Matt W

I make things

[Matt W @mawildoer]

@OfficialLoganK How does it perform with other engineering? https://t.co/3iO9Eqj8yK cc @atopile_io

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@seveibar I’m pretty sure that first one is actually just a photo

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@i2cjak Saleae also care very deeply about their product experience end to end.

As a professional in the embedded world, I’m happy to buy a UX from their tools is an absolute pleasure that’s not trivial to replicate and maintain

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@hturan I would like one of these as my monitor

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@atopile_io @OpenAI Top in correctness - not even close. Opus 5 and Grok 4.6, the next two, trail it substantially
Lowest cost of anything in more than the top 10. ~70% lower than Opus 5 or Grok 4.6
~7.3x faster than Opus 5 and almost ~20x faster than Grok 4.6
Baller.

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@jessfraz Better models have diminishing returns in confidence towards design validation, but are needed for higher order things

atopile, diode, or tscircuit get you more 9s there faster, cheaper and better. https://t.co/uOd0oVZA5m

Autorouting can’t be mainstream soon enough 🤤

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@seveibar huh! this thing is cool. I'm in!

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@seveibar You might able to save a bunch of time if you only etch away a small trench of copper around the trace! Copper is free! (Well, included) Removing it costs something

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Like, Anthropic has side-loaded two different Claude plugins on Cursor, which itself has 3 different AI modes built-in

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We're really back in the full-swing myspace era of plugins on top of plugins with AI tools.

While we're waiting for the dust to settle on usable, composable patterns, we're just stacking up headline compatibility against everything in every way

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I can’t believe how badly @Apple cooked their UI with iOS 26.

- Switching tabs in Safari takes two taps
- Reading text is harder
- Aesthetic gives 2012 Android try-hard

Overall, a significant downgrade

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@gregisenberg Smart founders do. They sit and wait until there’s reason to announce it, frequently for hiring, because prospective employees typically want to know the company has the money to pay them

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@blind_via “Spot the difference” - they’re both modularised convenience limiting your IO

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@mattfreed Not USB, but EtherCAT offers exactly this. Huge part of why it’s so prolific in industry

Theoretically you could couple it with T100Base1 Ethernet and get decent bandwidth to where ever with just a daisy chain of a single twisted pair + power

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@lina_colucci I can no longer trust any video I see of you. You guys have cracked it 😅

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@seveibar Awesome! Nothing better than seeing your work out in the wild used by people you respect

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@mattfreed Working in aerospace in Germany, we still used imperial fasteners because it's globally standard. We just spec'd it as "6.35mm (1/4in)"

Mix of low volume, extreme certification/supply-chain requirements and the USA setting the standards has persisted with the old ways.

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@phethers Super nice visualisation and trees on their side!
I wanted a quick way to check whether a uC could pin out everything I needed, so I made this tool too: https://t.co/S7HPXRynFr

Similar alley. Hope it helps someone

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@cblakerouse Three stellar blokes to work with! I’m sure there will be stiff competition for that slot

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@antoniogm @snowmaker I agree things will change, and what you've described will be accurate for the majority of people.

The half I'm far more interested in is paying myself (as a user) for it to find what suits me best, rather than the sales-oriented marketing angle.