive learning path. In Parallel MCP by gives every agent you run access to the same context instead of starting cold every time. Zro runs private inference for coding agents.
Congrats to all five teams. Go check out their launches and give them some love.
Yes, you can pick only one and have to stay loyal No switching! I d love to know your answers as we re a community of tech lovers and startuppy folks who connect with each other and our users/customers on a number of platforms.
Recent events made me think about how technology is shaping our relationships.
We re online more, we even use AI as a relationship advisor, and at the same time, it feels like it s harder for younger people to approach someone in real life.
As we approach the conclusion of 2023, reflect on the lessons and insights gained throughout this year. What significant learnings have you acquired amidst the experiences and events of the past twelve months?
currently building a daily newsletter aimed towards people who scroll on social media every morning. instead of waking up to chaotic feeds, how much nicer would it be to learn something cool in <5 minutes before you fully wake up and get out of bed? (quotidianlearning.substack.com) idk if my newsletter has a large audience and if it does, what's the best way to expand my reach?