matthewtse

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by matthewtse 5mo ago
I really wanted to like Zed, but the tab complete was just unusable compared to Cursor's. Be forewarned. https://x.com/MatthewTse_/status/2042680214187315683 If they can fix tab complete, I'll give it an
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by matthewtse 1y ago
Can I curl this file to a linux machine easily? I was just the other day looking for a tool to easily move a non-sensitive file from my macbook, to my network-locked production machine. Rather than doing many hops through SSH tunnels, the e
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New ImprovMX Features in 2025(improvmx.com)
2 points by matthewtse 1y ago|1 comments
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by matthewtse 1y ago
Hey everyone, I and the team have been hard at work improving ImprovMX since the acquisition at the start of this year. It was slow going at first, with lots of tech debt getting in the way of safely making changes. But after an initial slo
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by matthewtse 1y ago
100% agree I spend 90% of my tax/regulation effort on handling EU VAT, which is <10% of my revenue. It really makes the IRS seem like Google in comparison to EU revenue services.
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by matthewtse 1y ago
wow good tip I was handling an incident due to this outage. I ended up adding Google DNS resolvers using systemd-resolved, but I didn't think to interleave them!
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by matthewtse 1y ago
I did a cross-country account migration for ImprovMX in January 2025. It was a total nightmare, and definitely the vast majority of the acquisition migration work. We ended up with a scheme where each customer was migrated over, as a "
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by matthewtse 1y ago
Amazing blog post. I'm new to entrepreneurship and just signed my first few corporate legal agreements. I was also deeply aware that anything agreed to was basically a gentleman's agreement--it wouldn't be worth either party
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by matthewtse 1y ago
Hey pul! I did actually find nslookup.io while researching whether I should build this or not, and based some of my user interface choices off what I saw there. I ultimately decided to make inspector.improvmx.com because I wanted something
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Show HN: Clean Simple DNS Lookups(inspector.improvmx.com)
5 points by matthewtse 1y ago|3 comments
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by matthewtse 2y ago
A few blogs mentioned that as an external US entity, you probably want to do VAT with Ireland (basically you deal only with Ireland for paying VAT, and what you pay gets forwarded through the system to all the other EU countries). The reaso
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by matthewtse 2y ago
I recently acquired a SaaS that does business with people in the EU (we bill with stripe), so I decided to continue paying VAT. I do it all by a combination of code, scripts, and by-hand. We have custom code that determines the VAT rate to
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by matthewtse 2y ago
Wow DisplayMaid looks useful. I managed to get my system "working" without knowing about it. I have a macbook and an external display, and I utilize "desktops" heavily. Basically desktop: 1 = gmail/calendar | 2 = sl
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by matthewtse 2y ago
Perhaps an open source fork of Terraform, where the cloud providers themselves maintain the provider repos, is the correct end-state. AWS started doing that in the last few years, assigning engineering resources to the open source TF provid
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by matthewtse 2y ago
It's really sad to me that Hashicorp never found a monetization model that worked. 100% of the companies I worked for over the last 6 years all used Terraform, there really wasn't anything else out there, and though there were com
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by matthewtse 2y ago
> That's why you "whitelist" those you wrote down and re-used with success: a little checkbox, which when checked means "Successfully re-initialized an authenticator with this 2FA?", works wonder. I just bake the
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Show HN: I made a better Tax Estimator from my spreadsheet(taxestimate.fyi)
1 points by matthewtse 2y ago|0 comments
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by matthewtse 2y ago
I do that out of paranoia/mistrust for my wifi network, printer, printer software, etc. It's probably fine to just print it out, but for more sensitive items I definitely write it down by hand.
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by matthewtse 2y ago
For my dad, he occasionally composes Word documents and uses other MacOS software for his business, so finding analogous iPad software and teaching him how to use that wouldn't be worth the effort. iPad could probably work for my mom,
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by matthewtse 2y ago
I got my 90 year old grandma to use an iPad. The other day I saw her switching languages via the keyboard to search for a video on YouTube using a combination of Chinese and English, and I was dumbfounded. It's a true testament to the
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by matthewtse 2y ago
Yes. Installed a Brother printer myself the other day, was expecting a half-day affair, but it all just worked in 5 minutes. Contrast this with an HP printer I bought. I had to: - manually install sketchy HP software on my mac - use that sk
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by matthewtse 2y ago
So cool to read an article discussing a problem I run into on a regular basis. Whenever I'm creating a 2FA backup on a piece of paper, anxiety hits me every time I cross over certain characters, o/0, v/u, 5/S, etc. I&#x2
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by matthewtse 2y ago
Hmm, I've been using Google Maps for this purpose for years, just helping me decide how to get to a particular spot in NYC, walking, subway, bus, citibike, or uber if its worth it. It also takes into account the official schedules, so
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by matthewtse 2y ago
yes, quite a few hoops to jump through to get something working. Back in the day, I went through massive effort to jailbreak my iPhone, void the warranty, and use the Cydia app store (amazing that this whole community operated for free). Bu
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by matthewtse 2y ago
As a javascript web developer, you have skills to build a website. Have you tried building a side project? Perhaps it could be for passion, or perhaps it could lead to side or full income. I faced a similar complete dispassion towards my co
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by matthewtse 2y ago
Yes same, my first conclusion would be customer support? But I would also assume customer support wouldn't be working long hours to train an AI, the AI would simply be trained off what they're already doing.
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by matthewtse 2y ago
Interestingly, I was a computer nerd since age 7. I found it fascinating to explore every possible setting in windows 95, and I got involved in hosting my own servers for gaming. So I dove deep into configuration, but whenever I saw any cod
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by matthewtse 2y ago
I have adblocker disabled for boring websites I really need, but which are old/crappy and use outdated popup technology. Usually it's dinosaur payroll sites like ADP, company stock option websites, or any other site where I don&#x
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by matthewtse 2y ago
Cool solution, I'll give it a try. I already have "Block YouTube Feed", but yours looks more feature-full!
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by matthewtse 2y ago
Well, it's worse if you don't realize you got it. I'd rather be infected with rabies, and receive a vaccine/cure immediately, than be infected with HIV, which I'd need to deal with chronically for the rest of my lif

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