mattcasmith

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by mattcasmith 14d ago
I’ve taken a lot of these same steps with mixed success, but nice to see somebody else’s thoughts and results. For the iPhone users, I got similar results to Olauncher using the iOS Shortcuts app, and then linked it to the action button for
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There's no substitute for real-world experience(mattcasmith.net)
3 points by mattcasmith 25d ago|1 comments
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by mattcasmith 26d ago
I agree. One of the things I love about my Kindle is that it’s a single-use device, functionally equivalent to holding a paperback in my hands. There’s nothing to distract me or tempt me away from reading. Apps would risk breaking that spel
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We are witnessing the death of the games console(mattcasmith.net)
3 points by mattcasmith 1mo ago|0 comments
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Will the RAM crunch force a return to optimisation?(mattcasmith.net)
4 points by mattcasmith 2mo ago|1 comments
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Some features work in design meetings but fail in the real world(mattcasmith.net)
2 points by mattcasmith 2mo ago|0 comments
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Alternatives to the UK government's social media ban(mattcasmith.net)
2 points by mattcasmith 3mo ago|0 comments
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by mattcasmith 3mo ago
I'm surprised there haven't been more releases along the lines of Konami's old WE/PES units, which essentially take a console football game and drop it in an arcade cabinet. I'm not a basketball fan, but I've h
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by mattcasmith 3mo ago
I’ve seen a few of these – malicious repos to clone, fake call links that prompt for “driver” downloads, and so on. The only way around it is to be hyper-vigilant if anyone asks you to run any untrusted code on your computer.
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by mattcasmith 3mo ago
I’ve been going all-in on regular writing this year, and have published a blog post a week since December ( https://mattcasmith.net/ ). My most recent piece is about the privacy-impacting plans the UK government announced thi
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by mattcasmith 3mo ago
“Sharing malicious URLs, including those that may harm another player.” The URL was google[.]com.
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by mattcasmith 3mo ago
I was amazed recently by how locked down the hidden PlayStation 5 browser is. You can’t access it as an app through the dashboard, but it appears if you click a URL from a message. So people were sending themselves “google[.]com”, clicking,
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by mattcasmith 3mo ago
Indeed. Have never used Blacksmith and maybe there’s a good reason why they do this, but it seems odd that in world where so much of the signup and onboarding process is fine tuned for optimal conversion, a business would take an approach t
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by mattcasmith 3mo ago
Have been thinking about this a lot recently. AI could be an absolute game changer for a small start-up rushing a product to market – you could quickly build an MVP that would take years and tens of hires before. But how much ROI is there f