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HTTP is a plaintext protocol. Sending an HTTP request is as simple as writing GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: matt-rickard.com If you want to see for yourself, you can run this command on the command line to send the raw HTTP request and see the result. echo -en 'GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: matt-rickard.com\r\n\r\n' | openssl s_client -ign_eof -connect matt-rickard.com:443 The response is plaintext as well HTTP/1.1 200 OK Connection: keep-alive Content-Length: 20729 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

GPT-3 ushered in a new era of large language models (LLMs) that could generate human-realistic text output. But GPT-3 didn't come from a company with a large and proprietary dataset. Instead, the dataset consisted of: * 410 billion tokens from the public Common Crawl (60% weight) * 19 billion tokens from Reddit submissions with a minimum score of 3 (22%) * 12 billion tokens from "Books1" and 55 billion from "Books2", which are probably books downloaded from the Library Genesis archive (a pir

From idea to paying customer Intro Linen is a tool to sync Slack and Discord community threads and put them on a Google searchable website I wrote the first line of code in early Feburary and 2 weeks

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Sometimes we use products, no matter how difficult they are to use. Friction is a good proxy for value. It's a simple cost-benefit equation, where cost is often more observable than benefit. And it's much easier to optimize and quantify cost rather than benefit – how quickly, efficiently, or easily we can do something (rather than how much we enjoy or value an experience). Better yet, high-cost activities are more likely to have inelastic demand. This principle applies to generational technol

Building the first iPhone's touchscreen keyboard was a make-it-or-break-it moment for the iPhone. Succeed, and the iPhone was possible. Fail, and the iPhone would've been shelved. This is its story.

Microservice orchestration platform aims for scalable apps

Software as a service has become the default for how organizations adopt and use apps these days, thanks to advances in cloud computing and networking, and the flexibility of pay-as-you-use models that adapt to the evolving needs of a business. Today, a company called Paddle, which has built a large business out of providing the […]

Supabase, an open source alternative to services like Google's Firebase, announced it has raised an $80 million Series B funding round led by Felicis Ventures.

OK, which of those engineers tweaked the settings? When infrastructure shifts away from state defined by original code

Atlassian has somehow become the Benjamin Button of the tech sector — profitable as a startup and loss making as it has matured.

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New Relic (NEWR) may be worth $60-$80 share in a potential sale after a Reuters report that the company is set to explore alternatives after interest from private equity, according to...

Shares of New Relic have been on a win streak since mid-May, powered by a string of strong quarterly results. NEWR still has plenty of room to rally higher.

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:

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

While the value of any SaaS business is derived from recurring revenue (ARR), do not forsake non-recurring revenue streams. If you do…

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Over the past 13 years, residential real estate hasn't really paid off as an investment Read this edition online Monday, 04 July 2022 A weekly newsletter about how finance is getting supercharged by tech in India, and how you can make money work for you.

Many Indians under the age of 35, prepping to buy homes for the first time, are facing the latest swing in the real estate market’s long-running seesaw game

Why Stripe has higher take rates and lower margins

Amid reports of a possible sale, New Relic kicks off fiscal 2023 with strong earnings beat - SiliconANGLE

New Relic Inc. (NYSE:NYSE:NEWR) Q1 2023 Earnings Conference Call August 04, 2022 5:00 PM ET Company Participants Peter Goldmacher - IR Bill Staples - CEO Mark Sachleben - CFO Conference...

Two weeks ago, Mitt Romney wrote an opinion piece in The Atlantic titled, “America Is in Denial”.