| Nov 05 |
RT @TheCraigHewitt: Kinda crazy that almost 2026 and you can't talk to Framer, Webflow, etc. and just tell it what you want to build.
Caā¦
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I wonder if this will shift as agentic systems become better.
After all, those legacy systems usually have solid tests and a lot of documentation.
I have a feeling that the collective insight of the full history of these languages presides in LLMs, not newly trained devs.
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Currently, the field is super interesting.
We have:
- SmolLM2 https://t.co/Ir0BEJ6lp9
- DeepSeek's CPU distillations: https://t.co/9XMySH1uN8
- the small Llama3.2 https://t.co/F2QBp3oX5r
- Microsoft's Phi 3.5mini https://t.co/2EHpDbPKw6
Everyone is working on quantizing more!
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I can't wait for the CPU-bound superfast micro-LLMs that we can query as inline functions.
> Application::prompt("Does any of these sound French?", ["John", "Pierre"], ["json_format" => `{"french": boolean", "name": string}`];
... 2ms later
{"french": true, "name": "Pierre"}
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I give it 2 years, max. Then this will be in each OS, and every coding framework will have this as a built-in capability.
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And here is the part of the docs I should have read. I added a sublte highlight. https://t.co/EHM6MyHoUb
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| Nov 04 |
RT @businesslaravel: What if you could search & get notifications on every podcast ever made? š
Thatās what @arvidkahl is building w/ Podsā¦
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https://t.co/U7TtEN1XGM
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Woohoo the episode is out!
This was a fun one, and I REALLY enjoyed talking about all things Laravel. Can't get enough of that, as is evidenced quite clearly in our chat :D
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RT @businesslaravel: š§ New episode! @stauffermatt chats with @arvidkahl about building Podscan ā his journey from developer to founder, leaā¦
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Ooooh, I just learned something about Route middlewares in Laravel. You REALLY want to configure these before defining group routes.
My rate limiter was not working for my public routes, and I wondered why.
Claude Code wrote me a test, figured it out, and fixed it :D https://t.co/E5FzAHn5y5
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| Nov 03 |
Either this is a really great security process or a very devious way of getting people to sign up for an affiliate program.
In a way, this email is very instructive for founders, whichever is true. https://t.co/T0NWWWjqdE
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| Nov 03 |
When I was a kid, I thought trading cards coming in random booster packs was cool.
I even built a profitable eBay business selling MtG singles. My first ever.
But these loot boxes are becoming worse and worse. And also kinda stupid. Cash grabs with no deeper purpose.
Skibidi.
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| Nov 02 |
Iām pretty new to baseball as a sport. But this series, and this 7th game in particular, has been one of the most entertaining things Iāve ever seen.
What a delight to watch, even though the wrong team won š¤£
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| Nov 01 |
RT @GithubProjects: Only real devs fear me. https://t.co/ssxKjs75Zg
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I sometimes wonder about this too. Are current-day billionaires any different than the glorified ones in the past?
Is there an actual difference in charitable intent? Or do we just see more of their actions?
And: how revisionist is our understanding of the old ones?
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| Nov 01 |
THIS.
Depending on what you consider your audience to be, you either go for gambling deals or you don't. Whenever I see someone endorse something as destructive as virtual gambling, I lose all respect because I know they consider their audience mere monetization plebs.
Solid choice by @ThePrimeagen to say no. I sure hope we all have that strength, particularly as those companies have DEEP pockets.
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| Nov 01 |
RT @sayzlim: @arvidkahl I'm at the early stage and I have already felt plenty of challenges you mentioned in the podcast. It feels like we'ā¦
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| Nov 01 |
Here's a secret when interacting with founder-led SaaS businesses.
If you write an email like this, a kind, friendly, real email with a real question, you will ALWAYS find help.
(And quite likely, a significant discount.)
I love my job, making other bootstrappers happy :D https://t.co/jBEJmpFcOB
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| Nov 01 |
RT @TheCraigHewitt: Let's go! https://t.co/LjAfQQtwI6
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| Nov 01 |
RT @arvidkahl: This is quickly turning out to be my most popular podcast episode in months.
Who knew that founders like to hear why they sā¦
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| Nov 01 |
This is right between āwell-doneā and ācongratulations.ā
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| Oct 31 |
RT @Andr3jH: https://t.co/7ePdXyXVUp
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| Oct 31 |
RT @theo: Be sure to check your kid's candy this year - I just found a CORS error in a Snickers bar https://t.co/n1QKXQMMsr
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| Oct 31 |
Also: guess who ran into this issue 2 weeks ago WITHOUT having a 50GB easy-to-restore database file? :P
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| Oct 31 |
It couldn't roll back 1 migration, so it nuked the whole DB.
Instead of asking for confirmation, it just went ahead.
Guess who just restored 50GB of podcast testing data to their local dev database :P
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Painful lesson in developing with @claudeai's Claude Code: even if you instruct Claude NOT to EVER run destructive commands, it will reason its way into ignoring the system prompt UNLESS you explicitly forbid the call in the settings.local.json. https://t.co/PVXlCygNxz
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| Oct 31 |
This is quickly turning out to be my most popular podcast episode in months.
Who knew that founders like to hear why they shouldn't be founders ;)
Getting STRONG email feedback along the lines of "yeah this is my experience too, thanks for the perspective." š„°
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504 Gateway Timeout
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| Oct 31 |
Maybe you SHOULDN'T start a SaaS.
Beyond the MRR screenshots and the promises of financial independence lurks a reality of loneliness, being overwhelmed and "always on", and piercing anxiety.
Today on the pod, I share a few stories from my own journey.
https://t.co/MqJIW1Me79
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| Oct 31 |
And just to point out the obvious here: clearly, the Cautionary Tales podcast already exists, but it is about historical stories, not necessarily niche industry cautionary tales.
This is how I generally use the Podscan Ideas suggestions. They're a great starting point, a jump-off point for taking the idea into your own industry.
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The newsletter with the 10 best ideas sourced from 500+ podcasts over the last 24 hours is free, and you can find it right here: https://t.co/lyGWBzQgPo
Feel free to explore the Ideas Vault today! (ALL ideas of the last day are free to browse!) https://t.co/pUqGI7kwYe
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| Oct 31 |
My fav from today's Podscan Ideas newsletter list of sourced-directly-from-podcast-conversation ideas is #2, the "Cautionary Tales Podcast Series."
A great jump-off point for starting a media business in the startup space: talk to people who failed, share their stories. https://t.co/Cdd0ESMp84
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:/
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Okay this is hilarious.
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| Oct 30 |
Oooph, this one hits hard, particularly the child gambling...
Gambling is a disease, and it's hard to ignore in the creator economy too. Been asked by a few gambling companies to affiliate my podcast / newsletter with them, and have declined because of stories like these.
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| Oct 30 |
You'll find the newsletter at https://t.co/TbXIWV6zN8
I'd love for you to subscribe to get my weekly insight into running a real business with real paying customers.
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| Oct 30 |
Tomorrow on the podcast and in the newsletter: why you should never start a SaaS business.
A couple of really painful lessons from the "trenches." And maybe, just maybe, a few ways of keeping your head up when things get tough.
Going out to 20,000 readers at 9:00 a.m. Eastern.
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| Oct 30 |
The fun part of being in tech is that when you ask for a unifying standard solution to a problem, at least three different standards are suggested.
The comments to my tweet below illustrate this pretty well. https://t.co/nN4b8onWMI
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| Oct 30 |
Now THIS is bootstrapper thinking :D
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| Oct 30 |
I wish there were a provider-agnostic standard for instructing AI agents.
./CLAUDE.md, .codex/config.toml, all those different formats.
I'd love to have one central set of instructions, with all the project knowledge and execution preferences.
Not one per tool.
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| Oct 30 |
RT @mynameisyahia: Everyone says ādo things that donāt scale,ā but almost no one actually does.
Today a customer asked how to use the @getā¦
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| Oct 30 |
RT @Andr3jH: when you finish Designing Data Intensive Applicatios only to remember your actual job for the foreseeable future is still gonnā¦
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| Oct 29 |
I have seen what Sean is working on and it is awesome. It does something with podcasts that I have been we seen before. Canāt wait for him to share more with you :)
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| Oct 29 |
If you need AI to get through a conversation (job interview, exam, meeting), you should not be having that conversation.
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| Oct 29 |
Nothing makes me feel more like Gandalf than mumbling my invocations into the ears of a machine and having it do my very bidding.
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| Oct 29 |
This is most of my day-to-day now, too.
Obviously, you're only a true hero if you use a foot pedal for push-to-talk and pausing system audio. But yeah, voice input is the most efficient way for me to prompt.
It allows me to brainstorm and correct as I speak.
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| Oct 29 |
My balance is 50% YouTube for fun, 30% YouTube for thinly stuff, and 20% hearthstone :)
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| Oct 29 |
Do you send your SaaS customer an email with what their ābest next stepā is, some time after signing up?
If yes, how long do you wait to send that email? Is it custom to their needs? Or templated?
If no, why not?
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| Oct 29 |
Whatās the best resource for integration tests on Laravel? Been having lots of success with unit tests, want to go deeper.
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| Oct 28 |
RT @BillCrosby: @Evanish @arvidkahl I've found @arvidkahl's podcast always hits the mark on practical, implementable tech insights.
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| Oct 28 |
Never knew they even had 30000 people in us-east-1
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| Oct 28 |
It was just one outage. I think they're overreacting a bit.
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| Oct 28 |
RT @Evanish: Really awesome episode of @arvidkahl ās podcast here https://t.co/D6LpDCKVoD
Is anyone building this kind of tailored automatā¦
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| Oct 28 |
Between Claude Code prompting actions and verifying/testing its results, being an AI-assisted developer suddenly opened up a lot of 5- 10-minute windows.
Now, do we fill these with YouTube shorts, or do we use this time to learn new things?
How do you use that time? :D
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| Oct 27 |
I sort my books by how many still fit on that particualr shelf. I remember where my books are, no need to sort.
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| Oct 27 |
Hot take: sorting your library by color still beats having no library.
Library vanity has no place in a world where people read too little. Sort by color, author name, book title, year of publication. Who cares.
As long as we read.
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| Oct 26 |
Sports betting ads. Mystery loot boxes. Polymarket.
Why is everything turning into gambling?
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| Oct 26 |
I'd probably prefer an audiobook over a movie here, but it certainly is an interesting use of virtual reality gear.
Also, what's with the comments. That man has no ragrets. Let him watch stuff.
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| Oct 26 |
Donāt you just feel the synergy and how employees are like a family here?
Iād gladly commute two hours to a job like this.
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| Oct 26 |
RT @jebank: Running a hot dog stand is better preparation for a startup than being a PM at Google
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| Oct 24 |
I'm not much of a sports person, but as a Canadian-by-choice, I'm really looking forward to the World Series games :D Go sports teams!
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| Oct 24 |
Now THAT is great feedback after having released a podcast episode š„°
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| Oct 24 |
So, are monkey jpegs still a thing?
(For real, though, has there been a real-world use case for NFTs since their heyday?)
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| Oct 24 |
Why on earth would people use the phrase "I'm reaching out so that we can advance both of our agendas" in a cold email? š¤£
Sounds so sinister :D
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| Oct 24 |
This should be in every banking app.
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| Oct 24 |
š„°
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| Oct 24 |
AI slop will soon be indistinguishable from human slop.
And then, human mediocrity. Then, maybe, occasionally, human ingenuity.
I canāt really tell how I feel about this.
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| Oct 24 |
Wanna see just how many crawlers try to nibble up Podscan data?
Almost a million requests over the last 7 days, and surprisingly few robots.txt violations :) https://t.co/Deone615YQ
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| Oct 24 |
You'll find it right here!
https://t.co/sJ6ZsqFkph
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| Oct 24 |
The new podcast episode is out.
In it, I explain how AI can be useful for coding purists; if you don't want it to actually generate code, but STILL want to make use of the always-on nature of these powerful systems.
And if you love vibe coding, you'll hear a few new ideas!
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| Oct 24 |
RT @astuyve: Here's my simplest explanation for the DynamoDB outage in us-east-1:
1. The DNS Planner creates DNS plans for DDB periodicallā¦
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| Oct 24 |
RT @jacobmparis: any time someone says "an" instead of "a" in things like "an SQL query" or "an SDK"
you can really tell they pronounce eā¦
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| Oct 23 |
You can just say no to slop.
Hard truth to hear, particular when you grew up with an internet full of deep conversations, meaningful relationships, and rabbit-holes that enriched your life (instead of detract).
We still have agency. Just sucks that the fun places are less fun.
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| Oct 23 |
As an ex-JS developer, I was fed up with the framework wars and Cambrian explosion of complex tooling.
Laravel solves this.
Maybe thatās the angle how we can make it juicy for beginners. Tell them stories from the JS trenches.
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| Oct 23 |
My puppy seems to really enjoy my Bootstrapped Founder-branded swag š¤£ https://t.co/yH3YWrcVUJ
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| Oct 23 |
RT @_mctrinh: Best books for tech founders?
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| Oct 23 |
Whenever I see someone posting an AI-generated reply to one of my tweests, I immediately feel disappointed in them as a person.
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| Oct 23 |
Good to know that spies can work from home full-time.
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| Oct 23 |
The newsletter with the 10 best ideas sourced from 500+ podcasts over the last 24 hours is free, and you can find it right here:
https://t.co/lyGWBzPIZQ
Feel free to explore the Ideas Vault today! (ALL ideas of the last day are free to browse!) https://t.co/pUqGI7jZ8G
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| Oct 23 |
Every day, the Podscan Ideas system picks up business ideas from thousands of podcast conversations.
This one is particularly funny, as it fits so perfectly into the ongoing conversation about booking sales calls (and talking about it!)š¤£
This newsletter goes out in ~30min. https://t.co/ycflktVNlC
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| Oct 22 |
If youāre not watching Bake Off youāre missing out on a lot of culture.
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| Oct 22 |
Back in high school, O was part of a project looking into quantum computing and the Shor algorithm. It was incomprehensible then just how powerful this computation might be.
And now we see it happen in front of us.
This is significant. More than it might seem.
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| Oct 22 |
Does make me wonder. I'm sticking to one sponsor per podcast, no matter how long.
Assuming it's non-zero, what is your maximum number of ads per podcast hour?
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| Oct 22 |
RT @crisp_chat: If you followed us after @marclou's post, reply with a link to the startup you're building, we will choose one and offā¦
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| Oct 22 |
Santiago here is finally getting somewhere. And he's celebrating it in public.
Which, of course, attracts all kinds of attention.
If you, dear reader, feel like you need to nag, ridicule, or belittle a builder for building in public, I'd very kindly askyou to unfollow me :)
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| Oct 21 |
Launching a proprietary browser is ambitious in a world where people either donāt care and ājust use Chromeā or care so much that they mandate Adblock and privacy.
Plus those beyond help who legitimately prefer Edge.
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| Oct 21 |
How to avoid an us-east-1 outage next time: move your whole stack to us-west-1. Problem solved, forever.
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| Oct 21 |
Haha
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| Oct 21 |
Answering customer service questions with a custom walkthrough video is THE conversion-boosting tactic for SaaS.
Leverages so many things: direct founder access, focus on the customer, deep domain knowledge being transferred, and a BIG heap of humanity.
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| Oct 21 |
The one thing from my founder life I will NEVER give up to AI systems is determining product roadmaps and maintaining customer relationships.
Implementation, code reviewing, helpdesk article writing, optimizations? Go ahead, AI.
But core business? Never.
What's your "never?"
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| Oct 21 |
While hundreds of SaaS are crashing out, Pieter is cashing out.
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| Oct 21 |
This is big news.
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| Oct 20 |
āMattress overheated because us-east-1 was downā is such a 2025 thing to happen š¤£
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| Oct 20 |
RT @adriamatz: Not the first time Iāve recommended @arvidkahl book (yeah, I'm a fanboy), but who wouldāve thought that a month later Iād beā¦
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| Oct 20 |
Every AWS outageā¦ https://t.co/XcSKeP8Ar2
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| Oct 20 |
No platform has done more for knowledge accessibility than YouTube.
If youāre not using it to learn more about every challenge you might have, youāre missing out on its most potent capability.
Brought to you by someone who learned how to bake amazing pretzels AND SaaS apps š¤£
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| Oct 20 |
Waking up to an email trail of several dependenciesā status page changes is one thing.
Seeing that everything resolved itself and Podscan self-stabilizing while I slept is another. A very calming feeling when AWS outages are concerned.
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| Oct 19 |
Crypto is the ultimate insider trading technology. The number of pumping tweets I see is ridiculous.
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| Oct 19 |
Fatal disk error.
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