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About one year ago I wrote about a chrome extension I created called reject-cookies. The basic premise was that it automatically rejects cookie banner pop-ups, saving you a couple tedious clicks. The extension is open source so feel free to check it out. It provided some functionality to allow users to report sites where they were burdened with a cookie pop-up. This way I could find pop-ups…
Download on iOS Website landing page I, like everyone else, have been using AI coding tools. I recently wrote about a toy web page I built to show how bad I am at sports gambling. For that project I used Lovable and Cursor for different pieces. By the time I was done, they already felt out of vogue. So I wanted to find a new project to build with Claude Code.
A note on my reading patterns and these reviews Some months I read quite a bit, others I don’t read at all. So these reviews will be inconsistent. Additionally, reading a book is quite a significant investment in time, therefore I am a fan of giving up on some books. With that in mind, I won’t be including any books that I do not finish. So the reviews will all meet a certain personal or…
I used AI coding tools to build a full web app without writing a single line of code — all to track how bad I am at sports betting. Bets by Mitch will show you just how poorly I’ve been doing. No matter how you cut it, I am most likely down money. To build this I used Lovable and a remote MCP server hosted on Cloudflare that was built by Cursor + Claude.
A note on my reading patterns and these reviews Some months I read quite a bit, others I don’t read at all. So these reviews will be inconsistent. Additionally, reading a book is quite a significant investment in time, therefore I am a fan of giving up on some books. With that in mind, I won’t be including any books that I do not finish. So the reviews will all meet a certain personal or…
A note on my reading patterns and these reviews Some months I read quite a bit, others I don’t read at all. So these reviews will be inconsistent. Additionally, reading a book is quite a significant investment in time, therefore I am a fan of giving up on some books. With that in mind, I won’t be including any books that I do not finish. So the reviews will all meet a certain personal or…
Add the extension A Chrome Extension Everyone can agree that cookie consent banners are frustrating. It might be one of the few unifying factors on the internet today. Even though it’s a couple clicks, the couple clicks are a pain, and the couple clicks can happen on many sites each day. There are browser extensions out there that will auto-accept cookies like I don’t care about cookies and it’s…