A python script that syncs the movies, shows and ratings between trakt and Plex (without needing a PlexPass or Trakt VIP subscription) - Taxel/PlexTraktSync

This is why I am sick of hearing about “GTM Engineers”

The number 1 rule of sales: keep it simple

You can literally get to 20+ mil in ARR simply by defining your ICP

And knowing where to prospect to within a company (position and budget / authority)

And just doing the work day after day

-Sequencing prospects
-Writing good copy
-Making the calls
-Following up with prospects
-Defining your sales process

You don’t need “GTM Engineers” overcomplicating how to get their because they feel productive burning tokens every week doing busy work

I literally did all this by myself at my 1st sales org leading our business development team and brought the company from 5 to 15 mil in ARR

Business development isn’t rocket science

And any company doing the below exercises before they even have product market fit is laughable

Airform One moves heat with water. No refrigerants between devices. Architectural design, silent operation, installed in an afternoon.

Fuel-Partitioning causes Obesity

PostHog spends ~$1.2m a month on marketing. Here's the line-by-line breakdown almost no startup will show you:

1. People cost about $210,000 a month, three times what it was in 2023, across product marketing, editorial, YouTube, events, docs, demand gen, and design.
2. Non-people spend is roughly $1m a month, up 13x since 2023.
3. Paid ads alone are $488,000 a month, the single biggest line by far.
4. Sponsorships across newsletters and influencers come to $228,000, with billboards at $67,000 and merch at $60,000.
5. We spend $0 on PR.

Being secretive about how we spend our marketing dollars is near the bottom of the list of our competitive advantages. Our code is open source and so is our strategy and roadmap.

Sharing the numbers is meant as a data point for other founders, not a claim that this is the right way to do it. We might even learn something, should we be doing something different? Let us know!

To read more, check out Charles's post on PostHog's actual marketing budget → https://lnkd.in/eH3DS-5g

Thank you for your feedback. We hear you that Salutation is not applicable for all of our customers, but unfortunately it is difficult to change since it is deeply embedded into our data model.

That neverending temptation to use bright, none-CMYK colours in branding
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When designing a logo or visual identity, what does everyone do in terms of colours?

I pretty much always go with colours that will work in CMYK... but occasionally I'll be working on something, perhaps something with more of a 'digital' vibe, and think that it just looks SO MUCH BETTER if I use bright RGB / Pantone colours.

But then my clients never have the budget for Pantones, and its not like we can do a short-run with them either... e.g. for a few business cards or posters or something.

And I dont like the idea of having really bright colours onscreen and dull colours in print.

Its fine if we want to just use either magenta, cyan or yellow but sometimes I want a really bright green or purple.

Sometimes I feel like brands are unlikely to want to get anything printed, but I feel thats unrealistic

Do I just need to accept that it'll never be possible?

EDIT: I'm more looking for alternative ways to handle it, e.g. underpinning and things like that

Matte 2.0 is OUT (in beta)

Please try it out and let me know what you think. A lot of sweat and tears has gone and will keep going into this.
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Capture & edit your screen and iOS apps in a fully 3D canvas with device models, realistic lighting, depth of field and advanced animation

Over the past year, I’ve run point on all of our company’s sales, led the technical components of all but two of our engagements, and over the lifetime of this blog have had something like 300 catchups with professionals from around the world. This has ranged from people on the ground in niche service industries to executives at Fortune 500 companies1. Because of this, I've had a front-row view to our collective institutions across both the private and public sector undergoing breath-taking mass psychosis. This essay is an attempt to describe the bizarre dynamics that are currently at play, as I am in the rare position where my wellbeing is not contingent on paying lip service to madness, and to reassure the people trying to survive amidst all of this that they are not crazy.

The reality is thus: the people in charge either have no plan, or see no path forwards other than keeping their heads down. Not at banks, not at hospitals, not in our government institutions. The world’s organisations have been captured by people in the throes of frothing excitement, and saner people who now live in a state of constant commingled fear and frustration.

I. AI Investments Are Generally Total Failures

Reading this while working for a division that pivoted to provide interfaces for agentic workflows, only to discover that only ten users had ever touched the products we made for agents, only to pivot again to support for agentic workflows, which has a lot of competition because every company has to do something agentic now and there's only like four things you can do in that space, is bracing.

– An editor of this essay

Are companies actually seeing massive productivity gains from their AI adoption? Does any of this sordid affair make sense?

A point I frequently make when talking about chatbots is that their output only seems to make sense because we are making sense of it. And worse, we can only do that sense-making by projecting a mind behind the text, something we do reflexively.

Edward is in Central after years abroad.

Professional grade mockup tool for the AI era

Midjourney cartoon

also https://old.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/18aladd/coax_seal_or_coax_wrap/

Learn how to make expected failures visible in Kotlin function signatures with sealed error types and Either.

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TWelcome to the art channel of Min Anny, a legendary Korean romance comic artist.
She debuted in 1962 and is celebrated as one of the first-generation pioneers of Korean girls’ comics.
Throughout the 1960s to 1980s, she created hundreds of beloved stories that shaped the imagination of a generation.
Now in her 80s, Min Anny continues to share her gentle, nostalgic hand-drawn style — bringing to life characters filled with emotion, beauty, and a touch of classic romance.
This channel is dedicated to preserving and celebrating her lifelong passion for drawing.
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RESCENE | WONI | Drawing in Classic Shojo Manga Style
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0-Z5DvTmLw

Attention SaaS people

if claude is not making videos for you, you are missing out

Videos are WAY more effective for instantly conveying what a software does over static

But creating videos used to be suuuuper time intensive

I just swapped out the static image on our free account landing page for this video claude made - I think its really hard NOT to get what Paperbell does after you watch it autoplay

Happy birthday to Sarita Choudhury, who turned one hair flip into a cinematic event — and stopped Denzel Washington in his tracks 🚗

Considered the oldest complete seventy-eight card tarot deck in existence, the Sola Busca — named for the family of Milanese nobles who owned it for some five generations — was the first to be produced using copperplate engraving. It is also the earliest known tarot deck that illustrates the Major and Minor Trumps in the way that has become the standard, with characters and objects depicting allegorical scenes.

Blaming Anthropic won’t save your tokens

Google now lets you remove its visible AI watermark

Give your brand a face people won’t forget .

Mascots are your brand’s most powerful (and most overlooked) asset. I help brands create a scalable and unique mascot universe that makes your brand unforgettable.

在東京貓街最意想不到的轉角。

穿過表參道的喧鬧，不妨多看一眼這座低調卻迷人的藝術空間。

建築師荒木信雄以「擴張中的都市地景」為概念，讓 The Mass 與 StandBy 不只是藝廊，更成為街道的一部分。錯落的混凝土量體與細小巷道，讓人在室內、戶外、中庭與街道之間自由穿梭，看展也像是在城市裡散步。

即使沒有展覽，也值得來到這裡，感受介於城市、建築與藝術之間，那片難得的留白空間。

文．攝｜李昀蓁

#TheMass #StandBy #東京貓街 #荒木信雄 #建築設計

I explained that automating age discrimination doesn't make it suddenly legal, it just makes it highly scalable and incredibly easy to prove in court.

She seemed genuinely confused and argued that the AI made the decision, not her, so we're insulated from liability.

[Ah. That WOULD explain why business is all over AI. There are many layers of management where people don't care very much about making the right decision, and instead care more about not having liability when they make a wrong decision. So if that's how your career works, then being able to say "The mistake was the AI's and thus I'm not liable" would be a very useful move within the scope of the very stupid and very wasteful game you are playing.]

"in AC 199, the ESUN government decides that the most dangerous threat to peace is the still-anonymous Gundam Pilots. The government demands that Relena identify them and turn over all records from their time in the Sanq (Cinq) kingdom. Relena refuses and is branded a traitor; she escapes, and thus lives in exile. A warrant has been issued; no territory within ESUN is safe... Meanwhile, the Gundam pilots do their best to move on, trying to live normal lives.

Heero lowered his weapon, and released Relena. She took a couple of steps away. He turned to face her. "Relena, I promised to protect you."

"Heero, I can't stay here. You know that."

"No, I don't know that." He frowned and moved closer.

She reached up and touched his cheek. "I’m the one who can destroy you, now. Your future. Everything you've worked for. I can’t and won’t do that.""

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GNU Radio 4 (GR4) — modern C++ software-defined radio (SDR) and digital signal processing (DSP) framework with a high-performance flowgraph runtime

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What's with the teapots in Ottawa? The family is in the city while Erin attends a conference. While there, I take Eldest Child out for breakfast at Fathers and Sons restaurant near the UOttawa campus (excellent food), but Eldest...

Here's the structure behind every great launch video

Printable case for ESP32 CYD

If you haven't been in Midjourney in a while, would highly recommend. So fun to iterate and create visually almost instantly.

ART DIRECTOR &
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Co-founder of Official Partner Studio, Simon Langlois is known for his bold creative approach and curiosity for new media. He has collaborated with The North Face, Cirque du Soleil, and C2 International, with work featured in It’s Nice That, Hypebeast, The Brand Identity, The Dieline, and Adobe.

hone is nur usual smartphone. It's the brainchild of a Dutch company focused on privacy, repairability, and longevity.

The previous model scored a perfect 10 out of 10 on iFixit’s repairability scale, and the phone has been dubbed "the most ethical smartphone in the world," scoring 98 out of 100 possible points by the British magazine Ethical Consumer.