Dan G. Switzer, II

@eric_dolecki I wonder if Cloudflare is blocking you for some reason.

@dswitzer2 Thank you. So weird. I cant reach on cellular or Wi-Fi. I can't FTP in either. Something weird with Cloudflare and my ISP maybe. I had my host look at it and they said it came up too. But I cant reach it no matter what I do.

can anyone check a site for me - I think there is a cloud flare thing going on. ericd.net - let me know if you can reach it. its not a dns thing for me.

@kentcdodds It's a Flash throwback!

I'm forced to use a web UI that's built with flutter (entire page is a canvas) and it's the worst. No cmd+f. No drag to select/copy text. It's a nightmare.

@KentonVarda I was seeing similar issues on Monday and Tuesday in CC. Spending a ton of time in thinking about simple things that normally take milliseconds.

Anyone else seeing Claude (both Sonnet and Opus) going into excessive reasoning loops today? I'm just sitting here watching it spend 10 minutes generating reasoning text for a problem it normally solves in 45 seconds. (I use the same prompt a lot as a test of my own harness...)

@therealdanvega Unfortunately, I think we're in for a rough few years of large organizational layoffs. Companies seem to be more interest in paying for model inference, than for humans.

Thinking about all of my friends at Oracle affected by the layoffs. I'm tired of seeing this 😢

If you’re a Node developer using the Axios npm package, you may be compromised. “Axios is one of the most widely used HTTP clients in the JavaScript ecosystem, with 100 million weekly downloads on npm and adoption across frontend frameworks, backend services, and enterprise applications.” Vía @SocketSecurity and @ossmalware socket.dev/blog/axios-npm… opensourcemalware.com/blog/axios-com…

@rossmorsali @LeaVerou It definitely helps. I’ve also starting creating shell scripts for operations it tends to want to chain, so I can get permissions for those to stop asking me if it’s okay to run

@LeaVerou I've had to add a CLAUDE .md rule that cli commands should never be chained, only single commands, 1 at a time.

Claude: I can understand complex architectures in minutes and write highly maintainable code in a fraction of the time it would have taken a human! Also Claude: Um, how do I put this. I know you gave me permission to run a bunch of terminal commands, but I need you to approve this one manually because ampersands are hard.

“If you’re an Iron Maiden fan, you’re part of one family” IRON MAIDEN: BURNING AMBITION, exclusively in cinemas from May 7. @universaldocs, @trafalgarrel

@eric_dolecki I've been evaluating what I think of NewsNation.

@dswitzer2 I ping pong between FN and MSNow. It's like watching 2 planets. And then pick a spot in the middle, but X isn't too bad since it has user reviews to expose excrement.

Can’t even watch the news anymore. It’s political nudging and syops galore. No one gives the news straight. It’s wild. Appease the base and if someone on the other side watches, try to lure them over. Seems like it only gets worse.

@eric_dolecki I strongly believe you cannot get your news from one source, because you're going to largely the same narrative. The truth is often in the middle. I try to diversify where I get my news and then use critical thinking.

@dswitzer2 Its infuriating. I never feel like I am getting the real story - no matter the source. Everything is slanted one way or another. It feels like a tool only to shift people's beliefs and to keep a protected class in power. Both directions.

@kellabyte My take is chairs are really a unique preference. What might be great for 98% of ppl, might not be good with you. I ultimately went to a local office supply company and tried a bunch. They even let me test one for a few days. That’s what I’d recommend (if it’s an option)

I could use some office chair advice. I got Libernovo Omni recently but my butt is sore after 15mins and after an hour I need to swap it out it’s just not comfortable. I’m pretty small Heard a lot of polarizing reviews about Herman Miller Embody. Some say back of chair hurts?

@C_AdamskiTrib Boy, you aren't kidding!

These uniforms are way too similar-looking. Whole lotta blue/white/red moving around out there.

@Neurotic You need it on a coffee mug so you can just hold up the cup during meetings.

I need a t-shirt that says: "Warning: Will ask for an agenda for a meeting".

What’s everyone using to connect AI dev agents to MSSQL DBs? #mcp #claude #agents #vscode

@LeaVerou @AnovaCulinary You're absolutely right, no one should have to pay this "subscription" tax. Products should be built to last and vendors should have to provide reasonable methods for repairing products w/out it costing an arm and leg.

@dswitzer2 @AnovaCulinary That only works if you can justify replacing the product every 2 years as a reasonable expense. Given their oven costs $1300 now (when we bought the v1 it was $600), I doubt most people can justify a $650/year …subscription fee.

In case you’re thinking of getting an @AnovaCulinary Oven, think again. It’s great at first (we used it daily) but once the 2 year warranty lapses, the countdown begins to the day when it gives out and you are left with a very expensive, very large brick. No, you cannot pay to have it repaired. The company rep will just shrug and paste in their fake empathy snippet. “I’m very sorry for the frustration this has caused”. No, you’re not. If you were very sorry, you’d solve the problem, so don’t gaslight me on top of it.

@LeaVerou @AnovaCulinary And they don't want you to repair the product. If they sell you a product that last 20 years, they can't sell you the newer greater model every couple of years because the old one breaks. We "buy" products, but we're really just "renting" the product until it dies in a few years.

@dswitzer2 @AnovaCulinary In this case it literally involves replacing a $1.50 component, see my reply. It’s not that they can’t, it’s that they don’t want to.

Was watching the USA hockey game the other day and had to back it up when I heard this on the organ: facebook.com/reel/243074006… Was that really just "Run to the Hills" on the organ? Yep. It was. #uptheirons

Just saw this majestic bald eagle I. #springfield #ohio