Mike Haas

@mikehaas763.bsky.social

Just a guy that likes tech, democracy, and freedom

I'm excited, but also keeping my expectations low. I have 2 pull requests open up against @nx.dev, and if I'm able to land either one of them it will be my first serious contribution to an OSS project in my entire career. 🤞

Why am I doing this to myself? Screw it: most of us reading this are doing so on a supercomputer in our hand built by a global supply chain we don’t audit. We’re not anti-technology. We’re trying to figure out which version of “useful” we want.

Mike Masnick@masnick.com · 5mo ago

Another day where Claude Code was able to step in and accomplish something (in this case archiving an old website that I need to take down) that I never would have been able to do on my own (and it did it in a smart way with multiple ways of archiving).

Seen in some reply that the “tech industry” is to blame for the past 15 years of democratic backsliding. What do people consider to be the “tech industry”? Unless it’s some fairly narrow definition, this claim is weird. Issues with democracy? Thank your Nintendo Switch. Blame your Roomba.

Seems like it would be technically difficult to implement, but I could really use a feed feature that allows me to mark a specific time-relevant topic as “seen”. This time it’s after maybe the 25th post about the Supreme Court allowing CA redistricting, also maybe I don’t need to see I stg 75 more.

I can’t be the only one to have done this before. I was heading to my local Greenlane drive-thru, a salad and wraps fast food place. It wasn’t until I was asked what I’d like to order at the intercom that I realized I was at Starbucks. Then to avoid embarrassment I just ordered a decaf iced latte 🤷‍♂️

What about a more distributed and fair Amazon equivalent for purchasing all the s*** we need? Something that can tackle economies of scale while delivering the convenience consumers want? Why aren’t we competing on this front?

I was using Mint budget tracker for many years, didn’t like how it was being rolled into Credit Karma, so haven’t been tracking for a couple years. I like low effort tracking where I primarily watch trends and maybe set some goals. Has to auto pull+categorize from my accounts. Best recommendations?