Category: Blogging
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Chrome Extensions Turn Shady
One of the best things about Chrome extensions is also one of the worst things about them: they sit directly inside your browser. That makes them incredibly useful, but it also means the extension can watch pages,...
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Marketing Is the Hard Part
It has never been easier to build software. With AI, a solo founder can design a landing page, scaffold a SaaS app, wire up billing, add analytics, and ship a usable product in days instead of months. That is a huge...
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How to Research Any Topic
When I want to learn a new topic quickly, I usually do not start with books or long courses. I start with YouTube. YouTube is one of the fastest ways to get up to speed on almost anything. The problem is that videos...
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How I Migrated This Blog from WordPress to Astro
For over 10 years, this blog has run on WordPress . It worked well for years, but recently I needed to migrate it to a new server, and it felt like too much for what is mostly a static site. This site does not need a...
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I Built a Tool to Help You Find Short Domains
If you’ve ever tried to find a short domain for your brand, you already know how this goes. You come up with a good, catchy domain name. You head to a registrar. It’s taken or crazy expensive. So you try another...
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Laravel Creator Spotlight
I recently joined Eric Barnes on the Laravel News Creator Series podcast , where I discussed my journey as a developer, the origins of T.LY URL Shortener , and the lessons I’ve learned along the way. It was great to...
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The Rise and Fall of Goo.gl
What will happen when billions of links vanish overnight? That’s exactly what is going to occur when Google’s URL shortener, Goo.gl, shut down after dominating the link-shortening market for nearly a decade. Google...
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Build Your SaaS Podcast
I got a chance to be on the Build Your SaaS podcast with Justin Jackson and share my journey building side projects over the past 10+ years. I’ve been following Justin for years; it was awesome chatting with him! We...
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Staying Focused on Your Goals
Have you ever been trapped in a seemingly never-ending cycle of tasks that lead to more tasks, leaving you spending hours on something completely unrelated to your original goal? If so, you’ve likely fallen into the...
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Financial Security Tips
When I think of security, the first thing that comes to mind is hackers online. I worry about compromised passwords, credit cards, accounts, and protecting servers. I already have several best practices to stay safe...
