Mike Manfrin
manfrin.com
Mike Manfrin
@manfrin.com
programmer, cat haver, hammock enthusiast

berkeley, ca

working on a supplements and protein website called supplementatlas.com
I turn 37 in less than 2 weeks and I still use my moms number at safeway
March 6, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I built a system to build, render, navigate to, screenshot, save, and pack a better social preview image for my product pages:

www.supplementatlas.com/p/wheybolic-...
GNC - Wheybolic - Fruity Crisps - 2.9lb
Compare nutrition facts, ingredients, and prices for GNC Wheybolic. Detailed analysis including macros, vitamins, minerals, and serving information. Research prices and find alternatives and workout s...
www.supplementatlas.com
March 4, 2025 at 3:40 AM
built a pretty big feature for my site today:

www.supplementatlas.com/wizard
Supplement Atlas | Protein Powder and Supplement Discovery Wizard
Find the best protein powders, supplements, and fitness products based on your specific wants and needs.
www.supplementatlas.com
March 3, 2025 at 4:27 AM
midday standup:

last night and this morning I built a huge batching system for my product imports and also turned on a related products import feature I had waiting. Today I was able to add one product and have the system autonomously collect, analyze, categorize, and asseme all of that line
February 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
time for my evening bluesky standup

today I
- added filters to search (big)
- rewrote a lot of my tailwind/styling code
- added a bunch of themes for testing new designs
- made search look nice
- made the site look and function on mobile better
- began reprocess work

www.supplementatlas.com/search
Supplement Atlas
www.supplementatlas.com
February 10, 2025 at 4:02 AM
after struggling to get back to work after a vacation, today i:

- set up infra automation
- set up prod search
- added new product flags
+ pipeline changes to injest
+ wired it all the way through variants/search/frontend
- built new search page

failed:
- gemini
- new theming
February 9, 2025 at 6:19 AM
I don't understand how deepseek/chatgpt-4o/o3-mini score better than Claude's Sonnet-3.5 when it comes to coding. Claude is lightyears better than all of them (from extensive personal experience).
February 6, 2025 at 1:08 AM
website password reset forms love to be like 'okay you've verified yourself now choose a new password' and then when you choose it they make you log in and are like 'but wait is this really you'
January 30, 2025 at 5:39 PM
built search today (backend) and elastic search is hell (actually it’s okay but man)
January 30, 2025 at 7:21 AM
I told a joke about Orpheus but looking back, it wasn’t a good idea, really hellish response
January 28, 2025 at 7:49 AM
built a firefox extension (chrome too, but there are some bugs still and i use ff, fuck google)
January 28, 2025 at 12:42 AM
having had a day and a half to play around with deepseek, I can pretty confidently say that the us ai companies/nvidia are not in any danger

for first-response of what are clearly predefined prompt paths, it does an okay job, but it loses context immediately and becomes useless the more you use
January 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Dark modeeee
January 27, 2025 at 7:41 AM
was told to look in to langchain for generative extraction flows

looked, their system works almost identically to how I designed mine, independenly

makes me feel alright about my software design skills
January 27, 2025 at 6:21 AM
I am an idiot. My darkmode toggle hasnt been working and I've been pulling my hair out, and I just realize that I'm inverting the colors on the variables but ALSO inverting them on the color definitions, so they just end up being the same.
January 27, 2025 at 1:52 AM
updates for SA today:
- tooled around with deepseek
- build a codebase exporter for use with ais
- rebuilt the ingredients modeling
- greatly expanded the import pipeline error handling
- migrated ingredients
- updated frontend to match

here's what the new ingredients list looks like:
January 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I have a really bad habit of letting easily fixable problems just sit there, like it's less effort to walk with a rock in my shoe than to take it out
January 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
built a script to package up my codebase in to a .txt file to feed to ai agents, first test I asked deepseek to tell me what it knows and it gave me a pretty thorough understanding of the project
January 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
@hgmodernism.bsky.social's bit about introducing friction in to your life resonated; the thing that first started to get me out of my dopamine-fucked adhd inability to do anything was telling myself to to what I needed to do inefficiently, like if I had dishes out I had to take just a single cup -->
I kicked my phone addiction -- based on pigeon brains
YouTube video by HGModernism
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January 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
testing something (testing to see if social images/desc shows up) (this is my site)

www.supplementatlas.com/p/gold-stand...
Optimum Nutrition - Gold Standard Whey - Vanilla Ice Cream - 9.0lb
Compare nutrition facts, ingredients, and prices for Optimum Nutrition Gold Standard Whey. Detailed analysis including macros, vitamins, minerals, and serving information. Research prices and find alt...
www.supplementatlas.com
January 26, 2025 at 12:45 AM
today on the agenda: cleanup some admin stuff on SA, work more on Stacks (mobile needs work), and possibly add user accounts/wire that all up.
January 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Today I built the beginnings of the feature for SA (supplement atlas) called 'Stacks', wireframed it, designed a prototype, built the data modeling, wired it up, and spent some time making it look nice. Good progress. The user form for it is gonna be difficult though.
January 25, 2025 at 7:47 AM
okay i think i'll finally move over here now
January 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM