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The semi-(in)frequent musings of David Kaneda, maker of Boo.
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✨ Introducing Boo! → https://boo.ai

Boo’s a minimalist, AI-based text editor for copywriting, note-taking, brainstorming, and all-around AI tinkering.

Think of it as Superhuman for AI, or Copilot for copywriting.

It loads fast, drops you right into the editor, and stays out of your way. Everything’s accessible via keyboard shortcut, and the UI fades away while you write.

We’re live on Product Hunt today, so any feedback/votes/shares would be hugely appreciated! 💜

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I'm so excited to announce that Spoke is now open to the public! We started working on Spoke over a year and a half ago, in order to build a simpler way to manage workplace requests. It's been an incredible journey so far, and we're just getting started. Check it out and sign up for a free 30-day trial!

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Technology is embedded into everything now, no industry left untouched—there’s money to be made, new empires to be created!—and that process is long, slow, repetitive. Laying the groundwork and infrastructure to move a lot faster later. The thing is, though, this thinking is so small. Painfully small. A slice of a market segment of another slice of another slice and so on. It’s all perfectly reasonable, but it’s not enough.

Higher Standards, Rebekah Cox

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Hoefler & Co. has released Operator, their first take on a monospace font, and it looks fantastic. It's full of character, especially with its playful, but still readable, set of italics. I'll probably set this up over the weekend in Terminal and Sublime Text.

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In November I spent a month in New York City where I animated a new GIF every day for 30 days inspired by something that happened during my stay.

The GIFs alone are great, but the composition and sound design for this video make this really fantastic.

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The car does, more or less, have it. It stays true around the first bend. Near the end of the second, the Acura suddenly veers near an SUV to the right; I think of my soon-to-be-fatherless children; the car corrects itself. Amazed, I ask Hotz what it felt like the first time he got the car to work.
“Dude,” he says, “the first time it worked was this morning.”
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Inbox is an awesome new email client from the Gmail team. I've had the pleasure of test-driving this for a few months, and I have to say: It's an incredibly well-polished app with a very smart set of features.

It combines everything I like about Gmail, Mail.app, and Mailbox app, removes the features I don't use, and absolutely shines as an example of Material Design.

I also love the fact that Google's not just positioning it as "The Next Gmail," but rather as an all new product—and it looks like it will be supporting a variety of other email services as well.

Really tremendous work and a huge congrats to all my colleagues that took part in shipping this.

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