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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Software engineering is my passion.

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Those new service sector jobs...

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

24 minute video on this guy's collection to weird green fans. An AI could never.

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Classic comic book style in super hero suits. (Yeah that's definitely my physique.)

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Asked for Calvin and Hobbes but getting Tintin vibes.

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

"In the style of pokemon" 😵

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Oh yeah, OpenAI has been cooking.

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Literally everything supports RSS.

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Rumors of RSS's demise have been greatly exaggerated. Look at all these big beautiful feeds. Everything I've tried has worked. Bless the webdevs keeping the dream alive.

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Bsky devouring its children

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Noooo this was a joke. I like EAs.

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

> Procrastination is ok. You just need to harness it to productive ends. All right smart guy. How do I harness endlessly doom scrolling social media to productive ends?

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

It's whitepill monday, folks.

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Tabarrok: In this post I will argue that the truth of the lab leak hypothesis does matter. Cowen: In Haiti, I was robbed at gunpoint. Someone tried to steal my car. So I guess it wasn't so dangerous after all. The spicy macaw tripe was the best I've had. In line at the airport, I met Elvis.

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Up late rolling out a patch for slop.js again.

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

This is just like an average Tuesday on the EA forum. Where's the lie?

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

This vuln was in the code for... years? Then it was reported and it took the nextjs team two weeks to triage it? The nextjs team is not exactly beating the allegations.

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Broooo just add the magic http header and skip any nextjs middleware you want. How is web dev such slop. zhero-web-sec.github.io/research-and...

zhero-web-sec.github.io

Next.js and the corrupt middleware: the authorizing artifact

CVE-2025-29927

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Your frontend dev moments before dropping the spinning AI singularity cone.

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

You, a normie: I have no idea when to use o3-mini-high or o1. Me, a connoisseur: the o3-mini-high is really more of a sativa. Very cerebral. Gets those creative juices flowing. o1 is more of a body high. Couch locked, contemplating the universe.

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I'm sometimes asked why I don't just add a usage cap. This is equivalent to a pay-for-what-you-use model where I force users to buy an arbitrary number of credits each month and then expire them at the end of the month. That would certainly be better for me, but it would be worse for my users.

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I think this model is better for most users, but it seems that most people don't think this way. This is also why I'd personally rather use the OpenAI/Anthropic API directly rather than pay for a chat sub. I assume most of my ChatGPT sub is just subsidizing the minority of super heavy users.

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Now, there are some businesses where heavy users don't cost that much more than median users, and an even split can make sense, but Read It is not that service. A user who converts 10 articles a month costs twice as much as a user who converts 5. That's why Read It has a pay-for-what-you-use model.

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

For example, most people stream a show or two per night. Then there's that one guy on your street who's running a bittorrent data center in his basement.

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

And the way these distributions often work out is that they're centered around a reasonable number, but there's a looooong tail to the right of a few heavy users that spoil it for everyone else.

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

It costs some amount of money to run a website. If that cost is evenly divided across the user base (ie, everyone pays the same sub) then necessarily users on the low end of the usage distribution are subsidizing users on the high end.

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I've been asked on several occasions why ReadIt.bot doesn't have an all-you-can-eat subscription option. It seems like many people don't know that all-you-can-eat subs are often a bad deal. The problem is that it's like a game of "split the check" where everyone sitting at your table is a stranger.

readit.bot

Read It

Use advanced AI text-to-speech to easily turn your newsletters and articles into a podcast feed.

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

That said, guzzling fructose does seem to be harmful, but I don't think it's believed to be the main cause.

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

There's this common folk belief about type 2 diabetes that it's caused by eating too much sugar, but afaict that's not the mainstream view among people who actually research it. The mainstream view is that it's caused by excess calories, fat (especially visceral fat), and genetics.

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

The key to a great dinner party is to send out a list of topics beforehand and moderate a single conversation? Idk I just scored 22 on that autism quiz and this is too autistic even for me.

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Lmaooooo I didn't even think I was answering that autistically. But I guess that's exactly what an autist would say.

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I think I've developed some sort of neck injury from reading on my phone too much. Clearly, a life of the mind has taken its toll (scrolling shit posts for 8 hours a day).

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Time traveling to 2012 and trying to explain that the lizardmen aren't real but there is a pseudo anonymous account called catturd that controls the federal government.

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Setting up a self-hosted rss feed reader and having my secretary print out my emails. I've been radicalized.

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

where do you buy your wire? happy to find that most of mine is fine, but this is really making me second guess buying anything important from amazon.

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Oh right it's because there's a real market for lemons situation on amazon dot com. www.youtube.com/watch?v=15sM...

youtube.com

Clip leads made with fake wire

YouTube video by Matthias random stuff

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

bro why are my wires magnetic. copper isn't magnetic. 😭

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Nice way to acknowledge the replier imo. Feels kind of cold to just leave a replier hanging, like I'm ignoring them. I'll ignore malicious or sufficiently annoying replies tho, and maybe the contrast sends a stronger signal.

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I'm partial to those one pound slices you can get at the Costco food court. Just idiotic amounts of cheese.

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

A tagging service that tags duplicates tweets with the original. Is this something?

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

A blocklist for blockers that don't block themselves.

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Alex Beal 🆎 @lexb.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

huh interesting! also "sweet tasting and viscous"

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