Matthew Weeks

I talk about dev productivity & lifestyle engineering | 10 years in web | 16 yrs programming.
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This is already more bugs than I remember dealing with on Android since the S4 era. Somehow the Google version of Android feels worse than Samsung's. Not the upgrade I was hoping for.

You can really tell that Google was serious about going all in on AI.

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After my phone broke, I was forced to upgrade from Samsung S24 to Pixel 10 Plus. I love the camera and the 128 GB storage. The rest? Not so much.

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After it reset and I logged back in, I got a marketing page for AI features I already had — then a prompt to restart for an update. Chose "now." Nothing happened. Because the update had already completed. 🙃

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Recently learned about Judith Herman's work and found it to be really predictive of recovery from alcohol addiction and complex trauma. Funny thing that inspired me to read this was getting a puppy. Nothing speedruns grief like raising a living animal.

https://t.co/VZdelV88JU

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Apple's submission process always required back-and-forth for apps, particularly with auth and tracking. For developers who actually built their application, these issues are easy to explain. For vibe-coded apps that the creator doesn't fully understand, this is a great way to make them be able to explain what is in their app before Apple gives it a trusted stamp of approval.

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@steipete Someone needs to help all the people shipping REALLY important blogs at untild speeds.

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So I'm wondering: is there a way to use AI to quickly sort a messy Notion database into logical groups?

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My Notion is a disaster.
I want to go back to it, but I can't bring myself to clean it up manually. And I don't want to just nuke it.

There's stuff in there I actually care about. Budgets, podcast and blog post ideas, recipes, project notes...

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@wisematheu @EnriTarta @yo @browsercompany That's good to hear, I'll give it a shot.

I'm in mac, so I was a little worried about using a browser that's in beta, but it sounds promising.

When you say occasionally buggy, how so?

I'd heard some whispers about its performance being in the slower side, but I'm not sure.

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@wisematheu @EnriTarta @yo @browsercompany Tbh I think Firefox dev tools have improved SIGNIFICANTLY since 2010. I think they might even have features missing in chrome, like the css grid explorer tools they added in 2018.

It might just be familiarity for me, but I'd probably get used to it.

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@wisematheu @EnriTarta @yo @browsercompany Did you migrate from Arc/Chrome to Zen?

I think the greatest difficulty in migrating to Zen (aside from it being in early beta) is the shift to a Firefox-based browser.

Ironically, I loved Firefox until switching to Chrome in the 2010s for its devtools and extensions ecosystem.

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@EnriTarta @yo @browsercompany Yup, still using Arc. It's a better version of Chrome. Kind of glad they stopped working on it, tbh, because most of what they were planning to add wouldn't improve the experience. Prioritizing AI-generated page summaries over improving profile and space management, for example.

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Love this idea. I just hope it doesn't get abused. But less generic articles written by AI would make for much better information searching.

SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search | Kagi Blog https://t.co/JsBu2fdjKS

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@dickiebush @Nicolascole77 do you find people getting a lot of engagement on content posted to Twitter and LinkedIn from Typeshare?

What do you think is the best practice for sharing longer articles. I know the default is an image but I haven't seen other posting like that much.

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Here's a link to it on Medium, in case anyone wants to read it on a proper blog platform. (friend link so it should be accessible).

https://t.co/k5tmyhKfn1

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Thoughts on my recent digital detox. Not sure if I'm a fan of this image formatting thing anymore tbh.

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This is what I wish Google looked like.

What are your current favourite non-ad-pocalypse / -AI-ified search engines you are using these days?

I miss the days when I could search for a topic and find a decently written, well-linked, and relevant article that actually worked.