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New comment by mbesto in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"

mbesto — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:25:55 +0000

https://caniuse.com/

lol okay.

New comment by mbesto in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

mbesto — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:18:55 +0000

Why not just Nginx Proxy Manager? Solves both the Proxy issue as well as TLS/SSL.

https://nginxproxymanager.com/

New comment by mbesto in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"

mbesto — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:15:25 +0000

This is reductionist and myopic. I've personally been through building forms online and it's hell to try to find consensus on perhaps the most common forms used online.

Let's take a credit card form:

- Do I let the user copy and paste values in?

- Do I let them use IE6?

- Do I need to test for the user using an esotoric browser (Brave) with an esoteric password manager (KeePassXC)?

- Do I make it accessible for someone's OpenClaw bot to use it?

- Do I make it inaccessible to a nefarious actor who uses OpenClaw to use it?

I could go on...

Balancing accessibility and usability is hard.[0]

[0] Steve Yegge's platform rant - https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611

New comment by mbesto in "I still prefer MCP over skills"

mbesto — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:00:19 +0000

The way I see it is more like this:

- Skills help the LLM answer the "how" to interact with API/CLIs from your original prompt

- API is what actually sends/receives the interaction/request

- CLI is the actual doing / instruct set of the interaction/request

- MCP helps the LLM understand what is available from the CLI and API

They are all complementary.

New comment by mbesto in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

mbesto — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:05:13 +0000

The founder of GitButler is the co-founder of GitHub. It doesn't matter what he builds, the VC is going to throw money at them.

New comment by mbesto in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

mbesto — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:24:09 +0000

Exactly. This is called overfitting and it's most definitely a thing.

New comment by mbesto in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

mbesto — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:23:27 +0000

> We're gonna need some new benchmarks...

You can't consistently benchmark something that is qualitative by nature. I'm struggling to understand how people don't understand this.

New comment by mbesto in "Clean code in the age of coding agents"

mbesto — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:20:38 +0000

> complexity emerged over time

So complexity is an issue? I don't get it. SFDC is an incredibly complex system that makes billions of dollars. Tell me why I would NOT want to be able to create a system like that with an automated tool?

New comment by mbesto in "The Vercel plugin on Claude Code wants to read your prompts"

mbesto — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:46:23 +0000

> Is there any evidence of this being intentional?

The evidence is in the code! If you didn't intend for a capability to be there then why is it in the code?

> if they truly wanted that, they have about 10 better approaches for it, if they don't care about other things.

How so? What other approaches do they have that get this much data with little potential for reputational harm? This is a very common way to create plausible deniability ("we use it for improving our service, we don't know what we'll need so we just take everything and figure it out later") and then just revert the capability when people complain.

New comment by mbesto in "Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation"

mbesto — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:06:02 +0000

Signal?

New comment by mbesto in "Clean code in the age of coding agents"

mbesto — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:01:34 +0000

> All AI is doing is speed running your code base into a legacy system

Are you implying legacy systems stop growing because I didn't mean to imply those companies stop growing.

New comment by mbesto in "Clean code in the age of coding agents"

mbesto — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:15:48 +0000

I've seen enough dirty code (900+ tech diligences over the last 12 years) to know that many businesses are successful in spite of having bad code.

New comment by mbesto in "We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2"

mbesto — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:27:31 +0000

It's a proxy for complexity.

New comment by mbesto in "We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2"

mbesto — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:26:34 +0000

Or a homelab using Proxmox or Unraid.

New comment by mbesto in "Gemma 4 on iPhone"

mbesto — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:57:31 +0000

Uber ran their ridesharing at a loss for years. This is a very common way to gain market share.

New comment by mbesto in "Solar and batteries can power the world"

mbesto — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:50:41 +0000

But 600 kWh is about ~4k kg, no? Isn't that like the max hauling a sprinter can do? So doesn't this just get you a bunch of range at the "cost" of not being able to haul anything or am I missing something?

New comment by mbesto in "Running Gemma 4 locally with LM Studio's new headless CLI and Claude Code"

mbesto — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:41:01 +0000

I don't get why I would use Claude Code when OpenCode, Cursor, Zed, etc. all exist, are "free" and work with virtually any llm. Seems like a weird use case unless I'm missing something.

New comment by mbesto in "Gemma 4 on iPhone"

mbesto — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:19:40 +0000

> It's widely understood that the big players are making profit on inference.

This is most definitely not widely understood. We still don't know yet. There's tons of discussions about people disagreeing on whether it really is profitable. Unless you have proof, don't say "this is widely understood".

New comment by mbesto in "Solar and batteries can power the world"

mbesto — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:04:09 +0000

Wait, you put 600kWh of batteries on a sprinter van?!? I wanna know more...that's insane (base eSprinter is like ~115 kWh, right?)

New comment by mbesto in "Solar and batteries can power the world"

mbesto — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:56:43 +0000

This is a fair point as it's not just simply using ethanol for gasoline. This article goes into more depth about it: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2501605122

There's lot of factors at play here:

- Location for generating PV

- Redistribution of food (both for livestock and human) production

- Environmental impacts of PV vs livestock vs depletion of native prairies

Point still stands...if you replaced all of the land used to produce ethanol with PV, you would create a surplus of energy that is higher than anything we could imaginably consume today (hint - China is essentially already doing this)