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I'm converting an AI-powered Finance app I built for my wife and I into a more feature-rich product: https://www.heyalistair.com

I might be an email simpleton, but I don't think I've ever used a native email application on a desktop/laptop machine ever in my 20+ years on the web. I always just used the websi…

I know folks are blaming AI but looking back on my 17 years in tech, AI is just the latest hyped-up fever-dream. And whenever there's hype the marketers will do whatever they can t…

It really depends on your definition of wealth. Most engineers I know clear 100K+ pretty easily after a few years of experience. If you're in a hot market or sector, you can easily…

Lots of people leap before they have a parachute because the plebeian view is that entrepreneurs take risks. The reality is that good entrepreneurs manage their risk neurotically. …

You might try instagram as well. Here's an instagram account I follow (I have a corgi) that is doing really great marketing. They usually a few posts per week, occasional shots of …

I built docklister.com in 4 months during my spare time. I started approximately 24 months ago and have a single customer that covers the hosting costs (~80/mo). I just got back fr…

Any success marketing on Pinterest? Seems there'd be a gold mine of home/crafty/DIYers who would be interested.

This is so great. Very straightforward explanation of raycasting. Looking forward to playing with!

What you have described sir, is an anecdote.

Good catch. I've fixed this and updated one of the examples. You should be able to do just as you described: http://zipasaur.us/state/ca/city/los+angeles

hey thanks everyone for the feedback. GeoNames includes postal code data for many countries. I'll see if I can add more countries in the next week or so!

Thanks for calling this out. As you said, random routing is about as naive as it gets. They need to make upgrades to the routing mesh - expose some internal stats about dyno perfor…

With the help of Portland-based Upstart Labs, we're launching Menuish, a restaurant search app for iOS. As part of launch Menuish is free for today only. We've been in the store si…

Gruber lives in a distortion field where Apple is the driver for everything. Did they reset the bar on smart phones? Absolutely. But Google, Microsoft, Kiipt, Skype, Rdio, Spotify,…

Ya I agree; 4 to 40 is more interesting than 100 to 200. I was the fifth employee at my current employer, been through two acquisitions, now sitting at 220+ (not all developers). S…

Don't get me wrong, I love GitHub and I love the processes they are using - I wish we did more of it at my current employer. But all of this back-patting feels a bit premature. The…

His first premise is entirely invalidated by the "No empirical evidence" section on the wikipedia page :/ Begrudgingly setting that aside, I know quite a few developers who do a pr…