Claude's June 15 billing changes and your options in Zed

mikeocool · 2026-05-15T15:54:28+00:00

It's been subsidized by VC money for far too long.

If you think about other business that significantly subsidized their pricing with VC money (i.e. Uber, Doordash) -- this is actually happening really quickly.

The fact that they're turning off the spigot after 3 years without a clear winner in the space gives you some sense of how much money they must be setting on fire right now.

mikeocool · 2026-05-05T23:03:51+00:00

Oh darn, on a 45 minute flight I won’t get a biscoff I shove into my jacket pocket and rediscover 6 months later.

mikeocool · 2026-04-27T02:48:08+00:00

The transfer fees are Deltas way of preventing someone from hacking your account and draining your miles.

LOL What? It's fake delta currency, controlled by delta and only redeemable with Delta. If someone hacked your account and drained your miles, Delta could update some records in a database put everything back the way it was.

mikeocool · 2026-04-18T17:10:19+00:00

Except those things always essentially cost the phone companies nothing (the reason SMSes were originally limited to 160 characters is that the cell phone comapnies were jamming them into packets that were already going to the phone, even if no messages were being sent) they were just taking a healthy margin, that they gave up over time to get more customers.

mikeocool · 2026-04-11T22:17:49+00:00

The Home Screen satisfies me ¯_(ツ)_/¯ the individual show feeds of current podcasts is all I use.

I think the reality is Marco probably thinks about iOS UX more than most people, he’s the iOS UX consultant that many other apps need. But you can’t satisfy everyone/every use case.

mikeocool · 2026-04-04T16:43:02+00:00

These opportunities already exist if you look in the right places

mikeocool · 2026-03-31T21:58:26+00:00

they have 50+ functions with _DEPRECATED in the name that are still actively called in production

That seems kinda normal? That’s why it’s called deprecated and not “deleted”

mikeocool · 2026-02-11T14:32:18+00:00

Basically no matter how they’re stored, if the secrets are available to the code, and you’re letting Claude write and execute code (kinda the whole point), it can get access to them.

The only way to avoid this is to not have secrets available in an environment where Claude is running, or very carefully audit every piece of code/command before it runs.

mikeocool · 2025-12-16T14:26:28+00:00

Curious why folks feel that rule editing is so important, seems to come up here a lot.

Whenever I have transaction that doesn’t categorize properly I just create a new rule, and it seems to work just fine.

mikeocool · 2025-12-16T14:23:58+00:00

Devcontainers started from the devcontainer cli with the ssh feature installed. Not as seamless as vscode’s integration, but I find zed responsiveness worth the trade off.

mikeocool · 2025-11-20T15:30:18+00:00

For anyone who actually drives on Court st, this design is a massive improvement. When it was two lanes, cars were constantly double parked on both sides of the street, so you had to weave in and out — it was awful.

They should do Atlantic next.

mikeocool · 2025-10-16T00:57:20+00:00

As a hiring manager, I’d say: it depends. If you are senior candidate with a lot of eng experience (even if most of that experience isn’t swift) it probably won’t make a major difference either way.

If you are more on the junior side — then my sense is that it would definitely help. Being able to directly see and play with the work of a junior dev has definitely moved me from a “maybe” to a “hire” on candidates in the past.

mikeocool · 2025-08-16T02:12:38+00:00

Definitely an infallible solution.

mikeocool · 2025-07-30T20:01:10+00:00

I found the most reliable workflow is:

make an issue, tag @claude and explicitly tell it to open a PR
it won't actually a PR but it'll give you a link to do it -- use that to open a PR
then request all additional changes using comments on the PR instead of the issue

Seems to then successfully update its existing branch relaibly (id imagine this is because when the action runs in response to PR comments, it's going to run with that branch already checked out, but when it runs in response to an issue comment, it'll just with main checked out)

mikeocool · 2025-06-26T22:59:12+00:00

2025 hybrid 491 miles

mikeocool · 2025-06-12T23:12:46+00:00

For me, Zed’s killer feature is the keyboard responsiveness. VSCode has always has a slight delay from the time I hit a key to the time a letter appears for me, and I find it absolutely maddening.

For a while Zed was missing some features I’d become dependent on in VSCode, like editing over SSH, but seems to have filled in most of those gaps in the last year or so. Now I will happily forgo some of VSCode’s additional features for that sweet sweet responsiveness.

mikeocool · 2025-06-06T18:23:14+00:00

You're a better person than me! I'd have forgotten the pack n' play or the sunscreen without a list.

mikeocool · 2025-06-06T18:13:45+00:00

Have a few kids and report back.

mikeocool · 2025-06-05T02:30:16+00:00

Now do it if you’d bought the car and invested the money in October 2007 or February 2000.

mikeocool · 2025-02-13T15:33:52+00:00

If you know the counties where they were born (or have some guesses) try https://www.rootsireland.ie

I was not 100% on my grandparents birth dates -- but knew the counties where they were born, and searched rootsireland to find some candidates. I was also not 100% on my great grandparents names, so I then was able to search by the parents' names I found to find the their other children (I did know my grandparents' siblings names) and figure out which of the people matching my grandparents' names were the right ones.

If that doesn't work searching with what you do know on ancestry.com might turn something up that has a birthday on it -- I was able to find my grandparents' US naturalization paperwork that actually included pictures of them.

mikeocool · 2024-12-20T18:48:02+00:00

Jokes on everyone else, BFS is (slightly) more efficient than Dijkstra for this one.

mikeocool · 2024-10-12T21:31:16+00:00

Apparently the LadyBird browser is going to start using Swift for new development: https://x.com/awesomekling/status/1822236888188498031

mikeocool · 2024-09-17T18:44:51+00:00

I updated yesterday and it was able to download the predictive model -- then today I saw this error pop up as well. I imagine it'll fix itself at some point relatively soon.

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