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A link shortener is such an easy thing to code, it's essentially one database table with a redirect. To add to that, there are many open source libraries to implement link shorteni…

To tackle this, I highly recommend the percentile technique from MIT paper, "A Structured Approach to Strategic Decisions". [1] If you are judging any dimension, say priority, then…

You can also check out https://github.com/medius/utm_form which can handle a lot of use cases. (Disclosure: I created this to help my customers at https://www.terminusapp.com )

Pi-hole dashboard is quite useful to see what's being blocked and add new domains/lists easily. For example, I also add all facebook domains ( https://github.com/jmdugan/blocklists…

To add to this, I have a 6 year old iPad. There are no issues with it except the operating system itself. Hulu won't install since it needs iOS 11 for some reason. iOS won't update…

I use https://github.com/dan-v/algo fork which has Wireguard VPN and PiHole combined. It takes minutes to spin up a Digital Ocean VPN and have it working on all my devices. I'm ver…

Analog can actually be much more precise than 8-bit since there's no quantization noise (yes, this is not A2D, but any intermediate results can take middle values that will only ma…

Just a few thoughts I've been mulling for a while about this topic: Machine learning is something that I believe can take advantage of analog computing. A machine learning algorith…

Sherlock Holmes would be envious of such abilities.

This is one of the most amazing things about humans to me. I marvel at how it's possible to get so much information about our universe by observing so little. Astronomy is another …

Yes. I generally like to make a reverse calculation when evaluating such offers. To get $1 million out of this risk, the company has to exit for $1 billion if I have 0.1% stake. Ho…

Here's my take on it: He has lost all credibility as a trustworthy individual. Anything he builds will be seen as tainted by IP stolen from Google (whether true or not). Most compa…

I feel that the time to file for IPO for Lyft and Uber is running out. If Waymo One starts getting popular and gets more and more into news cycle, valuations of both of these compa…

I've setup a DigitalOcean instance of PiHole [1] VPN where I have added all the Facebook domains[2] and other add blockers. This helps me block these domains on all my devices incl…

My wife said, after we finished watching her show, that Samin seems to be the kind of person she would love to be close friends with.

I just finished reading the series a few days ago. That's how I look at our universe now.

This may have some use, but the use of "Lost Einsteins" is so strange to me. I went to read the article thinking they will help educate unprivileged population, improve accessibili…

My wife and I were just talking about Bitcoin and I had this wild theory. This is obviously BS, but I had fun exploring this idea. Here it goes: What if Bitcoin/blockchain is a act…

If you are migrating to AWS RDS, I recommend AWS Data Migration service. I migrated my live database (~50GB) from Mysql to Postgres (both RDS) with zero downtime. I used AWS Schema…

This book has had a great impact on me. My favorite quote (Dover Thrift edition) "To conclude, always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are, and what was yesterday a…

Uber is such a shit company. My wife is a software engineer and I can't even imagine her having to deal with anything like this.

Repairing is one part, but the software "upgrades" are also responsible for this. I have a 3-4 years old iPad. It's in perfect condition. No hardware problems at all and very minim…

Trello works well for me. I make lists for In Progress, Today, This week, This month and Backlog/Icebox. Planning involves creating and organizing tasks in these lists. I move the …

I run www.terminusapp.com and it's profitable. Started it as a side project and now working full time on it.

And what's up with "$300B industry"? It's like someone opening a deli and saying they are disrupting $X00 billion food industry.