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Snowboarding, Denver Nuggets, willsmithte.com
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willsmith72··on Mixpanel Security Breach
you shouldn't try to innovate on everything, have to draw the line on buy/build somewhere
willsmith72··on Mixpanel Security Breach
Well OpenAI say users' names, emails and locations have been divulged, one of them is going to accept there was a "breach"
willsmith72··on Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege
I just hope that in 100 years time, people will be shocked at the prevalence of social media these past 2 decades
willsmith72··on Nano Banana Pro
> Starting to roll out in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio

> Rolling out globally in the Gemini app

wanna be any more vague? is it out or not? where? when?

willsmith72··on Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
pretty sure the serious companies are just using claude through bedrock. let anthropic handle the model, outsource the rest
willsmith72··on Collaboration sucks
not at all. me, owner of a new feature: hey boss wanted to get your thoughts on this. Boss: "let's schedule a review for next week, and pull in x and y who are familiar with the space"

Vs Boss: "your call"

willsmith72··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
Simple feedback collector. Something I end up building in every project, so why not built it once and productise even just for myself. Still building out the dashboard, some clustering, and automated PRs (by Claude Code)

https://feedbee.willsmithte.com/

willsmith72··on I Am Mark Zuckerberg
how much are these services wasting sending out these emails? surely some rate limiting would be sensible
willsmith72··on I Am Mark Zuckerberg
As a Will Smith with no acting abilities I can relate. I have heard it got my resume to the top of the stack out of curiosity though
willsmith72··on The profitable startup
totally agree with this, operating cash flow positive + internal reinvestment seems like the best mix for an early software company
willsmith72··on My Impressions of the MacBook Pro M4
depends on use, I had the same laptop but the speed increase when I upgraded to an M3 was easily worth it
willsmith72··on Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division
Yeah that was my read too, I'm anticipating more rounds over the next few months
willsmith72··on I built the same app 10 times: Evaluating frameworks for mobile performance
> 40ms round-trip time

In that case how can you possibly get 35ms FCP? Am I missing something?

willsmith72··on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
Of course, referring to this

> The Amazon retail site seems available

willsmith72··on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
It seems reasonable to me that Amazon (retail) would build better AZ redundancy into their services than say Snapchat or a bank
willsmith72··on Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing
I find Gemini incomparable to Claude, especially for coding. The chat UI is ok, but Claude Code eats the CLI for breakfast
willsmith72··on Two things LLM coding agents are still bad at
> I am yet to have them link a source that actually supports what they said.

You're not trying very hard then. Here, my first try: https://claude.ai/share/ef7764d3-6c5c-4d1a-ba28-6d5218af16e0

willsmith72··on PWA Browser Scorecards
I'm still so pissed at how Apple continues to hamstring PWAs to push their own platform. Can't wait for the day their app store era is over and something actually user-focused is prevalent
willsmith72··on Autism should not be seen as single condition with one cause, say scientists
What you're describing is the whole reason it's called autism *spectrum* disorder
willsmith72··on Cloudflare Email Service: private beta
Ahhhh I've been waiting so long for this. SES is the last thing I have to keep logging into the clumsy AWS UI for
willsmith72··on A postmortem of three recent issues
> Despite this I'm still a paying customer because Claude is a fantastic product and I get a lot of value from it.

Doesn't that say it all? At this point the quality of the AI trumps reliability for the customer (you and me), so even though of course they should (and I'm sure will) focus on it, why would they prioritise reliability over model quality right now?

willsmith72··on Europe is locking itself in to US LNG
It's clear to all parties that this is a false promise made to appease Trump.

The question is how deep they'll have to go in 3 years. Can they stall it out, or will the US actually demand they fulfill the promise, causing at least some amount of lock-in?

willsmith72··on React is winning by default and slowing innovation
> I've yet to see a React website that doesn't feel sluggish and overall terrible

I doubt it, sounds like confirmation bias.

willsmith72··on React is winning by default and slowing innovation
Why? I don't care how the chrome engine works. I care about building a great CX and making money
willsmith72··on React is winning by default and slowing innovation
Remix v3 isn't react though, the alternative is react router 7

React router have completely bungled their marketing and PR, but they still make the best web framework out there

willsmith72··on Campfire: Web-Based Chat Application
A demo/playground in the readme would be very helpful
willsmith72··on Over 80% of sunscreen performed below their labelled efficacy (2020)
It's impossible, essentially every accessible brand has some products test way below advertised

On the other hand, if your product said it was 50 and it tested 30, the practical difference isn't actually that big. Our parents did ok with spf5

willsmith72··on A sunscreen scandal shocking Australia
Sure but this is talking about n of 1
willsmith72··on How many HTTP requests/second can a single machine handle? (2024)
personally I use cloudflare workers not because 1 host couldn't handle the traffic (it could), but the maintenance is a breeze

obviously at high load (1k TPS+) talking in servers is way cheaper than serverless, so the tradeoff can start to swing

willsmith72··on You shouldn't salt a leech that's sucking your blood (2019)
I don't buy the alternatives at all.

> Instead, he recommends using a fingernail or a credit card to break the seal between the leech's mouth and your skin quickly

Far easier said than done. If it were that easy why even go for the salt?

> Another option is to wait until the leech is done feeding so it will fall off on its own

I'm just gonna wait 30+ minutes with a leech on me? no thanks

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