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> I learned from a recruiter years ago that the most valuable part of your LI profile is … your connections number. How long ago was this? I’ve been talking to lots of recruiters a…

Jørgen Vig Knudstorp saved Lego

The High Velocity Edge had a lot about this subject. The most memorable example was at a hospital, nurses would occasionally pick up the wrong vial. They always noticed before inje…

Kindle was pre-smartphone popularity (same year as first iPhone) so it had a chance to become established before it was competing directly. Alexa and other smart home devices are b…

Spotify tried this, did not go well for them. Amazon and Meta learned the same many years ago

If you have 10+ items it’s almost guaranteed that you’ll need an attendant at some point. Also why lock out the whole system when you scan alcohol? Let me keep scanning and I’ll sh…

Doesn’t work anymore :( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24894135

https://www.askaway.bot/ AI concierge for my parents’ vacation rental. Mostly just pulling info from the guest binder, but I’ve also started using some local guides to give better …

There’s been some research showing the effect you’re seeing is real. > We estimate that CGB [carryout grocery bag] regulations lead to an average increase in purchased plastics of …

I made this extension fully using chatGPT to diagnose some layout issues. It’s super simple but chatGPT was definitely useful setting up the chrome boilerplate (and commenting what…

Building a chatbot for my parents vacation rental. Lots of fun playing around with the new OpenAI assistant features (and nextjs) https://www.askaway.bot/BanyanRose

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120k registrations * $30 = $3.6 million last year (minus fees). At the peak (July 2020) they did 140k in a single month. https://domainnamestat.com/statistics/tld/tv-TLD_ID-1435

.fm for radio and music related sites (Federated States of Micronesia)

Lapse as well. And Poparazzi before that. Hard to make money so they never seem to last long.

StockX has 1000+ employees and they only do used sneakers and clothes. I remember reading about eBay spending a lot to compete with them a few years ago, seems they lost. It’s valu…

Where was your site? > The following marketplaces have threatened or suspended our accounts and are unlikely to return to diskprices.com without clear policy changes from Amazon: a…

A few nights ago, I spent 30 minutes standing outside of a rental because the August app wouldn’t connect to my AirBnB account. Eventually the host woke up and sent a backup code f…

My company is fully using cloud desktops for engineering except iOS and Android development (we get faster laptops instead).

Compare the copy on the landing pages and it’s pretty obvious https://pages.cloudflare.com/ https://neocities.org/

https://xkcd.com/538

Steve Jobs was the same—here’s a clip of Ive talking about it https://twitter.com/trungtphan/status/1545415644425752576?s=...

I still keep caps lock bound to control even though I don’t use emacs much anymore

Brick by Brick is a great book about the history of Lego and how it came back from near bankruptcy. It reads like a business case study—turns out they were saved by a McKinsey cons…

This was my experience getting into programming as a kid. I just wanted to make things and the games I made in Scratch were cooler than printing to the console in C++ (especially a…