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Costs of running a macOS app studio business — Alin Panaitiu

So what are the largest costs of running such a business? Well to be honest, that is time. Time I could have spent with my wife, my brother, my dog, instead of answering support emails from my first waking moment to right before sleeping. Time I could have walked outside, do some handy work in […]

Database Fundamentals

About a year ago, I tried thinking which database I should choose for my next project, and came to the realization that I don’t really know the differences of databases enough. I went to different database websites and saw mostly marketing and words I don’t understand. Source: Database Fundamentals

The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet

It contains the wifi credentials to the wifi that was used to set the device up (or to test it). Definitely not the wifi of the company. And what do we do, when we want to find out a location associated with a wifi name? We go to wigle.net, enter the SSID (=wifi name) and […]

Ventoy

Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files. With ventoy, you don’t need to format the disk over and over, you just need to copy the ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files to the USB drive and boot them directly. Source: Ventoy

Jobs you’re applying to might not be real | Hacker News

This is the appropriate place to share the following anecdote, which happened to a friend of mine (disclaimer – in the context of this comment and how I wrote it I assume you will immediately notice the red flags, but I assure you these are only obvious in hindsight) Source: Jobs you’re applying to might […]

WorldBrain’s Memex

Organise, annotate & discuss websites, PDFs, YouTube videos without leaving your tab. By yourself, with your peers & enhanced by AI Source: Memex. See also: Github repo.

Practical Ways To Increase Product Velocity | Stay SaaSy

Create a culture that favors begging forgiveness (and reversing decisions quickly) rather than asking permission. Invest in infrastructure such as progressive / cancellable rollouts. Use asynchronous written docs to get people aligned (“comment in this doc by Friday if you disagree with the plan”) rather than meetings (“we’ll get approval at the next weekly review […]