Anwar

If you want to stand out going forward, you will need to have a very distinctive character, and a unique voice.

African startups should stop defaulting to AWS and Kubernetes. Get a VPS on Hetzner, deploy with Coolify, and start experimenting until you start making money. Oh, and when you do start making money, still stay there!

My year in poetry according to #ChatGPT: You built systems from spark into flame, Turning chaos to order by name. From checkout to quote, Every snippet you wrote Showed the craft and the calm of your game. I love it!

When vibe coding, remember, you are the architect and strategist, not the agent. The agent performs best when spoon fed tasks.

“Inside OpenAI, DeepMind, Meta FAIR, and Anthropic, teams that once focused exclusively on scaling LLMs are now pivoting toward protein folding, gene-expression modeling, molecular simulation, enzyme optimization, and lab automation.” — Audrey Xie levelup.gitconnected.com/the-ai-bubble-…

@dian_arifiya Really nice. How far out does it go?

This is the best invention that saves people quickly in emergency situations

@chatgpt21 Amazing, and yes this is art - no question about it, the real question is, who really created it?

Apparently this video has all of X in a frenzy. If it had come out before the AI era, people would be fawning over it as great art, but now they are so clicker trained that any mention of AI sends them into a verbiage frenzy and they anoint anything AI related as slop.

Thought I knew everything about preloading assets in HTML. Today I discovered this little bit: onload="this.onload=null;this.rel='stylesheet'" Apparently, this helps with that pesky render blocking problem - who knew? #buildinpublic

In the last week alone I've created a bunch of mini apps. All very useful. Here's the ones I like: 1. Github2Blog - turn your Github pushes into blog posts 2. Upwork Job Handler - score upwork jobs 3. Botdump - capture emails from bot spam My favorite so far: 4. Code Visualizer - see the connections within your code What did you conjure this week? #buildinpublic

Something my brother and I have been building over the past few months: CapitalFlowAI - a cognitive AI trading engine that delivers unique market insights and will power our Brokerage service. Like all my projects, my focus is on user experience, clean launches, smart automation, and scalable content delivery. Behind every feature we build, there’s a system making sure it ships fast, scales easily, and supports dynamic scenarios. Our latest system update includes improvements across newsletter generation, blog publishing, and deployment pipelines. That means more insights, delivered faster and with less human bottleneck. The result: deep insightful development articles detailing our latest improvements. 👉 Read the latest on enhancing short position strategies and portfolio insights: #trading #investing #stockmarket Mastering Market Moves: Enhancing Short Strategies and Insights capitalflowai.com/blog/mastering…

Wanted to convert a brand icon from PNG to SVG. All the free tools I tried failed to provide a perfect version. Had no choice but to edit in BoxySVG Glad I did, I'm picking up new skills. Thinking I can make custom vector icons now. There's always value to be gained from practical learning. #buildinpublic

I asked Github CoPilot to write a new README for an old app I had on the shelf. Copilot understands my app better than I do 😃 ... but, just a little better. #buildinpublic

@coldemailchris @DeanFiacco DELIV

After monitoring 75,235 email inboxes over the last 6 months, @DeanFiacco and I put together a deliverability masterclass doc covering everything you need to know about email deliverability in 2025. This doc covers everything deliverability, including: > 27 essential tech implementation practices for 98%+ deliverability. > Little-known protocol differences between GSuite & Outlook. > How good & bad offers directly impact email deliverability. > Exact IP-pool error tickets to look out for & how to fix them. > Most effective practices for monitoring deliverability at scale. > Battle-tested warm-up settings for optimized cold email sending. > SOPs for swapping out poor deliverability email accounts w/ new ones. > Ideal GSuite / Outlook use case ratios depending on your target markets. > What domains to purchase, how domains affect performance, & aged domains. And more… Want this document for yourself? 👉 Like & Comment “DELIV” and I’ll DM you the document. [ Must be following to receive ]

Attribution is screwed, and it will get worse in this zero-click world filled with LLMs. We had 400 businesses survey their customers on how many channels they interacted with the brand on before they purchased. People’s memories aren’t always 100% accurate, but it directionally gives you a sense. It doesn’t matter what the price point is or whether it is B2B or B2C, people interact with a brand on at least 3 channels before they purchase. In most cases, they interact multiple times on that channel… so the touch points are even greater. Don’t assume that it isn't producing results if you can’t track it. And if you can track it, don’t assume it is accurate. A great example of this is that I just bought a Matic Robot Vacuum. My buddy Eric Siu first told me about it… then my sister showed it to me at her house last week and said I should get it, and then Eric showed me an X thread from the Shopify CEO on how Matic is great… I dug in and read the comments on that X thread…, and then I purchased it. It cost me $1201.77, including shipping and taxes. I didn’t want to rush into purchasing something that expensive. Now, how is Matic going to attribute that sale? I went directly and purchased…, and there’s no way for them to know what caused the sale.

@MaverickAlbert5 I'm dreaming of solutions

How do you sleep at night knowing your code doesn't work?

@johnrushx You just taught me a very valuable lesson. Thanks

6. Poor Founder Risk. I kept working part-time for him but also moved on with my new startup. One strange thing I noticed is that we were burning money like crazy. I thought my cofounder had prepared new funding and knew what he was doing. A few months later, I got an email from the board. They were planning a new funding round. First, I was happy about that; it meant my shares would be worth more. But it turned out they were planning an internal down-round, where all investors had to put money in. I was the only shareholder who wasn't rich. It was relatively average money for all the investors, but for me, it was more than I could afford. Since I owned 15% and couldn’t participate in the round, my 15% was diluted to 0.15%.

I co-founded a startup as CTO, had Lego, McKinsey, and Macy as customers, entered the best b2b accel in the world, moved to SF... But one event turned my 15% stake into 0.15% 🥴:

On and off, something I've been working on for the @MagicRoomApp : A ceiling-based sky environment ✈️😋 Still WIP... planned to add more elements like rainbow, birds, etc. Should I finish it? 🤔

A “Razor” is a rule of thumb that simplifies decision making. Here are 16 Razors every person should know:

You’re wasting your time on paid ads. I get it, Google generates 237 billion a year, and Meta generates 131 billion a year. So, it must work if they generate that much revenue, right? Well, check what 13,350 marketers say about paid ads. Only 21.8% of marketers were able to make their paid ads profitable. A whopping 78.2% aren’t able to make paid ads work. To make matters worse, making them profitable is becoming more difficult. The main reason is the rising cost of ads. Just look at Google’s ad revenue growth over time. And Meta’s ad cost keeps rising as well. We all have access to the same tools… and AI makes it easier to run paid ads (or at least to get your campaigns going). So why aren’t paid ads working for most companies? It actually has nothing to do with the ad itself or the traffic source. Sure, those things matter, but the biggest issue is what you show the user when they land on your site. So, to help you out, here are the most common elements that the 21.8% of marketers were leveraging to make their paid ads work that the other 78.2% of marketers weren't really leveraging. Give some of those things a try. It will help boost your ROI and make paid ads more profitable for you.