leading podcasts & integrations engineering at @beehiiv • husband, pet dad, & amateur pitmaster • award-winning investigative reporter • fmr @espn, @dotesports
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New on @beehiiv: Spotify Open Access 🔓
Lock podcast episodes or entire shows behind a paywall—directly inside Spotify. Your listeners. Your revenue. Your rules.
Oh, and we still take 0%. Always.
Learn more 👇
Write your TypeScript backends in @EffectTS_ or live long enough to realize you should have.
I know it’s killed a lot of media businesses and I don’t want what I’m about to say to make light of that.
But I’m glad SEO is dying and Google has only themselves to blame for it. The AI-in-search product is terrible, often wrong, and it’s because Gemini models suck.
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Fyi all of his mail used to be in my inbox but now they all automatically land in my junk...
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signs that your SaaS is vulnerable to be displaced:
> unspecialized software
> lack of focus from team / founder
> minimal domain expertise on the team
> price is the only differentiator
> no proprietary data or network effects
> zero switching costs
> it's a feature, not a platform
> zero brand equity
> no relationships outside the codebase (partners, providers, industry)
> non-existent support
shoutout to @ahmedgagan11 for identifying an opportunity and crushing the launch 🎉
Introducing DataBull 🎉
I was paying $39/mo for DataFast just to see which posts made me money.
That's $468 a year. Forever. And it goes up as your traffic grows.
So I built my own.
Same idea: revenue by traffic source.
$29 lifetime. Unlimited sites. Unlimited events. Lifetime updates.
> databull.app
Effect is just Ruby on Rails for JavaScript nerds.
@EffectTS_ 4.0.6 comes with a new method on SqlClient: afterCommit
Use it to enqueue best effort work that should run once a transaction commits:
Opening on the day I get paid... this is dangerous.
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It's pretty wild how twice, relatively right before the holidays, Anthropic's released a revolutionary model.
Last year Opus 4.5 gave a lot of engineers AI psychosis during the Christmas break. I recognize Opus 5.5 will do the same for the non-believers this Thanksgiving.
We do have a monorepo at beehiiv that includes a lot of things related to the main admin app + the publication websites.
But now that I’m using @t3dotcodes a lot, I have a project folder that includes all of beehiiv’s apps. That’s been the most helpful so far.
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I cannot believe I get to type these words, but..
I have a new title 🤯 🤯 🤯
You're looking at the newest Creator in Residence @beehiiv
But.. what heck is this? Well, I'll be:
~ creating long-form educational videos for youtube
~ sharing my journey building Generalist World to 55,000+ subscribers
~ getting to help LOTS of folks build indie, profitable businesses with a newsy at the centre
It's a fractional gig that I'll do on the side of my GW work :) truly building out that portfolio career life! 🌀
And while update is ofc fun for me, I think it reallyyy matters for *everybody* because this role didn't exist even a year ago.
I didn't apply for it. I didn't send them a CV. I didn't "interview".
I've been a super-fan of the product for years, we built a genuine(!) relationship, and then shaped a role around it.
If you're looking for the sign to start that newsletter / podcast / digi product.. you know who to come chat to! 🙋♀️
Anyone at @ShopifyEng @ShopifyDevs who can help me get this Ruby LSP change merged?
It's very small and is the last step to having on type formatting default enabled for @zeddotdev's Ruby extension.
github.com/Shopify/ruby-lsp/…
ADHD is so unfair. Especially the apathy symptoms.
It’s wild how quickly they subside once I take my Vyvanse every morning and it kicks in 90 minutes later. Just a level of self-determination that I can’t muster any other way.
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Imagine telling John Carreyrou (!) that he missed the point of a movie about Elizabeth Holmes. John might understand You Can See Everything more deeply than Nathan Fielder himself. Reading Bad Blood is borderline essential for audiences wrestling with their own interpretations.
A few readers have taken me to task for “missing the point of the film,” which is apparently that Elizabeth Holmes is unknowable and everything is ambiguous. Here’s my response: She went after Tyler Shultz and Erika Cheung with everything she had. I was threatened with litigation on a daily basis for months on end. It was a ruthless cover-up of a breathtaking fraud, and she was at the controls. Just a little context for those who have forgotten or didn’t follow the original story. By the way, I loved the film. #BestPicture, IMO.
