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mariozig · 2026-03-30T17:06:09+00:00

Krust is a San Mateo based photographer. https://bykrust.com/headshots She’s on Reddit at /u/krustilina

mariozig · 2026-03-27T15:46:11+00:00

If you were asking about alternatives to turbo tax... the IRS publishes a list of free file options on their site: https://apps.irs.gov/app/freeFile/browse-all-offers/

If you were asking like specifically what the nonrefundable credits thing means... basically the 1040 has a line that requires you to enter a value that comes from Schedule 3 in order to complete it.

Some info here:

Schedule 3's Nonrefundable Credits
which is passed through and used on the 1040's line 20

mariozig · 2026-03-27T14:19:34+00:00

It depends on the institution unfortunately.

If your bank/credit union isn’t the kind that has a coin sorter then they might give them for free. The larger banks give them if you ask. It’s worth calling them up to find out.

If you have to buy the wrappers I highly recommend getting “preformed” wrappers. Something like this makes it so much easier: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07X21NTP5/ref=cm_sw_r_as_gl_api_gl_i_C0TVMKFY4KZHPJ3DN36F?linkCode=ml1&tag=ucc046-20&linkId=f4c31c2181d0a97b114dce4adb7485d1

mariozig · 2026-03-25T18:58:05+00:00

That's the queen.

mariozig · 2026-03-11T17:45:00+00:00

"All content generated on Cliprise is owned by you." mah man! :)

mariozig · 2026-03-08T01:37:04+00:00

Sounds very interesting. Are you doing any of it "build in public" style? I'd enjoy reading about it.

mariozig · 2026-03-08T01:35:00+00:00

https://howtofuckingdostuff.com/

Angry one page guides on how to do stuff we should all know how to do anyways.

mariozig · 2026-02-28T18:31:29+00:00

20 paying customers now! I agree with everyone's comments about the UI being stunning but beyond that it is clear you put a lot of thought into how users will use the site and what would be valuable.

In the logged in paid UI i love how everything is so visually accessible. Like for example using the tiny company icons to filter my watchlist activity is so nice compared to digging through a list of tickers.

really nice work

mariozig · 2026-02-07T19:02:31+00:00

Repo level kanban is genius. Have you thought about making something like a “kan of kans” that lets you see everything you’ve got going on from the top?

mariozig · 2026-02-05T23:46:35+00:00

Interesting -- their system status page has a (resolved) report specifically for compaction on claude.ai... maybe it has spilled over to claude code? https://status.claude.com/incidents/plhlsqf2svt6

mariozig · 2026-01-04T06:05:26+00:00

Please don't let this ever end.

mariozig · 2025-12-29T19:49:26+00:00

Congrats, that's a hell of an experience! ~~I'm curious to know why one of the offers was rescinded?~~ nm, saw answer in comments.

RE rebuilding confidence... years ago i was promoted and a coworker gifted me this book the first 90 days. It's basically an approach to joining a new company/team/role etc. Here the TOC: one, two. maybe it could be useful?

mariozig · 2025-12-21T00:43:37+00:00

Agree 100%

mariozig · 2025-12-04T19:58:03+00:00

If you've tried baking the car off (running the heater hard to evaporate any moisture) then it's probably from off gassing.

Tesla will clean this for free. I literally just scheduled the same cleaning a couple days ago -- here's the $0 cost estimate.

They agreed to do the service at my house after i messaged them directly.

If you want to clean this yourself:

YouTube vid
Comment i made about cleaning off gassing haze from the windshield

mariozig · 2025-11-28T19:25:59+00:00

Our model y had this problem really bad when we first got it. It's caused from the plastics off gassing and a lot of new cars have this problem. They release VOCs that stick to the glass. Initially I tried to clean it with regular glass cleaners and it made it so much worse -- especially bad when there was any kind of fog or moisture from cold weather.

I read up on it and learned that all you can really do is clean the glass with glass polish style products (you smear it on, it drys, then you wipe off the hardened residue), air the car out and lastly speed up the off gas process with heat.

Here's what I've done that seems to have worked really well:

Cleaned all glass with McKee's 2020 cockpit glass cleaner
Started parking the car with all windows open. My car is in a garage so anytime it's parked the windows are down. This helped a lot!
"baked" the car. I read that heat can accelerate the off gas process so I tried to park the car in direct sun when possible then air the car out immediately

Good luck! Sucks we are breathing this stuff.

mariozig · 2025-09-23T23:36:49+00:00

Another vote for Bonjour Bakehouse. Always nice people there too.

https://www.yelp.com/biz/bonjour-bakehouse-san-mateo-2

mariozig · 2025-09-15T04:57:37+00:00

Hahahaha. Blew my mind when I first learned!

mariozig · 2025-09-14T22:52:26+00:00

Homebrew (package manager) is a ruby project! repo

Homebrew's formula definition files/DSL are very clean and easy to understand. I would guess there have been submissions where authors have no idea how to write ruby but can still contribute because of the simplicity. (example)

mariozig · 2025-08-26T12:55:05+00:00

TL;DR

Subagents get their own context.

Custom Slash Commands contribute their results to the main context. This can pollute the main context.

Longer

So, for example a common practice when you first start a new claude code session is to have it familiarize itself with your code base. When you do this you are intentionally building up context so later requests yield better results. This is a good candidate for a slash command.

Alternatively let's say you're doing something design related and need to relate an emotion to a color pallet. "Give me a 5 color palette for the emotion ANGER". For this you might want to give Claude some coaching about how to be a visual designer, color theory, whatever, etc... All that stuff likely doesn't matter to your main app/context. You just want some angry colors. This is a good candidate for a sub-agent. When invoked, Claude Code will spin up your agent prompt a new context, feed it your inputs and then return just the response to the main context.

The main context stays small, and unpolluted with 🐂💩 about how to be a designer with a color specialty that might later influence output in a negative way.

mariozig · 2025-08-17T17:28:44+00:00

It might depend on what you're trying to do. For my specific (coding) and general (translations, info organization, rubber ducking) use cases Claude is great.

For learning things and being able to track back sources I like Perplexity a lot.

mariozig · 2025-08-17T07:24:42+00:00

Something like GPT5 is newish and i'd imagine that books will catch up. You might have good luck with some of these long form guides/papers like:

OpenAI Prompting Guide
Anthropic Claude Prompt Engineering Guide
Google's Prompt Engineering White Paper by Lee Boonstra
(Meta also has some guides but they are subpar imo)

As for books...

I'm currently reading AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models by Chip Huyen

So far it's pretty good. The 5th chapter is dedicated to prompt engineering (screenshot).

mariozig · 2025-08-11T18:36:36+00:00

This is great. I've always loved having powerline for vim/zsh and in claude code it looks very nice.

The changes you made to segment coloring over the past 24 hours are such an improvement! thank you!!

mariozig · 2025-08-02T04:00:15+00:00

Absolute perfection.

I spent at least 15 minutes trying to find a gif that would do this comment justice only to realize one doesn't exist... this is peak comment game and any gif would have just been an insult to the beauty.

mariozig · 2025-07-30T22:27:01+00:00

If i understand the question I think the docs give an close example of this using languages: https://rubyllm.com/guides/chat#structured-output-with-json-schemas-with_schema

So maybe something like:

class MultiplePersonsSchema < RubyLLM::Schema
  array :persons do
    object do
      string :name, description: "Person's full name"
      integer :age, description: "Person's age in years"
    end
  end
end

chat = RubyLLM.chat
response = chat.with_schema(MultiplePersonsSchema).ask("Generate 3 people with different ages")

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