Matt DeLuco

Doing things the hard way since 1981.

[Matt DeLuco @MattDeLuco]

🚧 Personal Financial Planning SaaS Project 🚧

This project started with a spreadsheet Christmas 2011. I have 11 years of meticulously organized personal financial data; excel just doesn't cut it anymore.

This isn't the first such app, probably not the last, but it's mine. 👇

[Matt DeLuco @MattDeLuco]

@hiddenmarkov1 @davidsenra Yes, that's mentioned specifically "There's no upside in being wrong...he would change quickly..."

[Matt DeLuco @MattDeLuco]

@allenholub Just track tasks completed over time, and bring in PTO data so you can calculate "tasks per engineer day". My experience is that tasks and points correlate 1:1. I've got it all in a spreadsheet and it has been incredibly reliable. Use stddev to calculate a buffer.

[Matt DeLuco @MattDeLuco]

The CBC and outfits like La Presse are Pravda at this point.

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

Received a call from a French-CBC reporter this week.

Reporter: “I’ve been told that we’re no longer allowed to speak with you, and La Presse is encouraging us to distance ourselves from you because of what you wrote about media subsidies. Is that true?”

Me: “Quite possibly. La Presse and Radio-Canada are like peas and carrots: when one cancels you, the other tends to follow. It’s unfortunate—especially since I wholeheartedly support public broadcasting.”

When you listen to the news—any news—pay close attention to the experts they invite and what they say; more and more are being canceled by the public broadcaster just because we actually say what we think.

My sincere thanks to the courageous reporter who had the guts to call me and explain what was going on.

[Matt DeLuco @MattDeLuco]

I'd use @backblaze for general file storage in the cloud but I already pay for an AppleOne subscription with 2TB iCloud. What's better about backblaze is that it'll saturate my 1.5Gbps connection and upload at top speed, whereas iCloud does weird slow stuff I can't explain. 🤷‍♂️

[Matt DeLuco @MattDeLuco]

Backup with @backblaze is an outstanding product. After my @Seagate IronWolf drive failed within the first couple years, and macOS Time Machine being incredibly unreliable and slow, I realized my 1.5Gbps net connection was faster than an HDD! Cloud is more reliable, too.

[Matt DeLuco @MattDeLuco]

@s4rah_dev "For the second quarter, Alphabet reported earnings per share of $9.11 on revenue of $119.8 billion. Analysts were anticipating EPS of $2.95 and revenue of $116.9 billion.

Cloud revenue increased a whopping 82% year over year..."

Investors are jittery over increased CAPEX? 🤷‍♂️

[Matt DeLuco @MattDeLuco]

🚧Frontend
🚧Branding
So much going on now it's hard to summarize. Did some branding and logo development today (bought two domains!) I've got a basic frontend shell with login/logout, will start building features (transactions!) next sesh. 🤖 catching lots of other stuff too!

[Matt DeLuco @MattDeLuco]

🚧 Personal Financial Planning SaaS Project 🚧

This project started with a spreadsheet Christmas 2011. I have 11 years of meticulously organized personal financial data; excel just doesn't cut it anymore.

This isn't the first such app, probably not the last, but it's mine. 👇

[Matt DeLuco @MattDeLuco]

🚧Frontend
Wild - finally here working on UI. With Claude's 🤖 advice I decided on an MPA with htmx instead of the original SPA I had imagined. Setting up project structure and basic login. It's crazy how tasks start to pile up - so much to do! Crashing now😴

[Michael Geist @mgeist]

Canada quietly signed the UN Cybercrime Convention last week. The problem: it isn't really a cybercrime treaty. It's a sweeping cross-border surveillance pact that places human rights at risk, which Canada once opposed and declined to sign nine months ago.
https://t.co/3xkpO9uPY2

[Terry Newman @terrynewman]

Ignorant anti-Americanism is, frankly, cringe. Canada needs to grow up and define itself; only then can it begin to ditch its massive inferiority complex, which it masks with a superiority complex. Instead, we seem to be satisfied to be stagnant and unimpressive. We have so much potential and we don't even dare to dream. It's the saddest thing ever.

[Matt DeLuco @MattDeLuco]

@jianov @FoodProfessor Canadian economy in a nutshell.

[Matt DeLuco @MattDeLuco]

@SamaHoole Were they not growing wheat, potatoes, or anything starchy?

[Ryan Carniato @RyanCarniato]

If you told me a year ago to estimate how long it would take to do the work I've done in the last few weeks, I would have said 3 years.

I can't express how good it feels to finally have the means to reach visions I've had for years. Direction/design was never the bottleneck.

[Architecture Notes @arcnotes]

How Relational Databases Work. This post talks about how indexes and transactions work on the inside of relational databases. https://t.co/ffTuHF7SgL

[Matt DeLuco @MattDeLuco]

@svpino So nothing has changed since 2006 when I got my first Mac - after 10 years of using Linux exclusively. After Slackware and Gentoo I tried Ubuntu because it was supposed to be the easy desktop option. I barely got past the install when I decided to "just get a Mac."

[Eric Lombardi (EricForOLP.ca) 🇨🇦🚀 @EricDLombardi]

A working family of four pays about $4,400 more into the treasury each year than it gets back, while raising two kids.

A retired couple at 75 receives about $57,000 more than they pay, mostly health care, long-term care and pensions.

So, what do I think the problem is?

Every part of the promise we've made to our elderly depends on healthy demographics and family formation to create a tax-base that can pay for a generous welfare system.

If young people aren't having the families they say they want, we have to be honest about the barriers they face. Too often, having kids is a bigger cost than a benefit, and then we wonder why we aren't having more of them.

A country that wants more kids has to back the people raising them. We have to treat kids like the investment in our future that they are. (4/4)

[Janden (Daniel Donche Jr) @jandenhale]

@lauriewired This is the way. Everyone else is wrong about everything. If you're not reinventing the wheel, are you even a programmer?

[Matt DeLuco @MattDeLuco]

With the advent of AI 🤖 the "ideas guy" no longer has an excuse for not executing.

Get after it. 🚢