Joined April 2008
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Prototyping 2.0 Less time building, more time feeling. Getting to quality achieved through experiencing and living with it longer, iterating on it, and sharing functional versions earlier so that others can live and feed the refinement cycles.
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your body is full of useful intelligence that can only be found mechanically. this is why you gotta prototype early what do your hands and eyes want to do next? why didn't they? you have to move thru the problem. hard problems hit staccato. good design feels like a gesture
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Talking Heads
Shampoo packaging - Ralph Grigg for Texas Pharmacal Co. - 1973
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Ryan Hefner — oss/acc retweeted
"No more ticket takers. Everyone is now ticket makers." @ryanhefner just dropped this bar in chat
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Have you, Fiddle-Faddled, today?
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I have been working on an app that renders contextually with other apps, and this is probably the best UI update announced at #wwdc.
Every window on macOS 27 now uses a unified corner radius
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Replying to @JordanGal
@JordanGal you just need to figure out what games the HVAC and plumbers are playing and catch them on their break. Re: Meta’s Audience network convo on @Panel_Pod
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Ryan Hefner — oss/acc retweeted
Reminder! PHP×Philly is tonight at 6:00pm! Mike Priscella will present "After Shai-Hulud: Supply Chain Security for PHP Engineers" Hosted by our friends at @curotec
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Any guesses what this app does?
Having too much fun with AI. Now I am building peripherals that enhance using the software.
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This post feels relevant today. I just found out that a premium .com domain I purchased is not being fulfilled due to the previous owner no longer owning the domain 🤷‍♂️. So, I guess I’ll just have to rock the .app until the .com resurfaces at some point. But, it would have been a steal at $488 for the name.
We're finally shedding the .so (thank you Somalia!), and using the .com for @NotionHQ. And for this beautiful moment, I want to share a fun story: Back in 2018, I had just joined Notion, and one of the first things @ivan asked me to do was figure out how we could own notion.com. I had never done a big domain purchase before, so I reached out to a few domain brokers to understand the landscape. We tried different brokers, kept things anonymous, and attempted to surface a price the seller might consider. A year went by… nothing. Meanwhile, it was pretty clear this was only going to get more expensive as we grew. We needed a different approach. A fellow founder connected me to a broker who took a very different tack. Less transactional, more long-term relationship builder. He spent months getting to know the domain owner. Turns out owner was a fellow entrepreneur in the west coast… and a huge Grateful Dead fan. So we figured, why not get creative? Something beyond just price. So I called up our investor Ronny Conway and asked if there was any way he could help set up a private meeting between the domain owner and the Grateful Dead. Ronny is one of those people who somehow makes impossible things possible. A week later he calls me back: “New York City. Halloween. 15 minutes after the concert. Done.” The broker went back to the owner with an offer: some cash, some equity, and a private meeting with the Grateful Dead. That got his attention. He didn’t take the band meeting in the end, but he did lean into the equity (great call, in hindsight). We shook hands, and a few weeks later, the deal was done. I’ve been waiting years for the day we move our product to notion.com. Looks like 2026 is finally the year. Safe to say I’m unreasonably excited about this update!
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Ryan Hefner — oss/acc retweeted
Having too much fun with AI. Now I am building peripherals that enhance using the software.
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Wow, new Claude voice is...bad.
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Haha, answered my own question. Missed it! haha, next time
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Let’s hang in August!
atlanta tech is so underrated it's actually disrespectful. silicon valley gets all the press but we're out here building, hiring, and eating way better food. renderatl august 12-13. come see for yourself
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Ryan Hefner — oss/acc retweeted
#contactandcontrol #ufotwitter #ufox #CISSP LINK IN BIO - autographed copy via website
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Yo, let’s hang!
We are just a week away from our meetup! Join us in Greenville SC! Presentations from @ShaneDRosenthal @ryanhefner @mattstauffer We are looking forward to seeing y’all! Thank you to our sponsors @laravelphp and @OpenWorksGVL Register here: meetup.com/hack-greenville/e…
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Ryan Hefner — oss/acc retweeted
The last 20% isn't most of the work, it's all of the work.
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Proactive people are the best. These branches were drooping a little lower than may be comfortable for some, so they used what was available to make it a bit nicer, for everyone.
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