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Levi McCallum

@levi

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I build apps for kids 🔜 Tiny Family. ✨ Super: personal storybook -

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@levi
Levi McCallum
8 months
@localghost lmao @PalmerLuckey was in high school when he started making VR headsets
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@levi
Levi McCallum
1 year
Introducing Super, the personal storybook! Story time with my son is my favorite time of the day. The books are getting repetitive, so I made him a personal universe of stories where he's the main character. Soon, your kids will have one too! Preorder:
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@levi
Levi McCallum
2 years
One incredible year ago today. Marrying @eunicechen was one of the best choices of my life.
@eunicechen
Eunice Chen
3 years
Married my best friend this weekend 😍
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Levi McCallum
1 year
GPT 4 is a really great replacement for myfitnesspal. I simply tell it what I’ve eaten and it’ll count calories for me and tell me what else I should eat to meet my daily intake. Pair this with a workout log and you could have an all in one coach, sports psychologist and
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Levi McCallum
1 year
@SebAaltonen I did this with 3.5 and they were all hallucinated papers that sounded really plausible. Did you confirm these exist?
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@levi
Levi McCallum
1 year
@abacaj imo, it’s a zero config boot loader to collect domain specific results that can be used to fine tune a smaller model in the future
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@levi
Levi McCallum
2 years
It’s taken months to get here, but finally at the point in my game’s development where the work is deeply interesting and engaging. The grind has been long and often boring, but so worth it.
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@levi
Levi McCallum
28 days
I’m moving uncomfortably fast using Claude. My internal bureaucrat is yelling at me “no stop, something is wrong, slow down!” as I write an entire app in a single day.
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@levi
Levi McCallum
2 months
@SebastianRoehl You can tell the reviewer that you need to release the app to address a fix and will address their issue in the next release. They have a standard protocol in place for bug fixes.
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@levi
Levi McCallum
2 years
Building stuff is truly the best
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@levi
Levi McCallum
2 months
@edwardsanchez Shaders are really just intuition once you’ve mastered the basics. The math becomes a bit like dance moves. This book helped me a lot
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@levi
Levi McCallum
6 months
Fully consistent character identities in Super achieved! Super proud of this work. Coming in an update soon!
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@levi
Levi McCallum
3 months
@Petertaughtme Incredible onboarding. They cherry picked the best parts of Noom and applied Chinese ecom style sales tactics. The sad thing is that their promises are effectively lies without knowing calorie intake — so all customers likely never achieve the promised target goal.
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@levi
Levi McCallum
1 year
This weekend project is coming together swimmingly. I somehow have stayed productive without ChatGPT.
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@levi
Levi McCallum
1 year
anyone working on a node based stable diffusion editor?
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@levi
Levi McCallum
1 year
Just added multiple node export to my stable diffusion editor. Here's a demo that generates an entire children's storybook in one click. What else should I make with this?
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@levi
Levi McCallum
2 years
Let myself sleep in another hour today because I know ChatGPT is going to do most of the work
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@levi
Levi McCallum
2 years
I’m so late to the game, but I finally installed Copilot and built an entire iOS app with its assistance. In the past, it would have taken me 2-3 weeks to make this app. I finished it in 2 days 🤯
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@levi
Levi McCallum
4 months
@bria_sullivan It’s pretty easy. They only made it complicated recently with auto layout and variables, but you can ignore those for the most part. The real power is reusable components via instances.
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@levi
Levi McCallum
1 year
The most destructive programming habit I'm trying to shed is writing code for requirements that could potentially show up in the future. I'm definitely getting better at letting go, but the perfectionist ego death is real.
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@levi
Levi McCallum
1 year
The ability to paste in an obscure python stack trace and have GPT-4 tell you exactly where to go in the Google Cloud dashboard and which buttons to click to fix the issue will never ever get old.
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@levi
Levi McCallum
2 years
ChatGPT is like having a really smart friend who is willing to explain everything and anything in great detail and write a python function or two to help it all make sense. For me, it’s the most impactful computer interaction since the iPhone.
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@levi
Levi McCallum
2 years
Working with UE5 is both a rewarding and humbling experience. Things I did in 50 lines of code in Unity takes 10x more effort and requires a near-complete understanding of the engine. Hey, at least the source code is accessible!
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@levi
Levi McCallum
6 months
getting into the deep cuts of Animal Crossing OST remixes
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Levi McCallum
9 months
@Ethan_smith_20 lol what paper is this
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@levi
Levi McCallum
1 year
@Jonathan_Blow Will you open source braid in the future?
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@levi
Levi McCallum
2 months
RevenueCat is a genius business model because app developers are already used to giving away 30% of their revenue, what’s 1% more?
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@levi
Levi McCallum
6 months
@andrew_n_carr @shncldwll @twofifteenam @ID_AA_Carmack this could be the most alpha ever in a single tweet
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@levi
Levi McCallum
3 years
Congrats @jasonoliver and @brianjcho on launching Patron! I invested in this first fund because games were an important source of community, fitness and creativity for me during the pandemic. These good parts of gaming will become a part of our daily lives. Follow them 👇
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brian cho
3 years
1/ ⚡Announcing what @jasonoliver and I've dreamt about building together for many years! We are proud to debut Patron. An early-stage venture firm investing in the convergence of games, consumer, and Web 3. We call this the "Spectrum of Play." 🧵
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@levi
Levi McCallum
8 months
@gd3kr Use xcodegen, write the app in vscode and tab into xcode whenever you want to build.
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Levi McCallum
1 year
It will be exciting when we can pass large amounts of raw assembly into GPT and get out a structured C++ program.
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@levi
Levi McCallum
1 year
anyone working on a node based stable diffusion editor?
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@levi
Levi McCallum
3 years
Congrats, NZXT and Johnny Hou! I absolutely love this brand and excited to see its vision unfold over the next couple of years.
@NZXT
NZXT
3 years
We are proud to announce that NZXT is taking on a round of funding from leading global investment firm Francisco Partners to help us with our mission of creating extraordinary PCs achievable and fun for all gamers! 💜 Read the message from our CEO at
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@levi
Levi McCallum
2 years
Finding the tool you've been working on for a week already existing, buried deep within the Unreal Engine source. Always a hard pill to swallow.
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@levi
Levi McCallum
2 years
Taking care of a new born has unlimited upside, like being awake for the Bahrain Grand Prix at 4am.
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@levi
Levi McCallum
1 year
Life is so good when you deeply believe in what you’re building and when it comes together better than you could’ve anticipated. This is what it’s all about.
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@levi
Levi McCallum
2 years
@Jonathan_Blow This is a bug that showed up in the latest quality update. Rolling back the latest update fixed it for me.
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@levi
Levi McCallum
2 years
@pikuma Skeletal and procedural animation!
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@levi
Levi McCallum
1 year
The blight has infected my Home Screen
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@levi
Levi McCallum
2 years
@alexgraveley Ah, these are not copilot specific settings, rather general VSCode ones.
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@levi
Levi McCallum
1 year
@SebAaltonen Uber/Lyft while in the city and rent a car on your way out. Highway 1 down the coast is the most beautiful drive, but it’s long.
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@levi
Levi McCallum
1 year
@SebAaltonen It does surprisingly well at adjusting the output when you point out its mistakes. I’ve been able to get most really incorrect things to turn out how I would write it, if I spend the time coaching it with feedback.
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@levi
Levi McCallum
1 year
My app is now feature complete! Now to fix a million bugs. Today was a good day…
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@levi
Levi McCallum
2 years
@nikitabier Apple is too powerful
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@levi
Levi McCallum
2 months
@bria_sullivan Depends on how complex your subs are. If you're doing most of the feature gating on the client, StoreKit 2 is super simple. It gets more complex if you're trying to sync sub state with the backend, which is where RevenueCat makes a compelling time saving pitch.
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@levi
Levi McCallum
2 years
@alexgraveley Where are these options? I can't find them in vscode
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@levi
Levi McCallum
2 years
@sama WhatsApp or messenger integration
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@levi
Levi McCallum
28 days
Seriously jealous of the kids starting their careers today with these super powers, never having to waste their lives on writing code generators and DSLs. Just create value and ship.
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@levi
Levi McCallum
3 years
@briannekimmel I started my career remote and it was awesome. Just gotta embrace the fact there’s so much outside of what work can provide.
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@levi
Levi McCallum
23 days
@NickADobos @malpern @cursor_ai I setup a Logitech smart action to save current cursor file, flip to Xcode and hit cmd r on button press. So simple and you’re in Xcode when it errors.
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@levi
Levi McCallum
3 years
@PikumaLondon The udemy style course paradigm incentivises course creators to use all verticals possible to drive sales, which I bet is an immediate turn off for community mods in forums that get a lot of courses (ie. game dev). It's worth figuring out how distance your brand from this.
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@levi
Levi McCallum
2 months
@Lykon4072 Does SD3 have the same RLHF bias wrt identity personalization? SDXL was super hard to get custom identities consistent without additional work.
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@levi
Levi McCallum
2 years
Big day! Merged all the prototypes into a single project. This thing is starting to feel real.
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@levi
Levi McCallum
1 year
@cloneofsimo Write it in python and have ChatGPT transpile it
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@levi
Levi McCallum
3 years
@PikumaLondon And yet, so many practitioners would be much more productive if they took a few Pikuma courses. The paradox of academia!
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@levi
Levi McCallum
1 year
@knowclarified Personally, I've found working at a company will teach you how to get good at working at a company. Starting a company will teach you how to get good at starting company. The latter just more risk and a need to be brutally honest with yourself and relentlessly prioritize.
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@levi
Levi McCallum
3 months
@aheze0 @DaSkrubKing It’s going to be worth 0 if they keep fighting
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Levi McCallum
3 years
@brianjcho Disney’s track record of handling game studios is pretty abysmal. I’d have little faith they’d steward that IP any better than they have done with Star Wars thus far.
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@levi
Levi McCallum
3 months
@AndiDev_ Really seems like they could do a Bioshock series well with the same art direction and writing as Fallout
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Levi McCallum
2 years
@goodside Haha, amazing
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Levi McCallum
4 months
@michaelsayman Kind of the holy grail, no? Have an on prem Jarvis that’s being constantly fine tuned and RAG’d with your entire life.
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@levi
Levi McCallum
1 year
@D_Rod_Tweets @gates_mcfadden Can i skip the first two seasons and go straight to the third, as a TNG fan?
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@levi
Levi McCallum
15 days
I’ve been teaching my two year old to sound letters and read basic words before he can speak. It’s mind blowing how capable kids are.
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@levi
Levi McCallum
1 year
Finally, a reason to watch F1 again!
@formularacers_
formularacers
1 year
🚨 | BREAKING: Daniel Ricciardo will reportedly replace Nyck de Vries at AlphaTauri effective immediately, and take the wheel next week in Hungary. [ @ErikvHaren ]
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Levi McCallum
1 year
@modal_labs Totally fine with this. The current state of the product is perfect.
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Levi McCallum
6 months
Omg at #6 ! We’re so back, baby!
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Levi McCallum
7 months
Close to reaching #5
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@levi
Levi McCallum
1 year
@Jonathan_Blow @Razer razer and nvidia driver updates are the worst. I lost thunderbolt monitor output a year ago because of a driver bug they have marked fixed
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@levi
Levi McCallum
2 months
@jfischoff they shot themselves in the foot showing Large and then releasing Medium. Like a bad movie release with the rumors of an epic 4 hour directors cut that never made it past the execs.
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@levi
Levi McCallum
4 months
Some bug investigations take so long they end up feeling like research itself, riddled with the same uncertainties and unknowns. But in the end the issue is always discovered and the solution is often so simple it feels stupid. Bringing this insight back with me into research.
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Levi McCallum
5 months
@linaqruf_ how does one bring down a service hosted on discord?
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Levi McCallum
7 months
@bernhardsson @modal_labs Yes completely agree. Infra startups are essentially acting as venture scouts by providing credits to early stage companies.
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Levi McCallum
1 year
easily the best button i've ever made
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Levi McCallum
1 year
@nearcyan Download speed
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@levi
Levi McCallum
1 year
Creatio is lowkey goated when ex nihilo is the vibe
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@levi
Levi McCallum
10 months
@superamit This is how I measure my age
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Levi McCallum
6 days
@mikemikina I spent all of yesterday doing the same thing. You’re not alone.
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@levi
Levi McCallum
4 months
@sovpal what typeface is this?!
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Levi McCallum
9 months
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Levi McCallum
10 months
@jbelliss Good luck today!
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Levi McCallum
1 year
@kohya_tech I bet that’s what the HyperDreamBooth authors were thinking.
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Levi McCallum
4 months
@lucchaissac I’m going to cry, it’s so good
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@levi
Levi McCallum
7 months
Close to reaching #5
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@levi
Levi McCallum
3 months
Different parts of the stack require different playlists. Building UIs is always an 8hr Animal Crossing OST compilation.
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@levi
Levi McCallum
1 year
approaching the end of "make everything a visual graph" phase of my career
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@levi
Levi McCallum
8 months
@EMostaque I still have access to the weights for commercial use when paying for a subscription?
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Levi McCallum
6 months
So profoundly excited about the next few weeks of product releases. A culmination of months of research. Can’t wait to show it to ya’ll.
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@levi
Levi McCallum
1 year
@thekitze Haha, they clearly have never worked with UE. Making any change outside of the runtime tools requires lengthy compile times. Next.js is so fast and easy in comparison.
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Levi McCallum
7 months
@bria_sullivan That makes a lot of sense. Seems like you could kill it with straws and other cosmetic upgrades. I get so many animal crossing vibes when customizing my boba shop.
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@levi
Levi McCallum
2 years
@YangCLiu Has to do with the hardware decoders on Apple chips only supporting H.265. Most of the innovation with cloud streaming is improvements to WebRTC and the AV1 codec, which is not hardware decoded on the phone.
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Levi McCallum
23 days
@malpern @NickADobos @cursor_ai Yes that was my first choice and worked great. Logitech was free tho.
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Levi McCallum
1 year
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Levi McCallum
3 months
Seems like a lot of generative AI companies are building the proverbial game engine without making the game. The game is the purpose and the refining fire. Build the game.
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Levi McCallum
2 months
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Levi McCallum
1 year
@alexgraveley Totally agree. Have rewrote my project 3 times this year. Intuitively, just seemed a lot better to make fundamental abstraction changes than to keep tacking on fixes. The outcome has always been simpler and easier to work with.
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