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"I want to work somewhere that values building things more than running meetings, where the founders are still running the company, and there's a small enough number of engineers that you can get things done by talking to people." — a programmer I'm introducing to startups

@karlseguin Me too! I use it on limited devices and pi-hole for home devices. Just found a list that blocks YouTube ads on smart TVs. Haven’t verified yet.

Been trying NextDNS (free) as an alternative to pi-hole. Happy with it so far, though I don't see a huge difference.

A pretty good visual to communicate “tech debt”

thinking about this one every day

Oh my sweet summer child.

@sg_gabriel 🙌 I started learning a new language too! Its been years!

100%. I spent the entire weekend coding after doing “CEO” things for so long (current laptop didn’t even have xcode command line tools installed). And I feel so much lighter and invigorated. The stress just melts away when you are creating.

being a CEO is basically constantly convincing people that just trying stuff is jedi not idiotic

@cheeaun @UTMapp Cool. Finally got mine. wondering what other cool things to try :)

@jarrold @UTMapp Slow. It’s emulating non-ARM so it’s expected. Probably can be faster with Windows 10 Arm but it doesn’t emulate GPU. Parallels M1 is faster, with Win10 Arm twitter.com/cheeaun/status…

Windows XP on Macbook Air M1, via @UTMapp

@karlseguin I added quite a few lists. Been running this a few months now after you mentioned it. Quite amazed that I’m blocking consistently almost close to 20% of requests.

@jarrold Mostly: v.firebog.net/hosts/lists.ph… plus a handful of custom ones

I know I'm late. But I'm running pi-hole now. It's amazing that 30% of queries are blocked.

In a technology-enabled service provider, $1mm of revenue is not the mark of Product-Market Fit. >50% variable margin is. docs.google.com/document/d/1ug… Video: loom.com/share/8de1843e…

Life Advice: Avoid the temptation to "win the argument". "That makes sense, you're right. I need to think about it a bit more."

1/ A thread on "founder types" & how to hire those who complement you There are no "exact types" of founders but to simplify: A framework I think most founders broadly fall into: 1. Product centric 2. Tech centric 3. Customer centric It helps to figure out which you have / are

Apple really perfected the timing to juice excess Mac upgrades. First, they finally fix the laptop keyboards after half a decade of torment. Then they wait as everyone desperately upgrades such that they can type again. Second, they roll out the M1 revolution...

A couple Slack themes based on Dieter Rams colour palettes blog.presentandcorrect.com/rams-palettes. Copy-paste the hex codes into a Slack message and you can switch to that theme. Enjoy!

@karlseguin Cool. Wonder how it compares to something like adguard dns.

If everyone used this algorithm when requesting a phone call, the world would be a much more efficient place:

Here's one thing they don't tell you about perf reviews, career ladders, promos, etc. Do everything by the book, tie yourself in knots to get the work done _and_ check all the boxes, and all you get is a marginal increase in comp.

These look pretty sweet darko.audio/2020/09/a-shor…