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@rameerez

Amateur webmaster. Built and sold @PromptHero (scaled it to 4M+ users/mo), now making https://t.co/5nkYFCnNKj, AI startups, and open-source 💎 Ruby gems (230k+ downloads)

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Javi
Javi@rameerez·
Today is my 🏋️‍♂️ LIFTVERSARY I started lifting exactly 6 years ago today I was super skinny at the time, only 57kg (125lbs) I signed up for a gym at the beginning of December 2019, but I was so scared I kept postponing my first workout I was so intimidated that the first time I went for a workout I only ran on the treadmill I chose the treadmill because it was the only thing in the gym I knew how to use. It was a safe place and I mostly used it so I could look at the rest of the gym from there, and try to figure out how things worked, how people were actually using the equipment It took me a couple days until I went in and actually started lifting weights I have everything logged: the first thing I ever did was bench press with 4kg dumbbells (8 lbs) and I remember my arms were shaking (!!!) I was so weak and thin I couldn't even lift four kilos without my entire body shaking Then I started eating A LOT, way more than my skinny body wanted And I kept lifting heavier every session, so every workout I felt less and less weak until the shaking went away The following year I went on to gain ~15kg (33 lbs) Covid hit shortly after I started lifting, and all gyms closed down, so I had to improvise a gym at home with water jugs just to keep the habit and the early gains Then I started nomading, traveled to Portugal, then Thailand, all while gyms were still closed down, so I had to train at home and in hotel rooms with TRX straps for months I also had to endure through a nasty leg infection in Koh Samui Thailand that got me hospitalized for a week and limping for a while. Still I kept on deadlifting shortly after surgery I had two or three year-long hiatuses here and there, generally correlated with injuries / traveling / moving countries (life is difficult!) but the overall trend is up and to the right!!! I'm now the strongest and heaviest I've ever been, and still a long way to go too! The first pic is me in my second week at the gym. The second pic is from yesterday I've gained ~30kg (66 lbs) total since I started back in 2019, I'm now 84kg (185 lbs)
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@levelsio
@levelsio@levelsio·
Okay I got the new V2 version of the 🎧 3M Worktunes Connect (construction worker headphones with Bluethooth audio) Me and @rameerez are religious believers that passive noise cancelling is superior to active noise cancelling Passive noise cancelling are construction worker headphones, the ones from 3M that you wear when you're drilling through concrete Active noise cancelling are the headphones you know from Bose, Sony, Apple etc. Active noise cancelling relies on listening to your surroundings, then very very very rapidly producing the same sound but in inverse, but there's a predictive element to it, which means the sound that remains the same all the time (like airplane engine noise) is very easy to remove, but random sounds like voices, people moving around, etc. are close to impossible to predict for your headphone Which results in the funny thing many of us experienced in a plane: with noise cancelling headphones you hear MORE people talking than less, because it cuts the engine sound, but not talking Another issue I have is I want to be able to use noise cancelling headphones without any music or sound, my expectation is they should be able to kill most sound and give me silence in a loud place, but they don't. Airpods Pro don't, Airpods Pro Max don't, Sony WH don't, Bose don't. They simply can't due to physics But passive noise cancelling like 3M headphones don't need to predict anything, they just have a thick seal to cut sounds with their superior material, and they've protected construction workers for 75+ years The problem was always these didn't have sound though, but recently 3M started producing ones first with FM radio (lol) and now Bluetooth called 3M WorkTunes The previous WorkTunes V1 were good but it was micro-USB and I wasn't able to charge it properly I think because I'd use a micro-USB male to USB-C female plug and anyway it either didn't work or its battery just sucked Also the sound wasn't great, it was good enough for podcasts, but too tinny for listening music for a long time This new version absolutely you can listen music, I'd say 80% there in sound quality if you compare it to Airpods Pro 3 They have USB-C and a 40-hour (!) battery life, which is again because they're not doing complex active noise cancelling They work so well that I was sitting in a loud cafe and someone came up to me after my iPhone alarm was ringing and I couldn't hear it They're also much cheaper than Sony/Apple/Bose, they're just $69!
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🎧 A few months ago my friend @rameerez brought those massive 3M construction headphones my dad would use while sawing things etc. but for working on his laptop while his gf would do calls. I wondered about the same thing. Because I've been consistently UNIMPRESSED by the noise cancelling on even the best NC headphones. My favorite ones are Sony WH's series, they're apparently one of the strongest noise cancelling in dB but to me I still hear everything, especially if I don't play any music on them. Same with Apple's Airpods, the noise cancellation is nice but it's still not dead silent. Construction headphones of course don't have electronic noise cancelling, their noise cancelling is old-fashioned, it's passive, and it works! It should work because millions of construction workers use them every day all over the world to not blast their ears out from loudness. So they should work for us right? I ordered the 3M construction headphones too and used them for a bit but then I missed listening podcasts and music. So I discovered 3M makes these with Bluetooth called: 3M WorkTunes Connect (not affiliated, not paid, just like the product) Now, big thing, when ordering them I knew the sound wouldn't be great. The predecessor of these were 3M headphones with an FM radio! So I was expecting FM quality audio. When I got them I was surprised, I'm NOT going to say the audio is great, but it's not bad either. It's by far good enough for listening podcasts, and pretty okay for listening music. It does sound a bit tinny. Again not GREAT, but it's better than I expected. And good enough for me when I'm working and want to focus. They're also way more comfortable than I expected. The regular 3M construction headphones feel quite tight around you ears, while these feels comfy. More comfy to me than the too loose Sony WH's. They're also cheap, about $95, so about 4x cheaper than Sony WH's. One thing that I checked is the dB reduction vs the electronic NC headphones, they seem to offer similar dB reductions, but in my experience that's just false, maybe cause the construction headphones are tighter but I literally hear nothing wearing them even when I'm not playing sound! The noise cancelling to me is easily 1.5x to 2x better than electronic NC headphones. It's so strong I can hear my blood flowing. Obviously they look quite rugged, but I feel that fits kinda with the time. Which guys wants to wear those girly Sony or Apple NC headphones when you can wear these manly 3M construction headphones? 😀

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Javi
Javi@rameerez·
@gurselcakar @levelsio it won't be the top hurting, it will be more around the ears it's quite comfortable though, actual workers use these for ~8h a day I've been using them for 2y and all good
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Gürsel Çakar
Gürsel Çakar@gurselcakar·
@levelsio @rameerez after how long, if at all, does it start to hurt the top of your head? are they comfortable to wear over long hours?
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Javi@rameerez·
@levelsio inb4 this is uncomfortable!!!!! it does work for some ear shapes, doesn't work as good for others works well for me try and decide for yourself
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Javi@rameerez·
@levelsio reminder that you can also wear active noise cancellation (like Airpods) UNDER passive noise cancellation earmuffs and this will block 10x more sound, to the point where you won't hear people talking literally next to you x.com/rameerez/statu…
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@levelsio My current setup is: - 3M Peltor Optime III earmuffs (the red ones) AND: - AirPods Pro with active noise cancelling The earmuffs have enough space to allow you to wear the AirPods too And the active + passive noise cancelling give you TOTAL SILENCE even if ppl speak loudly

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Daniel Lockyer
Daniel Lockyer@DanielLockyer·
I did a first aid course yesterday and learned so much It's actually crazy that we aren't taught a lot of this when we're younger I would strongly recommend taking a course. You'll never know when you need to save another human's life
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Javi@rameerez·
I'm just a token allocator now My entire job description has been reduced to "allocate tokens to the right tasks"
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Eduardo
Eduardo@martiano·
@rameerez Man, it's a new format so you have to explore Start shipping the videos and see how it goes, iterate My two cents
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Javi@rameerez·
I have a problem I always build and build but never talk about what I've built Because by the time I’ve finished building I already got all the dopamine hit I needed and jump immediately to the next project I have projects that I've been running in production for months but I never mention them because I’m already busy building the next thing > classic_engineer_marketing_problem.jpg So I wanna force myself to record videos talking about stuff I’d talk about my open source gems, showcase how you can use them in your projects with AI etc I don’t know yet what exact shape to give to this whole thing, because I think if I just talk about my stuff no one is going to care. I can't just yap about me me me me So I have this intuition that it’s better if I create content that’s kinda more educational and I share lessons learned, tricks, stories, patterns that don’t just apply to my stuff / Ruby on Rails but can be useful across any language / framework / projects etc Ofc it would all be no-code or low-code, since AI can now do all or most coding, but I still think there’s a lot of value in being knowledgeable yourself and knowing what to ask the AI agents Anyway this video content thing is a very loosely defined idea as you can see I recorded a first demo video the other day but idk if I like it, and I've been going back and forth between publishing it and deleting it for a few days In the video I kinda ramble for 19 min and I think it may be too long, but watching myself is not as cringey as I thought I would be I feel tempted to redo it but I think the first few videos are going to be bad regardless and I just need to accept it, embrace it, publish everything, and push through I may end up posting it idk We’ll see Screencaps of the video attached to give you an idea
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Javi
Javi@rameerez·
I think Amazon SES is the best provider there is for sending emails. If you stick to SES only, AWS is not too complex: just create credentials and verify your domain. I don’t remember the numbers off the top of my head but I think it’s significantly cheaper than Cloudflare too. I’ve never paid more than pocket change for SES, even when sending many many emails a day. I would recommend staying with it if you’re already using it - you’re probably not going to get any added value from changing providers. That being said, go ahead and try it for yourself! Maybe I’m wrong and you can prove me wrong and everyone benefits from that!
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Moty
Moty@codeandfish·
@rameerez Because I don’t understand things well enough and idea of having less providers is enticing 🙈
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Javi
Javi@rameerez·
ah shit, here we go again
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Javi
Javi@rameerez·
@codeandfish Why do you want to replace Amazon SES?
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Moty
Moty@codeandfish·
@rameerez hi Javi, thoughts on replacing amazon ses with claudflare mail, I guess not worth for the price?
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Rinas
Rinas@onerinas·
✅ Production DB
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Javi
Javi@rameerez·
@onerinas @BilalBudhani @cloud66 Kamal is amazing! I was STRONGLY opposed to it at first because I was too used to Capistrano, but after embracing it I now run all my projects with Kamal and I’m never looking back
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Ronald@ronaldlangeveld·
Introducing Kamal-UI 🪷 Self-hosted dashboard to check your Kamal-Deployed server health, logs, metrics, proxy routes, lifecycle controls and pretty charts. github.com/ronaldlangevel… 💎 Built on Ruby on Rails 🧑‍💻 Licensed under MIT 💡 Inspired by @37signals Give it a ⭐️ :)
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Javi
Javi@rameerez·
In general, you want to maximize for inequality as much as possible Maximizing inequality means you're going to get some retards, yes, but you're also going to get some mega-geniuses that will essentially offset and save everyone else Making everyone equal just means everyone is equally doomed This is no different than communism. In communism, everyone is equal -- equally poor, that is What you want is teams of 160+ IQ geniuses building space rockets, AI datacenters, cures to illnesses Not teams of midwits that kinda get some things done but don't really advance anything This applies to IQ, economy, sports, and pretty much everything in life "Let's make everyone equal" is never the right answer, no matter how well-intentioned the proposal is
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If you press the button, every single person's IQ on the planet earth suddenly becomes 115. You:

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Javi@rameerez·
@ExtraFrySauce @Aella_Girl you want to maximize inequality as much as possible maximizing inequality means you're going to get some retards, yes, but you're also going to get some mega-geniuses that will essentially offset and save everyone else making everyone equal just means everyone is equally doomed
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Aella@Aella_Girl·
If you press the button, every single person's IQ on the planet earth suddenly becomes 115. You:
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