Bootstrapped SaaS

Deep Dive into GarminOS and its MonkeyC Virtual Machine

MacOS Keyboard Shortcuts for Developers

Léonard Misonne was a Belgian pictorialist photographer. He is known for his landscapes and street scenes with atmospheric skies.

Photographer: Léonard Misonne


A list of interesting things to do with new AI models

Interesting AI

P90x3

A short 100 question diligence checklist

Sparks of General Intelligence

AI prompt engineering

Chat GPT prompt engineering

Thinking about risk

Who becomes an entrepreneur?

Using AI for social media content creation.

One of my favourite photographers this winter has been Willem Verbeek. The photographs are quiet and thoughtful. They build on each other. His YouTube channel is one of my favourites.

Photographer: Willem Verbeek


I really like this aesthetic. It's technically imperfect, gives context by showing subjects in their surroundings - subjects are often quite small in the frame, and relies heavily on beautiful natural light. It's a soft and cinematic aesthetic.

Photographer: Esther Scanon


Six Types of Wealth

The Case for Travelling More

An FT article quantifying climate changing activities and contrasting them with otherwise familiar benchmarks

Lessons from history in tackling climate change

Most Data Work Seems Fundamentally Worthless

Investors are keeping their coins still, with the amount of Bitcoin not budging nearing a new all-time high.

High levels of bitcoin dormancy

Elitism as the mid-career growth engine

What is an engineering strategy

Childhoods of exceptional people

The sleeping beauty problem

Is success luck or hardwork?

Letter to 15 year old me

Everything you can't have

Money is a negative art

How to learn another language

My Neovim setup in 2023

Fun, Fear, Pain, Accomplishment

ZSA Moonlander Review

The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions

Neovim plugins I could make

Ben Howard - The End of the Affair

YAML gotchas

All that is gold does not glitter

Insanity workouts

P90x

Findings from a research paper on blue zones: Nine things healthy communities all have in common: Purpose, Movement, Low Stress, Eat lightly, Plants not meat, Wine, Church, Family, Friends

Long Life

January Music

Small Teams

Photographer: Fan Ho


Photographer: Robert Doisneau


Three Falls in the Alps

A new blog

Learnings from 5 years of tech startup code audits

Don't avoid sunlight

Tmux tutorials

Data Science Teams

Newish Command-Line Tools

Why the past 10 years of American life have been uniquely stupid

MacOS Keyboard Shortcuts

Advanced googling

Dan Lebrero book notes

Someone else's guiding principles after 20 years of programming

Personal website as a mini-game

Staff Engineer

Founder Salaries

James' Book Summaries

Django CBV method flowchart

Tools to help children learn to code

How to size bets

Managing environment variables with Direnv

Adding italic text to iTerm2

The Psychology of Computer Programming

Moxie on web3

How to write a book

Solo founder

103 attempts to make it work

Gell-Mann amnesia effect

How to monetize a SaaS

First five minutes on a server

Adding JSON output to a CLI app

nvim.CoC

Find

Tmux sessions

Chezmoi: Part 2


Powerful Python

Multi-tenant Django webapps

The 3-2-1 backup rule

Lessons from creating a production database

Unison helper

Proxy Servers

Unison

Japanese philosophies for spending money

Uninstall all pip packages

alpine.js

Zsh commands: exec vs source


Chezmoi commands

zsh suspend or push function

Stoicism

Math explainers

Do-nothing scripts

Virtual environments and python versions

SaaS metrics that matter

Training Zones

Naming things is hard

Tove Lo - Habits