Manny Becerra
mannyb.bsky.social
Manny Becerra
@mannyb.bsky.social
Le Real + Generative UI/X
Tuned in to @vercel.com Ship 2025 earlier this week from The Big Island… so friggin good. Excellent job @rauchg.blue @leerob.com @evilrabbit.bsky.social and the many other Vercilians behind it including the developer and partner communities!
June 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Let's go - and ship w/@vercel.com vercel.com/ship/ticket/...
Manny’s Ticket
Vercel Ship 2025
vercel.com
April 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Progress doesn't wait. Someone, somewhere in your world, is waiting for a leader to step up — to take ownership, solve a problem or chart a path forward. Why not you? Now go — make it happen.

#BiasForAction
February 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Excited to support Bluesky’s growth. Domains ftw!
November 16, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Winter is Coming (Circa 2022; Reno) 🤶🏼❄️

exp.nv.guide

#Reno #Neon #SantaCrawl
November 17, 2024 at 9:33 PM
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✎ Goodbye, Twitter. It's heartbreaking to have to walk away from a place that's been such a crucial part of my career and life. Read me: bradfrost.com/blog/post/go...
Goodbye, Twitter.
Here's how you can find and follow me: Subscribe to my RSS feed Sign up for the Big Medium Newsletter Follow me on Threads Follow me on Bluesky Follow me on Mastodon Connect on Li...
bradfrost.com
November 7, 2024 at 7:32 PM
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Instead of crafting solutions for hypothetical harms, we advocate focusing on already existing and very significant safety issues--namely AI’s reliance on personal data & the vulnerabilities created by foundation models' use in nat’l security. 2/

arxiv.org/abs/2410.14831
Mind the Gap: Foundation Models and the Covert Proliferation of Military Intelligence, Surveillance, and Targeting
Discussions regarding the dual use of foundation models and the risks they pose have overwhelmingly focused on a narrow set of use cases and national security directives-in particular, how AI may enab...
arxiv.org
October 22, 2024 at 3:51 PM
For my #entrepreneur peeps, if you're looking for PMF, tune in to this interview with @rauchg.blue (@vercel.com); it's good and Guillermo's a good dude too:

links.mannyb.io/vercel-pmf-w...
How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guillermo Rauch (Vercel's CEO)
Listen to this episode from In Depth on Spotify. Guillermo Rauch is the CEO of Vercel, a frontend-as-a-service product that was valued at $2.5b in 2021. Vercel serves customers like Uber, Notion and Z...
links.mannyb.io
June 26, 2024 at 11:46 PM
"The goal of a design system is to help its parent organization achieve its goals more efficiently and consistently with the least possible burden.

Adoption is a part of that, but it’s equipment used for the journey, not the destination." — @danmall.bsky.social

The rest of Dan's write-up was🔥
July 31, 2023 at 10:15 PM
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Signal president @meredithmeredith.bsky.social says the company will not comply with the proposed U.K. ‘mass surveillance’ law requiring mandatory message scanning before

https://fortune.com/2023/07/13/signal-president-mass-surveillance-uk-law/
Signal president Meredith Whittaker rejects ‘mass surveillance’ U.K. law
Whittaker said Signal would not abide by the proposed law, and highlighted concerns about privacy and the need for tech leaders to take a stand against socially accepted surveillance.
fortune.com
July 15, 2023 at 11:45 AM
I really enjoy creating presentation decks and sharing a compelling story; I can get in the zone foreva
June 27, 2023 at 9:02 PM
Reno Rodeo 2023. One of the few events in which folks from all backgrounds in the community come together for a bucking good time. Dig it 🤠
June 26, 2023 at 2:50 AM
Beautiful evening for hill training ⛰️
June 24, 2023 at 2:15 AM
Insightful and moving panel discussion on AI Ethics:

These models can perpetuate histories of marginalization and inequality to who gets to use them... - Meredith Whittaker

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2023-06-22/dair-credo-ai-and-signal-foundation-on-ai-ethics?srnd=all&sref=gni836kR
DAIR, Credo AI and Signal Foundation on AI Ethics
Dr. Alex Hanna, Director of Research, Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR), Navrina Singh, Founder & CEO, Credo AI and Meredith Whittaker, President, Signal Foundation discuss the ethics of AI wit...
www.bloomberg.com
June 23, 2023 at 7:55 PM
Happ Solstice ☀️🥶
June 21, 2023 at 3:22 PM
Another rainy day in Reno. The past week has felt like the PNW in a place that rarely ever gets this special treatment 🌧️⚡️
June 11, 2023 at 3:22 AM
Instead of coding, designing or wrangling whatever techie related thingy is usually on the horizon, I spent the day installing our new induction stove top with a custom mount. Wrangling electrical can be nerve wrecking as well, but I’m pretty happy and proud of how it all turned out ✨
June 10, 2023 at 2:31 AM
Trees are amazing 🌳
June 5, 2023 at 2:54 AM
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ok there we go. if you’ve been curious about what React Server Components are (it’s a little bit nerdy), i wrote just about that. you should be able to follow if you have some react — or perhaps even just web experience. questions welcome. https://github.com/reactwg/server-components/discussions/5
RSC From Scratch. Part 1: Server Components · reactwg/server-components · Discussion #5
RSC From Scratch. Part 1: Server Components In this technical deep dive, we'll implement a very simplified version of React Server Components (RSC) from the scratch. This deep dive will be publishe...
github.com
June 2, 2023 at 8:16 PM
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Highly recommend this long read from @meredithmeredith.bsky.social Relevant to AI discussions.
June 4, 2023 at 2:13 AM
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"power over enslaved people was executed through bureaucratic technologies"
Really informative read from @meredithmeredith.bsky.social
June 3, 2023 at 7:59 PM
Pura verdad 🐶
Dogs are such an amazing vibe
June 4, 2023 at 3:27 PM
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Hire, promote, and retain tech minorities.
Ready to go from <fear:AI Future Doom> to <solution:AI inclusion> in 3 steps? Let's go!
1-If AI oppresses humanity,
2-It'd likely emerge from "blind spots" in system building priorities.
3-"Blind spots" wrt oppression is smthin people w marginalized backgrounds are experts in.
June 3, 2023 at 9:17 PM
21-hrs in so far on team relay race. It’s cold, we’re tired but having a blast ✨

#teslarunners #plaidmode #rto
June 3, 2023 at 11:10 AM
Props 🫶🏽👇🏽😉
vercel.com Vercel @vercel.com · May 29
On this day 10 years ago, React was introduced.

Congratulations to the React team for a decade of innovation.

https://vercel.com/blog/10-years-of-react
June 1, 2023 at 4:23 PM