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The Feynman Algorithm
1. Write down the problem. 2.
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My Values
Values that I try to live by tenets Enforce personal boundaries (show up for myself) Choose actions, principles, and relationships that give to life Live with integrity - don't compromise your soul tenets Let go of what is not useful Trust that…
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TypeScript Paths
According to the official typescript docs, paths is a series of entries which re-map imports to lookup locations relative to the baseUrl if set, or to the tsconfig file itself otherwise. A common use case is rebinding long javascript imports into…
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2025 Open Source Llm Interfaces
The following was generated using deep research If you're thinking about building interfaces for large language models (LLMs)—whether through sleek apps or quick command-line tools—you're in luck. There's a growing collection of open-source…
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Migrating from Webflow to S3
Its 2025. Some things change. Publishing a static site on S3 remains as byzantine as setting up salesforce.
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Address Mapper
Over the labor day weekend, I decided to try cursor. I think of this as the next version of github copilot. In addition to autocompletion, the entire IDE becomes a LLM workspace where anything can be used as context and also prompted against.
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Seattle to Sf Guide
Some thoughts about flying regularly from Seattle (SEA) to San Francisco (SFO): air alaska has most frequent flights between two locations at a fair price can be helpful to pay for travel lounge (~$500) as there are lounge locations in both SEA and…
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How to Work With Me
Hi 👋 Welcome to Kevin's user manual. If you're reading this, we'll likely collaborate on something soon. I'm looking forward to working and learning from one another!
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Memory DB
Amazon MemoryDB: A fast and durable memory-first cloud database great paper from AWS about the system architecture of memorydb (a highly available redis compatible in-memory database) many nuggets here - what I particularly liked is the choice of…
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Martha Beck interview
Martha Beck is an author, life coach, and sociologist. She is best known for her 2005 book, "Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith", a memoir about her upbringing within the Mormon faith and repressed memories of sexual…
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Email Deliverability
1. Verify domain in Google this involves adding either a TXT or CNAME record 1. Add DKIM Record 1.
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Notes from YC W21 to W24, with Love
This post was inspired by a recent conversation with a YC grad about post-batch life and lessons learned. I will start by saying you should take all advice with a grain of salt. There is more than one way to succeed and a lot of it will depend on…
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Yc App
I get asked a lot about YC and how to prepare for the application. The feedback I've most commonly given, listed below: go through the official yc notes on the topic - its succinct and actually does list out exactly what the partners are looking for…
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Context Dependent Painkiller
Recently talked to a founder that was struggling with sales for an AWS cost optimization service. They were having a hard time closing deals. At face value, it seems strange that this would be a hard sell - AWS costs are generally the number one IT…
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Save 90% on Datadog Egress
If you use Datadog with AWS, here is a simple change you can do to save 90% of your egress fees immediately. AWS Private Link is a service that lets you send data between two private networks without ever exposing data to the internet. Private links…
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Hugh Howey Interview
Hugh Howey is known for the Wool series and the most successful self published authors on Amazon. He also happens to be one of my favorite writes. Lots of tidbits from a close to two hour long interview with Tim Ferris.
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Warpstream Pricing
Been spending a lot of time studying pricing pages as we're working on creating a public one for Nimbus. I really like the pricing page by WarpStream, for having both technical depth as well as being optimized for sales. For context, Warpstream is a…
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Claire Johnson
My top three takeaways from Tim Ferris's recent interview with Claire Hughes Johnson (former COO of stripe): 1. Say the thing you think you cannot say: its not just when the emperor has no clothes but when a group of people have underlying conflicts…
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Glucose Monitoring and Level
used levels when they were in preview - was super helpful. stopped using after two months because I found that I more or less knew what it was going to tell me.
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Gmail Alias Bad for Delivery
Turns out sending email with gmail alias affects email deliverability - this is after having the whole DMARK, DKMI, SPF alphabet soup configured 🤦♂️ Did some digging (aka search google with + reddit) and found this post with the following comment:…
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Hn Launch
launch is hit or miss never ask people to upvote your article directly, algorithm will penalize you sometimes people post a screenshot of the title and ask people to go to yc homepage and manually find it (and even this is mixed results) hn has a…
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Product Hunt Launch
its a popularity contest. essentially when you launch, you want to get everyone that has ever used your product to upvote. generally, ask people to leave feedback on the ph page ph has a very lopsided outcome distribution - either you make the top 5…
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Datadog Tagging Best Practices
Datadog has unified service tagging where you can define a set of standard tags for your org. The datadog defaults are pretty good (service/env/version) and enough if all you need is correlation between metrics, traces and logs. That said, it does…
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What is a cloudwatch custom metric?
Had someone ask me about amazon cloudwatch metrics - specifically, what counted as a custom metric Cloudwatch counts every unique namespace + metric name + unique combination of dimensions + unit as a separate metric (eg. metric foo with dimensions…
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Across the Obelisk Review
I recently picked up Across the Obelisk (ATO) during a Steam fall sale and have been enjoying it a lot more than I expected. ATO is a rogue-like card-based adventure game that is heavily inspired by slay the spire. You play as a group of four…
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Datadog Log Search
Given the following data Search for entries that contain the value:foo
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Vector Gotchas
Some sharp edges when using vector: when using the reduce transformer, you can't applya mergestrategy on nested fields.
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Weekly Review
url @andy-johns url @arthur-c-brooks url not all tasks are equal url @naomi-ionita align price to value, people paid for evernote because they felt guilty url been in these situations, i think it can work great in specific cases when you control all…
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Disabling Auto Markdown Link Formatting in VScode
enabled on by default. This automatically turns urls pasted into vscode as markdown links. It is trigger happy and also fires erroneously (eg.
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On Logs
logs are one of the pillars of the modern observability stack (the other two being metrics and traces) get fine grained visibility into the system arguably, logging most important, you can work backwards to traces and metrics from logging this is…
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On Observability
Metrics, logs and traces Monitoring 101 Generally, full stack developers. Mainly use logs to debug errors or verify new functionality Use metrics to understand service health metrics. Use logs to triage operational issues.
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Cloudformation Vs Apis
Some thoughts about infrastructure as code (IaC) build on top of cloudformation (eg. CDK, SAM) vs IaC build on top of APIs (eg. Terraform, Pulumi) Note that this is NOT going into the merits of using a declarative DSL or a programming language to do…
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Some notes on code generation
Prompt for shared libraries Prompt
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Pruning (git) history
Realized my git repo was taking a while to clone so looked to prune it. Asked chat gpt for a git command to locate git objects by file size. It came up with this beauty (had to do a little fine tuning on the initial result because all mac unix…
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Stdout in Vscode
To get standard out when debugging nodejs, require the following settings:
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Natural Language SQL
Imagine if you could query your knowledge base with SQL. Started listening to Lenny's Podcast to get a sense for how great PMs think about product. A question I particularly like is about the speakers favorite interview questions.
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Gpt Link Organizer
You can use GPT to organize links
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Docs Related Ideas
The write the docs conference is coming up this week. sprout we have docs based on openapi spec, what about libraries? eg: lodash features: yaml -> function generation docs arguments return values example toggle between languages interpreter (eg.
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Some thoughts on static site generators
There are a lot of static site generators in 2023. According to the JamStack Page, there are over 300 of them 🤯 I have used about a dozen over the years to host various things (and experimented with a dozen more). These are listed below: jekyll…
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Simon TIL
py#L32 datasette very simple, single line of python store text in folders go through all text in all folders check if text exists in the db or is different if different, get the html version of the text updated the created time and updated time…
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RAIN recognize accept investigate need (what do you need) ryan holiday if i am not for me, who is if iam only for me, who am i what can i control or am i hitting head against a wall what’s your perfect day #star mw: spend time outdoors, exercise,…
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chef interview
source: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5oGnqEddxsCxhBzabxubFa?si=gYf4ChmSQA6I5rJyJz5qA&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A69cAXLsHmwztInIhAeyOqJ chef one of few companies in enterprise that is fully open source many companies now go with BSL license or open…
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Cloud Wars, Company Wars, and Innovating Through Change
source: https://a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/cloud-wars-company-wars-innovation-5vbmjvYn dell history: going public, taking it private, and going public again ways of thinking of a company: profit growth and share book: Play Nice to Win: A CEO’s…
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How to Find Product-Market-Sales Fit
source: https://a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/product-market-sales-fit-rerun-ZWEoPdxT 4 ps product, place, promotion, pricing product manager should does this ted lasso show #todo
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Path Handling in VSCode
Did some exploring of how vscode resolves filepaths depending on the workspace configuration. Observations: file path resolution works as expected except when inside a multi root workspace inside a multi root workspace, absolute paths are resolved…
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Learning from Open Source Communities
com/episodes/open-source-communities-creators-rerun-j2VDSSF While “community” is a common buzzword in everything from web3 to SaaS, community has long played a key role in the modern open source movement. Author Nadia Asparouhova joins to talk about…
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eBPF
source: https://overcast.fm/+HZUcwdYp8 extended berkeley packet filter allows execution of programs in kernel environment https://ebpf.io/
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Rakuten
source: https://www.theverge.com/23297756/5g-rakuten-mobile-ceo-oran-cloud-network-decoder > Tareq’s big idea, an Open Radio Access Network, is to break apart the hardware and software and make it so that many more vendors can build radio access…
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Ed Thorp
fm/+KebuuuaIQ more money than god #todo(book) averages skewed, eg.
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Event Marketing
#area.growth source: https://overcast.fm/+OOu-hvQBY saastr 70/20/10 (what you can measure, brand, experiments)
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Russ Roberts
phrase there are things in life that can't be evaluated in a spreadsheet, eg. anecdote we want a texture to our lives (eg.
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Luis von Ahn
source: https://overcast.fm/+KebuAyTEQ The Tim Ferriss Show learn from duo lingo streaks #area.growth how can i help attitude @distinct.luis-von-ahn
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moderating discussion
source: https://overcast.fm/+BlzGS0p68 a16z seeking to understand vs understood be able to paraphrase bridging and linking and connecting ask other people, how does what sally said related to our theme X moderator is GPS i don’t remember what you…
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SaaStr 573: Scaling from $1 to $10M, an AMA with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
source: https://overcast.fm/+OOu-tNyvw saastr every company has innovation budget, push for it go for vps and directors, they don't have access to a CEO most of the time
