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mattwad

715 karma · joined September 19, 2013

Co-Founder and CTO of https://charmverse.io
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mattwad··on Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped
I recommend you get off Authy - they don't have a browser extension or a desktop client, and surprise they don't have a way to export your codes either. I had to send them a GDPR data request, and then Claude decrypted the csv file they sent. I now use Ente and it's so nice having 2fa inside a browser extension. I can also export the secrets at will.
mattwad··on Claude Is Down
Bedrock is having issues too, though. Hope your prompts are tested with other models, not just Claude!
mattwad··on The Death of the Brick and Mortar Toy Store
I was surprised to find that Barnes n Nobles has a decent selection of quality toys for infants to toddlers. Toys have their own section at my store. I used to buy toy/book gifts at Target but the options are so much more limited.
mattwad··on Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses
competitors might want to drive users to move away if they think a platform is broken
mattwad··on From GPT-4 to GPT-5: Measuring progress through MedHELM [pdf]
i thought cursor was getting really bad, then i found out i was on a gpt 5 trial. gonna stick with claude :)
mattwad··on GitHub pull requests were down
this is broken too!
mattwad··on Two narratives about AI
Yea this! How many devs say "it doesn't do what i expect" did not try to write up a plan of action before it just YOLO'd some new features? We have to learn to use this new tool, but how to do that is still changing all the time.
mattwad··on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
There's a huge caveat i don't see often, which is that it depends on your language for programming. IE. AI is reallllly good at writing Next.js/Typescript apps, but not so much Ruby on Rails. YMMV
mattwad··on I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts
Everyone posting should be considerate of your language/stack. It's pretty likely that Cursor doesn't work equally for every language. I'm working on a Next.js/Typescript/Solidity monorepo with multiple apps and packages and it handles pretty much anything I throw at it. I know I can squeeze more out because I have only been really using it heavily for the past month or so.
mattwad··on Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code
And Typescript simply doesn't work for me. I have tried uninstalling extensions. It is always "Initializing". I reload windows, etc. It eventually might get there, I can't tell what's going on. At the moment, AI is not worth the trade-off of no Typescript support.
mattwad··on I pulled data on 1378 restaurants from Google Maps to rank them in order
I like to look for reviews that discuss specific menu items, good or bad. Everything else is not really helpful
mattwad··on GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic
Have you tried using Cursor with Claude embedded? I can't go back to anything else, it's very nice having the AI embedded in the IDE and it just knows all the files i am working with. Cursor can use GPT-4o too if you want
mattwad··on Colorado has a first-in-the-nation law for AI – but what will it do?
You have to start somewhere. There's now 13 states that require pay transparency, and more that are considering it. https://www.govdocs.com/pay-transparency-laws/
mattwad··on Sending emails to my three-year-old
email is such an annoying standard for storage. i think i'd prefer a simple local SQLLite db with flat HTML files. You could use Next.js and output as 'standalone' if you wanna use React to generate the HTML
mattwad··on Express 5.0 – Last Push
What are you talking about WRT Koa? Express 4 does not support async/await natively in its middleware. That means if your async method throws an error, you need to catch it and return it yourself or else it will just crash the app. That's one reason why I currently use Koa. Express 5 finally supports async/await and it is only now being officially released.
mattwad··on Claude 3 surpasses GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena for the first time
i run a home media server, can't wait to be able to add my own LLM service. it's just a matter of time for it to be something i can install over the weekend with proper hardware
mattwad··on .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla
we actually used an .ai domain and one night, round 11pm it stopped pointing to us. To add a record, the registrar at AI literally had a spreadsheet which upserts all the records when they upload it, and someone fat-fingered the row with our domain. It took the whole night to get a hold of the one person on that island who could fix it. This was about 5 years ago, maybe they've gotten better.
mattwad··on M3 CPU cores have become more versatile
it was always mac for laptops, pc for desktop for me. I guess there's something to be said when the vendor owns all the parts, including the OS.
mattwad··on Comcast says hackers stole data of close to 36M Xfinity customers
actually I'm pretty sure that all our social security numbers leaked in full since the Experian/TransUnion hacks. I have kept my scores frozen ever since then. It's a minor annoyance but I don't know why this isn't required now
mattwad··on Django 5.0
As a full-time Node.js dev, I agree with your decision! Too much time is wasted on compatibility problems. I'd almost say it was easier when we just had browsers to deal with. At least you could just drop in jQuery and call it a day.
mattwad··on HTML hacks that shaped the Internet
you mean the title cut off? it happens on desktop too. i wonder if it's intentional
mattwad··on Airlines will make $118B in extra fees
It's not "unbundling" they literally just added new costs for features that were originally free because they can get away with it. So far, I have also found you are now REQUIRED to pay for your seats if you want to sit together. Frontier splits me and my wife even when there's seats available
mattwad··on Write PHP Code Within Next.js Components
The Next team's core use case is a serverless framework for Vercel. Anyone looking to use it as a long-running server is just a second-class citizen.
mattwad··on iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus
I went from 3a to a pixel 5 on backmarket, it's a great upgrade and doesn't really sacrifice anything. I am still waiting now for a new pixel, but even the 7/8 don't look interesting enough.
mattwad··on New emojis in 2023-2024
I mean, the Chinese language has 106,230 characters [1]. This is not a new issue. And it actually sounds fun, at least they are drawings and not just various organizations of black lines

[1] https://chinainternshipplacements.com/blog/how-many-chinese-...

mattwad··on GitHub profile achievements
Neat! People complaining about 'gamifying github' seem to be greatly over-estimating the author's goal here. Also neat to learn about the free dataset uploaded to https://ghe.clickhouse.tech/.
mattwad··on A reason for high housing prices: restrictive land-use regulations
There are checks and balances built in. For example, if you offer too much money, and the appraisal comes back and says it's not worth that much money, then your loan will not cover it and you will be on the hook to cover the difference.
mattwad··on Making Figma better for developers with Dev Mode
a private notes text file is completely different content, let alone UX, from a visual board that everyone uses
mattwad··on LCD TVs won’t see any further development
ah ok. thanks.. it is confusing
mattwad··on LCD TVs won’t see any further development
Wait, we've had 8k TVs since 2019: https://www.cnn.com/cnn-underscored/electronics/8k-resolutio.... It doesn't even seem that expensive: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsung-55-class-qn700b-neo-qle... (this is just the first result on Best Buy's site). Are we thinking of the same thing?
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