I often say that ideas are cheap. And by that I mean that everyone has a million decent ideas. The art/trick/skill is to know how to turn that one idea into something that people want, use, benefit from, and maybe are willing to pay for. That's why I don't often worry about "who had that idea originally" (and that includes me) but am more impressed with "who was able to execute successfully around that idea". And so, I don't doubt (from personal experience) that LLMs now and more so every day, will accelerate finding, sorting through, testing and challenging, ideas that lead to startups that work. Here's a paper on that very question.

Ever wanted to understand UTF8 better? Every programming language does it a little different but utf8 is utf8. This article explains it well, in general, and specifically for python.

Here's an interesting article, which does not really deliver on the title IMO. I am not even sure how to count the first language. For me, was it Basic (the language that got me hooked) or Pascal (the language used in college) or Assembly language (the first language I used professionally.)

What a wonderful tool!

You are supposed to get magic automatic styling with this one css file. Like a lightweight minimalist bootstrap. Looks interesting!

This is almost exactly how I feel about Ruby and Python. I use Python more now and I really like the way they did type hints. I really dislike what Ruby did. Who needs a second file to deal with. It's back to C header files! So fundamentally I know Ruby better and there are multiple things that I miss. Surprisingly I have gotten totally used to Python's indentation based blocks. I hated those initially. Now I still hate Python's braindead way of creating and working with classes. But... Python is growing on me!

A pretty thorough critique of GraphQL. I used to really like the idea of GraphQL. But I now believe that it solves a problem that most developers (i.e. "you're not Facebook") do not have. And that a much simpler REST API is a better starting point for just about everyone.

I just finished binging this Acorn series, 6 seasons. Show was made in Australia. Really good!

Another tool that maybe useful to you. It changes markdown into html/css/js. Still looking. But you might find this useful

Another tool to turn markdown into html and css. This is FYI. So far I am still looking.

I was looking for a nice package to create slides using markdown files. This one is very nice except it cannot export to straight html/css/js. But other than that, I do recommend it!

Such a simple question. And yet it is great to see the options for enhancing a service offering and thereby justifying a certain price.

Very useful tutorial on how to turn bits of source code into nice images suitable for presentations.

Simple but useful idea.

Interesting views on various schemes for thinking about goal setting (often including measuring success at meeting them). One that I’ve heard of before is “commander’s intent” which is a succinct way to bring the “commander”s (in business this would probably be the person two levels up, or perhaps the department manager or similar) intent into the conversation.

This analysis is quite interesting and reflects I think the way I perceive user interfaces. I wish though that it actually came down on a side and explained whether for example the Bloomberg interface was good or bad and / or how you would create a modern version of the density that the Bloomberg interface has.

I haven't tried it but it looks amazing. We always love to see new and better Python APIs.

A very practical guide to APIs to work with Excel files in Python. Of course everyone's using Google Sheets so we need that too!

Interesting. But I think it goes a little far in calling this an "anti pattern". I mean I see the point, but it's not so terrible that I would label it as anti.