Just going to leave this here. So far the claims in the video (that blockchain hasn’t found a strong reason to exist that isn’t already handled by other, better, solutions) is holding true. Will it in the future?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tspGVbmMmVA

Got this from Paul Thurrott’s end of year wrap up. It’s a chrome extension to do a very pretty and minimal start page. It also works with Edge and should work with other Chromium based browsers.

Bonjourr – A minimalist start page.

I’ve said for years I never want to build another data center… and this blog post validates that… but it doesn’t mean that going all in on the cloud is always the right choice.

https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-big-cloud-exit-faq-20274010

I’m past this point in my career but I’m hanging onto this to forward to people who might need help or guidance beyond having a chat with me! Don’t let the github link hold you back – it’s also available from all book sellers as a printed book instead of a pdf or .md file.

As of today I have not read this book, so don’t consider this a recommendation (yet).

https://github.com/ZachGoldberg/Startup-CTO-Handbook

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/how-turn-googles-privacy-sandbox-ad-tracking-and-why-you-should

Found this in my notes from 6 years ago, they’re still around!

https://trashmail.com

I run a mix of environments, but this might be handy someday:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sql/development-with-sql-in-containers-on-macos/