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Matt Luo ClarityText.com chat space platform @matthewluo.com · 21/10/2025

It's surprising how big companies still don't consistently use HTTPS scheme in the web. An email from HBO Max has a manage subscription button that sends me to:

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Matt Luo ClarityText.com chat space platform @matthewluo.com · 20/10/2025

Copyrighted in 1961, and still selling today at $45. Mastering the art of French Cooking is the great example in the cookbook industry of bringing a cuisine to an audience with latent demand for learning that cuisine.

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Matt Luo ClarityText.com chat space platform @matthewluo.com · 03/09/2025

Interesting that LinkedIn will automatically create shadow accounts for companies, presumably to encourage the organization to claim the company page.

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Matt Luo ClarityText.com chat space platform @matthewluo.com · 09/05/2025

Half of investors will only invest pre-seed if there is revenue. Only 1% of founders can raise on their pedigree and reputation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPFs...

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Matt Luo ClarityText.com chat space platform @matthewluo.com · 03/05/2025

I'd say don't throw your personal brand in with "vibe coding". I don't think it has the legs to be a multi-year in-fashion term.

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Matt Luo ClarityText.com chat space platform @matthewluo.com · 22/04/2025

There are also a "project rules" feature, which seems similar to Windsurf and Cursor rules.

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Matt Luo ClarityText.com chat space platform @matthewluo.com · 22/04/2025

As a result, here is the Agent button with the MCP added:

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Matt Luo ClarityText.com chat space platform @matthewluo.com · 22/04/2025

Here is how to add the @convex.dev MCP server to trae.ai. Copy the JSON from here stack.convex.dev/convex-mcp-s... And in Trae, click Agent in the conversation pane.

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Matt Luo ClarityText.com chat space platform @matthewluo.com · 20/04/2025

Alex Hormozi > so I talked to my friends and they were like dude you should read this book by Jordan buffer 2:59:47 and the big biggest thing that I got from the book was just he was very specific about tonality and that was a big shift for me in just learning to

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Matt Luo ClarityText.com chat space platform @matthewluo.com · 19/04/2025

Reminder that Windsurf is free this weekend. Happy vibe coding!

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Matt Luo ClarityText.com chat space platform @matthewluo.com · 09/04/2025

Interesting that inkeep took down their list prices.

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Matt Luo ClarityText.com chat space platform @matthewluo.com · 25/03/2025

So much software dev effort in the Shopify tech stack looks like it goes to cache management:

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Matt Luo ClarityText.com chat space platform @matthewluo.com · 24/03/2025

Pricing inspired by book: Monetizing Innovation How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price Ramanujam, Madhavan

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Matt Luo ClarityText.com chat space platform @matthewluo.com · 24/03/2025

In chapter, Finding your unique position, said that he applied what he learned from this book: Positioning The Battle for your Mind

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Matt Luo ClarityText.com chat space platform @matthewluo.com · 20/03/2025

Full text search of articles' content, not just the title and description. The significance of full text search is that the search finds partial matches of text (rather than an exact match on a scope of text).

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Matt Luo ClarityText.com chat space platform @matthewluo.com · 17/03/2025

with hundreds of thousands of patient records to draw from to inform the doctors there the system was also trained with inputs from Top hospitals from around the world

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Matt Luo ClarityText.com chat space platform @matthewluo.com · 11/03/2025

Discord server members will add a message of simply a URL, and the URL has no readable text describing what the URL is pointing to. THere's nothing the server admin can do to prevent members from doing that.

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Matt Luo ClarityText.com chat space platform @matthewluo.com · 03/03/2025

This seems like big Internet news: uBlock Origin was turned off. This extension is no longer supported. Chrome recommends that you remove it.

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Matt Luo ClarityText.com chat space platform @matthewluo.com · 18/02/2025

This is one of my favorite @convex.dev videos. Instead of merely caching values, Convex is caching the subscription to the database. The cache persists even as end users mash the back and forward buttons in the browser. Can your database do this? Ep. 1: Magic caching youtu.be/ZgxDlSUGpfE?... 🧵👇

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Matt Luo ClarityText.com chat space platform @matthewluo.com · 16/02/2025

The brewed coffee compass by BaristaHustle.com

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Matt Luo ClarityText.com chat space platform @matthewluo.com · 14/02/2025

Hirevue pitches that self recorded one way interviews are more equitable. youtu.be/wKWno9cRA8E?...

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Matt Luo ClarityText.com chat space platform @matthewluo.com · 12/02/2025

chag's review has the highest thumbs up/down engagement count. Here he talks about the lack of privacy:

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Matt Luo ClarityText.com chat space platform @matthewluo.com · 12/02/2025

A structural problem for scaling a browser extension product is that Chrome does not provide more precise scopes of permission. So, it's difficult to get wealthier customers if the wealthier customers are wary of granting a permission of "Reach and change all your data on all websites".

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Matt Luo ClarityText.com chat space platform @matthewluo.com · 09/02/2025

House of Huawei, a book on one of the most impactful companies in the world. And no one in the Boston public library system has it checked out. I don't know how, but there is money to be made from this knowledge gap.

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Matt Luo ClarityText.com chat space platform @matthewluo.com · 29/01/2025

Here's Brex's official diagram for the transition:

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Matt Luo ClarityText.com chat space platform @matthewluo.com · 25/01/2025

7) Type in a search term, then press the enter key on our keyboard, and you should automatically navigate to x.com's webpage for searching your own posts. You can see in your address bar that the URL is populated with your search term.

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Matt Luo ClarityText.com chat space platform @matthewluo.com · 25/01/2025

6) Now, you can simply type "x" in your address bar in Chrome, press the tab key on your keyboard, and your address bar transform into a search engine for your own posts in X.

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Matt Luo ClarityText.com chat space platform @matthewluo.com · 25/01/2025

5) Click Add and you will see this pop-up form. In the form field, URL with %s in place of query, paste in this text, but replace my username, Matt_Luo, with your own X username. x.com/search?q=fro...

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Matt Luo ClarityText.com chat space platform @matthewluo.com · 25/01/2025

3) Click the button, Manage search engines and site search.

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Matt Luo ClarityText.com chat space platform @matthewluo.com · 25/01/2025

2) In the Chrome address bar, paste in chrome://settings/search and press enter to navigate there. It behaves like a URL. Or, once in Settings, click Search Engine on the left hand side panel.

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Matt Luo ClarityText.com chat space platform @matthewluo.com · 25/01/2025

How to create a browser shortcut to search your posts in X: 1) In Chrome, go to chrome://settings/ Or, click the three dots in the top right to open the panel. Then, select Settings.

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Matt Luo ClarityText.com chat space platform @matthewluo.com · 12/12/2024

There are now between 1.1 million to 1.8 million B2B SaaS sales people in the world. www.nfx.com/post/technol...

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Matt Luo ClarityText.com chat space platform @matthewluo.com · 07/12/2024

In Bluesky, if you use your domain as your handle, you release your original handle and then anyone can take it. www.reddit.com/r/BlueskySoc... So, I reverted my Bluesky handle back to my original. But, a tip: If you add a custom domain, that custom domain will still work as a URL to your profile.

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Matt Luo ClarityText.com chat space platform @matthewluo.com · 05/12/2024

Bluesky tip: Add a Google search engine shortcut that will search across your own posts. bsky.app/search?q=fro...

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Matt Luo ClarityText.com chat space platform @matthewluo.com · 05/12/2024

The frustrating thing for the small business owner: The FinCEN website itself will not simply confirm the ruling. On the official FinCEN website, there's no update as to whether to report or not. fincen.gov/boi/newsroom

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