I enjoy finding ways to exercise my rights as a consumer and push back against corporate abuse, so this was right up my alley. The book was eye-opening and made me infuriated with how corrupt the medical system is in the US and how much it extracts wealth by fleecing the middle class.

I finally found a solution that makes VS Code work consistently with Zig, so I’m sharing my setup in the hope that it saves someone else a headache. Zig extension for VS Code working correctly Before I landed on a working solution, I kept running into issues with Zig version mismatches or VS Code completely failing to recognize Zig semantics and failing over to naive autocomplete.

Highlights I’m having doubts about sitting out the AI revolution. I should prove to myself that customers are willing to buy my book before investing more time into it. I’m probably the last person on the planet to discover that RSS is a great way to read blogs. Goal grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those goals:

Oracle is not a very popular cloud hosting service, but they have an unusually attractive free tier offering. You can run the following two VMs for free 24/7: 4 CPU / 24 GB RAM Ampere A1 ARM VM 1 CPU / 1 GB RAM AMD CPU The AMD one is not that exciting, but a 4-CPU / 24 GB system is more powerful than you’ll find in the free tier of any other cloud vendor.

Seven years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own bootstrapped software company. Every year, I post an update about how that’s going and what my life is like as an indie founder. I sold my company My most significant professional development of the last year is that I sold TinyPilot, the company I founded in 2020. TinyPilot is a device that lets users control their computers remotely. It started as a rudimentary prototype that I built with a $35 Raspberry Pi mini-computer and a $15 HDMI capture dongle.