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Joined April 2009
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Just keep clicking until it fits your vibe.
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Fun detail...looks like @CameronFoxly 👀
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Mackenzie Child retweeted
My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces): I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept): Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow
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I've been helping build Sentience for the past couple months & it just went into beta! sentience.com 👀
We raised $6.5m to build humanity’s platform for uploaded consciousness. Sentience creates one unique model for every person — a digital twin of your mind — to remember everything, recall what matters, and operate as you. I started this company because I am worried. For the first time, we have intelligence that will fully replace humans across a range of domains within a few years. For those outside of the tech echo chamber, this is a period wrought with confusion and uncertainty about what actually matters anymore. I’ve had numerous conversations with people who aren’t sure if they have any value as a unique human being, or whether their own thinking matters. While Silicon Valley goes full speed ahead towards AGI, many people are left wondering what place they have in this AI future. If I can communicate one thing to everyone out there with these doubts, it would be this: your unique knowledge, memories, and who you are still matter. In fact, these things matter now more than ever. The problem is that the course of AI is heading towards a world where all of us will outsource our thinking to the same one-size-fits-all AI models. This is not a hypothetical future. If 100,000 people ask a question to ChatGPT, every single person gets the same answer. You can see the cost of uniform AI models across writing, social media, and even academic papers. This uniformity is more than annoying – it’s dangerous. There’s a genuine chance that we lose the texture and vibrancy that makes us unique as a species. I founded The Sentience Company to arm real humans against this dystopian outcome. First, your Sentience lets you collect everything that holds context from your life, learning from what you do across every platform – starting on desktop and mobile. Never forget a detail again. Second, your Sentience becomes the best recall engine for everything in your life. Never copy/paste context or search across 50 chrome tabs again. Finally, your Sentience becomes the full simulation of you – an AI model that thinks and acts like you, to scale and share your unique ideas and interact with others. Your Sentience emulates more than your context. It understands your values, emotions, drive, and goals. We’re creating a world where you can leverage your own Sentience model alongside the models of your colleagues and friends to jam on ideas and access their knowledge 24/7. We’re not building Sentience to scale AGI and replace more human thinking. We’re building Sentience to scale you. We’re proud that many amazing humans are supporting our mission. Our round was led by @kevinzhang (@BainCapVC), with participation from @ditzikow, @adityaag, @evantana, @AgrawalArian, @gopalkraman, @JPBrebner (@southpkcommons), @rex_woodbury, @tmrohan, @soleio, @anniecase1, and many more.
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TLDR: The magic of Compound Engineering in @claudeai Code... building a X/Twitter (interface) clone in 20 mins. A massive game changer for me. (watch at 2x)
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so Laravel friends... how long before typing $ and -> becomes not awkward 🙃
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I pitched a new logo concept to @jeffrey_way late last year. I had two goals with this: 1) Make it feel retro, yet modern, so it would be more cohesive with the overall pixel style branding of Laracasts. 2) Make a wordmark & symbol that could stand alone or together. The wordmark itself needed to be just as unique as the symbol. All the characters sit on a 5 row grid, matching the height of the pixels in the symbol. And I snuck a distinct 'L' in the negative space of the symbol. Definitely more stylized than the current, but feels pretty solid to me. What do you think?
Two questions for you. 1. Which version do you like best? Top or bottom? 2. Should Laracasts rebrand in the coming year? New name? New logo? Too risky? All of the above?
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Mackenzie Child retweeted
‼ Hiring designers for Claude Code What we’re looking for: high craft, uses Claude Code or other agentic coding tools regularly, experience shipping *really* quickly.
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You can now design directly in your codebase. Select elements, modify them visually, and Cursor writes the code.
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5 Dec 2025
Hi everyone! I'm happy to finally share my portfolio!🏝️ This portfolio is an island where you can explore around to get to know me, my skills, and my work. I hope you enjoy exploring around my island! Go Explore: worawork.vercel.app/ #threejs #threejsjourney #r3
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i added a little easter egg to my portfolio site over the weekend! it's a little retro dvd screensaver inspired 📺 component to show on roles that i can't say much about (so it's not just an empty drawer).
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lol apparently Dyson's chat referred someone to my new portfolio site.
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shipped a v1 of my new personal site mackenziechild.me the idea was to make each section its own feed or mini app, which gives me freedom to do some fun stuff in the future. still more to do but happy with it so far.
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everyone please stop using Gemini 3 Pro, i already called dibs.
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making some progress on the build side of my portfolio site. first time using a shader - kinda digging this little glitch effect.
i'm working on updating my personal site (finally) and have designed this career timeline component. kind of wild seeing your career laid out like this. the green block is freelance side projects.
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i'm working on updating my personal site (finally) and have designed this career timeline component. kind of wild seeing your career laid out like this. the green block is freelance side projects.
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Mackenzie Child retweeted
21 Oct 2025
New post 🎉 Going back to my roots on writing about the inner workings of things, a breakdown of key-value databases and how you might make one from scratch: nan.fyi/database
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been playing with an idea for a todo list app where the higher the priority the todo, the more it yells at you (visually of course) 😆
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