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matt 💭
@matthewmorek #4991
✳︎ design engineer → @ponder
✳︎ explorer of humanism • petrolhead/gearhead
✳︎ React/SwiftUI
✳︎ bento.me/matthew
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Just donated to Farcaster's RetroPGF round! 🌟
what’s with the [name].base.eth vs [name].farcaster.eth in Coinbase wallet?
why do some people have one or the other?
why do some people have one or the other?
The more I see what people use LLMs for on social media, like X, the more I realize a lot of us can’t (or don’t want to) process simple information and think for themselves anymore.
Instead, they ask AI to do the thinking and reflection for them, so they could have an opinion.
Instead, they ask AI to do the thinking and reflection for them, so they could have an opinion.
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pugson
@pugson·6 days ago
when you're getting dressed to go out do you put on your shoes first or last?
When getting dressed to go out, do you put on your shoes first or last? — Ponder
Daily social prediction games on Base
www.weponder.io
I was 0 km away from today's mystery location 📍. Can you beat me?
If you see me at FarCon, this is how I look like (or not really).
And call me by this: Engine Ear.
And call me by this: Engine Ear.
💭 I love me some original predictions, though a lot of people still treat them like polls to put your money on!
Had to replace faulty power valves on my Marshall JCM 800 Studio combo, so naturally instead of buying just the EL34s I went for the full upgraded set from JJ Electronics.
What a difference in sound!
What a difference in sound!
One of my favorite places in earth
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth·01:14 08/04/2025
one of my favorite places on earth
instead of setting reciprocal tariffs, USA should’ve cut the red tape and excessive regulation, and that would do way more good than instigating a trade war with the whole world
wanna bring production back home? cut the manufacturers some slack
wanna bring production back home? cut the manufacturers some slack
in case you wanna snoop on how your friends are doing...
i wonder how splitting Ubisoft is going to save it from the toxic treadmill of trend chasing game dev slop, they’ve been on for pretty much a decade at this point
any ideas?
any ideas?
those comics showing how the LLMs “perceive” their existence has serious “ghost in the machine” vibes
as far as I understand, tipping is about rewarding someone going beyond the baseline expectations of their job title
a server who brings food and asks whether everything is okay with my meal is basic service. it’s included in the price of my meal. or am I supposed to go and fetch the meal myself?
a server who can explain what I might like from the menu if I have no idea what to order, chimes in with chef’s specials, recommends an underrated wine I enjoy, and proactively ensures we’re not abandoned for 40 minutes when the kitchen is running behind…
that’s going beyond baseline service, and that level of care and attention begs for a tip and repeat business
the American-style culture of tipping is toxic, because tipping is expected. it creates a dysfunctional relationship between the customer, the staff, and the place of business.
because of our biases, we all, on each side of this relationship, are unwilling to see the issue:
tips are extras at the customer’s sole discretion
a server who brings food and asks whether everything is okay with my meal is basic service. it’s included in the price of my meal. or am I supposed to go and fetch the meal myself?
a server who can explain what I might like from the menu if I have no idea what to order, chimes in with chef’s specials, recommends an underrated wine I enjoy, and proactively ensures we’re not abandoned for 40 minutes when the kitchen is running behind…
that’s going beyond baseline service, and that level of care and attention begs for a tip and repeat business
the American-style culture of tipping is toxic, because tipping is expected. it creates a dysfunctional relationship between the customer, the staff, and the place of business.
because of our biases, we all, on each side of this relationship, are unwilling to see the issue:
tips are extras at the customer’s sole discretion
it all seems fishy to me
Happy Sunday. I’d post the final result but we’ve devoured these delicious rib-eyes before I realized I might want to take a commemorative photo. 🥩
Obligatory half-pot of peppercorn sauce.
Obligatory half-pot of peppercorn sauce.
“AI slop” is a perfect encapsulation of the type of content we see more and more each day everywhere: low effort, low quality, high supply.
What’s interesting is that this term is a sign that people who care about quality are done with the novelty phase and are curating again.
What’s interesting is that this term is a sign that people who care about quality are done with the novelty phase and are curating again.
my timeline is full of Studio Ghibli style images, time to mix things up.
here's what GPT-o1 suggested for my profile pic in the style of Batman: The Animated Series. I'm tempted to give it a go.
here's what GPT-o1 suggested for my profile pic in the style of Batman: The Animated Series. I'm tempted to give it a go.
i'm wondering why the hell Drizzle is even called an ORM when it's so limited in querying relations that you have to basically do everything yourself AND on top of that KNOW your SQL very well?
a good ORM allows you to query USING RELATIONS, not using SQL — that's the whole fucking point. look at Ruby on Rails, they practically invented the modern ORM approach.
an engineer requiring data for their frontend should not have to know which type of JOIN query is appropriate for their given task; they should be able to say "i need to find a USER by ID and fetch all their VOTES" and be done with it.
instead, we're told to chain some SQL-like methods and check SQL docs every 5 secs to make sure we've used LEFT JOIN instead of LATERAL JOIN for a subquery. what year is this?
and don't get me started on the lack of end-to-end TypeScript safety. If you've ever written a bunch of DTOs just to get some shit from Postgres, you know exactly what I mean.
/rant
a good ORM allows you to query USING RELATIONS, not using SQL — that's the whole fucking point. look at Ruby on Rails, they practically invented the modern ORM approach.
an engineer requiring data for their frontend should not have to know which type of JOIN query is appropriate for their given task; they should be able to say "i need to find a USER by ID and fetch all their VOTES" and be done with it.
instead, we're told to chain some SQL-like methods and check SQL docs every 5 secs to make sure we've used LEFT JOIN instead of LATERAL JOIN for a subquery. what year is this?
and don't get me started on the lack of end-to-end TypeScript safety. If you've ever written a bunch of DTOs just to get some shit from Postgres, you know exactly what I mean.
/rant
AMP, you keep using that word...
i don't think it means what you think it means... 😂
i don't think it means what you think it means... 😂
I'm a Builder-Pragmatist (-4.5, 3.0) on the Onchain Alignment Chart! Check out your position:
sufficient experience and expertise in a specific area is often manifesting as a "gut feeling" or intuition, due to a phenomenon called "pattern recognition"
ask your hospital specialists, and why their training is so goddamn long. their whole purpose is to develop "gut feeling" based on extensive experience
ask your hospital specialists, and why their training is so goddamn long. their whole purpose is to develop "gut feeling" based on extensive experience
the more I read about the bestiality and ruthlessness of USSR towards Poland during/after WWII, the more I’m convinced that the only good commie is a dead commie
can anyone tell me why frame embeds are expected to use a text/plain response with embedded JSON data inside HTML meta, instead of a simple application/json response with the same JSON data?
asking for a friend
asking for a friend
and here I thought UK can fall no lower… time to move to other cloud providers. any suggestions?
tfw you want to ship but can’t coz you caught a fucking flu at an airport and you’re dying in bed since tuesday
you don't need cognitive psychology or to read Kahneman to build great UX (although both help!)
what you need is humility to ask "why would a random person from halfway round the world put up with all this shit we built?"
now you're on the path to understanding great UX
what you need is humility to ask "why would a random person from halfway round the world put up with all this shit we built?"
now you're on the path to understanding great UX
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Chris Carella
@ccarella.eth·13:47 06/02/2025
Post your lock screen.
I need distraction free, calm order on the lock screen.
I need distraction free, calm order on the lock screen.
thanks to some special influences of @blendude, I’ve recently rediscovered hard rock and can’t get enough of this track in particular
ladies and gentlemen, the one and only Doug Aldrich on guitar
https://youtu.be/2hhBb_N0mZo
ladies and gentlemen, the one and only Doug Aldrich on guitar
https://youtu.be/2hhBb_N0mZo
late night shipping: it was high time for @ponder to grow up and get its own personality. still lots to do, but we're getting there!
Wake up and smell DDoS in the morning. ☕️
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Ben Adamsky 💭
@ba·16:16 28/01/2025
Looks like we're getting rate limited by Alchemy so some users may not be able to see their balances in our frame
Should be fixed shortly
Should be fixed shortly
💭 Check out this prediction. The pool is slowly approaching a really cool 200 USDC. 👀
What the release of DeepSeek might do in the long run, is force companies to open source their models, and this means the best trained model will eventually win.🤞
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JA Westenberg
@joanwestenberg.eth·17:29 27/01/2025
For the record chat gpt will happily list every US atrocity in history and explain Tiananmen. If deep seek will do one but not the other, you should be careful about any information it gives you.
That said I’ll still be using it and I still think it’s a good thing.
That said I’ll still be using it and I still think it’s a good thing.
Notice Ponder UI changing weekly? Don't worry! We're fine-tuning everything to make your experience even cozier.
Share your thoughts—we'd love to hear from you! 💭
Share your thoughts—we'd love to hear from you! 💭
just installed and onboarded myself to deepseek llm in less than 3 minutes... 30 of which were spent downloading an 16GB model over a 70 Mbps connection that dares to call itself "fiber optic"
i should buy starlink at this point...
i should buy starlink at this point...
