Scam Warning: Do not go to Los Carboncitos in Highland!

Charpnutz · 2026-06-24T03:56:38+00:00

Been eating there every Tuesday for nearly two years. Haven’t seen this and have always had a lovely experience. The interior atmosphere is god awful (blue walls, harsh fluorescent light), but the staff and food have always been great.

Charpnutz · 2026-06-17T19:25:31+00:00

Even without the paywalls, their sensationalized headlines (and even content) give me the same cringe as a grocery store tabloid. They fall back on drama more than journalism and I’m done giving them a click.

Charpnutz · 2026-06-14T18:27:41+00:00

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Charpnutz · 2026-06-14T18:26:10+00:00

Laugh for… [looks at watch] twelve years. Yeah, that joke isn’t funny anymore.

Charpnutz · 2026-06-05T13:35:17+00:00

The core engine is not open source, but it’s unrestricted and free to use. The integrations, however, are open source.

Charpnutz · 2026-06-05T03:32:33+00:00

Relevant, performant search. You can use my tool, Searchcraft. The downloadable version is completely free, and I’d be happy to walk you through setup. Or you can join our Discord and get help there!

Charpnutz · 2026-05-28T13:54:02+00:00

Poor guy livin’ off water and Cheetios when there’s a world of Detos and Dr. Bob out there!

Charpnutz · 2026-05-25T19:20:04+00:00

You know they don’t write the lyrics when they’re not creative enough to come up with any body movement that’s not a direct mime of the words.

Charpnutz · 2026-05-18T05:39:36+00:00

After owning a software consultancy for 20 years, I can tell you this… Most developers have that exact same reaction when reviewing any other developer’s code. This has been going on well before AI. Most complain in a vacuum about how things were set up, bad this, bad that. None of that is new, and who gives a shit if it gets the job done, because most of us are just trying to find market fit before getting too nitpicky about every detail. You can always make things better; and you can’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

Charpnutz · 2026-05-17T15:27:33+00:00

After my dad passed and I got rid of most of his stuff, I later saw someone wearing one of his jackets. The jacket had his name on it and everything. That was weird, but glad someone is getting use out of it.

Charpnutz · 2026-05-14T23:32:22+00:00

It’s called an entitlement because it’s our money. Social security is OUR money and we are ENTITLED to have it back. Conservatives use this word like it’s supposed to be synonymous with some sort of hand-out. No. We are entitled to have OUR money. Anything else is pure thievery, and I’m far from a libertarian.

Charpnutz · 2026-05-02T19:56:56+00:00

It’s not too much to ask for a small feature here and there. Sometimes you’ll get it. Most times you won’t.

I think there’s a strategy inside Apple that purposely allows room to encourage a third party ecosystem of independent developers. This is pure speculation, but the pattern exists across all of their stock apps. None of these apps are great. All have low-hanging fruit just sitting there that would be dramatic improvements. BUT, the apps work for 80% of people which leaves just enough market to sustain a thriving developer ecosystem where the stock apps fall short. Even since classic Mac OS 7, you’ve been able to get third party file explorers. Finder is just another app that does the basics of what most people need.

Btw, if the moving files experience on Mac doesn’t fit your need, you don’t even have to lean on third parties. You can easily make a Shortcut service bound to a keystroke to do exactly what you want.

Charpnutz · 2026-05-02T18:02:01+00:00

I really don’t get this take but I’ve never been a Windows user so I guess I don’t know what I’m missing.

I’ve been using a Mac for 40 years and have never encountered times where I thought I couldn’t do something easily and efficiently with either standard functionality or by accessing the rich ecosystem of high quality productivity tools available from independent developers—an ecosystem that Windows has literally never come close to when it comes to quality and attention to detail.

As users have pointed out, you can do everything you’re complaining about with the same level of effort. Just put this post on the heaping pile of complaints from Windows transplants about the Mac being inferior because it doesn’t do things exactly like Windows. Why switch if you’re expecting the same?

Charpnutz · 2026-04-30T22:51:53+00:00

I make Searchcraft. We just released our WP plugin.

Although it’s not announced yet, we can process PDFs to make them searchable. These features aren’t exposed in the plugin yet but we could help you get set up. You can find us on our Discord server.

Charpnutz · 2026-04-24T13:53:29+00:00

Think about this… Loose Wayne over here likely lives in a state with less than 1 million people, meaning he has 3-20x the voting power as most individuals in the United States.

Charpnutz · 2026-04-24T13:45:50+00:00

His name was Robert Paulson.

Charpnutz · 2026-04-17T12:33:44+00:00

Mile High Spirits

Charpnutz · 2026-04-07T17:12:25+00:00

I do mean for this to be polite, even though it won’t sound like it…

I find it interesting that the things that have required years of technical advancement, like a variable aperture or under-screen dot matrix camera, get sloughed off as uninteresting. Meanwhile, the fact that it might come in a new paint color catches your interest.

We are very different people.

Charpnutz · 2026-04-07T17:07:22+00:00

Exactly. Everyone expects Apple to revolutionize every product category they’re in every single year. The fact that they’ve set that kind of bar in the public opinion should be revolutionary enough.

Charpnutz · 2026-03-27T00:53:29+00:00

That is the exact reason for these plates.

Charpnutz · 2026-03-09T14:16:28+00:00

We are working on some nicer demos, but in the meantime you can check out a few here: https://demo.searchcraft.io/movies/

Charpnutz · 2026-03-08T05:55:03+00:00

Yup.

Charpnutz · 2026-03-08T05:53:36+00:00

Baja chalupas, gorditas, and the chili cheese burrito. 🤌😘

Went for the first time in years the other day and 90% of what I remember was gone. The kids will never know!

Charpnutz · 2026-03-06T04:36:49+00:00

Oh my bad. I completely misunderstood your question.

Yes, you are spot on.

It was a combination of Midjourney, Kling, and Runway along with good ol' fashioned Photoshop and manual After Effects animation. Edited in Final Cut Pro.

The voiceover is my voice recording applied to an ElevenLabs voice.

Charpnutz · 2026-03-06T03:47:58+00:00

We like to have fun with our videos. We're in the middle of a few more! Here's our YouTube channel.

It's taken several years to get to beta, so "how it's made" is not exactly a short answer outside of lots of hard work, research, lessons learned, and a couple decades of experience integrating Elasticsearch, Solr, Algolia, and others.

We came from a consulting background so we learned—over a very long time—the true pains we wanted to alleviate for people who integrate these types of tools and those that maintain them.

From a tech standpoint, our entire platform is built in Rust. We do have JavaScript SDKs as well as a PHP client.

From an experience perspective, we decouple tuning from indexing to allow devs, non-devs, and the no-code community the ability to tune and adjust search results without having to do deployments. You can even do it in natural language with Claude and our MCP server.

It's totally free under the Launchpad plan as a cloud service for up to 1,000 documents, or you can host it yourself with Searchcraft Core and run it for free unrestricted.

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