brandon

it’s cool that they just keep making movies. like i think that’s really cool of them

funny when someone says they'll think about it it really means they'll never think about it again

extremely feel that

i built a website for my wife's nail business :) www.berndpastel.com

it’s all so different now. idk prove me wrong i guess

like tbh leading up to the ai revolution designers have felt more and more silly to me. designing their little layouts (pictures of an app) and then building them into extremely complex prototypes (interactive pictures of the app). like it all kinda felt like you weren’t really DOING anything.

but if you’re a designer with a bit of product and business sense, and you know how code stuff roughly works, you’re so powerful.

if you’re an engineer you could have always built whatever you want. just now faster. you still don’t have design sense.

If you’re a founder (rich ideas guy) you still probably don’t understand product or design, but you could build an app sure. it would just suck.

is this true or am i tripping because i’m a designer:

A designer with a good handle on agentic (vibe) coding is so powerful. you have everything if you are already a designer. code is now so easy, so cheap.

oh god i just realized balenciaga probably gifted Sven Marquardt a bunch of clothes and that’s why he’s always wearing the brand. massive, effective advertising. it’s like the kardashians but for club culture 😤🫩🤯

would only be better if they were running local models and didn’t have to pay huge corporations to do this. seems possible

every burger costs 10€ now. could be the best burger you’ve ever had or the worst but they all cost 10 bucks

From Roger Ailes's Wikiipedia page: "Sexual harassment allegations In a book published in 2014, Gabriel Sherman alleged that, in the 1980s, Ailes offered a television producer a raise if she would sleep with him.[9][37] Fox News denied the allegation and rejected the authenticity of Sherman's book.[37] On July 6, 2016, former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Ailes; Carlson's allegations were the impetus for more than a dozen female employees at 21st Century Fox to step forward regarding their own experiences with Ailes's behaviour. Carlson alleged that she had been fired for rebuffing Ailes's advances.[38][39] Ailes, through his attorney, Susan Estrich, denied the charges.[40][41] Three days later, Sherman reported accounts from six women (two publicly and four anonymously) who alleged sexual harassment by Ailes.[42] In response, Ailes's counsel released a statement: "It has become obvious that Ms. Carlson and her lawyer are desperately attempting to litigate this in the press because they have no legal case to argue."[43] Following Ailes' resignation, Andrea Tantaros claimed in August 2016 that she approached Fox News executives about Ailes' behavior towards her in 2015. She stated that her allegations resulted first in her being demoted, and then in her being taken off the air in April 2016.[44] Tantaros filed a lawsuit against Fox News in August 2016 for sexual harassment, also accusing Bill O'Reilly and Scott Brown.[45][46]"

From Roger Ailes's Wikipedia page: "On August 8, 2016, Shelley Ross, writing for The Daily Beast, described her encounter of sexual harassment with Ailes in 1981. She claimed that at a lunch meeting Ailes asked her, "When did you first discover you were sexy?" When Ross explained to Ailes that she found the conversation "very embarrassing," he responded that "the best expression of loyalty comes in the form of a sexual alliance."[47] The next month, 21st Century Fox announced it had settled a lawsuit with Carlson over her allegations of harassment against Ailes.[1] 21st Century Fox was also reported to have made separate settlements with at least two other women who made complaints about Ailes.[1] In November 2016, Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly wrote in her book about the details of her sexual abuse allegations against Ailes. According to Kelly, when she first joined Fox News, Ailes would have meetings with her, during which he would make sexual remarks. Kelly alleges that he also tried to kiss her several times during a closed-door meeting, but she was able to get away and leave the office. After that incident in 2006, Kelly says that Ailes did not sexually harass her again. Then, in 2016, when Gretchen Carlson first made her sexual abuse allegations, 21st Century Fox pressured Kelly to defend Ailes, which she refused to do.[48]"

I learned about Roger Ailes's sexual harassment from Megyn Kelly!!

Why the death of the honeybee was greatly exaggerated Honeybees are too valuable to go extinct. Not every species will be so fortunate.

wonder how many headlines we read that are sensationalized www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Actually you know what? this will lead to cooler websites. like normal code is now a geocities-esque playground. random people can do anything they can think of without getting filtered through a sanitized template or some designer's boring vision for your website.

anyway throw your computer out the window. time to learn a real world skill.

so what i'm saying is these businesses are dead now:
- content management platforms
- website builders
- agencies building boutique websites
- ???

anyway new site I guess www.brandonoxendine.com

btw still a lot of styling and polish i need to do to this, which will be extremely easy to do with this set up!

i'm not really that much of a technical guy. i can do html and css and that's basically it. this was super easy.

i scraped my squarespace site, downloaded all images and remapped their paths. stripped out all the squarespace html tags and fluff, did some basic styling, put it up on github pages and remapped the url.

last night i did it in 2 hours with chatgpt in vscode.

my plan was to download all the images and redesign and build my site with basic html and css and just host it somewhere. i knew that would take a while, so i put it off for a long time.

I've been meaning to move away from squarespace for a long time. it costs me like 36 bucks a month, i've spent almost 3,000 dollars on it over the last 10 years.

and i don't even like being on it. like i feel like a loser having "a squarespace website"

I'm not saying ai is universally good. it's terrible in so many ways. but the upside can't be ignored.

ai has replaced so many apps in my life. this is great for me, I love it. it's awful for all those apps I used to use but I think a positive shift for users and a negative shift for companies is a net good thing. not sure what's gonna happen to the economy tho...

and it's not just bad (although a bit concerning). this has opened massive doors for anyone to build things. development is extremely cheap now.

all my developer friends build things with the help of ai. some moved exclusively to building using ai agents. some have said they don't care about readable code anymore because agents don't care. this is kind of scary but also a massive change.

ai is incredible. someone needs to be writing about this. ignoring it is disingenuous to the time we're living in and ignores a real sea change that's happening in the world of human intelligence and productivity.

another group of non tech friends I work out with started a chatgpt group chat to manage our schedules and easily be able to work out with each other without a lot of back and forth.