Not. Enough. iPhones. Apple Loses Value as Sales Drop

I am a bit biased, but I still believe that Apple has a course to run. It’s chip manufacturing capabilities has gotten a lot better, it’s products and software libraries are still world class, and it’s design team is still the best of the best. I’m optimisitc!

The Apecoin (APE) SWOT Analysis

This is not financial advice. I bought Apecoin last year when it launched and it did well, but immediately died when all the crypto drained. If you buy it, imo if it ever sees a return… you won’t see it for the next few years. The power law of market perception means that only the top 1 or 2 trends are getting most attention and right now it'‘s AI and tech stocks. It’ll take a while to get back to crypto.

Vicuna: How Does It Compare to Llama, Alpaca, and ChatGPT?

Love it, Vicuna looks great. Going to try and make some applications based off of this.

Looking to Get Hired? Here’s What You Need to Do to Land the Right Job

> STAR works to communicate once you get the job too!

Build a Document Analyzer with ChatGPT, Google Cloud, and Python

There’s more than 10 products out there in the indie-verse that this code can compete with. 

Big O Notation: What Is It and Why Is It Important?

Big O notation is a great first principle. It’s the first decision-making framework that I learned. For those who want a great resource to practice on, highly recommend CTCI’s Big O problem sets. I only ever had to do those to completely master Big O

Microsoft's AI Bet Fails to Dent Google's Search Dominance 

I would argue that bc they went to a subscription model, it’s not even a competitor anymore. They’ve also made a sizeable, 19% dent in stackoverflow.

The Handy Guide to Getting Google's Bard AI to List Your Brand or Business In Its Response

Love this analysis, great stuff. Certainly the future of SEO AI!

We Achieved #1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt (Without Cheating)! Here's How

Nice! I find that ranking in ProductHunt is 2 things:


1. You have an audience that funneled to your product
2. Devs/Product ppl like what you built

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I think it’s better to not try to game it so that you can get real-world feedback on your app.

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The DevOps Writing Contest by Aptible

How Will Technology Affect the Job Market? Key Insights from the WEF's 'Future of Jobs' Report

Putting People at the Center of Performance Reviews

Great principles for performance reviews!

As we Learn to Use AI, It is Learning to Use Us 

Repeat after me. WE NEED BUILDERS. Forget congress, forget the gov’t, forget VC Twitter. Let’s go build the future we want. That’s the best way to influence AI

We Need to Talk About Feature Flags in Release Management

My worst experience with feature flags was a decision tree 10 levels deep of flags in the authentication code. I was told not to mess with it bc it works lol. No one knew how it worked, but it did.

The 'X' Factor

I want to see what Elon and Zuck are texting each other. The timing is too damn good.

How Multi-Processing Helped Me Speed Up My JavaScript Application By 4x

This is awesome, 4x improvement on anything is unreal.

From Mid to Senior: How to Navigate Through Office Politics

Often times politics is just people who haven’t done any work fight over the credit. This is so annoying when it happens

8 Effective Strategies For Protecting Your Backups

Shame what happened to Kyoto, but not at all surprised. Most universities have such incompetent data management systems. Typically it’s just students with no professional experience.

Over 40, With no Technical Background, This is How I Learned a Frontend Framework in 2 Weeks

That’s how it’s done, consistency, planned, and taking it one step at a time. Now come join us in the Django/python world my friend.

How I Went From a Freelance Developer to a Product Founder, My 10 Year Journey

Privacy vs. Innovation: Balancing Data Protection and Technological Advancements in 2023

I think a lot of this stuff should be determined at a state-level. It’s just too complicated and too slow to figure them out on a federal-level. 

Crypto Companies Score Big: How Sports Sponsorships Fuel Brand Growth and Engagement

I was surprised at how many athletes adopted NFTs back in 2021, I thought it would take a lot longer for them to start launching coins and stuff. The market seems to be rebounding, I think next year we’ll see a similar hype cycle.

How to Create a Telegram Bot to Monitor Your Service Uptime in Python (Part 1: Instant Metrics)

It’s funny, I don’t hear a lot about Telegram bots even though it’s one of the largest social platforms out there. Where are the communities?

Personal Development is a Multi-Billion Dollar Industry

Corrupted Blood: The Video Game Plague That Caught the Attention of Scientists

Enjoyed the comparisons between the virtual and real-world, did not expect that!

Ripple Wins Landmark Legal Battle: XRP Is Officially Not a Security

Good news across the board for Crypto I guess. If we can get past this regulatory challenge in the last few years we’ll grow like crazy

GPT-4 and Stable Diffusion XL for $10/month: Is YouPro Worth It?

100% it’s worth $10 for even just the first month. Just to try it out.

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I’ve found most tech is going to let you down, but 20% of the time, huge rewards.

Startup Idea: A Ticketing Platform That Works for Fans

I learned that it’s completely legal for promoters to buy their own tickets (taken from the marketing budget) and resell them on the same platform. So they can artifically create social proof (“sold out“) and also upsell tickets. A lot of the real buyers are just kids. They don’t have money. We need a new ticketing platform asap. 

New Thread, Who Dis? 

I’m personally super excited to see it unfold. There’s definitely some built in public energy too, I saw META stock spike today. Funny enough though, based on marketing laws, this is also going to bring some natural attention to Twitter too. Grow that platform alongside Threads. Will be fun to watch :)

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