brandon lucas green

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I’m so tired of the ai music discourse but the one hill I will die on is simply that it seems the vast majority of people trying to defend ai music seem to either (1) not have interesting music taste & simply want to make things that sound like what they…

I built the menubar notifications inbox of my dreams 🤩 I got tired of having to bounce across a bunch of different apps to keep up with all of my notifications, across both work and nonwork.

First, some context: I’ve been reading Eric Ries’ new book, Incorruptible, and it’s really challenging me to think about the work I do and how to keep it in pursuit of things I care about.

You know what’s better than “winning”?

I had a moment of clarity about Unstream over the last few days, which was triggered by my desire to build some other product that might be viable as a revenue-generating side business.

Building things on my own has deepened my appreciation for every other function around me I’m not good at 🙇‍♂️ If you’re a PM and want to build some kind of app on your own with AI, do it for this reason and this reason alone.

Ever wanted to see your content calendar on an actual calendar?

It’s rare these days to find a SaaS company that deeply invests in its user experience design.

“When I ask CEOs who’ve taken companies public to identify the biggest change they notice before and after, I always get the same answer: Every employee starts watching the stock ticker.

Early in the life of Music Threads, people would regularly throw around engagement bait posts such as: what is the best 3-album run of all time And I’m kind of amazed that I never saw anyone suggest the Fleet Foxes run: self titled, Helplessness Blues, Cr…

Whoa this I did not see coming, especially after the layoff news: @Bandcamp implemented the subsonic API so you can take your Bandcamp collection to open-source media players & infrastructure.

@Buffer Insights is finally here for everyone, and I’m so excited to share it 😄 It’s a total overhaul of social media analytics within our product.

Last week I made a little internal app that makes it easy for anyone on the @Buffer team to roll out a feature to early access.

Can’t stop fawning over how pretty my @Buffer home screen is 😍 Oh and the nice li’l saved views in the sidebar 💅 The problem now is that I just stare at this and don’t post stuff 🥴

Corollary: It’s very easy to have your taste & judgment be destroyed by fear of your competition, which it feels like is happening here.

unstream v2.5.0 for chrome and firefox rolling out imminently with some improvements to music playback detection across more websites, including #faircamp sites and @fairplayer!

Something I’ve been thinking about recently is user feedback.

Free product idea for the @Figma team: Build your own Loom alternative directly into the product, so designers can walk through their designs without needing a whole other tool / set of links to walk through designs that are already done in Figma

Finally got cross-client login & sync working for Unstream!

Excited to share the new @Buffer Home screen, out now for our web app 🏠 This was a fun project to work on because it’s not a flashy new feature, but rather a new hub that brings together Buffer’s tightly-integrated social toolkit.

I turned 38 today and I celebrated by being outside a lot

AI is cool and all but the real 100x unlock is when your 5yo daughter offers to start vacuuming up dog hair all over the house

Is usage of the word genuine a Claude tell, or is it just something we’re all saying more frequently because we have a desperate need to separate out what is real / human / based in experience, from what is synthetic / contrived / hallucinated?

The discourse around ✨ taste ✨ is bugging me.

Finally got most of the pieces in place to turn Unstream into a proper progressive web app: logins for non-artists, saving functionality, eventually release notifications.

It bugs me that I’m now a popsocket person

The API isn’t the only thing we’re working on at @Buffer 💁🏻‍♂️ Something else I’m iterating on with @Rathes @Sofia @Jacob is a new Home screen that pulls in at-a-glance info from each area of Buffer: upcoming posts on your schedule recent comments to reply

Today the “internet tinkerer” part of my LinkedIn headline comes to life 🛠️ Because the Buffer API is now available to everyone!

Something I regularly realize about myself is I just like making stuff.

Hot take.

For anyone here who loves AI and perhaps doesn’t understand the increasing public backlash against it, I’ll just leave this here. https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-as-the-new-avatar-of-american

Happy belated lagwagon day to all who celebrate https://youtu.be/Ihffc8LX2KU

Extremely proud (and a little relieved) to be working for a business that did not do this.

Threw in some basic support for subvertworld into @unstream.stream.

I’m here with a PSA that, while Claude and ChatGPT are all the rage, you can access an entire swath of “second tier” models - all of which are open source - for $20/month via Ollama.

I let work (not necessarily just day job, but also side projects) consume me, and that meant I wasn’t writing.

You probably haven’t heard it but my last album is kind of an ode to being an artist on the internet in 2025-2026 My goal was to clarify for myself how I feel about some things, and my secondary goal was for you to feel something Track 1 is about struggl…

And there are lots of piano interludes throughoutAnd you can listen to the whole thing here https://music.kidlightbulbs.com/infinite-normal/I hope it helps

AI is cool and all but I want nothing more to hide away and record a whole album of music with none of it