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Tech Workers Can Afford San Francisco. Low-Income Renters Can't(technometrics.substack.com)
4 points by willio58 1d ago|2 comments
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by willio58 6d ago
After a long day at work I saw the page, saw the warning to not click it, and I proceeded to click it lol. Locked up my entire M1 Macbook Pro, held power button and I was back into chrome in <20s but I did kinda go "why did I just d
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by willio58 11d ago
I love this. Thanks for sharing!
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by willio58 12d ago
This is absolutely true. The vast majority of devs pre-ai clocked in, wrote mediocre or even bad code, and clocked out. Those same people at least have a coding buddy with a bar of quality set at least as high as what they'd normally w
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by willio58 21d ago
I honestly don’t know if Claud can curl on mobile. I also haven’t had it try and store auth keys in memory. Setting up an MCP connector took like 10 minutes for me, and it provides a nice little ui in Claude/chatgpt to make it easier f
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by willio58 25d ago
So I’ve been working on a personal finance app, and I added an MCP to it. Connected my Claude to it, mainly for testing purposes. The other day I was heading to Home Depot to buy some gardening stuff and I was asking some some questions aro
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by willio58 26d ago
Bro really said Grok
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by willio58 27d ago
I thought I loved writing code. Turns out I like building shit. Why take a week to build something I can build in a day? I still like reviewing code, but I don’t need to physically write it
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by willio58 29d ago
> You've already condemned people without access to any good evidence. And the live-streamed genocide that the world has watched over the past 3 years doesn't qualify as evidence? That's odd because I could have sworn the
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by willio58 29d ago
> Those sanctions were issued in retaliation for ICC investigations into US personnel in Afghanistan and for warrants the court issued against top Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for alleged war crimes in
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by willio58 1mo ago
God that's sad. I almost feel bad for all the engineers there, though I'm sure they made good money and probably left
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by willio58 2mo ago
I've been building a smart personal finance app with AI integration and I've heard great feedback from my first users. I had a friend ask me a financial advice question the other day and I directed him to use the chat interface in
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Starting from Zero When the Internet Is Full: The Slop Arms Race(allstead.dev)
2 points by willio58 2mo ago|0 comments
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by willio58 2mo ago
> It's easy to build something for yourself that solves your own use case. You know how you work and what's important to you. Most of the effort in software goes into understand people other than you and building guardrails for
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by willio58 2mo ago
> But the corollary, which the article doesn't really acknowledge, is that reforms like credit card interest caps and the Credit Card Competition Act would substantially limit consumer access to credit. That's a good point, and
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by willio58 2mo ago
Author here! I promise I didn't use Claude for any of this. I will admit I'm working on developing a "voice" in my writing, so maybe that's what you're sensing. Thanks for the read anyway.
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Credit Card Points Are a Transfer from the Broke to the Comfortable(willisallstead.substack.com)
36 points by willio58 2mo ago|32 comments
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by willio58 2mo ago
Is there an example in your eyes that proves this wrong?
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by willio58 2mo ago
>It pales compared to the $3,000 a year in interest towards the national debt I'm responsible for. Thinking of country-scale finances in the same way you think about personal finance is wrong in many ways. Take debt for example. As
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by willio58 2mo ago
> And finally, they did not have to raise Game Pass prices to improve the profit margins. Of course, consumers pulled out. Myself and 2 of my friends stopped our subscriptions the day that happened and never went back. I know it’s anecdo
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by willio58 3mo ago
And just like that you’ve done more due diligence than the VCs who just threw money at this.
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by willio58 3mo ago
CEOs do get there with lots of politics in almost all cases. It’s all about who’s ass you kiss and who’s ass you don’t and if you’re lucky with timing things might just fall into place. I think it’s exceedingly rare that a CEO is actually c
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by willio58 3mo ago
It’s already irreversible, but it’s just disappointing to see how the U.S. administration has chosen to actively fight against it, while other countries like China are embracing reality. It’s actually funny if you don’t think about it too h
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by willio58 4mo ago
I hate ads to the point I either pay or use other means to avoid ads in basically everything I use - NPR (I pay, happy to support) - Podcasts (I skip ads, using a client that supports that) - Movies/TV/Music (I self-host, thank yo
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by willio58 4mo ago
Admittedly, I’ve gone through waves of feeling scared for the future of software engineering. I manage many people so I care about them and their futures. But the more I use AI in writing software, not just vibe coding, the more I align wit
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by willio58 4mo ago
Thanks for the answer! I do see both sides
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by willio58 4mo ago
> Using existing CLI directly: No context wasted on tool definitions Can someone explain this to me? I've seen claude code try to run a not-well-known package and it basically shot in the dark a command, noticed that failed, then ra
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by willio58 4mo ago
Yeah give me the median
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by willio58 4mo ago
I love accessibility, I just want to preface what I’m about to say with that. I found this site hard to read. I’m reading on my phone btw. The text is too big for me and the line height (space between lines really) isn’t right, it’s too spa
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by willio58 4mo ago
fwiw I got one of the first products listed on amazon when you search mycorrhizal fungi and I'm seeing the same effects stated by the grandparent comment

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