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MattyMc

442 karma · joined August 9, 2013

Professional math nerd, aspiring computer nerd. I love making things that 'I' want, in the hopes that other people will find value in them too.

Currently, I'm working to get up to 50 karma on StackOverflow so I can comment on posts! :)

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MattyMc··on Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
He clarified today, saying he would build any new app today in Rails. Should that app become so popular that it would benefit from Rust, he would rewrite it in Rust.
MattyMc··on I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI
> Anyone who doesn't understand this is an idiot imo

I don’t think that’s true. Avoiding this mistake requires knowing that an ultrasound may not detect calcification. For a patient reading their own report, I don’t think that’s intuitive. I would expect most people to read “no calcifications” and assume that their joint has no calcifications.

MattyMc··on ResurrectedGod: The Ruby Framework for Process Management
What’s the difference between this repo (4 stars) and the original repo it’s forked from (2.2k stars)?
MattyMc··on No Calls
> #4: They want to build trust

For my business (micro-SaaS EdTech), the value of building trust with my customers cannot be understated. Further, I don’t believe i can effectively build trust with my customers in the way the author describes; without meetings.

MattyMc··on Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs
> The Supreme Court of the United States has recently made decisions signaling a shift in how courts will approach DEI.

Does anyone know what decisions he's referring to?

MattyMc··on [dead]
“Free”… for non-commercial use.

Is it ethical to say a software is now free for only a learning license?

MattyMc··on Fred: Software Development Job Postings on Indeed in the United States
It takes a bit of digging to find the definition of the index they’re using.

From their GitHub page: “The data in this repository are the percentage change in seasonally-adjusted job postings since February 1, 2020, using a seven-day trailing average.”

MattyMc··on A year of Meta's news ban in Canada
As a Canadian active on social media, I’ll also add that the quality of news I consume and am exposed to has dramatically increased.
MattyMc··on Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy
user<->facebook<->otheruser is the exact OPPOSITE of end-to-end. There’s literally a middleman who can read your messages.

Theyre sooooo dishonest.

MattyMc··on A Writer's Ruby
Nearly all the first comments express that the justification to include Rubocop with a default rule set in Rails 8 contradicts DHH's criticism of languages such as Go which have a built-in linter, therefore dictating style rules to programmers. DHH criticizes Go's approach as totalitarian while shipping Rubocop with Basecamp's rule set.

Rubocop is a linter (etc) whose rule set can be easily customized and to include it in Rails wouldn't be possible without _some_ default set of rules. DHH addresses this apparent contradiction directly, too: "Not such that I, or anyone, can mandate what style your codebase ought to be written in, but such that you can find and enforce your own." I'm reading: A linter/formatter will be included in Rails 8 with a smart default rule set, and it can be easily customized. I don't see any contradiction.

I'm highly aligned with this decision as it could help alleviate a recurring pain point at our tiny company: managing code formatters and linters in our IDE (Solargraph, Rubocop, Ruby LSP, etc). Further, I'd expect excellent documentation on how we can customize the rules to best suit our purposes, too.

MattyMc··on Rage: Fast web framework compatible with Rails
“… the only technology we should be using to create web UI is JavaScript.”

Well, the Rage team certainly is opinionated!

MattyMc··on Bard Extensions
I think you're referring to Canada's Online News Act, which would require companies to pay news outlets for the content they share or repurpose. I'm a Canadian familiar with this story, and Google's opposition to it.

It surprise me if Google would limit Bard in Canada because of the Online News Act. Wouldn't the importance of driving adoption of Bard be much larger than the impact of having to remove Canadian news?

MattyMc··on Launch HN: Loops (YC W22) – Email for SaaS Companies
Pricing page: “(actually) simple pricing”.

Also: More than 5000 contacts, “CONTACT US”.

MattyMc··on Client harassed by The Type founders for using Proxima Nova font on website
Wow, OP is on fire. Sounds like another lawsuit could be coming their way.
MattyMc··on ChatGPT is losing some of its hype, traffic falls for the third month in a row
School is back in session I'm sure the traffic will pick back up :)
MattyMc··on Llama 2
Does anyone know what's permitted commercially by the license? I saw the part indicating that if your user count is "greater than 700 million monthly active users in the preceding calendar month, you must request a license from Meta."

Does that imply it can be used commercially other wise? This is different than Llama's license, I believe, where they permitted only research use.

MattyMc··on uBlock Origin 1.50.0
I'd love a brief description on how you filter recommended content from youtube.
MattyMc··on Stanford just released a 386-page report on the state of AI
Did they happen to release an LLM to summarize it for us?
MattyMc··on 2023 Hyundai Ioniq 6 First Drive: Effortlessly Good, Near-Slam Dunk on Tesla
First electric car with a not-smart dashboard has my money.
MattyMc··on FDIC Takes over Silicon Valley Bank
Stripe stopped payouts to SVB bank accounts. Seems reasonable.
MattyMc··on Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?
Vanilla Rails.

My app started 7 years ago with Rails + AngularJS on the front end. Wish I had just used Rails for 90% of what I had used AngularJS for.

MattyMc··on Show HN: A simple world flags game, my first web dev project as a beginner
Fabulous job! Love the scrolling background and the cute buttons!
MattyMc··on Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
I wish there was some sort of 'export to selenium' function to this.
MattyMc··on Warning – Google suspended GCP services for 'verification', lost my business
Upvoting in the hopes that someone on HN has a connection internally at Google, AND to raise awareness for this issue.

My business uses Firebase, and I'm having serious second thoughts about that right now.

MattyMc··on Robinhood cuts losses after transaction revenue drops
I suspect that Robinhood's active user count will be highly correlated with market/crypto returns.
MattyMc··on Ask HN: Solopreneurs, how do you maintain a professional/social network?
I joined Virtual Coffee (https://www.virtualcoffee.io)! It's a free, volunteer-run community.

It's helped fill the need in my workday for social interaction, through twice weekly facilitated chats (Tuesday 9 a.m., Thursday noon EST), lunch and learns, and other events. There's a few entrepreneurs kicking around the group, too, who have now become friends.

MattyMc··on Show HN: Crawlee – Web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js
> Crawlee is a web scraping and browser automation library

Above is the headline from the crawlee.dev website.

MattyMc··on Using Firecracker and Go to run short, untrusted code execution jobs (2021)
It's a term that Firebase uses. From [their documentation](https://firebase.google.com/docs/database): "The Firebase Realtime Database is a cloud-hosted database. Data is stored as JSON and synchronized in realtime to every connected client."

I believe "realtime" in this case pertains to the synchronization of data amongst clients through websockets. This is how I've seen the term "realtime database" most commonly used.

MattyMc··on SaaS tools that get things done for tech startups
As someone who operates a small tech company (<5 employees), I can't relate to using all these products. However, our needs are different than the author's. Given that they're paying $800+ USD/month, I suspect their monthly revenue and the time saved from these tools justifies their cost.
MattyMc··on Show HN: Avo – Build Ruby on Rails apps faster
adrianthedev: THANK YOU for implementing a one-time fee. It actually make using this realistic for us.

Quick question: Do you have support for front-end frameworks (i.e. React)? I did try to crawl the docs to find out.

We have a Rails monolith, but we're unique in that we have a highly interactive educational app with a boat load of javascript. Our mantra has been: use React only if we absolutely have to. I realize we're unique in this regard.

Totally cool if not; just thought I'd ask. Great work on the project!

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