September 2024

Harry is a master copywriter — and that’s not hyperbole. With Marketing Examples, he’s taught over 100,000 people how to write copy that rips. And guess what? You’re next. Copywriting is the wrapper of success for every company. It’s the difference between Snickers, the bestselling chocolate bar in the world (“You’re not you when you’re hungry”) and a chocolate bar that looked and tasted just like Snickers, but went out of business in 2006. (Ever had a Fuse bar? Yeah, neither have we.) Good copywriting burns into your brain, seeps into your guts. And in this episode, you’re going to learn how to write it. Harry and David get down-and-dirty with the most important principles of copywriting. You’ll learn “The Three Rules” of good copy. You’ll compare ads that worked with ads that didn’t. You’ll get an inside look into how Harry writes his copy, down to his favorite software and tea of choice. If you want to grow your marketing skills, this is your Harry-sent solution. Come learn the art of masterful copywriting.

Around a month ago, Frontpage.fyi migrated away from Vercel Postgres aka Neon Serverless Postgres to Turso. Since then, we have read almost 7 million rows of data and written a little over 3000.

Redis re-implemented with SQLite. Contribute to nalgeon/redka development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Last updated on 2024-04-05 Hello, I'm K-NKSM, a developer at WhiteWind who created this blog system! Recently, the microblogging site Bluesky has been getting a lot of attention. It's well-known that Bluesky uses the Authenticated Transfer Protocol (AT Protocol, atproto) behind the scenes. However,...

Repository to manage WhiteWind atproto blogging platform codes - whtwnd/whitewind-blog

SQL tips and tricks. Contribute to ben-n93/SQL-tips-and-tricks development by creating an account on GitHub.

Jetstream is a streaming service that consumes an AT Proto Sync Firehose and converts it into lightweight, filterable, friendly JSON, allowing us to live tail all posts on Bluesky for as little as ~850 MB/day

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Bokashi buckets are use to ferment your kitchen food waste using effective microogranisms. Create bioactive compost and liquid tea.

When size and weight don't matter, lots of other battery chemistries can work.

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Of all the latest and greatest CSS features, the “:has” pseudo-class wasn’t exactly at the top of my wishlist. Once I started using it, however, I kept discovering incredible things I could do with it. It’s now become a core part of my toolkit! In this blog post, I'll show you some practical real-world problems I solved using “:has”, as well as some wild experiments that blew my mind!

James Bernard - Atmospherics (30th Anniversary Edition) Many of you will know James for his releases here on ASIP , but since then, James has made a home with the crew at PITP, and so of course they got first dibs on reissuing this beast of his. Atmospherics is one of the seminal electronic ambi

Introduction If you are relying on SQLite as your production database, then it makes sense to have some sort of a backup strategy. Those backups would come handy in a multitude of situations. For example, if you face a catastrophic hardware failure and lose all the data on your server. Or if you face a…

6 Techniques I Use to Create a Great User Experience for Shell Scripts

I’ve noticed a recurring theme in much of the best productivity advice, the kind that seems to make life more meaningful, as well as merely more productive: it’s that you should think about your work, and life-projects in general, in terms of concrete physical actions and artifacts in the material world. Of course the Master himself, David Allen, makes the point in Getting Things Done: a good to-do list consists of physical next actions, things you can do with your limbs. (So not “get the car fixed”, which is a multi-step project, but “call Jim the mechanic”, which is the next action you can actually take.) It’s also implicit, I think, in Jordan Peterson’s repeated insistence on tiny, difference-making tasks – most famously, “tidying your room” – as the path out of misery and meaninglessness. And in a recent episode of his podcast, Cal Newport makes the excellent suggestion (also explored in his book Deep Work) to set targets for focused work in terms of tangible products. If you aim to spend the morning planning a given project, aim to produce, say, a two-page strategic plan which you can print out and hold in your hands. Then print it out, and hold it in your hands. This isn’t the place for a long rant about the pitfalls of the immaterial online world in which we increasingly spend our days. But it’s clearly one of the hazards of “knowledge work” – supercharged by the great pandemic-induced digital migration of 2020 – that it leaves people feeling disembodied, unrooted, “floating”, out of touch with their physical surroundings, perhaps also mildly depressed. And more prone to procrastination, distraction, and focusing on things other than what matters to them the most. A big part of the problem is that in the purely mental realm of ideas, and the immaterial realm of the internet, it feels as though no limits apply. You get to pretend you’re a god. There’s always another initiative you could launch, another piece of preparatory research you could do, another message you could send or reply to. Plus you never quite have to confront the question of whether there’s enough time for all you plan to accomplish – because in a purely immaterial world, you can always squeeze more in. But it’s a fantasy: since you won’t ever accomplish anything except in collaboration with the realm of the physical and limited, you feel a growing sense of dissonance, of having less purchase on life, and you lose the sense of having some effect on reality that’s central to wellbeing. Defining your work in terms of physical actions and outcomes slices through all that, because it forces a confrontation with limitation. When you replace “do some preparatory research” with “create a physical research summary document of up to five pages”, you make things more specific, which never hurts. But you also make them more concrete – a subtly different point, and which leads naturally to performing the work in a more discerning, outcome-focused way. (Even “making decisions”, which can feel like the ultimate non-physical task, can be usefully re-expressed in physical terms, although you might have to risk feeling a bit silly: for example, you might aim to produce a one-page memo to yourself, expressing the decision you’ve made.) There are vast philosophical dimensions to this topic that I’m avoiding here, partly because I don’t understand them. But in short: less Descartes, please, with his insistence on the mind and body as utterly distinct realms; and more Maurice Merleau-Ponty, the French existentialist who saw that we could never flee the physical for the mental, because “the body is our general means of having a world”. Meaning gets made in the interactions between you, a physical thing, and the finite world in which you find yourself. Start by making sure that your to-do list isn’t full of things it wouldn’t ever be possible to physically, concretely do in the first place. • I'd love to hear from you – just hit reply. (I read all messages, and try to respond, but not always in a timely fashion: sorry!) If you enjoyed this email, you'd be doing me a big favour by forwarding it to someone else who might like it, or mentioning it wherever you emit opinions online; the "View in a browser" link above will take you to a web version. And if you got this from a friend and would like to subscribe yourself, please do so here.

CLI for SQLite Databases with auto-completion and syntax highlighting - dbcli/litecli

AT Protocol is the tech developed at Bluesky for open social networking. In this article we're going to explore AT Proto from the perspective of distributed backend engineering.

Generate, edit, save and share Tailwind CSS color shades based on a given hexcode or HSL color.

Search linkding bookmarks in Alfred. Contribute to FireFingers21/alfred-linkding-bookmarks development by creating an account on GitHub.

One of my few prized possessions is this 70-page autobiographical book by my great-grandfather who was born in 1902 and was a farmer in France. Only a few copies were printed. His chapter titles are truly amazing, each is about 1-2 pages: - I saw the beginning of electrification - I saw the first cars - I saw the first airplanes - I smoked my first cigarette at 7 years old - I saw a total solar eclipse - The telephone - 1914: The war - I had the Spanish flu

🌱 a fast, batteries-included static-site generator that transforms Markdown content into fully functional websites - jackyzha0/quartz

We're going to use Tailscale and the reverse proxy Caddy to share self-hosted services on your Tailnet with friends and family. Personal accounts are always free on Tailscale and can include up to 3 users and 100 devices. Get started today at https://tailscale.com/yt In today's video we focus on Immich - a self-hosted photo backup tool, Audiobookshelf - an audiobook server, and Jellyfin - an open source media server. Choose your own adventure in today's video and use it as a resource to share with friends or relatives who you'd like to be access your services. If you're looking for the chapter to send your remote users to, it's at 10:44 "instructions for remote users".

Keeping your codebase searchable will make your maintenance life easier in the long run.

If you’re looking to containerize your SvelteKit application, you’ve come to the right place. In this post, we’ll walk through creating a Dockerfile for a SvelteKit app using adapter-node. Let’s dive in! Configure SvelteKit to use adapter-node First, let’s install adapter-node which builds your site for Node.js: Then, open the svelte.config.js file and change the adapter: The Dockerfile Now let’s write the Dockerfile which will tell Docker how to build your application: Don’t worry if this looks intimidating – let’s break it down step by step. How does it work? We’re using a technique called multi-stage builds. This allows us […]

Bluesky is built by around 10 engineers, and has amassed 5 million users since publicly launching in February this year. A deep dive into novel design decisions, moving off AWS, and more.