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Matt Ferderer

@mattf.im

Dev, dad, dogs. Living in The North - love outdoors. Heads down learning & enjoying building software like I was a teen again with all the fun new AI toys.

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David Fowler @davidfowl.com · 4mo ago

Git worktrees are the new hotness now that agents can work on parallel instances of your codebase. What they don’t solve is the port conflict problem, that’s where aspire run/start —isolated comes! By @james.newtonking.com devblogs.microsoft.com/aspire/aspir... #aspiredev @aspire.dev

Running Multiple Instances of an Aspire AppHost Without Port Conflicts

Aspire 13.2 introduces isolated mode, letting you run multiple instances of the same AppHost in parallel without port conflicts.

devblogs.microsoft.com

Matt Ferderer@mattf.im · 5mo ago

OpenAI Whisper and Apple’s “say” command are easy to run locally for free on cheap hardware and do an amazing job at audio to text and text to audio.

Matt Ferderer@mattf.im · 6mo ago

Currently building a podcast assistant to transcribe and send me daily summaries. Loving how this is upping my podcast game. OpenAI’s whisper tool is awesome and runs great on a cheap computer.

Matt Ferderer@mattf.im · 8mo ago

Windows Explorer is once again telling me it’s time for lunch while it thinks for a long time or just eventually crashes. We will see which happens first today.

Lars Rosenquist@calvobianco.com · 10mo ago

Folks that have experience with deterministic automation in (esp. in distributed systems) understand compounding error rates well enough to be very sceptical about throwing non-determinism in that mix.

Matt Ferderer@mattf.im · 11mo ago

Created a super simple decodable worksheet generator for kids. The lists of words and categories are AI generated so it’s not perfect but it’s better than anything else I could find for my needs. You can shuffle and select categories and grade level and print math.mattf.im/reading/deco...

List of decodable words created by worksheet generator app
Matt Ferderer@mattf.im · last yr.

Windows 11 & the “new” Outlook seem to have so many bugs. Some days it amazes me how this is the 2nd largest market cap company in the world & these are 2 of their main products that every business uses.

Matt Ferderer@mattf.im · last yr.

Summer cleaning! Disabling auto-renew on the graveyard of domains I swore I’d build something on and admitting they will never become real projects. 🪦

Matt Ferderer@mattf.im · last yr.

Way to go @oreilly.bsky.social Glad to see you can have the books read to you aloud. Looks like on ios devices you need to go download premium voices first. Not as good as Edge’s built in but decent. Typical Apple is 5 years behind on tech

Headphone icon that has your phone read text when clicked
Matt Ferderer@mattf.im · last yr.

Did Microsoft Edge 136.0.3240.50 just break css using max-content for width? Fixing our app after a bug was found in only this specific version of Edge, no other browsers. Using max-content is causing the container widths to be shrunk like they got stuck in a trash compactor on the Death Star.

Ellen Pao@ekp.bsky.social · last yr.

Warren Buffett spoke at my school and gave this piece of wisdom that I think about often. It's lucky to be lucky, and it's even luckier to recognize how lucky you are.

He told the audience to imagine a barrel with roughly 5.8 billions of balls — one for everybody in the world. Each ball will determine important factors (e.g., your birthplace, IQ level, gender, ethnicity, skills, parents) in your “new life.” “If you could put your ball back into the barrel, and they took out 100 balls at random — and you had to from pick one of those, would you put your ball back in?” he asked. In addition to not knowing which ball you’ll get, there’s another catch: “Of those 100 balls, five of them will be American. So if you want to be in this country, you’ll only have five balls to choose from,” Buffett explained. “Half of them will be women and half men. Half of them will be below average in intelligence and half above average in intelligence.” He asked the students again: Do you still want to risk taking a second shot at life? “Most of you won’t want to put your ball back,” he said. “So what you’re really saying is, ’I’m the luckiest 1% of the world right now, sitting in this room — the top 1% of the world.”
Matt Ferderer@mattf.im · last yr.

Feature requests for @oreilly.bsky.social More audio books or allow all books to be AI narrated via the mobile app. (I think this is being worked on🤞) Dopamine scrolling feature - instead of me doomscrolling on here, I would rather scroll through book/video snippets that people find interesting.

Matt Ferderer@mattf.im · last yr.

Happy PI day to all who celebrate! We did a chocolate coconut, a wild berry and a pecan pie. Don’t forget in 3 months to celebrate Tau Day! It’s twice as good!

Matt Ferderer@mattf.im · last yr.

Helping a young nephew build his first pc and it sounds like I need to have him look at the new AMD GPUs. They sound great for the price but I have decades of scars from terrible AMD video card drivers that make me hesitant.

Matt Ferderer@mattf.im · 2y ago

After a week of the new benq programming monitor I really like it. I think they could have left off the speakers. They’re bad & everything else looks very nice, even the leatherish cable hook. They could also make the arm taller. It was to short for me to consider using. Monitor is great though.

Matt Ferderer@mattf.im · 2y ago

Just started working on the BenQ monitor. Love the ux and craftsmanship on it. Display is beautiful & much more enjoyable to code/read than my Dell monitors (which I really liked until today). Very nice blacks.