Allen Pike

@apike
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Building product at Forestwalk Labs in Vancouver. Previously founded Steamclock. I also host It Shipped That Way, and write monthly about what I’m learning.
My writinghttps://allenpike.com
Forestwalkhttps://forestwalk.ai
It Shipped That Wayhttps://itshipped.fm
Show threadAllen Pike3d ago
@neilk Googling for a page you don't already know exists is mostly dead now. Fortunately agents do more thorough searches than I used to, and know more synonyms than I do, so the net is that existence-or-nonexistence results are mostly more reliable now than they were in the Google days
Allen PikeMar 1

When Apple Intelligence first rolled out in 2024, I had to turn off the Priority Notifications feature because of poor reasoning.

But trying it now, after all the advancements we’ve seen since then, you can see they’ve really dialed in what is urgent

Allen PikeMar 1

Launch Now: On putting things in front of people, early and often.

https://allenpike.com/2026/launch-now/

Launch Now

On trading comfort for speed.

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Allen PikeFeb 26

I'm back on the Arc browser, which is mostly great, but I've noticed it doesn't do paint holding (https://developer.chrome.com/blog/paint-holding). Every other browser nowadays will hold same-origin navigations to prevent a flicker on navigation on static sites, but oddly Arc flashes the background color.

I filed a bug – for a UX nit in a deprecated browser, so it will likely go unfixed. But Atlassian’s CEO uses Arc as far as I can tell? So who knows

Paint Holding - reducing the flash of white on same-origin navigations  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers

A quick overview of paint holding. A Chrome feature for reducing the flash of white on same-origin navigations

Chrome for Developers
Allen PikeFeb 26
I claimed in 2022 that there wasn't a mathematically pure way to solve a particular graph problem, but have now added an addendum: I'm happy to report that a ML researcher at Tiktok has proven me wrong! 🧮 https://allenpike.com/2022/how-to-close-a-city/
How Two Spies Closes Cities

A little story about iterative experimentation.

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Show threadAllen PikeFeb 22
@cube_drone There is an art to taking oatmeal, the trademark healthy breakfast, and adding every calorie dense topping imaginable. Should you pick raisins, seeds, nuts, or maple syrup? Yes
Show threadAllen PikeFeb 17
@tom Yeah looks like it's not live yet – cool to see progress on this!
Show threadAllen PikeFeb 17
@tom Interesting! I'm still seeing 1600ms main-thread-blocking Layout to display a single Noto Color Emoji heart in desktop Safari (26.3). Is that expected?
Show threadAllen PikeFeb 11
@tom Interesting to hear, thanks Tom!
Show threadAllen PikeFeb 11
@drott Interesting – weirdly in my own test 🧺 and 🫠 do not trigger the bug at all, laying out in 0.2ms whereas ❤️ and 🤯 take about 1550ms. It seems there's a technique used in the heart glyph that triggers a bad path in Safari that not all glyphs use.