Alex Duggleby

After more than a year of labor, my book 𝘏𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘔𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘴 has launched! It's all my best ideas -- and best writing -- on how to grow your company with your existing budget and team. And yes, I read the audiobook myself. :-) (1/5)

New Podcast! Since I’ll be doing more episodes of Smart Bear Live, like the one just done with the great @dmytrokrasun.com, I’ve created a podcast as well as the YouTube channel. It should be everywhere: Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc.. Weee!

I‘m on a nice cycle streak everyday through the heatwave so far. The secret is leaving at 6:30 and which saves me from the worst heat although I get in today at 11 where it’s already 36 C/97 F. But today is peak day. Been able to watch these grow amazingly fast - feels like two weeks to this size.

Bought a wireless scanner Brother DS-940DW so I can use it with the phone to quickly scan something. Turns out the scanner can only be charged via computer USB port. Charging brick isn’t enough. Needs that data line to charge. Would love to chat with the engineer that signed off on that decision.

Can we make @aaronfrancis.com an offer he can't resist to release a linux version of Solo soon(er)? Just saying ...

Today morning started with: rise and shine, ready for a full day of demo video recording. Today evening ended with: damn you Safari and your little quirks that I have to make exceptions for. So tomorrow: Groundhog Day again! (Well actually cycling first… but then recording!)

Poor Hippos! I mean Puzzles, sure I get it, they attack, but what's a Hippo ever done... In more serious news: buy the book, mine is on it's way. Deciding what to build in the age where features are just a prompt away needs a good framework.

Waiting for the print edition but ebook is available already. In the AI age deciding WHAT to build is even more important than ever.

The „agentic engineering“ founders finding out they were hacked don’t realize they are the lucky ones. It’s the ones being exploited in secret and continuing to do so for long time that are the ones I’d worry about. In an age where data is worth so much, finding a leak = gold.

London, missed ya.

Zero Human Businesses… isn’t that just arbitrage while the masses catch up to using AI? Maybe you can make some money in the meantime but won’t every AI builder start trying to build one of those and quickly saturate the market? Won’t personally bet on that one but it’s wild what’s being created!

Almost a decade into a SaaS 99% of the "bugs" reported are documentation issues, user errors etc... But it's the 1% actual bugs that always leave me asking myself: how on earth has no one encountered that case in all this time!? Especially when it doesn't feel like an edge case.

OMG leandomainsearch.com is gone - I mean it's still there, but @automattic.com seem to have removed the whole word + prefix/suffix functionality or am I just to dumb to find/see it? Does anyone have an alternative?

I've added a special "Copy LLM prompt" to my error messages (when I run in dev mode) which not only has a basic "replicate this in e2e then fix it" prompt but also appends a bunch of technical data, breadcrumbs for my last 10 steps etc. Quite a productivity boost...

Yay for any European alternative, but I don't understand is why we don't build on what's already there. SEPA Instant is free AFAIK and supported across Europe (and chargebacks are left to the courts not a card processor). But let's see: europeanbusinessmagazine.com/business/eur...

I’m spending about as much time getting in Claude Code fixing Openclaw as I am using it. Running it on a VPS is definitely less out-of-the-box awesome than a Mac mini. Using oxylabs proxy definitely unblocked a lot of things. See my fork if you’re interested: github.com/aduggleby/op...

Codex 5.3 is "feeling" and definitely more Zen than me 😆 "There's no rush, so maybe waiting a moment isn't a big deal. I’ll proceed to pull the image on the server now using Docker Compose. It feels good to have a clear plan to follow"

TIL ~/.claude/CLAUDE.MD is lost after a conversation is compacted. So that's why it goes off the walls after it compacts and tries doing dangerous things. There is a fix though using hooks: github.com/anthropics/c...

Will people in the future look back at the introduction of LLMs and think "probably alien tech" just like we do when we look back at the pyramids because we don't understand how it was possible?

Final episode of bootstrapped.fm dropped last week. I launched my company the year @steveofmcleod.com took over and have been a listener ever since. An OG podcast with real talk and problems directly from the trenches. Looking forward to the book! Thanks for inspiring journey so far Steve!

Recently got back into stamp collecting and I’ve realized it’s one of the few areas where it’s quite easy to get your hand on items from a long gone era. This one’s about 150y old - a very different world for the original owner. But I’ve still yet to cross the 2 century mark though…

Spent the weekend finishing my blog article about my cross Europe cycling trip. I hope I’ve added enough details for the next AI model to produce a nice low risk cycle trip for someone else. Enjoy 😉 alexduggleby.com/blog/midlife...

Good old fashioned in-flight shenanigans: www.saxrag.com/tech/reversi... Often overlooked: "SNI leaks all the domains they visit". HTTPS often doesn't stop a MITM/state from knowing you visited beardgroomers.com + Hyperscalers mostly use SNI for SSL. But improvement to SNI are being worked on.

"every Gen Z shares their location with all their friends and their exes and who knows who" Still unbelievable to me, but yes even in Europe 2/3 of "Zoomers" are constantly sharing their location 🤯. It is surprising anxiety is on the rise in the same demo? youtube.com/clip/Ugkxck1...

Season 3 of Hot Money is amazing. If you‘re interested in spies even the slightest this is A+ journalism by the @financialtimes.com‘s Sam Jones: overcast.fm/+AA5WINe-ucs Vienna‘s official intelligence authorities might still be recovering but there’s some real 3rd man still stuff going on.