Pedro Mata-Mouros

Tech bloke in chief, web & systems architect. Board game geek, trading & investing, fitness and pico8.

[Pedro Mata-Mouros @matamouros]

@I_Am_The_ICT Top One Futures SIM Funded $50k. No eval stage, straight to funded.

[Sukhada @appadappajappa]

This is what happens when someone genuinely loves their work.

[Pedro Mata-Mouros @matamouros]

As it stands, the UK is the only country in the whole world where its government forced Apple to disable Advanced Data Protection.

[Pedro Mata-Mouros @matamouros]

Dear @Apple how is this not yet fixed in macOS Tahoe? This one drives me mad!!

[Pedro Mata-Mouros @matamouros]

The gradual realisation Apple has been consistently falling short of the standards they accustomed us to over the past 20 yrs. Things feel clunkier, jankier and less polished. Silly bugs, micro annoyances that persist between major OS versions. Where's the Apple delight of old?

[Pedro Mata-Mouros @matamouros]

A medium latte at @CostaCoffee in London is now £4.10. We’ve lost the plot everyone. We’ve cleared lost the plot. Goodbye Costa, it’s not me it’s you.

[Pedro Mata-Mouros @matamouros]

@iamjose105 @I_Am_The_ICT @YouTube ICT mentions it on his breakdown video of today: one wick will be respected, you have to determine which one it is. In his words, you have to apply some elbow grease and determine which wick (premium and discount) is being respected by the algo.

[Pedro Mata-Mouros @matamouros]

@iamjose105 @I_Am_The_ICT @YouTube My question exactly... Would be great if @I_Am_The_ICT could touch on that on a next video.

[Charlie 'Ramen Space’ Ward 🍜 (ramenspace.com) @charlierward]

I think London crime is a prime example of that Jeff Bezos quote:

‘The thing I have noticed is when the anecdotes and the data disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. There's something wrong with the way you are measuring it.’

In response to these concerns, people love to point at a chart and claim ‘crime is down’, then look at you as if you’re an idiot. I remember the same thing happening in SF a few years back.

But anecdotally - I’ve experienced more robbery attempts (1 successful) in the past 2 years than the previous 10, and hear about 10x the amount of stories of this happening.

So which is it - is the data misrepresenting the reality, or are a bunch of us experiencing some kind of mass psychosis? I think likely the former.

[Pedro Mata-Mouros @matamouros]

@HasbroPulse @JoeManganiello @AvalonHill Have you noticed purchasing on your website is broken? I can't pre-order the new HeroQuest, there's errors. Tried different browsers and both logged in and as guest. I put in all the details, payment, click on place order and after a while it takes me to the following screen.

[Pedro Mata-Mouros @matamouros]

@I_Am_The_ICT I was wondering on your YT NQ May 01 review: if a buyside/sellside liquidity level is not mitigated when it's swept (because the market doesn't know how many orders there are - makes perfect sense!), then when should it be considered mitigated/no longer valid? TY!

[Pedro Mata-Mouros @matamouros]

“I am the Mentor of your Mentor” has to be the best bio in the history of bios.

[Pedro Mata-Mouros @matamouros]

Too close for comfort

[Zatu Games @ZatuGames]

Right?

[Pedro Mata-Mouros @matamouros]

@brullov_art Yep, there has to be a better way…

[Pedro Mata-Mouros @matamouros]

In coming out of the one-time hefty software license fee at purchase time, we moved into the rolling subscription model. But we’ve lost the plot on this a long time ago, most software now charges an unreasonable amount of money. Subscriptions roll into the hundreds of £ for me.

[Artem Brullov @brullov_art]

Paid subscriptions are the worst business model ever. Fuck it. I've just canceled all my subs and I'll save a lot of money. The trick is that my experience won't change a lot. X sucks no matter if you have a blue check mark or not. Other services are the same. I'll cancel Adobe as well, it's a fucking bloated software that works like complete garbege.

These are sad days for computer users that are forced to use bad, overpriced products because of business incompetence.

[Pedro Mata-Mouros @matamouros]

I’m a much less frequent user of Uber in Portugal, so to me the “enshitification” downturn has felt much sharper. What is the decent Uber alternative in Portugal everyone? (Please don’t say taxis, I loathe the Portuguese taxi experience)

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Also Uber became so bad outside US

I had to permadelete it after years

Uber drivers in Europe are like the bottom of the barrel, most good drivers already left the app

And Uber is squeezing the remaining drivers so hard they can barely survive resulting in very stressed out (and often drugged out) drivers

Not safe

For deliveries in Portugal/Spain I prefer Glovo now

Kinda big deal for me cause I was one of their top users for about a decade, spent thousands on Uber per month, but it completely went to shit once they started turning a profit

In my opinion they should have just raised prices and paid their drivers well but they decided to do the opposite and squeeze drivers to the max possible

Not good for the drivers, not good for customers and long term not good for Uber

[Pedro Mata-Mouros @matamouros]

Need to find some time to get back into finishing this

[Pedro Mata-Mouros @matamouros]

I think we’re in a good place for now, explosions wise

[Pedro Mata-Mouros @matamouros]

Since iOS18 it takes forever for photos taken on iPhone to sync to iCloud - sometimes just takes a long time, sometimes the sync is paused for battery efficiency and I need to manually trigger it. Any way to fix this? I now find myself mirroring iPhone to get photos on my Mac.

[Pedro Mata-Mouros @matamouros]

OMG, is this a late April fools? Is Figma actually rolling out horizontal scrolling on the sidebar??? 🤯🤯🤯

[Figma @figma]

#⃣ Horizontal
#⃣ Scrolling
#⃣ Rolling
#⃣ Out
#⃣ This
#⃣ Week...only in UI3

[Pedro Mata-Mouros @matamouros]

Did you change your integration with TrueLayer
@RevolutApp? I keep having to reauthorise YNAB so that I can import transactions into my personal finance app! This is beyond annoying, was this a bug or some product/business decision? Please rollback, you just regressed 10 years.