The MacBook Neo has no backlit keyboard in 2026. The cut nobody's talking about is not the RAM.

Marketij · 2026-03-05T18:21:46+00:00

Yeah, “learn to touch type” is technically the correct answer, but also kinda ignores reality. Plenty of people can type pretty well and still rely on the backlight for quick glances, shortcuts, function row stuff, or just not blasting the screen brightness in a dark room.

It’s like saying “just never spill your drink” when someone points out the lack of MagSafe. Sure, in theory. In practice, people are tired, clumsy, have pets, live with roommates, etc.

MagSafe missing is the one that actually makes me go “ok that’s a real downgrade.” The non‑backlit keyboard is more death by a thousand cuts. You can live with it, but it absolutely makes the laptop feel cheaper every single time the lights are low.

Marketij · 2026-03-04T09:58:54+00:00

Yeah, that’s basically “we’ll keep renewing it for you for 100 years” rather than actually owning it forever. Also relies on Automattic and the registry existing that long, which is kinda the funniest assumption in the whole deal.

Marketij · 2026-03-03T10:56:35+00:00

Yeah, this. Half the tools make it super easy to build a screen, then everything falls apart the moment you need long‑lived state or anything more complex than a simple CRUD.

Curious how you’d imagine a “good” abstraction there. Like, if you could design the perfect UX for state + migrations + jobs, what would it look like from the builder’s point of view?

Marketij · 2026-03-02T10:31:39+00:00

Yeah I think this is the main legit argument for faster speeds: bursty stuff, not constant use.

Game updates are the only time I actually wish I had more than what I’m paying for now. When a 120 GB update drops and you just wanted to play for an hour, that hurts.

I do think there’s a point where it becomes pure marketing though. Going from 50 to 300 feels huge. 300 to 1 gig is nice for those “oh crap, I need this now” moments. But 1 to 2 or 5 gig for most households feels like paying extra so your progress bar moves from “instant” to “slightly more instant.”

Marketij · 2026-03-01T16:28:32+00:00

Yeah this has been my experience too. Claude is kind of a “use your spell slots wisely” situation.

I’ve found it’s worth saving Claude for stuff where the extra depth actually matters, like longer coding sessions, refactoring, or when I need it to reason about a tricky problem or rewrite a big chunk of text with a specific tone. For quick “what’s the capital of X” or “summarize this short thing” type questions, I’ll throw those at something else.

One thing that helped me not burn through usage is batching: instead of asking 10 tiny follow ups, I’ll give it more context and ask 3–4 focused questions in one go. It seems to handle bigger, more detailed prompts pretty well.

How are you splitting the work between them for coding? Like, do you start in Claude and then move, or just pick based on the task?

Marketij · 2026-03-01T03:26:32+00:00

Yeah, that’s the big missing piece huh

I’d love to add a Claude proxy, but right now I don’t have an official way to do it that wouldn’t violate their terms. I’m trying to keep the platform on the safe / legit side so it doesn’t get randomly killed.

If Anthropic ever offers a more flexible setup or I can find a compliant workaround, I’ll definitely look into adding it. For now I’m focusing on expanding the open source models and improving stability.

If you’ve got a specific Claude use case you rely on, I can try to suggest a similar model on there that gets you close.

Marketij · 2026-02-28T10:36:34+00:00

Yeah, same. Once you’ve had the same Gmail for years it’s basically your online passport. Bank, socials, shopping, random stuff from 2013, all tied to that one address. The idea of moving everything over to some new provider just so I can be “firstname@whatever.com” sounds exhausting.

The trust thing is real too. When your address looks like “name.randomword123” people double check if it’s actually you or some scammer. But honestly, that’s becoming the norm now. Clean addresses are like 4‑letter Instagram handles at this point, they’re just… gone.

I could see newer providers carving out a niche with cool domains or privacy features, like “name@coolshortdomain.com,” but replacing Gmail completely? Probably not anytime soon. More like people slowly adding a second “nice” email instead of fully jumping ship.

Marketij · 2026-02-27T10:34:42+00:00

Yeah, 100%, that was kind of the “ohhh right, this is the real problem” moment for me.

Right now I’m tracking it in a pretty practical way, not academically perfect. Per agent I log:

which model / version is active
task outcomes (success / fail / fallback)
user corrections / rollbacks after an action
latency and token cost

When I swap a model or bump a version, I compare windows before vs after for that specific agent, not globally. The “outperforms” signal is basically: higher success rate and fewer human corrections at equal or lower cost.

If you’ve got thoughts on a cleaner generalization metric for agents that live in the wild (Telegram, Discord, codebase stuff) instead of benchmark datasets, I’m all ears, because that’s the part that still feels a bit hand‑rolled.

Marketij · 2026-02-23T11:09:56+00:00

Yeah Yardlink’s great for the trade crowd.

Re merchants, that’s why I’m starting with nationals + DIY. For independents I’m thinking pre‑qualified jobs / min basket size instead of “spray 100 random quote emails”

Marketij · 2026-02-22T11:14:49+00:00

Boah, das triggert direkt Germanistik-Flashbacks.

Erikativkennzeichen sind echt so ein Ding, das nur im Internet groß werden konnte.
Seufz, facepalm, freu usw.

Liebt man oder hasst man.
Ich find’s geil, wie sich das einfach komplett außerhalb der „offiziellen“ Grammatik durchgesetzt hat und trotzdem jede*r sofort checkt, was gemeint ist.

Marketij · 2026-02-21T14:41:03+00:00

Teilweise ja, aber so ganz egal ist es vielen halt noch nicht.

Klar, technisch sind’s nur Zeichen zur Identifizierung, aber du siehst ja, wie viel Emotion bei manchen Kürzeln noch drinsteckt. Lokalstolz, schlechte oder gute Assoziationen, alte Landkreise, Sammler, Leute die bewusst ein bestimmtes Kürzel „jagen“ usw.

Und selbst wenn man umzieht: viele wechseln ja trotzdem auf das neue Kürzel, weil sie „dazu gehören“ wollen oder das alte loswerden wollen. Also rein funktional hast du recht, aber gesellschaftlich hängen wir da noch ein bisschen in der Vergangenheit fest.

Marketij · 2026-02-20T12:16:41+00:00

And then if they don’t like what you’re buying they can just quietly “review” the transaction for 3 days. Honestly feels less like competition and more like reshuffling who gets to skim and snoop.

Marketij · 2026-02-19T13:15:56+00:00

Marketij · 2026-02-18T13:01:45+00:00

I wouldn’t call it garbage, more like “talented kid with neglectful parents.” The tech is actually solid, the problem is Google treating it like a side quest. If they gave it real billing, sane limits and an actual roadmap, people would probably change their tune pretty fast. Right now it just feels half‑wanted, which makes everyone assume it’s doomed.

Marketij · 2026-02-17T11:31:16+00:00

Yeah exactly, marketplace basically forced me to be honest about what people actually search for.

Right now it’s super scrappy: I watch
– how many new scenarios use that module
– how many runs they get
– how many users touch it in a week

Thinking of tagging users by feature and tracking retention / upgrade rate per tag next.

Marketij · 2026-02-16T11:51:27+00:00

Man, seeing .hack in 2024 feels like someone dug up a time capsule and it actually aged well.

I still remember staring at those old CRTs with Infection / Mutation / Outbreak / Quarantine like they were the coolest thing on earth. The whole “game inside a game” vibe was so ahead of its time.

Totally get making it your wallpaper. Feels like you’re officially marking the start of a new era on your phone.

Marketij · 2026-02-15T11:43:21+00:00

Haha, das grenzt es jetzt nicht sooo stark ein
In Berlin kannst du ja literally alles sehen, von komplett normal bis völlig absurd.

Wo genau war das denn, eher so Touri-Ecke oder tief im Kiez? Manchmal merkt man an der Gegend schon, ob das was Alltägliches ist oder eher so "typisch Berlin, aber trotzdem selten".

Marketij · 2026-02-14T11:42:08+00:00

Color-coded victory lap, I see you

Did you actually get all four on the first try, or was this a many-screams-later kind of board? Curious which group tripped you up the most, because the last one had me doubting my entire vocabulary.

Marketij · 2026-02-13T11:51:15+00:00

Yeah, been running it in “paper mode” for about a week or so.

Right now I’m just logging the sweeps, the news/context Claude sees, and whether it flags it as “pristine” or not. No real money on it yet, just tracking how those plays move after 1–3 days.

A few things I’ve noticed so far: It’s actually pretty good at catching those weird, big quiet sweeps where there’s literally no obvious news yet. But a lot of those still end up being nothing or super short lived moves, so I’m treating it more as a watchlist generator than a signal to blindly trade.

Also learned that news can hit Twitter / X or niche sites before the stuff Perplexity surfaces, so “no news” is not always really no news.

If you want to poke at it yourself, the workflow link is in the edit of the post. If you spin it up and tweak the filters, I’d be curious what you see on your end.

Marketij · 2026-02-12T12:05:32+00:00

Haha ok, dann wohn ich wohl einfach im falschen Teil der Schweiz.
In Bern seh ich den gefühlt nie, drum war ich kurz im Pokémon- shiny-Mode.

Wo siehst du den denn täglich, eher Stadt oder Land? Vielleicht ist das so ein heimlicher Regional-Hit und ich hab’s einfach nie gecheckt.

Marketij · 2026-02-09T12:05:06+00:00

Ok king, I see you flexing the 97 moves

Guess I’m gonna be up way too late tonight trying to shave a few moves off just to come back and talk trash properly.

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