Monthly Notes on Building a Business as a Developer 🚀

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Nov
05

You are not Them

Social media makes it really difficult to avoid comparing yourself to others. With views, subscribers and likes clearly on show
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Oct
01

AI is Getting Easier for Devs 🤖

Last week I attended a workshop on setting up large language models from the ground up on Amazon Web Services.
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Sep
03

Content Strategy the Hard Way ♞

Hey! This month my blog celebrated it's 20th Birthday and I turned myself into a slightly ropey version of Henry
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Aug
06

The Brutal Reality of Making Money on YouTube

One of my recent youtube videos did pretty well last month. I tried out GPT Engineer and went through the
4 min read
Jul
02

Self-Employment in a World of Severance

I've just got through Season 1 of Severance and my mind is buzzing with how it applies to the self
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Jun
04

Should You Work on Many Projects or Just One?

I've been relaxing on the beach for a lot of the past week and getting stuck into the massive book
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May
07

Building My Sawmill: Rethinking My Approach to Content Production

Originally, creating content for me was about marketing my work to a new audience in the midst of the pandemic.
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Apr
03

Have You Had Your Fill of AI Yet?

This month has been completely crazy in terms of AI activity. Google, Microsoft and OpenAI are all racing to see
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Mar
05

Getting a Years Worth of Traffic in a Day

Last month, whilst riding the attractions at Legoland Windsor with my family, my site was getting hammered by visitors from
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Feb
05

Side Projects that Don't Make Bank

I was excited to see a new "Side Projects making $500+" thread crop up on Hacker News this month. Mostly,
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