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The curse of MySQL warnings
MySQL warnings are an anti-pattern when it comes to maintaining data integrity. When the information retrieved from a database does not match what was entered, and this is not identified immediately, this can be permanently lost.
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What happened to Digital Tech Trek Digest?
I started 2024 with several goals. The first goal was to iterate over some weekend project ideas and actually deploy them. These were never designed to make money or have widespread value; they were an exercise in iterating over an idea in preparation for a larger project.
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Falsehoods programmers believe about time zones If I told you there was a timezone 30 minutes past the hour, would you believe me? In a small section of Western Australia, there is.
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In his Newsletter Solopreneur Ian Nuttal writes, “I sold my startup (again).” In 4 months URL Monitor scaled far beyond what I expected: 550+ customers 2 million indexed pages 17 million pages monitored
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Google advances with vector search in MySQL, leapfrogging Oracle in LLM support As the title states, GCP is the first MySQL-managed service to offer “vector” support. Clearly the buzz-word of 2024 along with RAG, genAI and LLM is so 2023.
Read moreDigital Tech Trek Digest [#Issue 2024.09]
As an entrepreneur, pricing is an important consideration in any evaluation, development, and customer testing. In How To Price A SaaS Product , we see different pricing strategies, cost-based pricing, competitor-based pricing, penetration pricing, value-based pricing, freemium pricing.
Read moreDigital Tech Trek Digest [#Issue 2024.08]
The One Billion Row Challenge Shows That Java Can Process a One Billion Rows File in Two Seconds Well, it’s way under 2 seconds for the 1brc . The published results are in, and if you’re good, you can read 1 billion data points of weather data and analyze it.
Read moreDigital Tech Trek Digest [#Issue 2024.07]
Everything you need to know about seed funding for startups A recent call with a startup founder funded by TinySeed led me to learn about MicroConf and Rob Walling. (Thanks Tony for the info).
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MySQL Belgian Days 2024 and FOSDEM 2024 In this past week, I’ve been able not just to read or watch digital content online but to meet people in person. In Brussels, first at the MySQL Belgian Days 2024 event, followed by FOSDEM 2024 .
Read moreDigital Tech Trek Digest [#Issue 2024.05]
Because the world needs better dashboards While my professional interests in Building Better Data Insights Faster rely on using visuals and narratives to show data-driven results, “Starting from first principles” is the question you have to ask.
Read moreDigital Tech Trek Digest [#Issue 2024.04]
NoOps and Serverless solutions I was reminded of an upcoming expiry of a test website that I have on PythonAnywhere . This site enables you to host, run, and code Python in the cloud without any infrastructure and starts with a free account and then a $5 account.
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Lessons from going freemium: a decision that broke our business As an entrepreneur always considering how to produce a sustaining passive revenue, what licensing model to use, and how to acquire and retain customers, the allure of a freemium model is ever present in so many offerings.
Read moreDigital Tech Trek Digest [#Issue 2024.02]
Indie Newsletter Tool Generates $15,000 a Month There are so many different email newsletter sites you could wonder if there is market saturation. MailChimp , Mailgun , ConvertKit , Sendgrid (now part of Twilio it seems), Moosend and Mailersend come to mind.
Read moreDigital Tech Trek Digest [#Issue 2024.01]
The Tiny Stack (Astro, SQLite, Litestream) I spent many years in the LAMP stack , and there are often many more acronyms of technology stacks in our evolving programming ecosystem. New today is “The Tiny Stack”, consisting of Astro , a modern meta-framework for javascript (not my words), and Lightstream Continuously stream SQLite changes.
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