Jeff Nickel

So close to 1500! Would Love to connect with other folks in tech doing: -AI things -Game dev -Indie hacking -SaaS Man I need to trim my beard. Let's Connect!

Iceland #4 - Seljalandsfoss during the 'midnight sun' of June 2017. My camera definitely got soaked here!

Thanks to all my new friends! I blew past my 1500 follower goal and am now on the path to 1700! I was almost at 200 replies and 10 posts which has been pretty consistent the past few days. It still feels like "Let's Connect" posts are the only way to get ahead 🤷‍♂️

Every AI launch video now opens with a guy walking slowly through a sunlit warehouse and I still have no idea what any of them do.

Tech X has two moods: "This changes everything!" at 9am "tried it, it was meh" by lunch

Absolutely the truth.

Software used to come in a box with a manual. Now it comes with a Discord invitation and the founder saying "we're moving fast!!"

You can tell a photographer likes a photo when they show it to you and immediately explain the one thing wrong with it. This is Elizabeth. Her front arm drives me nuts. There's just too much of it. It's my fault, not hers.

"Remember this device" is a lovely little tradition where the website and I lie to each other

Blender just finished baking in the lighting for the office level of Skyroom. Such a huge improvement over the default Claude renders!

Iceland #3 out of some huge number (I will eventually stop posting these if you guys want). It pisses me off that X tags this as Made with AI. Once again I have the raw file to prove it. Skagafoss waterfall in Black & White - 2017

Hey @grok, what are 5 things people do every day without realizing they're left over from a problem that no longer exists?

Hey @grok, what are 5 pieces of ancient software keeping the world running because everyone is afraid to touch them?

Skyroom's Office level is in progress. What are some office essentials I need to have in this level?

Indie dev weekend: Friday: I'll fix one small bug Saturday: rewrote the whole menu system Sunday: fixing the bugs from the new menu system Monday: "Do anything fun this weekend?" "Not really."

One more of Kristen from 2017 (I really shot a lot in 2017) No AI was used. Sam Altman didn’t exist yet.

Hey @grok, what are 5 times users found a completely different use for a product and the company just went "yeah, that's what we meant"?

Free Builder Idea: Somebody needs to make a browser tab that gets heavier the longer you avoid dealing with it.

The trouble with being able to build your own tools is now every minor inconvenience comes with homework

There's no polite way to tell an app I don't want to join its community, I just need to resize something