PStamatiou

I have great things to say as well. I left Google Photos about 1 year ago or two, used Takeout to export my ~terabyte of Google Photos, imported to Immich on my mac mini, along with more personal archives of photos. I store the images on an external SSD array (https://paulstamatiou.com/gear/owc-express-4m2-nvme-ssd-encl...) that I have backed up with Restic+Backrest to some cloud providers.

My mac mini hosts it behind tailscale to all my devices and it's been working great.

I draw the line at cheap unbranded rechargeable toothbrush. I’d be too worried about fires with cheap cells. I’m happy to pay the premium for top brands for anything with lithium-ion batteries.

Sesame | Full-time | SF/NYC/Bellevue | On-site | https://www.sesame.com/

Sesame believes in a future where computers are lifelike - with the ability to see, hear, and collaborate with us in ways that feel natural and human. With this vision, we're designing a new kind of computer, focused on making voice personal agents part of our daily lives. More details from Sequoia: https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-sesame-a-...

Our team brings together founders from Oculus and Ubiquity6, alongside proven leaders from Meta, Google, and Apple, with deep expertise spanning hardware and software.

Open Roles: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sesame

- ML Engineers

- Product Designers

- Product Managers

- iOS & Android Engineers

- ML Model Serving Engineer

- Embedded OS Architect

- Mechanical Engineer, Product Design

- Embedded Engineers

- Electrical Engineer

- Audio Systems Engineer

Sesame | Full-time | SF/NYC/Bellevue | On-site | https://www.sesame.com/

Sesame believes in a future where computers are lifelike - with the ability to see, hear, and collaborate with us in ways that feel natural and human. With this vision, we're designing a new kind of computer, focused on making voice personal agents part of our daily lives. More details from Sequoia: https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-sesame-a-...

Our team brings together founders from Oculus and Ubiquity6, alongside proven leaders from Meta, Google, and Apple, with deep expertise spanning hardware and software.

Open Roles: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sesame

- ML Engineers

- Product Designers

- Product Managers

- iOS & Android Engineers

- ML Model Serving Engineer

- Embedded OS Architect

- Mechanical Engineer, Product Design

- Embedded Engineers

- Electrical Engineer

- Audio Systems Engineer

Really love the new site and how it highlights founders so well.

Only minor tweak I'd make is for the desktop viewport size - make it so you can also click the company names instead of needing to precisely scroll for the images to show up for that company. With notched mouse wheels it's all too easy to skip one even with a regular scroll. Or increase the scroll distance.

Also might suggest using a gradient mask to fade out the company logos as you scroll the primary text block up. Some of them get very close to the text and the one-by-one removal feels a tad distracting.

And really minor but kept finding myself trying to click the photos to see things larger. Would be nice if they could come up in a media viewer with a small caption, and let me arrow key or swipe through.

thanks! labor of love. this is the 3rd real rebuild of it from scratch over the years. first generation was WordPress, then Jekyll for many years, and in the last 2 years Next.js. I have some more details here: https://paulstamatiou.com/timeline

https://paulstamatiou.com/ been running it for just over 20 years now.

> you’re left with a sealed brick that you don’t fully control

Totally agreed. I had seen umbrel and others in the past but recently decided to just get a 4-bay m.2 ssd enclosure (using RAID 1 for 2 sets of 2), not a NAS (after previously having a Synology NAS). I only want pure file access in a small, quiet form factor and I can have another Mac host and cloud backup. Currently using Tailscale Drive (alpha feature) to share it with devices and working pretty well so far. https://x.com/Stammy/status/2000355524429402472

Sesame | Full-time | SF/NYC/Bellevue | On-site | https://www.sesame.com/

Sesame believes in a future where computers are lifelike - with the ability to see, hear, and collaborate with us in ways that feel natural and human. With this vision, we're designing a new kind of computer, focused on making voice personal agents part of our daily lives.

Our team brings together founders from Oculus and Ubiquity6, alongside proven leaders from Meta, Google, and Apple, with deep expertise spanning hardware and software. We've raised a $250M Series B from Sequoia, Spark, and others. Read more from Sequoia: https://sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-sesame-a-new-...

Open Roles:

- ML Engineers

- ML Scientists

- Product Designers

- Product Engineers

- iOS Engineers

- ML Model Serving Engineer

- Embedded OS Architect

- Mechanical Engineer, Product Design

- Embedded Engineers

- Electrical Engineer

- Audio Systems Engineer

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sesame

Sesame | Full-time | SF/NYC/Bellevue | On-site | https://www.sesame.com/

Sesame believes in a future where computers are lifelike - with the ability to see, hear, and collaborate with us in ways that feel natural and human. With this vision, we're designing a new kind of computer, focused on making voice personal agents part of our daily lives. Read more from Sequoia: https://sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-sesame-a-new-...

Our team brings together founders from Oculus and Ubiquity6, alongside proven leaders from Meta, Google, and Apple, with deep expertise spanning hardware and software.

Open Roles:

- ML Engineers

- ML Scientists

- Product Designers

- Product Engineers

- iOS Engineers

- ML Model Serving Engineer

- Embedded OS Architect

- Mechanical Engineer, Product Design

- Embedded Engineers

- Electrical Engineer

- Audio Systems Engineer

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sesame

Sesame | Full-time | SF/NYC/Bellevue | On-site | https://www.sesame.com/

Sesame believes in a future where computers are lifelike - with the ability to see, hear, and collaborate with us in ways that feel natural and human. With this vision, we're designing a new kind of computer, focused on making voice companions part of our daily lives.

Our team brings together founders from Oculus and Ubiquity6, alongside proven leaders from Meta, Google, and Apple, with deep expertise spanning hardware and software.

Open Roles:

- ML Engineers

- ML Scientists

- Product Designers

- Product Engineers

- iOS Engineers

- Embedded Engineers

- Electrical Engineers

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sesame

What is happening on the Photos team? I know a lot of the core team has left already, but lately it really seems like they are cramming in AI functionality in a way that does not consider the whole experience and it truly feels bolted-on. First they tried to mess with regular search and had to leave in a setting for people to go out of their way to disable it.

Google Photos used to be one of my most favorite apps. Now it's some testing playground. I'm sure some new startup is approaching this area so the cycle can repeat.

Related: A fully physics-based version of this with a metal shader https://x.com/jmtrivedi/status/1935807479021289573

Yea for me having lots of vertical real estate is important while writing. iPad Mini (or Daylight Computer if you care about working outdoors) in portrait orientation combined with any number of writing apps seems like a great solution.

Some of the site definitely looks Rauno-inspired, the back button on a component detail view even says "< Craft" like on his site: https://rauno.me/craft https://rauno.me/craft/interaction-design

I've been feeling the same - I use Perplexity mostly and then ChatGPT most of the time (sometimes Grok if I know it's more likely to be based on X info). I wrote about some of the side effects of this new behavior https://paulstamatiou.com/browse-no-more

Could not agree more. I wrote in detail about some of these issues last week https://paulstamatiou.com/browse-no-more

Eth address. It was needed at some point to verify YC alumni crypto wallets, I think as part of OrangeDAO

Haha, unfortunately I don't think that was me. At least I don't recall anything about deodorant.

Thanks for following along!

I remember HN back when it was called “Startup News”. I wrote about it 18 years ago: https://paulstamatiou.com/why-i-enjoy-startup-news

Here's where it all started: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383

Wasn't able to use it on a few directories I tried as they were inside iCloud Drive.

Great article. This is especially true for every new product slapping on an input field for LLM chat in the same way.