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Gary Hewett 🇬🇧=>🇨🇦 @techmag.bsky.social · May 22

I want to get to know all you #BuildInPublic peeps

What problem do you solve?

Who do you solve it for?

What is the investment required to adopt (time and/or money or ???)

What is the ROI on that investment?

Reply (with links if you have them)

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Gary Hewett 🇬🇧=>🇨🇦 @techmag.bsky.social · 9h

Klept away but it’s already second hand:

programmerhumor.io/programming-...

Don’t know if it’s actually true though or just a meme that stuck

Anyone have a link to the original post?

Very Inefficient But Entertaining

Check out this programming meme on ProgrammerHumor.io

programmerhumor.io

Gary Hewett 🇬🇧=>🇨🇦 @techmag.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah I found that web site when I was thinking of building the picture clock version of it

The site would have displayed an image and with each second one pixel would update until it overflowed to the next one and they rolled over like an odometer

Every picture imaginable 😎

Then along came math…

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Gary Hewett 🇬🇧=>🇨🇦 @techmag.bsky.social · 1d

Vibe = Very Inefficient But Entertaining 😈

Eventually you’ll get to the place where you realize you’ve been in the library of babel all along

Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 1d

"vibe coding" really is the worst development in software of all time. "woah what if you could just tell the computer what to do and then it did that" that's called writing code. code is the language that tells the computer what to do.

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Gary Hewett 🇬🇧=>🇨🇦 @techmag.bsky.social · 1d

Try writing software

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Cj @cjaythecreator.bsky.social · 1d

Startup culture is just the art of pretending free pizza and bean bag chairs make up for your soul being slowly crushed

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Gary Hewett 🇬🇧=>🇨🇦 @techmag.bsky.social · 2d

No you only think they do what you think they do

Gary Hewett 🇬🇧=>🇨🇦 @techmag.bsky.social · 2d

The dark side of cloud computing is when they keep changing the rules (infrastructure)

The changes are either:

Meh

Or

OMFG we’re all going to die

Doesn’t seem to be much middle ground

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Gary Hewett 🇬🇧=>🇨🇦 @techmag.bsky.social · 2d

I was kinda thinking the same thing

Gary Hewett 🇬🇧=>🇨🇦 @techmag.bsky.social · 3d

But I did exactly what you asked me to do!

#BuildInPublic

Gary Hewett 🇬🇧=>🇨🇦 @techmag.bsky.social · 4d

Ah I see it now (that orange thing seems to be flipped but that is just a screen refresh)

It’s the taxes calculating — which given that I’ve worked on something related to — means that it has to figure out where you are then lookup the applicable rates — so that’s likely the delay your seeing

Gary Hewett 🇬🇧=>🇨🇦 @techmag.bsky.social · 4d

I still don’t understand — why is this price moving?

Didn’t the video show some selection being made?

Yes if the price just jumped arbitrarily without any reason that would be annoying if not just plain stupid and that I would agree with you but that’s a complete design failure

Gary Hewett 🇬🇧=>🇨🇦 @techmag.bsky.social · 4d

Is scale possible without sacrificing quality?

Gary Hewett 🇬🇧=>🇨🇦 @techmag.bsky.social · 4d

Oh that really tightens things up 🙄

Gary Hewett 🇬🇧=>🇨🇦 @techmag.bsky.social · 4d

What’s your reasoning on the pros and cons here?

#Apple does this as does #Framework and those are more than likely to be copied by a lot of other sites

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Gary Hewett 🇬🇧=>🇨🇦 @techmag.bsky.social · 5d

COBOL can handle that

Gary Hewett 🇬🇧=>🇨🇦 @techmag.bsky.social · 7d

All the 💩 that’s happened to you

Does it define you

Or

Did it just refine you

❓

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Gary Hewett 🇬🇧=>🇨🇦 @techmag.bsky.social · 8d

Just starting this one now

Did NOT start they way I expected it too 😳

Kinda sucks you in quickly though

#BookSky

Will see how it lives up to the expectations compared to “The Four Hour Work Week” by the guy that likely never worked as little as a 4 hour week

www.audible.com/pd/B09YMMFV2...

Buy Back Your Time

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Wall Street Journal Bestseller Learn to conquer the one real hurdle to scaling your company and growing rich: Time How you use your free time will make or...

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Gary Hewett 🇬🇧=>🇨🇦 @techmag.bsky.social · 8d

Also recently completed this — another one I plan to reread soon

I find I pick up so much more on the second listen

#BookSky

Highly recommend to all the #BuildInPublic peeps

www.audible.com/pd/B0DKLVYDJ...

Software as a Science

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Every SaaS company on earth is careening towards its next revenue plateau. It’s called a Growth Ceiling—a moment in time where growth stops, and you’re losi...

www.audible.com

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Gary Hewett 🇬🇧=>🇨🇦 @techmag.bsky.social · 8d

Finished yet another book

Will be rereading this soon just like his previous two books

#BookSky

www.audible.com/pd/B0FN4VZJG...

$100M Money Models

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. *Guinness World Record: Fastest Selling Non-Fiction Book in History* *OVER 4,000,000 COPIES SOLD IN THE $100M SERIES!!* This book will show you the art of g...

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Gary Hewett 🇬🇧=>🇨🇦 @techmag.bsky.social · 8d

I think people tend to conflate the size of the market with the size of the market they could attract

Yes one might think they are related however in reality unless you’ve already got some level of star power it just might be an inverse relationship that gets one out of the gate

Gary Hewett 🇬🇧=>🇨🇦 @techmag.bsky.social · 8d

I think it’s kinda important to note that ALL output from LLMs is hallucination

Some of it is interesting

Some of it is actually useful — especially if you already know a good chunk of the topic

We are still very much in the buyer beware stage of it’s evolution however

☣️⚠️☣️⚠️☣️

Gary Hewett 🇬🇧=>🇨🇦 @techmag.bsky.social · 8d

Nice breakfast — what’s for lunch?

Gary Hewett 🇬🇧=>🇨🇦 @techmag.bsky.social · 8d

After this week I feel like I know more about #CSS that any human has a right to

Doing dynamic tagging of website templates via JSoup

Had no idea what could be done with CSS until I dug in on this

Bet I’ve only just scratched the surface however

#BuildInPublic

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Gary Hewett 🇬🇧=>🇨🇦 @techmag.bsky.social · 8d

So been there

Gary Hewett 🇬🇧=>🇨🇦 @techmag.bsky.social · 9d

Thankfully I have not hit these too often and in this case digging in is going to be really worth the effort even if it wasn’t planned at this time in the product arc