I'm Nick, a software engineer with 20 years of experience. I help developers work smarter and faster by exploring the ultimate workspace setups, mastering AI assistants, and customizing the best coding tools.
I really enjoy watching these videos. Nick has a lovely presenting style that is weirdly gentle and soothing. The Ollama related videos are top notch.
I always try to avoid falling into Software Brain mentality, but it's not always easy.
Have you heard about this new app called BoopSnoop? It launched in the first week of January 2020, and almost immediately, it was downloaded by four people in three different time zones. In the years since, it has remained steady at four daily active users, with zero churn: a resounding success, exceeding every one of its creator’s expectations.
The cost of building software has drastically decreased. We recently rebuilt Next.js in one week using AI coding agents. But for the past two months our agents have been working on an even more ambitious project: rebuilding the WordPress open source project from the ground up.
visioncortex VTracer is an open source software to convert raster images (like jpg & png) into vector graphics (svg). It can vectorize graphics and photographs and trace the curves to output compact vector files.
The user-base size that consumer-facing startups need to meet expectations is just unfathomable because their average revenue per user rounds to zero. Arc is wildly successful but it needs to be just outstandingly successful to succeed. Right now it’s very popular in tech circles, but consumer software tech startups need to be popular like Amazon or Walmart.
Take back control with Matomo – a powerful web analytics platform that gives you 100% data ownership.
Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge. Easy to install and low maintenance, it just does the job.
HTML First is a set of principles that aims to make building web software easier, faster, more inclusive, and more maintainable
