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New comment by Fergusonb in "Sites in ChatGPT"

Fergusonb — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:33:52 +0000

I think this has always been the end result - when the user can enter a business problem and it spins up a site, and they don't have to think about the hosting, database, app, etc.

Vibe coding full circle

And it will be good enough for 90% of use cases.

New comment by Fergusonb in "SvelteKit 3"

Fergusonb — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:31:43 +0000

Thanks for your hard work, as well as the team.

Svelte / Sveltekit helped programming "click" for me , and years later I'm doing work I love for people who appreciate it.

SK is my favorite starting point for almost everything I build.

New comment by Fergusonb in "Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions"

Fergusonb — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:05:01 +0000

"zip it cookie"

New comment by Fergusonb in "How to Create a Tor Exit Node (2015)"

Fergusonb — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 21:36:32 +0000

I got in huge trouble hosting one of these when I was a kid.

I saw some call-to-arms post that got me excited for the free internet and set it up on my parents' residential service.

You can imagine the fallout. No permanent damage though.

New comment by Fergusonb in "Gmail to end support for "Send as" for third-party addresses, such as @yahoo.com"

Fergusonb — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:22:25 +0000

Certainly seems intended to drive Workspace subscriptions, but I wonder how many of those users will sign up for Office instead.

New comment by Fergusonb in "GPT-6 Astra"

Fergusonb — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:42:16 +0000

I think a general understanding is still useful, you just don't need all of the details anymore.

The brain loves these kinds of shortcuts.

I don't need to think about the fine motor skills of hitting a baseball, it's just a motion now, and the game is still fun.

New comment by Fergusonb in "Muse Spark 1.3"

Fergusonb — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:00:54 +0000

I think it's hilarious that this detail is enough for me to dismiss looking into the model, but here we are, and it is.

New comment by Fergusonb in "GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter"

Fergusonb — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:30:50 +0000

Luna saw a huge jump after the price cut and is one of the more competitive models at the new price on openrouter.

Maybe they want to see how much market they can grab with Sol?

This might help but there are already cheaper models with Sol's intelligence more or less, the most notable being Grok 4.6 at $6/m which makes it a tougher sell

New comment by Fergusonb in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold"

Fergusonb — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:57:07 +0000

Are they durable?

If I can ruin the screen with my fingernail, I'm completely uninterested.

New comment by Fergusonb in "Running Kimi K3 on a M1 Max"

Fergusonb — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:18:49 +0000

You can use an external drive if it's mounted as a writable volume. I would make sure it's fast, maybe thunderbolt 3/4/5 enclosure with a fast drive.

New comment by Fergusonb in "Cloudflare Drop"

Fergusonb — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:17:53 +0000

Yep, I chucked it a file on my desktop: index.html present Max individual file size 25MB Total file count <2000 Total size less than 100MB

New comment by Fergusonb in "Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good"

Fergusonb — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:21:34 +0000

My friends can't ride horses as well as they used to, they've been using cars to get around too much.

Sure horses are more efficient, but cars are faster and more convenient, and allow you to get a lot more done.

Also cars will get better in our lifetime, horses are horses.

New comment by Fergusonb in "Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk apparently used AI to write her latest novel"

Fergusonb — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:24:04 +0000

Cool, I also use AI as a tool.

New comment by Fergusonb in "If Apple makes an iPad Neo, it's all over"

Fergusonb — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:18:18 +0000

Apple's tablets are great, but I think we're just pretty close to the limit for these entertainment devices.

I have a now 7(!) year old Tab S5e that I use to consume media, and it's 5.5mm thick, with 10 hours of battery, a 1600x2560 super AMOLED, and quad firing speakers.

Nothing on the market makes me feel I need an upgrade over what was a $400 mid range tablet, because I have an incredible media experience on all my streaming apps.

New comment by Fergusonb in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"

Fergusonb — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:53:22 +0000

They're definitely more popular right now, but they've been a winner since M1.

Great performance, quiet, efficient.

It would be tough to get a windows machine at that price that gets anywhere close on performance, especially if you consider the cost of electricity.

Great parent/grandparent machines, home servers.

New comment by Fergusonb in "Anthropic taps IPO lawyers as it races OpenAI to go public"

Fergusonb — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 18:57:44 +0000

Something something selling shovels in a gold rush.

New comment by Fergusonb in "ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than Windows it ships with"

Fergusonb — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:20:03 +0000

There's very good steam integration, a controller first UI, it's very performant, sleep works better, fantastic performance monitoring and settings.

I love it, but there's probably not a whole bunch of reason to run it on things in other form factors.

New comment by Fergusonb in "EVs are depreciating faster than gas-powered cars"

Fergusonb — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 16:43:29 +0000

Agree with everything here.

Anecdote:

I purchased an EV this year, my highest priority was range per dollar, and the vehicle I selected happened to be new because of current market conditions. (Equinox EV for under 25k otd after incentives)

New comment by Fergusonb in "Claude Haiku 4.5"

Fergusonb — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:25:12 +0000

I agree, claude is an impressive agent but it seems like it's impatient and trying to make its own thing, tries to make its own tests when I already have them, etc. Maybe better for a new project.

GPT 5 (at least with cline) reads whatever you give it, then laser targets the required changes.

With High, as long as I actually provided enough relevant context it usually one shots the solution and sometimes even finds things I left out.

The only downside for me is it's extremely slow, but I still use it on anything nuanced.

New comment by Fergusonb in "America is getting an AI gold rush instead of a factory boom"

Fergusonb — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 15:01:41 +0000

Roller coaster tycoon is good.

The business software I have to work with from the 80s is a straight up nightmare. And I'd say most old software is in this camp.