If I was trading individual stocks I’d buy Amazon. I see their Rivian made delivery vehicles everywhere!

EVs were already significantly more efficient than ICE cars, but now with the price of gas Amazon is going to be laughing all the way to the bank as their investment pays off long before anticipated.

I’ve made another Chrome Extension that I always wish had existed. Mr. Rate It All! – it allows you to rate anything you can select on a webpage.

The problem: Restaurants in NYC try and do a lot of things, but many are only good at a few. Their Chicken Parm is excellent, but their spaghetti and meatballs, maybe not so much. Delivery apps only let you rate the entire restaurant, not the items themselves.

Mr. Rate it All! fixes that, but it doesn’t stop there — you can rate literally anything on any webpage you can select. Think: Jobs on a job boards, private ratings of dating profiles, fashion photos on a blog, heck rate individual paragraphs in a news article if you like.

All private, saved locally on just your browser, never sent anywhere.

And if, like GrubHub, they break selection because of their fancy web app – you can simply hold down Option+Drag mouse to allow highlighting (ALT+Drag on Windows, CTRL+Drag on Linux).

I’ve submitted it for approval to the Chrome Webstore, but while I wait for approval I like to give non-muggles early access. Feedback appreciated.

Github Repository Here: https://github.com/Xatter/rateitall

UPDATE: It’s been approved in the Chrome store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/mr-rate-it-all/lahklfafggahlaiadnedcmfimjdabhab?authuser=0&hl=en

It is generally true that if you can fool developers into thinking they are “mastering” something hard (as opposed to learning tolerance for something badly designed), you can build a fiercely loyal priesthood.

“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.”

For the first time in my life it seems like computer components are getting more expensive over time, not less.

It started with GPUs. Most GPUs were < $1000 for most of my life, the top of the line was $1000+ and people thought you were crazy for buying a Titan X or whatever. Now days a 5080 is almost $2k by itself.

Because of all the data center build outs RAM has 3x in price. Latest is that SSDs are becoming scarce and expensive.

Then, Iran goes and bombs Amazon data centers in the middle east because they couldn’t tell if they were being used by the US military or not to run analytics/AI – that’s legit military reasoning to me. Data centers have just become military targets because of the way militaries around the world use the cloud/AI. But everyone destroyed eliminates more of the compute supply.

I’m thinking I should maybe buy go back and buy a better laptop NOW before the price spikes

So I had Claude install Vaultwarden along side everything else I already self-host and canceled the subscription. I’m not sure which feature they thought warranted the increase but I assure you it didn’t.

Remember that SaaS stock market crash recently?

You become an expert in a subject but alone in it

If you love being right, you’ll be right alone.

As though everyone can just take random days off from work or work from home. It’s the same thing with doctors only being available during business hours on weekdays.

People, stop trying to cover your own ass and do what’s best for the customer, not yourself.