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by wjgilmore 1y ago
Thought my fellow programmers/nerds might find this blog post useful and interesting, and hopefully motivational. There isn't much else I'd rather do than screw around with my computers, write code, etc, which has naturally m
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by wjgilmore 1y ago
Been having a lot of fun building SecurityBot ( https://securitybot.dev/ ), a free security and uptime monitoring service. It keeps tab on your HTTP security headers including CSP, robots.txt, security.txt. open/closed p
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by wjgilmore 1y ago
Yes I agree, this is a new way to weave together software in ways that REST APIs previously made possible but MCP takes to an entirely new level thanks to LLM integration.
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by wjgilmore 1y ago
Apple seems to be making no progress whatsoever on AI so it's unclear what role they would place in this new type of marketplace. Google/Gemini certainly seems to be lightyears ahead of them. Claude is also making demonstrable pro
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Model Context Protocol, Product Demos, and the New App Store(wjgilmore.com)
27 points by wjgilmore 1y ago|4 comments
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by wjgilmore 1y ago
In fact we have been laughing about this because it reminds us of the There's Something About Mary bit regarding 7 minute abs.
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by wjgilmore 1y ago
Just FYI the text in each screen of the onboarding flow is cut off on my iPhone 14. For example screen 3/3 says "How far have your beans".
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by wjgilmore 1y ago
Amazing. Just downloaded! Excited to give it a spin!
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by wjgilmore 1y ago
I might have missed something but don't think nerdy stamp collectors are on any watch lists.
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by wjgilmore 1y ago
Yep has several users, people I know personally have been beta testing it for a few months now. I haven't started marketing it yet because I have been dogfooding it since February in order to build exactly the CRM I personally want to
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by wjgilmore 1y ago
So the answer to this question is a funny one. I started using a Google spreadsheet to manage shipping dates and that quickly became a chore so like any good nerd would do I built a CRM which is now live if anyone wants to try it: https:&#
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by wjgilmore 1y ago
Yep it is possible to gift and in fact that is how most subscriptions come in. The latest round was because of Father’s Day. As for matching billing and shipping fields, not sure, everything has worked fine so far!
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by wjgilmore 1y ago
A few months ago I launched SpiesInDC - https://spiesindc.com , a mail-based (as in the real mail) subscription service about Cold War history. Subscribers, ahem secret agents, receive packages every few weeks containing reproduc
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Luke Marshall On Acquiring Baremetrics and setting his sights on $10M ARR(indiehackers.com)
3 points by wjgilmore 1y ago|0 comments
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by wjgilmore 2y ago
I recently launched SpiesInDC, a Cold War history subscription service that delivers reproductions of historical documents and speeches, maps, photos, and even coins and stamps to your real mailbox. I have always loved reading about Cold Wa
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by wjgilmore 2y ago
One of the most fun experiences I have ever had in a car was traveling from Tokyo to the Friday night Daikoku car meetup in a GT-R Skyline. It was legit like being in a scene from Fast and the Furious, multiple GT-Rs cruising through traffi
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by wjgilmore 2y ago
NextJS + Tailwind CSS and the TailwindUI (apparently now Tailwind Plus) Spotlight template. Code managed on GitHub and auto-deployed to Netlify free tier. No database, nothing to manage. Just write, commit, and push to deploy. https:/
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by wjgilmore 2y ago
I've also written 1,000+ page books https://wjgilmore.com/books so if a book is defined by its length then I think I have that down pat. In any case, feel free to call it what you will, I'm happy with the informat
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Show HN: I wrote a book about running great SaaS technical sales calls
26 points by wjgilmore 2y ago|3 comments
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by wjgilmore 2y ago
I recently used NextJS by way of a TailwindUI.com template to relaunch my personal website https://wjgilmore.com . NextJS was actually pretty fun and surprisingly easy considering I never used it prior to this project. Hosted on
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by wjgilmore 2y ago
I've written 9 technical books, including 4 for a major publisher (Apress), and 5 independently ( https://wjgilmore.com/ ). One of these books (Beginning PHP and MySQL) has incredibly reached its 20th year in print[1], a
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Minimal SaaS Technical Due Diligence(wjgilmore.com)
1 points by wjgilmore 2y ago|0 comments
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A Career Spent Struggling with Web Design and Why the Future Looks Bright(wjgilmore.com)
2 points by wjgilmore 2y ago|0 comments
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by wjgilmore 3y ago
Last August I built and launched EmailReputation API in about 12 hours both out of frustration due to spammers and bots signing up to things using syntactically valid but still bogus emails, and also as a test to see how much I could lean o
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by wjgilmore 3y ago
I’ve been keeping a daily technical log for about 12 years now. It’s nothing fancy, managed in a series of Markdown files, one file per month. At last check when converted to a PDF it was somewhere north of 5,000 pages. On quite a few occas
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by wjgilmore 4y ago
I greatly enjoyed working through this list a while back: https://kk.org/cooltools/best-magazine-articles-ever/
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by wjgilmore 5y ago
Lots of fun, really enjoyed playing my first game this morning. Didn’t encounter any issues on iOS.
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More Microapps, Less Work(blog.dreamfactory.com)
1 points by wjgilmore 6y ago|0 comments
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Sending Slack Notifications from Your Laravel Application(blog.dreamfactory.com)
1 points by wjgilmore 6y ago|0 comments
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Micro Apps: An Emerging Trend(blog.dreamfactory.com)
1 points by wjgilmore 7y ago|0 comments

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