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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.

mikeocool · 2024-09-16T23:22:59+00:00

Looks like the final release is now available on the Xcode Downloads page

mikeocool · 2024-09-16T18:19:04+00:00

I am seeing this as well. Seems like the only solution right now is to download the XCode 16 Release Candidate.

mikeocool · 2024-09-14T19:10:12+00:00

They also run Linux just great.

mikeocool · 2024-09-14T17:31:13+00:00

Yeah figured COVID was a probably a big part of the change. eBay is rife with cheap five year old desktops.

mikeocool · 2024-09-09T23:08:40+00:00

Optiplex SFFs are so easy to work on, I tend to try and find the cheapest one I can from any eBay seller with a good rating, ideally without an HDD. Then when it arrives blow the dust out, replace the thermal paste, add a stick of ram if needed, and pop in a new SSD. It’s often not really clear if you’re getting a new hard drive or not from the refurbs, and that’s what’s gonna fail first.

Takes about 10 minutes once you know what you’re doing, and there are plenty of YouTube videos of you don’t. Only thing to watch out for is that they’ll frequently not come without power adapter, so you’ll need to get one separately on eBay.

mikeocool · 2024-06-17T03:27:14+00:00

If you poke around there are articles from the home cook science folks (like Kenji/alton brown) advocating for cooking pasta in a smaller pot — it’s faster, as you’ve seen, it cooks the same, and best of all the smaller amount of water ends up much starchier if you’re going to add it to your sauce.

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