DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Month in review

By Sébastien Dubois • Issue #87 • View online

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Welcome to the 87th edition

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

September is already gone. Time for my monthly review!

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Month in Review

This month wasn’t my most productive, but I did get back on my feet and started new initiatives. I wanted to launch my YouTube channel this month but realized that I’m still afraid to hit the “record” button. I need to better prepare for this. The issue is obviously not on the hardware side, as I’ve used that as an excuse before and bought way more than I actually needed to get started.

Instead, I think the problems lie in the way I prepare for recording:

I need to prepare scripts to know what I want to express and how
I need to accelerate my learning of Adobe Premiere
I need to better understand/define the recording workflow
I need to hit record and let go of my fears
I need to clearly define “when” I’m going to record videos to prepare the environment, set time aside, etc

At least now I have clarity about what my issues are. Time to work towards solving each!

I’ve started trying to improve my branding on different networks (Twitter, Medium, YouTube), and created a Link Tree to provide a simpler entry point to my creations.

In September, I also improved the Obsidian Starter Kit and released three new versions.

Trends on Google Search Console for dSebastien.net

This month, I’ve only published two articles:

A piece about saving/restoring mental contexts
Another about calm businesses

Still, the momentum is still going and there are more visitors on my blog.

Buying and installing my new computer also cost me quite some time. That’s the price to pay when you like doing things yourself.

I’ve spent time exploring Stable Diffusion and had great fun testing endless prompts.

And I’ve finally migrated to ZSH after spending so many years using Bash.

Revenue from my different activities is relatively stable for the moment, and I hope it will keep at least this level for the coming months. I went from ~$750 at the beginning of the month to ~$900 at the end. The mean is ~$850. It’s quite nice, but certainly not a stable source of income as it relies on one-off sales. I would much rather have the same amount of money through subscriptions.

I’ve started looking for sponsors to finance the time I spend on this newsletter, but haven’t found any so far. To be continued!

What I've learned this month

Some of the things I've explored this month

This month, I’ve learned quite some things about video editing and Adobe Premiere, as I’m preparing to process my own videos. Apart from that, I’ve taken quite some notes about various topics:

How to give structured feedback
What it means to fail forward
The idea of eventual success
Price anchoring
The curse of knowledge
Coded spaces vs code spaces
The impact of a positive feedback culture for organizations
Cognitive complexity and how it relates to sales and marketing
The benefits of touch typing
Cognitive dissonance and how we fool ourselves
Anti-goals
The 7-11-4 rule
Why direction is much more important than speed
Expectations about problem-solving complexity vs reality
…

I’ve these topics make you curious, then do join my Curious Minds community

Recent articles

No new article this week

Quotes of the week

“Be not afraid of going slowly. Be afraid only of standing still”
“We have the power to hold no opinion about a thing and to not let it upset our state of mind—for things have no natural power to shape our judgments” — Marcus Aurelius

Book of the week

Liminal Thinking

Why do some people succeed at change while others fail? It’s the way they think! Liminal thinking is a way to create change by understanding, shaping, and reframing beliefs. What beliefs are stopping you right now?

amzn.to • Share

Tips of the week

How cool is that?!

DreamFusion: Text-to-3D using 2D Diffusion

dreamfusion3d.github.io • Share

Just a moment...

A search engine for images generated by Stable Diffusion

lexica.art • Share

Make-A-Video by Meta AI

makeavideo.studio • Share

A tool to run caption extraction against online videos using Whisper and GitHub Issues/Actions

simonwillison.net • Share

Thinking and learning links of the week

Scott P. Scheper

@ScottScheper

I stumbled upon this Zettelkasten workflow illustration from Bob Doto (@thehighpony). It's really good. You need to zoom in to read some of the text, however, the diagrams do a good job of conceptualizing it. https://t.co/nGufPen6jA

10:08 PM - 23 Sep 2022

Note Quality - The Personal Knowledge Management Podcast (FKA Notion Nerds) | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from The Personal Knowledge Management Podcast (FKA Notion Nerds) on Spotify. In this episode, Danny talks a little bit about Note Quality in Obsidian

open.spotify.com • Share

🌠 Community Contest & Spaced Repetition Improvements

There’s a new interactive medical terminology dictionary, & a step-by-step guide to setting up a second brain in minutes per day.

www.obsidianroundup.org • Share

Tech links of the week

Ten Years of TypeScript - TypeScript

Your description for this link…

devblogs.microsoft.com • Share

Linus Torvalds: Rust will go into Linux 6.1 | ZDNET

At the Kernel Maintainers Summit, the question wasn’t, “Would Rust make it into Linux?” Instead, it was, “What to do about its compilers?”

www.zdnet.com • Share

GitHub - gildas-lormeau/SingleFile-Lite: Feel the power of the Manifest V3. The future, right now!

A fun take on Manifest V3 and its shortcomings

github.com • Share

John-David Dalton

@jdalton

For the lodash rewrite I’m declaring tech debt bankruptcy. Starting from scratch with TypeScript and Rollup. 🔔 No FP wrappers. That fad is over. RIP your co-workers if you introduced that headache into your codebase. Definitely not team or human friendly.

4:07 PM - 19 Sep 2022

The Decentralized Package Network | Pyrsia.io

The Pyrsia project allows developers leverage any package with confidence and transparency.

pyrsia.io • Share

Indie Hacking and bootstrapping

The Indiependent Community

The Indiependent is a community for indie founders that is hosted on Slack.What makes it different?🤣 it’s led by Rosie, which may or may not help🤝 it exists with the intention to stay active and create deeper connections🗺 we have members at a variety of levels of their indie journey🤏 it’s small, you’re pretty much guaranteed a response to every message you post😬

rosieland.gumroad.com • Share

Why I'm opening up the source for my project

I thought I would share the thought process I’ve gone through to get to the point where I’m making my code available on GitHub. The second thing is just…

www.indiehackers.com • Share

How I grew a site to 10k+ daily visits just using GPT-3 made SEO pages

Over the last year, I’ve been working on building out lots of different categories of pages for a site, to help them rank on SEO. I wanted to share a bi…

www.indiehackers.com • Share

Breaking a myth: Data shows you don't actually need a co-founder • TechCrunch

Your description for this link…

techcrunch.com • Share

Anthony Castrio is in Bengaluru 🇮🇳

@AnthonyCastrio

A newsletter with 100,000+ subscribers can make $150,000 per month or $5,000 per month.

Revenue = subs * frequency * CPM (cost per 1,000 subs)

$50 is a typical CPM for a niche audience.

Monthly: $5k
Weekly: $20k
Daily: $150k

8:00 AM - 29 Sep 2022

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