DeveloPassion's Newsletter #112 - Consistency

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Welcome to the 112th edition

Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩

This week, apart from preparing boxes for my upcoming move, I've managed to publish a new article, and to start coding my next SaaS. I'll tell you more in "The Lab" section!

When I was young, I collected movies, TV shows, anime, books/mangas/comic books and videogames. All of those were digital. An endless list of files sitting on CDs, DVDs and hard disk drives. At the time, it felt mostly harmless because it didn't take a lot of physical space. It was mostly "virtual". But in recent years, I started playing and collecting board games. Unfortunately, board games take a lot of physical space in comparison. It wasn't much of an issue for me until recently, when I decided to sell my house and move. Packing all of those games turns out to be a real PITA. So far I've packed 50 (!!) boxes of board games, and I'm not done yet 😂. I really regret my digital-only hoarding days 😂.

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The lab 🧪

This week, my ongoing small bets have continued to pay off. I haven't found much time to work on those, apart from the IT Concepts Wall, but sales have continued their trend, which is awesome.

My mind is now focused on the next big goal for this year: launching Knowii, my Community Knowledge Management solution. Although, I have much less free time to dedicate to it than I would like to. I have to accept those constraints for now, and do the best with the time I have at my disposal.

The first milestone I focus on is content curation. For this one, the first step is enabling users to capture links that they find useful/interesting and that they want to share with their community.

Before I can deliver that and deploy it, I need to build the base "infrastructure" for the SaaS: actual IT infrastructure, database model, high-level technical architecture, account creation, authentication, authorization, subscriptions, and more! This will take me a while, but I'm moving forward, one line at a time. I'll keep you posted about my progress! If you're curious about the project, then please make sure to subscribe to this newsletter!

New articles

Content curation as a way to level up communities

In this article, I want to discuss about community content curation. It’s a practice that can truly empower communities. Subscribe to the newsletter Introduction All communities have domain-specific knowledge. For that knowledge to be disseminated within the community, it must first be curated,…

Sébastien DuboisSebastien Dubois

Quotes of the week

• "The future is gonna be exciting because I will be there"
• "Don't try to create the perfect knowledge management system. Start small, accept imperfection and focus on continuous improvement. Consider your notes, metadata, your whole system and process as a work in progress"

How cool is that?!

Scribble Diffusion

Turn your sketch into a refined image using AI

Thinking and learning

Lessons learned about Private Knowledge Management (PKM)

…and how I ended up using Logseq for now

Geek CultureFlorian Kromer

Ivo Velitchkov on LinkedIn: #cybernetics #tft

Luhmann's research practice was a system with 3 feedback loops. One when freely taking reading notes, another when creating and linking slip notes and…

LinkedInIvo Velitchkov

The End of Organizing

How GPT-3 will turn your notes into an *actual* second brain

Chain of ThoughtDan Shipper

Transform your second brain into an unstoppable content engine

A review of a remarkable new course that can help you produce more high-quality content, faster — and revolutionize how you think.

Tools for Thinking: The Ultimate GuideChuck Frey

Personal note-taking is going to change dramatically

My history of using different note-taking tools over the years is well-documented in this blog, including my recent move from Obsidian to…

MediumMickey Mellen

PKM Weekly Feb 26 2023 – Issue 058 – Curtis McHale

Curtis McHaleCurtis McHale

PKM Weekly March 5 2023 – Issue 059 – Curtis McHale

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PKM Weekly March 12 2023 – Issue 060 – Curtis McHale

Curtis McHaleCurtis McHale

Indie Hacking and bootstrapping

What advice do you have for the indies who are just starting out?

Looking forward to some amazing tips and advice that help the new indies.

Indie HackersBasharath

Low-hanging social proof opportunities for indie hackers

We are social creatures and that’s why social proof is so important — nothing is more convincing. It builds trust, increases conversions, explains your…

Indie HackersJames Fleischmann

How I got 550 upvotes + 130 comments + 2 newsletter features on Product Hunt 🚀

Last year (I know, delayed post) my company (https://kinde.com/) launched on Product Hunt on one of the busiest days of the year. We ended up getting be…

Indie HackersConnor

The best domain names are two names. Or three. · Reproof

You don’t need a dot com, or a short name, to build a successful startup.

Matthew Guay

https://www.inc.com/marcel-schwantes/apple-ceo-tim-cook-says-what-separates-successful-people-from-everyone-else-really-comes-down-to-4-words.html

This Is How I Made $10,000 from a Webinar in 60 Minutes | Tim Denning

For the last 4 years, my webinars have only made a few hundred dollars. It was so depressing. I’d get all hyped up, prepare, deliver a tonne of value, finis…

Tim DenningTim Denning

Tech

Server-Sent Events, WebSockets, and HTTP

The orange site is currently discussing an article about Server-Sent Events, especially as compared with WebSockets (and the emerging WebTransport). Both the article and discussion are well-informed, but I think they miss out on one aspect that has fairly deep implications.

mark nottingham

JDK 20 and JDK 21: What We Know So Far

JDK 20, the third non-LTS release since JDK 17, has reached its initial release candidate phase with a final set of seven (7) new features, in the form of JEPs, that can be separated into two categories: Core Java Library and Java Specification. We examine JDK 20 and predict what features may be tar…

InfoQMichael Redlich

Nx Console - IntelliJ IDEs Plugin | Marketplace

Spend less time looking up command line arguments and more time shipping incredible products. Why Nx Console? Developers use both command-line tools and user…

JetBrains Marketplace

Nx 15.8 — Rust Hasher, Nx Console for IntelliJ, Deno, Node and Storybook

Just weeks after the release of Nx 15.7 (release video here), the Nx team has now launched Nx 15.8, with exciting new features and…

Nx DevtoolsJuri Strumpflohner

https://developer.chrome.com/en/blog/new-in-devtools-111

About Sébastien

I'm Sébastien Dubois, and I'm on a mission to help knowledge workers escape information overload. After 20+ years in IT and seeing too many brilliant minds drowning in digital chaos, I've decided to help people build systems that actually work. Through the Knowii Community, my courses, products & services and my Website, I share practical and battle-tested systems. You can follow me on X 🐦 and on BlueSky 🦋.

I am an author, founder, and coach. I write books and articles about Knowledge Work, Personal Knowledge Management, Note-taking, Lifelong Learning, Personal Organization, and Zen Productivity. I also craft lovely digital products.

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