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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Back to it

By Sébastien Dubois • Issue #81 • View online

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Welcome to the 81st edition

Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩

Vacations are over! Last week in Brittany was precisely as I expected: amazing! My jaw hit the ground many times at the sight of the breathtaking views that the region has to offer, such as la Pointe de Biffot, Cap d'Erquy, Cap Fréhel, la Côte de granit rose, and many more! I had endless opportunities to take pictures. Now I’ll just need to find time to go through them all and pick the best ones to develop (using Lightroom) and print.

I’m now full of energy and ready to resume my journey together with you all!

So it’s official, the lab has reopened!

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The Lab 🧪

Back to work, full of ideas

The lab is a bit dusty, but nothing dramatic. I just need to pick up things where I left them.

As planned, I’m now getting ready to start my YouTube journey. This is going to be fun. This week I’ll configure my new camera with the PC and make some tests. If all goes well, I’ll try to record a first video for the Obsidian Starter Kit.

I’ve ordered a new computer because mine keeps crashing. Hopefully, I should be able to assemble it by next week. If you’re curious, I’ll share the specs. The last time I changed was back in 2013, so this will be quite the upgrade 😂

The rolling average of my products is still around $750, even though the lab was closed for the whole month. This is quite cool. I wouldn’t call it passive revenue, but the momentum is clearly there!

It’s not only a numbers game, but I’ve noticed that momentum makes a huge difference.

I’m also psyched to see that my Google search stats keep going up. I went from 55K impressions and 1640 clicks back in June to 88K impressions and 2440 clicks this month. If the numbers keep going up, this should be fun. And what better way to help that trend than to resume publishing articles?!

Visits on my site in the last 30 days

This month, I’m also going to resume working on the Obsidian Starter Kit and update the PKM Library. I’ve made > 300 sales of those two products combined, so it’s clearly been a valuable time investment. And I have a lot more to add to those ❤️

My new weekly planning is now ready, and I just need to get used to it. This should help me focus on what matters and make solid progress this month. I’ll adjust as I go, as it isn’t a precise plan, but rather a reminder of what I want to spend time on (in an ideal world).

One big decision ahead is whether to focus on focusd first or on another initiative. That’s a tough call, but I’m going to take some time to ponder that question this week. Priorities, priorities ;-)

Recent articles

No new articles this week.

Quotes of the week

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it” — Alan Kay (1989)
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept” — Angela Yvonne Davis

Book of the week

Adam Grant - Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

In this book, Adam Grant examines the critical art of rethinking: learning to question your opinions and open other people’s minds, which can position you for excellence at work and wisdom in life.

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Tips of the week

Malcolm Gladwell | Talking to Strangers

What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know

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How cool is that?!

Water separates into two different liquids at low temperatures - Tech Explorist

It feels mind-blowing to me that something as fundamental as water is still not fully understood by now. It makes me wonder about all the other things that humanity has yet to discover!

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The Visiting Room Project - The Visiting Room

Nearly 5,000 people are sentenced to die in Louisiana prisons without any possibility of parole. This is the largest collection of first-person testimonials ever gathered from people serving this sentence.

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Thinking and learning links of the week

How I read nonfiction books

My system for reading books, writing literature notes and increasing retention

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My Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) Breakfast | by Raymond D Sims | Aug, 2022 | Medium

Personal Knowledge Management (PKM), Tools for Thought (TfT), and Second Brain (BASB) content sources.

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Obsidian + Text Generator Plugin: More Affordable and Powerful AI Text Assistant Helper | by HAOUARI Noureddine | Medium

If you’re looking for an affordable and powerful text assistant helper, look no further than Obsidian + Text Generator Plugin. And it’s a great tool for writers, bloggers, and students that helps you…

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etymology | Etymology, origin and meaning of etymology by etymonline

ETYMOLOGY Meaning: “facts of the origin and development of a word,” from Old French etimologie, ethimologie (14c., Modern… See definitions of etymology.

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Martine Ellis 🚢 1️⃣7️⃣

@MartineGuernsey

PKM friends👇

🧠 I just updated my PKM workflow diagram and shared some links to apps here: https://t.co/NxKLQa1eKA

🧰I know you love a toolkit and workflow diagram, so feel free to ask me anything 😀

🚢 I'll write a #Ship30for30 essay about this VERY soon (stay tuned). https://t.co/HmKaW7MGSL

12:10 PM - 29 Aug 2022

Tech links of the week

Announcing TypeScript 4.8 - TypeScript

TypeScript 4.8 is already out there!!

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Trends, Strategies and Insights For The Tech Economy

Wiser! is a free weekly newsletter that makes sense of today’s tech economy to better prepare for tomorrow’s digital world. Every Friday, subscribers get 10 minutes of trends, strategies, and breakdowns of the top stories that shape our digital lives. Sign up for free here.

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Janet Jackson song from 1989 declared a cybersecurity vulnerability for crashing hard drives | TechSpot

As reported by The Reg, the strange tale comes from a Microsoft devblog by Raymond Chen. He writes that a colleague shared a story from Windows XP…

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GitHub - dapr/dapr: Dapr is a portable, event-driven, runtime for building distributed applications across cloud and edge.

Dapr is a portable, event-driven, runtime for building distributed applications across cloud and edge. - GitHub - dapr/dapr: Dapr is a portable, event-driven, runtime for building distributed applications across cloud and edge.

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GitHub - withastro/astro: Build faster websites with Astro's next-gen island architecture 🏝✨

Build faster websites with Astro’s next-gen island architecture 🏝✨ - GitHub - withastro/astro: Build faster websites with Astro’s next-gen island architecture 🏝✨

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Machine Learning textbook

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Languages of the year: 1972 - 2022

The Programming Language Database. Build the next great programming language.

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Indie Hacking and bootstrapping

Becoming a Full-Time Creator as a Software Engineer: Controversial Advice - The Pragmatic Engineer

I’m a full-time creator. With remote work becoming more common in tech, I get more messages from people asking: how can they do what I do?

blog.pragmaticengineer.com • Share

Find Subreddits based on a marketing topic

Enter a topic and find top Safe for Work Subreddits.

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50 top subreddits to share your info product|Segue

Top 50 subreddits to share your info product in design, web development, SEO, design, copywriting, no code, and programming language.

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Advanced Figma tips & tricks 2022 | by Christine Vallaure | UX Collective

As you all loved Advanced Figma Tips & Tricks Part 1, here is part 2! As usual, Figma did not fail to impress and come out with some fantastic new features and hidden gems hiding in plain sight (and…

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Will Coombe

@willcoombe

SEO tip:

• Go to your Search Console

• View performance on search results

• For each important page, find a relevant keyword generating the most clicks

• Optimise the page to target that keyword

Result: Position for keyword improves & traffic increases exponentially. https://t.co/64aE0y27R0

4:01 PM - 11 Aug 2022

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