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It takes five minutes to make a website look less obviously AI-generated.

Sending an unsolicited email to a person or a group is a cold email. There's nothing to bikeshed here.

I got my first job in the U.S by emailing the local PHP user group introducing myself. The CEO of a dev agency was on the list, and 2 weeks later I had a job offer.

Moving to a new country not knowing anyone and with barely any money, fair to say that one email changed my life.

Codex is open source if you’re interested https://github.com/openai/codex

Just my two cents: don't chase happiness through work. It rarely works out that way. Work to live, don't live to work. I know it sounds a bit cheesy, but give it a try and see how it feels.

If you’ve got 30 minutes, I recommend checking out the first half of this podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-detach-from-wor...

or text messages? Could be more convenient to reply to a text

For a second I was really confused about what Epstein had to do with x-rays

You’d think people would at least spend 2 minutes changing obvious tells like “Why This Matters”…

From the author on twitter[1] "The background music is a cello performance by Iratxe Ibaibarriaga and composed by Aleix Ramon" [1] https://x.com/nealagarwal/status/1998788695449808920

From the author on twitter[1] "The background music is a cello performance by Iratxe Ibaibarriaga and composed by Aleix Ramon"

[1] https://x.com/nealagarwal/status/1998788695449808920

My online bank doesn’t support international wire transfers. I had to wire money to a local bank then go to the branch in person, twice, to wire money to my own brother in Europe. He then had to schedule an appointment with his own bank, go in person, and justify why he received such a big transfer, mind you, it was 8k…

So yeah, it’s not about regulation. If crypto can help streamline all this, it’s a net positive

Watch how quickly this disappears from the front page despite getting the most upvotes.

Linear.app is a product management tool like Jira. The article describes how they sync their data to their backend

I see nothing Israel hasn’t done yet we give them billions of dollars in aid.

There’s https://www.typingmind.com/ local-only (no server) and built by an indie dev

Data warehouses are structured to handle large volumes of data and complex queries more efficiently than a typical transactional database like PostgreSQL.

The Go community is generally averse to frameworks.

Checkout Fitbod for lifting. It's pretty good!

They've had an outage every single day this week: https://status.openai.com

I'd work on a side project. Freelancing platforms like upwork are very competitive and if you're in the U.S you'll never be able to compete on price.

> virtual staging in real estate media If you can make this work with exteriors, Landscaping design is huge. Maybe start with something simple like desert landscaping (which is really just rocks, turf, Pavers, maybe small palm trees)

it's definitely not free. There's a fee but even if they waive it, they make more money from currency exchange rates.

You don't need an extension if you're using chrome. You can override the css using devtools and persist the changes locally: https://egghead.io/lessons/chrome-persist-live-style-changes...

https://dbeaver.io/ is pretty good IMO.

To each their own but I found the opposite to be true. Coding or trying to focus on one one task while chat/email notifications are popping up left and right is very disruptive. I went down from two monitors to one and I'm very happy with the decision.

I don’t have a horse in this game but Adam (the author) does a good job of explaining his thought process here https://adamwathan.me/css-utility-classes-and-separation-of-...

I’ve been working at a fully distributed company for 3 years and I can tell you with a high degree of certainty that none of my 700+ coworkers will ever use something like this. You may find some traction now with companies abruptly transitioning to remote work and not having a clue how to get work done without being in an office, but long term, I’m a sceptic.

I can tell you, however, that I would absolutely consider using this at home: my wife spends at least 3 hours a day on video calls with her family back home and it took some time to get her elderly parents accustomed to Smartphones, messenger/whatsapp, etc. they’ll start a video call on messenger and just keep it on for hours while doing their shores or whatever. An always on device, especially if you add in remote management, would be useful. Another use case is kids. Right now most schools are doing distance learning and loosing the social aspect is certainly going to hurt. This could allow them to stay connected while doing homework, craft, or even playing video games without having to start meetings.

I think this is a good idea, my only advise would be to try other growth channels besides startups.

Algorithms and data structures are very useful and a general knowledge is certainly required. However, when you're facing a problem, do you have to come up with an optimal solution, on a whiteboard, in 45 minutes, and with someone looking over your shoulder?

Best of luck, sir!

This is neat. Vetting dependencies is an essential yet understated task, and there are simply no existent tools on the market. I started creating a similar tool on the side (by starting I mean I just bought a domain name ;-) depvet.io)

Here are some random ideas I've been thinking about, maybe some of it would be useful to you:

Possible monetization strategies:

You mentioned "paid promotion of packages" as a way to monetize, what I had in mind is a bit different: on-premise installation. You provide tools to scan an entire Github org then build your UI based on that. Besides vetting, there are plenty of features you could add:

- Blocklists: it is common for companies to have a list of packages you cannot use. It could be based on a number of criteria like authors, licenses, collaborators, etc. We have one in Confluence and I always forget to look it up.

- Commenting/Rating: When looking at a dependency, I usually do a Github search to find other teams that use it and ask them about their experience. Sometimes there are specific caveats that you can't find online; sometimes, we already have a fork that we need to use instead. A tool where I can see all projects using a particular package, internal comments, rating, and maybe even integration code samples would certainly be welcome.

- Security vulnerabilities: While there are plenty of startups in this area, most of them appeal to the security org and not the engineers. If you integrate the security component into the vetting process, I think you can touch a bigger audience.

- Fork maintenance: forks are a pain to maintain and keep up to date. Sometimes you forget why you had a fork in the first place. I'm not entirely sure how this would look like, but I think it's worth exploring.

Challenges:

- Github has been doing an excellent job recently. Building all this out is way simpler for them since they own the source data. Don't be surprised if they take you out of business by implementing similar features. Have a backup plan for when (not if) this happens.

- Github API rate limits: 5000 requests per hour is not much, it may be enough for one language, but you eventually have to add more. If you were thinking of using the user's OAuth tokens, plan on having a robust security practice, because it will be scrutinized.

- The single most important metric, in my opinion, is not present in your tool: The total number of dependencies. The flaws in direct dependencies are just as bad as flaws in indirect ones, and while I can quickly look at the package.json to determine the first level, there is no simple way to see/vet all transitive dependencies.

I wish you the best of luck and I think you have something here, but I suggest spending some time on your monetization strategy before you go any further.