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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Email is notoriously hard to self host. It requires constant care, planning, and interfacing with the big guys when your email can’t get delivered despite jumping through all the hoops (DKIM, DMARC, SPF and more).

    I used to run email services for my small business and former start-up. It was a never-ending pain. IP warming, monitoring, deliverability checks…. blah blah blah.

    Both Google and Microsoft would regularly blacklist massive IP address blocks because of one bad IP address. Days to weeks for resolution in some cases.

    I’m a little salty though ‘cause I just switched to proton away from RackSpace. There are so few good and reliable options that aren’t the big guys and the big guys want it that way.


  • I agree.

    As someone who uses a number of LLMs often as a pair programmer / sounding board - they’re incredibly useful if you have a very clear idea of your goal and also a solid idea of the architectural patterns you’re going after because they’re so often flatly wrong or suggest solutions that are wildly inefficient/inappropriate for larger projects/applications.

    The more context you can provide the better it does but it still falls over often - suggesting courses of action or solutions that are completely hallucinated.

    The one thing that’s consistently true is that the better I can describe my goals the better the response tends to be.

    The best part about using them is that, for the most challenging work, I find that forcing myself to clearly explain my problem and goals in writing often leads me to a solution without ever having to submit a request.

    There’s something about trying to clearly explain the problem to someone who “doesn’t know the space” that’s been helpful to finding the solution.

    It’s odd that I had to rediscover this in such a visceral way after a previous life as a tech product person.





  • As someone who hasn’t had a drink for 23 years one of the big issues with former addicts and alcoholics is the same “if it’s not good for me it’s not good for you” attitude we see everywhere else.

    It’s yet more exceptionalism where we mistake the phenomenon of our perception and experience as a direct stand in for everyone else’s.

    Even more problematic that it comes from someone with (and I’m willing to step out on a ledge here) a self-professed disease (alcoholics often refer to “their disease”.) That’s fine, but you don’t see diabetics recommending everyone constantly monitor their blood glucose and take insulin.

    Like yes, I understand that when my wife has her first beer it doesn’t set off the trigger I have where I need all the beer (and liquor and whatever drugs you have on you) in the world until I don’t remember who I am.


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    Depends what you’re doing.

    4o is way better at analytical work. Think big datasets and statistics. It’ll provide the Python it used for analysis so you can double check.

    Claude is far superior for more challenging development tasks. For example I found ChatGPT pretty useless for a lot of Scala troubleshooting and rubber ducking.

    Claude 3.5 Sonnet is much better though far from error free. Also not free if I remember correctly.

    Both get stuck in weird loops, make stuff up and leave things out when taken at face value.

    Ultimately they have their own strengths and either can be a force multiplier.


  • Apple’s MacBook Pro includes HDMI and a third usb/Thunderbolt port alongside an SDXC and headphone jack (the latter of which is on all their laptops albeit on the other side). This seems like the perfect balance for most users.

    It’s nonsense they don’t include HDMI on the Air, but then “it’s kinda thin and kinda light”.

    I was not sad to see FireWire and mini-DisplayPort replaced with usb-c/thunderbolt.

    Current port line up on “pro” machines:


  • My advice: don’t change anything else right now.

    The temptation is high to pack it all in at once.

    2 hours a day is a lot. Not too much, just a lot. So, since you asked, don’t change your diet yet. Get into the groove of building this new thing into some level of consistency. Once you’re 90 days in, start modifying something else. Diet. Sleep. Intensity.

    Work on one routine at a time.

    Now if you’re going too far into calorie deficit then you can think about what your energy needs are but keep the other changes to bare necessity.



  • I can’t imagine that being the case for most users. I’m absolutely a power user and I keep being surprised at how consistently high the performance is of my base model M1 Air w/16GB even when compared to another Mac workstation of mine with 64GB.

    I can run two VMs, a ton of live loading development tooling, several JVM programs and so much more on that little Air and it won’t even sweat.

    I’m not an Apple apologist - lots of poor decisions these days and software quality has taken a real hit. While 16GB means everyone’s getting a machine that should last much longer, I can’t see a normal user needing more any time soon, especially when Apple is optimizing their local machine learning models for their 8GB iOS platforms first and foremost.