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New comment by mattwad in "The Death of the Brick and Mortar Toy Store"

mattwad — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:13:47 +0000

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.

New comment by mattwad in "Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses"

mattwad — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 01:52:48 +0000

competitors might want to drive users to move away if they think a platform is broken

New comment by mattwad in "From GPT-4 to GPT-5: Measuring progress through MedHELM [pdf]"

mattwad — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:47:12 +0000

i thought cursor was getting really bad, then i found out i was on a gpt 5 trial. gonna stick with claude :)

New comment by mattwad in "GitHub pull requests were down"

mattwad — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 15:48:16 +0000

this is broken too!

New comment by mattwad in "Two narratives about AI"

mattwad — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 16:52:22 +0000

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.

New comment by mattwad in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

mattwad — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 21:25:00 +0000

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

New comment by mattwad in "I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts"

mattwad — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 04:54:22 +0000

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.

New comment by mattwad in "Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code"

mattwad — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 06:33:22 +0000

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.

New comment by mattwad in "I pulled data on 1378 restaurants from Google Maps to rank them in order"

mattwad — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 07:36:53 +0000

I like to look for reviews that discuss specific menu items, good or bad. Everything else is not really helpful

New comment by mattwad in "GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic"

mattwad — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 19:07:46 +0000

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

New comment by mattwad in "Colorado has a first-in-the-nation law for AI – but what will it do?"

mattwad — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 19:16:48 +0000

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/

New comment by mattwad in "Sending emails to my three-year-old"

mattwad — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 18:25:49 +0000

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

New comment by mattwad in "Express 5.0 – Last Push"

mattwad — Wed, 01 May 2024 04:07:43 +0000

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.

New comment by mattwad in "Claude 3 surpasses GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena for the first time"

mattwad — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:12:08 +0000

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

New comment by mattwad in ".ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla"

mattwad — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 21:39:36 +0000

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.

New comment by mattwad in "M3 CPU cores have become more versatile"

mattwad — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 22:12:43 +0000

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.

New comment by mattwad in "Comcast says hackers stole data of close to 36M Xfinity customers"

mattwad — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 18:06:25 +0000

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

New comment by mattwad in "Django 5.0"

mattwad — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 18:00:03 +0000

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.

New comment by mattwad in "HTML hacks that shaped the Internet"

mattwad — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 21:09:59 +0000

you mean the title cut off? it happens on desktop too. i wonder if it's intentional

New comment by mattwad in "Airlines will make $118B in extra fees"

mattwad — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 21:35:15 +0000

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