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gerardnico

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Builder, lover of party, father of 2, lover of 1, lost in translation in the Netherlands.

https://datacadamia.com

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Marketing is an art.

I found the real value of this deck only at the end of the kickstarter page and I went through because I read the blog first.

Every sales needs a story (Rory, alchemy). It would have been awesome to also have a bit of Japanese story on each card or to embed a game in it.

All the best in your endeavours. It’s not easy for sure.

I got involved in the oracle forum in 2005. I was just tired to answer always the same questions. I posted them online and got first for whatever reason on Google Search. That’s how datacadamia has started.

I got my second job because of the forum, my third one because of my website. Not that they contacted me directly but during the technical interview, my interviewer was a reader and pretty excited to get me on the team. With an Ai era, it would have been more difficult I guess. The good side is that writing allows you to make connection in your brain and in the outside world.

All the best

I’m a quite old computer guy in its 50s and I give here and there what you would call a soft skills class.

This kind of class will give you a lot of mentorship, not only from an individual point of view but also from the group point of view. They are also a place to get new safe friendships outside of your company.

If you would like to discuss more, you can contact me at my login alias at gmail.

Sorry for the late answer but I didn't get any notifications.

The url is: https://datacadamia.com

The number of visitors is now down to 500 a day but it's going down surely but slowly since a couple of year.

To be honest, I didn't work on my SEO. I used to be first in SERP for a couple of keywords and I can see that this is no more the case.

The domain authority has gone from 55 to 30.

I'm not sure if I need to take this figures seriously as I'm not a SEO specialist.

Here the slope on this year only.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZE8cK59VuYdA5BoU7

Next to the SEO thing, I'm pretty sure that there is a strong LLM correlation.

Thanks gus.

As always it depends.

If you want to make connection on concepts, creating a graph is better.

Write by hand if you prefer but store it scanned.

Personally, I don’t write by hand because I can delete, search, navigate, all the things that you can’t do with pen and paper.

It does matter.

When you write a gui, you want to think in a tree of component. Ie React.

If you want to print, you think in document (html, …). That’s also a tree by the way.

Html does not have any composability. They try hard to inject that in it (web component, jquery plugin, …)

React (ie virtual dom) is a beauty in this regard and if you don’t use it, you would have a hard time creating any gui with a certain level of difficulty.

For me, it has started during the crisis of 2008. Because I had time on my hand, I would go on the oracle forums trying to learn and to answer questions at the same time.

Because I was tired to answer always the same questions by copy and paste, I started to post them online.

As of today, the blog has more than 10000 articles and has between 50k and 10k users a week depending on Google algo.

https://datacadamia.com

Found the audience that you want to be part of be useful, add post where they are.