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https://archive.is/d9yCg

Not mine. Translated title of repo.

That's crazy. A dev meetup in Northampton UK has backlog for 10 months of talks. Although it is generalist.

I find it ok once you heavily filter the content. But you need to put in a lot of effort.

the most serious candidate in the election

https://archive.is/D3fxi

Same here. I feel it's what every software owner thinks, but no one is willing to admit because of the backlash.

https://archive.is/HpNnB

Various concepts when I joined new teams in domains I've never worked in before. And system design. So very practical, and where stakes were high.

Conflicted about this study. On one hand, LLMs have been incredible for my personal learnings of new concepts.

On the other, I'm sceptical of that it'll have "strong benefits" at scale; I'd be more in favor if the wording was "some"/"moderate". I reckon self-selection plays a huge part, as mentioned in the "Limitations" section of the paper.

I'd also caution against attaching the tool to grading. That means students have to put more effort into the course, which increases the chances that they will use LLMs to save time rather than make the investment.

https://archive.is/YdMYW

In the 2025/26 DFB-Pokal semi-finals, Bayer 04 Leverkusen hosted FC Bayern Munich at home. The match was officiated by a team of referees led by Felix Zwayer. During the game, he wore a camera on his headset—the so-called RefCam!

Sharing it as I didn't know about this RefCam. I don't watch football but found it quite interesting.

Try YC's co-founder matching platform. Start broad, then apply filters.

Agree job-wise somewhat. With the caveat that you're discounting that you're good at IT, which is why you find it easier; your classmates wouldn't.

On entrepreneurship - the low execution cost and huge capital inflows in software startups actually makes it very hard to succeed in that space because it leads to intense competition. The success stories are the tip of the iceberg.

This makes hardware startups relatively easier to build, believe it or not.

Full statement behind title is interesting. I actually agree with the founders - it's easier to make good money acquiring a proven business and improving its financials, than it is starting something and trying to prove to customers it'll work.

You need have the capital from the get go though.

Used to in the past. Now use it as an opportunity to look out the window, or write something in my diary. Significantly improved my mental health.

If you said ~/. I would've thought you want to poison the LLM fountain

Claude censored from performing certain tasks due to US embargoes. Capitalism with Chinese characteristics.

https://archive.is/Or1VM

I found NotebookLM podcast voices better than ElevenReader's, so maybe check out Google's services? Just tried OpenAI's voice in ChatGPT, sounds more natural than 11labs as well.

Even the customer does QA.

TIL https://blog.cloudflare.com/emdash-wordpress/

Just want to say this is such a great comment. I'll be thinking about it for a while.

In that case the answer lies within you (such a movie quote!). More seriously, did you apply the solution to your job? Did it work? Did you look for solutions when you had the problem? Where did you look? Where do you usually spend time online or IRL? etc etc

Plenty of things you can do. Here's a few off the cuff:

- Follow bloggers in your field, contact them.

- Post your thoughts on blogs/forums. Say you're open to conversations.

- Start your own online space (forum, Slack, etc) for that field.

From my cohort I heard they were less involved. To be fair it was early stages so I'd assume they changed a fair amount since then.

It's relatively small amount, yes, but you have to bear in mind these startups wouldn't have existed otherwise. Same issue as equity amount for co-founder.

Had some attempts as well, reached same conclusion re competition.

I don't think it's more favorable to be a marketing engineer compared to past times though. I'd argue you face even more competition there because it's so easy to make small tools. Social media is insanely crowded too. Even IRL events are flooded with speakers.

There's just an abundance of supply for services.

Couldn't find a better source for this post. Although I can see it's listed as a portfolio company by the acquirer: https://www.electrify.video/

Probably worse - see Jos/Max Verstappen. But not by much on average, since they're more aware.