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Introducing the Substack app. It’s like your email inbox, but better. Get it now for iPhone and iPad: https://t.co/vBEtWDEW8sLearn more 👇 pic.twitter.com/lhqVqhkikX— Substack (@SubstackInc) March 9, 2022

The first few years of the 2010s birthed a gold rush of development of messaging apps. WhatsApp had been around for a year-ish, Kik launched to immense success in 2010, and Facebook Messenger (then only within the Facebook app) had long been top dog. Within a couple of years, photography and photo sharing apps were […]

All revolutions start with a rebel, and in the world of writing, blogging and newsletters, Substack, the online newsletter platform, is Silicon Valley’s new favourite disobedient child. High on its recent explosion in the writing community, it now finds itself at an interesting crossroads that will dictate the path for its future growth. This is […]

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The concept of a media diet has gotten a lot of attention, and it's surely an important one. If you fill your mind with drivel, it'll soak your thoughts in kind. But how you choose to fill your mind matters too. Even if the sources are ace. For many years, I consumed media in a continuous, never-ending stream from morning till night. I...

I am an individual investor doing research into the hypergrowth stocks that interest me, and am then sharing that research. As stated in my Welcome post, I was a software architect that designs and explains complex data systems for a living, as well as a technologist that studies where the

The reaction to the Ukraine invasion has been a demonstration of tech capabilities; those capabilities may be the key to compelling China to pressure Russia.

quote from a CTO"If I'm honest with myself, I'm not really up on certain new ways of working. I get the theory. But it has been more than decade since I worked on a team. I recently took a full week off to be a member of one of our teams, and my god things are different"— John Cutler (@johncutlefish) March 9, 2022

A delayed fund-raise, a perceived valuation competition with PharmEasy, a slew of oddball associations—Apollo 24|7 is complex and ambitious

A delayed fund-raise, a perceived valuation competition with PharmEasy, a slew of oddball associations—Apollo 24|7 is complex and ambitious

And ELSS isn't the magic tax-saving bullet for all occasions

A delayed fund-raise, a perceived valuation competition with PharmEasy, a slew of oddball associations—Apollo 24|7 is complex and ambitious

A delayed fund-raise, a perceived valuation competition with PharmEasy, a slew of oddball associations—Apollo 24|7 is complex and ambitious

When version controlling your code with git, there are generally three choices when merging feature branches into main. Each has its quirks, so which one should you use? Rebase rewrites history on top of a branch. This provides a linear history, meaning context is lost of where a feature branched off. You may also have to force push changes (since you are rewriting history) if you have already pushed to a remote. Merge will create a merge commit that joins two branches together. With the fast-

Yesterday, I wrote about how SPAs were a mistake. Today, I want to talk about how you can build multi-page apps (or, you know, regular websites) that are as fast as SPAs. Let’s dig in! A quick summary The sites and apps I build are absurdly fast. They load nearly instantly. Even on spotty 3G connections on the other side of the world, where many of my students live, things still load really quickly (like, 3 seconds or less fast).

Last week I read SPAs were a mistake [https://gomakethings.com/spas-were-a-mistake/]. I used to agree with the author, thinking that we had stumbled down the wrong path in innovation with Single page applications (SPAs) versus multi-page applications (MPAs). But I've seen the light. SPAs can encapsulate complex state for better caching, faster loads, and more native UX in browsers. Things that we load from the web went from web pages to web applications. Yes, it's more complex. Yes, there a

The majority of data that transfers over the network at companies like Google and Uber isn't encoded as JSON and don't use REST APIs. Instead, the messages are encoded as protocol buffers over RPC APIs. Why this is most likely the future and what are the implications? Why? * JSON is a great format for human readable messages. But what's human readable is often much slower to serialize. Depending on your benchmark, protobufs about 5x faster than JSON. * JSON is a schema-less message fo

Programming note: Money Stuff will be off tomorrow, back on Monday.UninvestableSometimes a financial asset trades for $100 one day and $5 th Programming note: Money Stuff will be off tomorrow, back on Monday.

TechCrunch+ Newsletter By Walter Thompson and Ram Iyer Tuesday, March 01, 2022 Welcome to TechCrunch+ Tuesday Image Credits: Henrik Sorensen / Getty Images Entrepreneurs who want to accelerate growth and retain more of their equity may understand SPACs, peer-to-peer lending and crowdfunding, but for some startups, securing a credit facility is also a viable option.

3-1-2022•Facebook and Google Block Russian State Media•Crypto Exchanges and Sanctionshttps://t.co/gbr9G1eKLY— Stratechery Members (@StratecheryMO) March 1, 2022

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Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Digital Transformations vs Covid Pull Forward Reflecting on digital transformations vs pull forward for cloud software over the long weekend - I think we've largely seen 3 different ways cloud software was affected by Covid:

Why do SaaS companies raise so much money even when they aren't "profitable"? The answer is in the J-curve – a useful tool for understanding upfront investment across a variety of disciplines. All other things equal, the greater the initial investment, the greater the eventual growth rate is.Imagine you're selling an enterprise software product. You need to hire sales people to sell it. However, they won't immediately be effective – they need 12 months to ramp up to hit their target quotas. In

Maintenance often takes a backseat to innovation. But in the long run, we care about the total cost of ownership (TCO). Not only upfront costs, but all maintenance costs, hidden costs, and everything else that goes into owning an asset. Cloud infrastructure is well understood enough to make the TCO case against writing, running, and maintaining services yourself. It's the reason why even the largest and most software-centric companies still outsource and buy third-party tools. Why does Google u

Spend any time in complex systems and you know the first line of defense against tough-to-debug bugs is a reproducible process. You'd think that most software we write is reproducible – but there are many places where it isn't. Files get overwritten. Different machines have slightly different configuration. One step of a process gets skipped. The same code compiled on two different machines spits out two different programs. > Reproducibility (in software) is the confidence that an application

Have you ever had the feeling you know a thing inside out, but then as soon as it comes time to talk about that thing in a meeting, the words come out all wrong? I have. In those moments it can be hard to tell whether the gap in clarity