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Welcome to #welcome.

This is the start of #welcome. You'll never sleep through Tuesday again. Wait — wrong day. Anyway.
📌 Pinned by tim_daly — roll call below. don't make me chase you
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tim_daly trainer Today at 9:02 AM
good morning legends 👋 it's wednesday, the worst-named day of the week. let's get on with it. step one of being a professional: show up. step two: prove it. scan the code or get marked absent — and yes, i'll be checking. i didn't get up at 7am to be ghosted.
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Wed 20 May 2026
No scan = no attendance · i don't make the rules · (i make the rules)
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tim_daly trainer Today at 9:03 AM
when you're in: head to #agenda → "i'll be there for you" — me, contractually, until 3pm.
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Today's run sheet.

In which Tim makes promises about timing that he will partially keep.
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tim_daly trainer Today at 9:05 AM
here's the deal. think of it as a sitcom episode — 22 minutes of plot, 8 minutes of ads, one emotional moment near the end.
SCHEDULE · 20 MAY 2026
The plan, more or less.
  1. Icebreaker quiz — 10 questions, 3 teams, mild humiliation ~20 min
  2. Monkeytype warm-up — see if your fingers still work ~10 min
  3. Break — touch grass / vape / whatever ~15 min
  4. Wireframes & prototypes — why we don't just start coding ~30 min
  5. AI platforms — the good, the bad, the Sam Altman ~30 min
  6. Bonus tools — ElevenLabs, Suno, things to play with at home ~10 min
  7. Build mode — start planning your original site, due Monday rest of day
timing approximate. blame me, not the schedule.
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Quiz time, losers winners.

It's not Jeopardy. It's not Family Feud. It's Tim sees how much you remember.
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Warm up those fingers.

Before we plan websites, let's confirm your hands still work.
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tim_daly trainer Today at 9:32 AM
monkeytype, ten minutes. find your wpm. shame your friends. then go on break. if you're under 40wpm, that's fine — we're learning. if you're over 100, stop showing off. https://monkeytype.com
SUGGESTED · 10 MINUTES
monkeytype.com
Free, minimal, customisable typing test. No login needed. Pick a 60-second english test and go.
then break · then we plan
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Wireframes & prototypes.

The part that feels boring until you've shipped a site and the client says "actually, can the contact form be on the homepage?"
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tim_daly trainer Today at 10:05 AM
i've rebuilt the same homepage four times for one client. it's because i didn't wireframe. now i wireframe. and i sleep better. this is the lesson. let's get into it →
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tim_daly was rate-limited for sighing too loudly.
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tim_daly trainer Today at 10:06 AM
wireframe — a low-fidelity visual plan that answers what goes where. not what colour. not what font. not what the hero image looks like. just: here's the shape of the thing. grey boxes for images. placeholder text. no styling. the point is structure, hierarchy, and flow — agreed before the expensive work starts. it's the blueprint, not the building. you don't paint a house before the walls are up. same energy.
EXAMPLE · LOW-FI WIREFRAME
CTA
grey boxes & promises
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tim_daly trainer Today at 10:10 AM
why plan? three reasons, ranked by how much they'll save your sanity ↓
REASON 01
Catch the gaps
You'll find missing pages, missing copy, missing flows — while it costs minutes to fix, not days. Better to discover "wait, where does the contact form live?" on paper than three days into the build.
REASON 02
Align with the client
Show structure before style. Disagreements about layout are easier to settle on a sketch than on built code. "Can we move that?" is fine on a wireframe. It's a refactor in production.
REASON 03
Protect your time
The number of times a wireframe has saved me from rebuilding a whole page from scratch — I've stopped counting. The 10 minutes spent planning are the 2 hours you didn't lose to a rebuild.
10 min planning ≈ 1 hour building ≈ a weekend of rebuilding
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tim_daly trainer Today at 10:14 AM
there's a whole spectrum from napkin sketch to built and live. each step costs more to change than the one before. catch problems on the left. the right gets expensive fast.
THE FIDELITY SPECTRUM
cost to change increases →
Sketch
5 min · paper
Wireframe
30 min · Figma
Mockup
2–4 hrs · Figma
Prototype
½ day · clickable
<div class= "hero"> Hello</div>
Built
days+ · code
discovering a problem at "built" costs days. discovering it at "sketch" costs nothing.
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tim_daly trainer Today at 10:18 AM
this is the order. memorise it, tattoo it, whatever. it works for a 1-page portfolio and a 50-page e-commerce site. skip steps and you'll pay for it in rebuilds.
THE PROCESS
Same order. Every project.
  1. Discover — who's the audience? what's the goal? what does "done" mean?
  2. Sitemap — what pages exist and how do they connect?
  3. User flows — what's the path through a task ("buy a thing", "book a class")?
  4. Wireframes — page-by-page structure, no style.
  5. Content — real words. lorem ipsum is a cope.
  6. Mockups — apply the visual design.
  7. Prototype — click through to test the flows.
  8. Build — code it. finally.
  9. Test & ship — watch someone actually use it.
do them in order. all of them. yes, even the boring ones.
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tim_daly trainer Today at 10:22 AM
everything you need to plan a site — none of it costs a cent. pick one, don't get precious about it.
  • excalidraw.com — hand-drawn wireframes in the browser. start here.
  • figma.com — industry standard. free tier covers everything you need.
  • penpot.app — open-source Figma alternative. no paywall, ever.
  • whimsical.com — wireframes + flowcharts + sitemaps in one tool.
  • app.diagrams.net — flowcharts, sitemaps, user flows. no login.
  • pen & paper — genuinely the fastest tool for a first pass. you have it on you right now.
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AI tools — what to use, what to side-eye.

Where Tim has opinions and is going to share them. Strap in.
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tim_daly trainer Today at 11:00 AM
some of these tools are extraordinary. some of them have track records you should know about before you paste a client brief into them. the goal isn't to ban tools. it's to choose them with your eyes open. next channel — the dirt. you might not like it. you should know it anyway. #the-dirt
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tim_daly trainer Today at 11:02 AM
before we talk about which AI to use, four things about ChatGPT and Copilot that didn't make it onto their landing pages ↓
APRIL 2023 · SAMSUNG
Samsung banned ChatGPT company-wide.
In 20 days, Samsung engineers leaked source code into ChatGPT three times. Once it's in OpenAI's servers, you can't pull it back. The lesson isn't "Samsung engineers bad" — it's "this happens fast and the data is gone."
DECEMBER 2024 · ITALY
€15M fine for training on personal data.
Italy's data protection authority hit OpenAI with the first GDPR fine ever issued against a generative AI company — for using personal data to train ChatGPT without legal basis. (Overturned on appeal March 2026, but the case still reshaped EU law and policy.)
ONGOING · GITHUB COPILOT
Class action over open source code.
Copilot was trained on public GitHub repos — much of it open source code with licenses Microsoft didn't honour. Copilot has been caught suggesting near-verbatim copies of training code, including comments and variable names. Imagine LimeWire 2003 but for git repos.
RIGHT NOW · DEFAULT SETTINGS
Your conversations train the model.
On free / personal tiers, by default, every prompt feeds back into training. Including anything you paste in. Read the terms before you paste a client brief, a contract, or someone's medical record (real things people have done).
none of this means "never use them". it means "know what you're using."
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tim_daly trainer Today at 11:08 AM
first up: the one i actually use most. made by Anthropic, founded by ex-OpenAI safety researchers who left because they thought OpenAI was moving too fast on safety. they built Claude with "Constitutional AI" — principles baked into training, not bolted on after. it's also what i used to build this slideshow you're sitting in.
PLATFORM · CLAUDE
Strong at
  • → Long-form writing & editing — tone, voice, polish
  • → Reasoning over big documents (200k token context ≈ 150k words)
  • → Code review, refactoring, debugging
  • → Live HTML / code artifacts in the chat (like this one)
  • → Projects with persistent context & reusable Skills
  • → Computer Use — driving a browser to actually do tasks
→ claude.ai · docs.claude.com
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tim_daly trainer Today at 11:13 AM
second up: Google's family of models. natively multimodal — it can read images, audio, video and text all at once. context window goes past a million tokens, which means it'll read entire textbooks or codebases without breaking a sweat. plays well with the Workspace tools you already use (Docs, Sheets, Gmail).
PLATFORM · GEMINI
Strong at
  • → Deep Research — multi-source web research with citations
  • → NotebookLM — turn your own PDFs & notes into a podcast-style audio overview (legitimately impressive)
  • → Native image understanding & generation (Imagen)
  • → Native video generation (Veo)
  • → Massive context — feed it the whole textbook
  • → Built into Google Workspace if your work lives there
→ gemini.google.com · notebooklm.google
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tim_daly trainer Today at 11:18 AM
which one when? these aren't religious wars. they're tools. use the one that fits the job. here's my honest read ↓
Task
Claude
Gemini
Writing & editing — tone, voice, polish
★★★ Holds a voice well, reaches for nuance.
★★ Solid, sometimes generic.
Long docs — read, summarise, analyse
★★★ Excellent over 100s of pages.
★★★ Best for truly massive context.
Web research with sources
★★ Good with search enabled.
★★★ Deep Research is genuinely impressive.
Code review / debug / refactor
★★★ Best in class for reasoning over a repo.
★★ Capable, esp. in IDE integration.
Image generation
★ Not its strength.
★★★ Imagen — fast, controllable.
Audio overview of your own notes
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★★★ NotebookLM. Unique & weirdly useful.
Live artifacts (HTML, slides, apps)
★★★ Native to the product.
★★ Possible, less seamless.
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tim_daly trainer Today at 11:22 AM
prompt craft isn't a special skill. it's just: give the AI what a thoughtful human would need to do the job. — set the role — give the context (audience, goal, tone, constraints) — show an example if you can — specify the output format — iterate. the first answer is a draft. tell it what to fix.
write me a homepage for a coffee shop // ↑ this is a wish, not a prompt
You are a copywriter for small Perth hospitality businesses. Write a homepage for Pulse Coffee, a Mt Lawley specialty cafe. Audience: locals 25–40, want good coffee without pretension. Tone: warm, plain-spoken, lightly witty. // no "elevated" or "passionate" — those are tired. Format: — Hero headline (max 8 words) — Sub-headline (one sentence) — 3 short paragraphs: beans, brunch, the room — One short call to action Don't use: "passionate", "artisanal", "journey".
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tim_daly trainer Today at 11:30 AM
two more tools worth knowing. play with them at home — both have generous free tiers.
SOUND · TEXT-TO-SPEECH
ElevenLabs
Near-human voice generation. Voice cloning if you want. Use it for site walkthroughs, demo voiceovers, accessibility audio, or hold music alternatives that aren't from 2004.
→ elevenlabs.io
MUSIC · AI SONG GENERATION
Suno
Full songs from a prompt, with lyrics and vocals. Background tracks for project demos in minutes. Type "lo-fi study beats but for a Perth cafe" and see what happens.
→ suno.com
a note on rights: free-tier output usually isn't licensed for commercial use. check each platform's terms before you sell it or hand it to a client.
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Your mission, should you choose to accept it.

(You don't have a choice. It's worth marks.)
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tim_daly trainer Today at 11:40 AM
Original website. Due Monday 25 May. spend the rest of today setting yourself up properly. the build will be much smoother for it. "i'll plan it tonight" is a lie you tell yourself. plan now.
DO TODAY · IN THIS ROOM
The actually useful stuff.
  • ✓ Pick what the site is & who it's for
  • ✓ Sketch a sitemap — what pages, in what order
  • ✓ Wireframe the homepage at minimum
  • ✓ Gather any content you've got — copy, images, brand stuff
  • ✓ Write down questions you'll need answered by Friday
DON'T YET · I'M BEGGING YOU
The traps you'll fall into anyway.
  • ✗ Don't open a code editor
  • ✗ Don't pick fonts or colours yet
  • ✗ Don't ask Claude or Gemini to "just build it"
  • ✗ Don't lorem-ipsum your way through it — plan real content
asking AI to "just build it" is like asking your housemate to do your homework. tempting. wrong. and you can always tell.
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tim_daly trainer Today at 11:55 AM
every link from today, in one place. screenshot it, bookmark it, send it to yourself — whatever you do, don't lose it.
PLANNING TOOLS
AI PLATFORMS
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tim_daly trainer Today at 11:56 AM
now stop reading slides. go plan a website. i believe in you. sort of. see you friday 🫡
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