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New comment by mattbettinson in "Magic the Gathering format: Fun 40"

mattbettinson — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:01:53 +0000

I love 40 card MTG. It's one of my fav ways to play. If you play a bunch of games in a row with someone it starts feeling like chess, much more deterministic when you're used to their deck. Getting two foundations boosters and shuffling them is such a great way to play. I'll definitely take a look at this

New comment by mattbettinson in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"

mattbettinson — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 18:49:05 +0000

FWIW I think you should paraphrase this comment on the hero of the site! I was unclear what it did till i read your comment fully.

New comment by mattbettinson in "Thin desires are eating life"

mattbettinson — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:26:26 +0000

Maybe it will reach the people most in need of it that way

New comment by mattbettinson in "We Need to Die"

mattbettinson — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 20:57:49 +0000

Nah I’m good. I’ll just hang out with my friends and play video games every day

New comment by mattbettinson in "Don't be a scary old guy: My 40s survival strategy with charm"

mattbettinson — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 05:32:47 +0000

For me it would, I can’t pull it off

New comment by mattbettinson in "Impacts of working from home on mental health tracked in study of Australians"

mattbettinson — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 04:40:17 +0000

I used to hate remote, especially being single. But then I started absolutely JAM packing my evenings with dates, run clubs, time left dinners, harassing friends to get drinks with me, playing magic the gathering commander (4 player), music lessons, etc. it has been way better but I do think a day or two in office a week would be amazing for me

New comment by mattbettinson in "Bringing Sexy Back. Internet surveillance has killed eroticism"

mattbettinson — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 22:28:55 +0000

/r/analog used to be sooo good!

New comment by mattbettinson in "Don't be a scary old guy: My 40s survival strategy with charm"

mattbettinson — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 17:33:45 +0000

There are risks associated with being bald and depressed

New comment by mattbettinson in "Don't be a scary old guy: My 40s survival strategy with charm"

mattbettinson — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 16:45:19 +0000

There are risks associated with everything

New comment by mattbettinson in "Don't be a scary old guy: My 40s survival strategy with charm"

mattbettinson — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 15:31:29 +0000

Finasteride and minoxidil are a lifesaver

New comment by mattbettinson in "How Does Microwaving Grapes Create Plumes of Plasma? (2019)"

mattbettinson — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:57:30 +0000

The what drive

New comment by mattbettinson in "I don't care how well your "AI" works"

mattbettinson — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 14:33:37 +0000

Get a standing desk and a walking treadmill! It’s genuinely changed my life. I can focus easier, I get my steps in, and it feels like I did something that day.

New comment by mattbettinson in "Brain has five 'eras' with adult mode not starting until early 30s"

mattbettinson — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 20:43:25 +0000

Yeah I like LLMs to dump feelings/stuff and explore different angles of viewing it. It’s like CBT by tons of angles of attack

New comment by mattbettinson in "Learn Prolog Now (2006)"

mattbettinson — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:02:04 +0000

In university, Learning prolog was my first encounter with the idea that my IQ may not be as high as I thought

New comment by mattbettinson in "Casey Muratori: I can always tell a good programmer in an interview"

mattbettinson — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 13:22:38 +0000

I feel like I am bad at these kinds of interviews. Maybe I just haven’t built big enough systems yet (fairly new to the senior role)

New comment by mattbettinson in "A Word on Omarchy"

mattbettinson — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 12:26:51 +0000

Holy that is so funny

New comment by mattbettinson in "Claude now has access to a server-side container environment"

mattbettinson — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 16:36:03 +0000

But would you have hired a junior dev for that work if AI hadn't 'replaced' it?

New comment by mattbettinson in "Omarchy Is Out"

mattbettinson — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 20:28:17 +0000

Anyone know how to change the mouse acceleration to something that feels like Mac? It feels really bad.

New comment by mattbettinson in "From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent"

mattbettinson — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 17:03:08 +0000

Excuse my ignorance but how does OS development even work? Being a mostly web developer, it just seems to arcane to change an OS - like, pre-application layer.

New comment by mattbettinson in "Scientists No Longer Find X Professionally Useful, and Have Switched to Bluesky"

mattbettinson — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 13:21:55 +0000

FWIW- it seems tech is still firmly on X. I’ve made an account there recently (@ma_bettinson !) and the discussions are quite great, though there are quite a few grifters