Owen Williams
@owen.bsky.social
Design manager working on developer tools at Stripe. Kiwi in Victoria, British Columbia. @ow on Twitter.
it’s been a while since i visited, but paying with cards in NZ is totally cooked now
1.5% fee for using a credit card and
1.5-2% just for *tapping* a card?!
backwards
1.5% fee for using a credit card and
1.5-2% just for *tapping* a card?!
backwards
December 27, 2024 at 6:55 PM
it’s been a while since i visited, but paying with cards in NZ is totally cooked now
1.5% fee for using a credit card and
1.5-2% just for *tapping* a card?!
backwards
1.5% fee for using a credit card and
1.5-2% just for *tapping* a card?!
backwards
Starlink mini speeds are surprisingly good. Gonna be rad for camping trips
December 23, 2024 at 5:00 AM
Starlink mini speeds are surprisingly good. Gonna be rad for camping trips
i totally forgot how sick CD design got at the peak
December 11, 2024 at 3:06 AM
i totally forgot how sick CD design got at the peak
Reposted by Owen Williams
🐟 some musings on how we might use LLMs
🐠 to interact with text at multiple levels of abstraction
🐡 inspired by the fish-eye lens
🐠 to interact with text at multiple levels of abstraction
🐡 inspired by the fish-eye lens
December 3, 2024 at 4:31 PM
🐟 some musings on how we might use LLMs
🐠 to interact with text at multiple levels of abstraction
🐡 inspired by the fish-eye lens
🐠 to interact with text at multiple levels of abstraction
🐡 inspired by the fish-eye lens
it’s possible we got the easiest baby of all time?
December 2, 2024 at 8:36 PM
it’s possible we got the easiest baby of all time?
flying 15 hours with a 1 year old next weekend… going to need your tips and condolences
November 27, 2024 at 1:03 AM
flying 15 hours with a 1 year old next weekend… going to need your tips and condolences
the magical part of my first waymo experience was a support person *calling the car* and getting very mad at us for not putting our seatbelts on fast enough 🤣
Waymo deserves to be the number one tourist attraction in San Francisco right now, and it's not even close
For like ~$11 you get to ride in a genuine self-driving car with up to four people!
Wildly entertaining
For like ~$11 you get to ride in a genuine self-driving car with up to four people!
Wildly entertaining
November 21, 2024 at 7:22 PM
the magical part of my first waymo experience was a support person *calling the car* and getting very mad at us for not putting our seatbelts on fast enough 🤣
you know this years christmas lights are hardcore when they have ETHERNET
November 21, 2024 at 2:41 AM
you know this years christmas lights are hardcore when they have ETHERNET
in hindsight it turns out “anything but twitter” was worth switching for
i like what Bluesky is doing but the product person in me wonders if “twitter but it’s not twitter” is ever going to be unique enough to convince people it’s worth switching
November 19, 2024 at 4:52 AM
in hindsight it turns out “anything but twitter” was worth switching for
every time i try a fancy 'news' app i always end up just going back to manually checking the news sites i like instead, idk what's wrong with me
May 16, 2023 at 4:59 PM
every time i try a fancy 'news' app i always end up just going back to manually checking the news sites i like instead, idk what's wrong with me
Reposted by Owen Williams
(after stewing in incandescent rage about an email for hours) just seeing this
May 16, 2023 at 4:53 PM
(after stewing in incandescent rage about an email for hours) just seeing this
Reposted by Owen Williams
im enjoying this brief moment where the internet is fun
April 27, 2023 at 1:10 AM
im enjoying this brief moment where the internet is fun
please accept this Kaya timeline cleanse
April 25, 2023 at 1:38 AM
please accept this Kaya timeline cleanse
i like what Bluesky is doing but the product person in me wonders if “twitter but it’s not twitter” is ever going to be unique enough to convince people it’s worth switching
April 24, 2023 at 2:13 AM
i like what Bluesky is doing but the product person in me wonders if “twitter but it’s not twitter” is ever going to be unique enough to convince people it’s worth switching
helloooooo world is this thing on
April 9, 2023 at 6:52 PM
helloooooo world is this thing on