Two Actually Useful GPT-3.5 Prompts for Zettelkasten Schreibers I have been using two GPT-3.5 prompts to help me save time and improve my writing as a Zettelkasten Schreiber. The Outline to Complete Sentence English Prompt transforms outlines into complete sentence English, while the Summary Generator takes complex te...
FOSS communities: You don’t need to yell This is kind of open letter I suppose. I’ve seen a lot of similar stuff happen in other projects too, like GNOME. So I wanted to write down what happened to me and my inbox today. It’s written in my perspective, but I’m sure many can sympathize. And I sym...
Elon Musk Says Twitter Lost $60mn a Year Because 390 Telcos Used Bot Accounts to Pump A2P SMS Twitter accounts were created solely to generate revenue for telcos from two-factor authentication SMS messages.
Tribal Knowledge = 💩 TL;DR Don’t hoard knowledge. If you know something that would benefit others then share it freely and make it accessible. Sharing is caring. Why you hating on Tribal Knowledge, Kev? “Knowledge is p…
Only Debate The Non-Linear I sometimes feel like the course of my career has been one long vacillation1 between being too argumentative and too deferential. I’ve often struggled specifically in work contexts to discern when …
Fixing Back Pain Permanently Chronic back pain is incredibly limiting, and is more and more common—even with younger people. I've kept a short guide to solving back pain issues for a couple years, and a friend requested that I publish this publicly. Around 80% of people who have used...
Workflows: handling inbound email on Fastmail with regular expressions (now featuring ChatGPT) I've been using Fastmail for years now and have explored a number of different approaches to handling mail.
Substack has an 11.5x Higher Conversion Rate Than Squarespace How I ran an A/B test to decide whether I should move to Substack
Defensibility & Competition Are early SaaS or AI companies ever defensible early? What is the basis for competition for a startup?
Give Me Anything That Sparks Joy in Your Soul and I Will Monetize It I bet you could use a creative way to increase your income by a mere 10 to 30 percent to get through this inflation-wrecked year. Maybe you need so...
Queues should be empty I’ve been writing a pubsub listener for work recently and had this silly “shower thought”: the ideal queue should be empty. Why? If the queue is not empty, it means that whatever job is consuming from the queue is not keeping up with messages coming into ...
This or that? Component Names: index.js or Component.js I'm not sure if you're aware, but there are sometimes different ways to do the same thing. Crazy, right? As a consultant I get to see a lot of different codebases, and I try study other projects' architecture in order to better understand this Brave New J...
Its Okay to Say No Saying No is hard for someone like me. I like to make friends, be open-minded, and have FOMO when oppurtunities arise. Those are all very…
Exact cover and applications A few months ago, I bought a set of pentominos because it reminded me of a book I had read as a child: The Wright 3. I solved a few configurations but soon my computer scientist education and my laziness took over and whispered: exact cover. If you are lo...
NuttX RTOS for PinePhone: Exploring USB What's inside the USB Controller of Pine64 PinePhone... And how we'll create a USB Driver for Apache NuttX RTOS
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Download and install the Microsoft Authenticator app The Microsoft Authenticator app helps you sign in to your accounts when you're using two-step verification. Two-step verification helps you to use your accounts more securely because passwords can be forgotten, stolen, or compromised. Two-step verificatio...
Voice.AI Stole Open-Source Code, Banned The Developer Who Informed Them About This, From Discord Server Ronsoros, a well-known developer, claims that voice.ai has stolen open source code. They have violated LGPLv2.1 and GPLv3 licenses.
C# language strategy We will keep evolving C# to meet the changing needs of developers and remain a state-of-the-art programming language. We will innovate eagerly and broadly in collaboration with C# developers
Your B2B startup will stop innovating the day you give power to product managers The problem of product managers is not that they exist but rather that they have too much power. We have all seen these articles written by developers that explain that product managers are useless. They miss the point. I think it is pretty obvious that P...
What is Mini FM? 1. beginnings There were many motivations to start Mini FM, but as a matter of fact, Mini FM started in my seminar to cheer up my students who were isolated each other in the period between the collapse of students movement and the beginning of economic...
What does it mean for there to be “excess liquidity sloshing around the financial system”? In the recent Odd Lots AMA episode, financial journalist Tracy Alloway said …I coined the term ‘ China’s Great Ball of Money.’ This idea that you just have a bunch of extra money …
What to expect from your framework There’s been a bit of a brouhaha these last weeks as parts of the Internet suddenly woke up to the realization that most Single Page Apps are slow and overcomplicated, and — shock horror — it turns out that Facebook, the lovable scamps that brought us Rea...
Creating a Search Engine For My Music Streaming Platform Coral needs a search engine, so let's make one!
Writing confidently with ChatGPT An AI language model As an AI language model designed to mimic human conversation, ChatGPT has encountered its fair share of criticisms. One of the most common criticisms is that ChatGPT can be overly confident in its responses. This perception arises fro...
Revamp Your Old Android Phone into a Mini Linux Server Turn your old Android phone into a portable Linux server with the Linux Deploy app. Learn how to set up a Debian server on your device and use it to host websites, run scripts, and more!
Daily Sketch 2 It's kind of sad to find an old piece of code but after running it didn't give the same result as the original one. Most of my creative coding is CSS-based and rendered in the browser. Browsers and hardware change overtime, I realized that...
Modernizing India's E-governance Systems: The Importance of Design and User Experience - Balamurali Pandranki Have you ever visited an e-governance portal developed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) or any government agency? If so, you’ve likely encountered web portals and interfaces that are outdated, sluggish, and visually unappealing. It’s not uncommon ...
Asking ChatGPT to Design Its Next Generation, ChatGPT 2 How close is AI to recursive self-improvement? In this post, we will ask ChatGPT to come up with breakthrough ideas and help us design its next generation, ChatGPT 2.
Browser adoption rates For two years in 2020 and 2021, I shared Wikipedia’s worldwide browser statistics on Mastodon under #browserstats. They looked a little something like this: As the data includes the browser’s major version, I wondered whether I could use this to follow th...
One Does Not Simply 'pip install' Find your favourite package and turn to the readme to get it installed - it seems dead simple just a ‘pip install’ away. Nothing could possibly go wrong. Right?
Why 'Atomic Habits' may not be working for you - Krishna Bharadwaj Couple of weeks ago, we were discussing random things at work, and we landed on the topic of discipline. One of my colleagues was praising me for having a very disciplined life. It felt as if he was talking about someone else.
Errors are Not Failures tags: #cs-education This week, I’m working on a rewrite of Pickcode’s backend using Prisma and NestJS. The details aren’t important, but it goes without sayi...