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I have started doing cold outreach to the people. Initially I use to dread it because the sheer amount of reminders and rejections. The worse is people not responding and even worse is when they say yes but they mean no. It’s kind of like being in an relationship with an indecisive person.
I want to convince myself that doing cold outreach are a good thing. I myself find it easy to convince…
I now assume you didn’t write the email by yourself. It will be harder than ever to earn the courtesy of a reply from your recipient. The longer your email, the more surface area it exposes to a human brain’s bot detection. Therefore, what you write in your first email is critically important.
If you are writing to a human, write like one.
Cold emails written by bots quote generic…
Yesterday, I was on a phone call with a friend of mine. We were talking about our businesses and how we want to avoid doing sales. Now, he is and I too at a stage where we need to do cold calling, we need to reach out to the user, we have to talk to the user to actually start understanding from them what works, what are their requirements, things like that.
You add an extra spoonful of sugar to your tea. It was already sweet. But the habit is so ingrained you don’t think about it. You just do it. Later you taste it and realize it was too much.
Software engineers do this with code. A problem shows up. They search for existing solutions and find a few. But reading the documentation of something new is uncomfortable. Learning someone…
Anthropic dropped Claude Fable 5 yesterday. First Mythos-class model available to the public. Same tier that found and exploited vulnerabilities in every major operating system and browser earlier this year. 80.3% on SWE-Bench Pro, 29.3 on FrontierCode Diamond, beat Pokémon FireRed using nothing but raw screenshots.
Most developers won’t need it.
The advantage is conditional…
Tell me, what’s in the world is unfixable? You will take some time to think and the answers that you come up with are the things that happens very rarely in the world. The list might contain death, passed time, environmental extinctions, entropy, etc.
I bet the list isn’t that huge and that’s what the point I’m trying to make here.
If the list is this small that means you can do things…
I’m going to show you how to find great ideas, the kind that are already hiding in plain sight, right next to you.
I struggle with ideas. Especially good ones. And I know I’m not the only one who wakes up thinking:
“What should I work on?”
After thinking about this a lot, I realized something simple:
An idea is just a solution to a problem.
So instead of chasing ideas, start…
I used to be confused about why urgency is so important in founders. Why would you execute like you’re going to die tomorrow?
I think it’s linked to human behaviour and how we choose to pick and work on something.
See, we all have dreams; many of us dare to execute upon those dreams. I am not aware of the exact percentage, but I believe it’s somewhere between 40–50%. At least some effort…
It’s important to ask what you should be working on. But since most side projects are abandoned — is that even the right question to start with?
If you’re not pushing your work beyond the finish line, how do you know whether it’s good or bad? The excitement fades away, and you start questioning — is this a wrong idea?
I want to tell you — you should keep working on your wrong ideas.
We are all moved by great movies, cinematography, and stories. Watching them is fun because you can imagine yourself resonating with a character. You are thrilled by the tension the story creates and curious how it will be resolved.
Many find software development a dull job where you have to write exactly what your PM or client asks for. It’s exciting at first, but it can become boring after a…
The OO concepts like inheritance, polymorphism, etc. they only provide you the building blocks. They don’t provide you with the ways of structuring your code. The design patterns are good at this. Not always, but certainly can help.
Using design patterns you develop a common language with your stakeholders. Instead of lengthy explanation, you just provide a name which immediately clicks to…
WireGuard is a modern, high-performance VPN designed to be easy to use while providing robust security. This guide will walk you through the steps to set up a WireGuard VPN server on Ubuntu, and connect to it using MacOS and Android clients.
Setting up the WireGuard VPN Server Install WireGuard on your Ubuntu server:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wireguard/wireguard sudo apt-get update sudo…
A CPU is one of the best creations of mankind. It helps you do tasks at an unmatched speed. It is a complicated piece of hardware but at its core, it does four things:
fetch - the instruction from the RAM. decode - the fetched instruction to the actual action it needs to perform. execute - the decoded instruction. store - the execution results for future use. A modern CPU can do this billions…
Who are you?
You might state your profession to answer this.
I argue, to answer this, consider yourself as a brand.
Why branding yourself is important? Brand value is the top priority for an organization. They are very sensitive about it. It is important because it creates trust. No one will transact with a company on which they don’t trust.
But It isn’t limited to…
You use SMTP providers to programmatically send emails. I don’t like these when using third-party SMTP providers:
Sending emails is free, I won’t pay a penny more than what’s minimum. One small bug and you sent 10M emails. Oh no! MY MONEY!!! I’m pissed that Amazon SES rejected my request for an SMTP server. :(( I won’t know the internals–I know not everyone…
What kills a developer’s productivity? Over engineering, for sure.
You read tech blogs from companies which are massively bigger than you. And make technical decisions trying to understand copy their style and architecture.
You are missing the point!
A good presentation is like a good story to be told. A story in which they fight an obstacle. Most people think that the same…
Sign Up to Cockroachlabs Cloud Go to the cockroachlabs.com and create your account.
Create a Cluster on their Cloud After successfully login you will see an option to create the cluster.
Click on the Create Cluster. Select Serverless on the plan section. Configure other options like Cloud provider, Regions, Spend limit, and the Cluster name as you like. Next, click on the Create your free…
Build Tools for Daily Live I feel stuck on the personal projects that I work on. I can say with some confident that at some point you will feel or have felt the same. It just all starts with adrenaline rush which doesn’t last longer.
It is very important that the projects you build excites you. Otherwise you will abandon it and feel guilty again!
One way to keep the provocation going…
You Need an Account Before you start publishing any crate to crates.io, you first have to create an account.
Go to crates.io Login with GitHub Verify your Email Then Login Create a New Token form Account Settings in the API Access section Run the command you get to the login Get Your Project Ready Add the following fields in the Cargo.toml file license or license-file description documentation…
Context While developing any go applications you might come into a situation where you need to use a module that is not yet ready to publish. The module might be living on your local machine and you wanted to get the taste of it using with other projects before shipping it. In this post, we will discuss what approach you can take to import a module that is still in development and before…
Abstract Mostly, when you are working with data you know the schema in which you will receive that data, but there come times when you don’t know exactly what will be the structure you will end up receiving. We talk about how you can handle JSON data which are arbitrary in Go.
JSON with a Fixed Structure When you receive JSON for which you already know the structure, it is pretty easy to…
Abstract Go is cleaner because it doesn’t support many of the features that tradition OO languages support. Less is more. Inheritance is one of those features but Go has a different style which can fulfil the necessity of inheritance. It’s called Embedding.
What is embedding You can “borrow” the functionality of a struct or interface into another struct and interface…
Suppose you have a variable of type of the struct mentioned below which you wanted to Unmarshal.
type Building struct { WindowCount int `json:'window_count'` Doors int `json:'doors'` } In case the data is coming from an unreliable source, you can never be sure that the value you will receive will always have the correct format. You have to be cautious when working around data like this. If you…
You wanted to develop quick, you wanted to develop fast and there is nothing more tedious for a developer than doing the same thing again and again.
I really HATE doing repetitive work. Probably that’s why I become a programmer to automate the boring stuff.
Foundation (a server) I have been exploring Go, you might be aware since my previous post was written for itself. You can spin…
What is sorting? Sorting is a way to organize data in certain order.
What are these orders?
It depends on the task and also on the type of data we are working with. For example, for number you can sort them in ascending or descending order of their values. And for text you can do the same based on the occurrence their character.
What’s a “merge” sort? It is a way to…
Hello World! Welcome to my space on the Internet. My name is Mohammad Aziz I’m a software developer at Zoop.one. My role is as Full-Stack Developer. That means, I wear many of hats 🎩.
Nowadays, I’m reading a book by Shaw Wang on coding career and inspired by the book I decided to do what I wanted to do since about a year. I purchased https://iAziz786.com and started my journey…
Grew up in Midnapore, West Bengal, India. Small town which is growing fast.
I am curious to learn how the world works. Each day I’m discovering something new. The same curiosity brought me closer to computers. I find them fascinating and no less than magic.
Do not aim for being right, aim for being less wrong.
Running selfhost.dev with my co-founders. We help people host their…
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