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Cloudflare Built EmDash. I Built NeighDash.
I moved eight websites off a shared server that kept falling over and onto Cloudflare, with an AI agent doing the heavy lifting. Cloudflare moved its own blog the same month, with load tests, a gradual rollout and a CMS named after my least favorite punctuation mark. So I named mine after a horse. Read more
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Smart Keys, Idea to Profit
This is a summary of a 16 months journey. From idea to profitable business. The idea was born from a personal need. I wanted a tool that could help me proofread my texts on my phone or computer. My main inspiration was Grammarly. But better. (Delusion is a requirement for starting a business). I didnātā¦ Read more
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My No-BS Building Process
indie dev notes from building outside the VC fantasy Read more
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Reader Mode, RSS, and the Business of Interrupting You
I used to be an RSS user, and I loved it. Most mornings started the same way, ginseng tea on the desk, laptop already warm, and Google Reader open before anything else so I could check what was new. I could easily read blogs written by friends (people I actually wanted to hear from, notā¦ Read more
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Smart Devices, Smart Tools, Me Smart?
If my phoneās supposed to be so smart, why do I feel dumb and empty when Iām holding it? Especially in public. I guess it all started with the miracle BlackBerry promised me back in the dayā¦ That was the big trick pitch: a corporate fantasy carved into a tiny plastic keyboard. Productivity in myā¦ Read more
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Classic Programmer Paintings
From https://classicprogrammerpaintings.tumblr.com/ Read more
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Neuralese: The Most Spoken Language Youāll Never Speak
Somewhere between thinking and speaking, thereās a strange place where meaning starts to solidify. Itās not quite a word yet. More like a haze of associations. A mental sketch your brain tries to translate into something shareable. Sometimes it works. Most of the time it doesnāt, at least for me. I tend to mumble aā¦ Read more
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The Vibe Life: Building Smart Keys for Mac
I didnāt realize I was about to enter the āvibeā industry when I started building Smart Keys. All I really wanted was a way to sound fluent in languages without doing the hard work. Letās be real: learning languages is tough. So, I built an app that lets me fake my english fluency until Iā¦ Read more
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Can Smart Keys translate other peopleās messages?
Hereās how I started talking to people on RedNote Xiaohongshu (å°ēŗ¢ä¹¦) without knowing Mandarin. Well, everything started when I first showed Smart Keys to my psychologist friend, https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAABJQKVYB-5cC4OeK02nzIAWNhoG3xc1srksJavad Salehi Fadardi, he hit me with a question I didnāt see coming: āCan it translate other peopleās messages?ā āNo,ā I said, feeling pretty confident. āThatās impossible.ā Thenā¦ Read more
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No-BS Friday Metrics: Store Conversion Rate
App Store gurus love to talk about ASO tricks and how to squeeze every bit of conversion juice from the app store. But what if I told you it doesnāt really matter? Smart Keys store conversion rate is over 50% while the best apps barely scrape 8%. So either Iām a wizard or this isā¦ Read more