A few suggestions:

Create a portfolio site. Pictures, logos, and a little text. If you have the skills, install Wordpress and set it up with a portfolio theme. Each entry shows off something you did. Built an app that saved $10K. Put that in. Screenshots if you have them. Opensource code, college projects. If you don’t have a good screenshot, get a semi-relevant image from freebie image sites like unsplash.com (with credit). Not too wordy. Nobidy likes reading a short story. Punchy two liner. Also, make your PDF resume available from the site.

If you don’t want to deal with Wordpress, create a static HTML site using Jekyll (with a theme) and host it on github pages or Cloudflare for free. Vibecode it if you don’t know how. set it up with an easy, memorable domain name related to your name.

Next, write some short articles on things people in the same background as you might be interested in. You mentioned Python, SQL, and AWS. All are good. Post them to Medium or Substack. Cross link them on social media.

If you have the skills, make a video screencast covering the same topic as the blog post, and post it up on your own Youtube channel. Do one per week (or more often) while you wait. Put a link in your portfolio. Link from video description back to your portfolio.

If you have the energy, start a related podcast. Start with a survey of the latest news in areas you’re interested in. Just need a cheap USB mic. Post once a week. Again, cross-link with your portfolio or other channels.

Join local Meetups and show up. If one doesn’t exist, consider starting one. Host it at a local bar. People will show up just to chat and grab a drink. Invite someone interesting to give a short talk. Post links everywhere. Expect a lot of no-shows. Don’t take it personally.

Volunteer to help a local non-profit. Help them put up a website, clean up a database, or run some reports. Maybe a stretch project. Use it all in your portfolio. It’ll help you learn new things and stay uptodate.

Ask on Nextdoor or some other local site if people need in-person IT help. Setting up computers, fixing networks, or cleaning up phone problems. Charge a modest fee for individuals. Slightly higher for small businesses. Insta-print business cards with your contact info at Kinkos or Office Depot for $15. Leave 2-3 everywhere you do a job, so they can hand them to a friend, especially if they’re elderly. Pin them up in the local senior center and laundromat.

And lastly, consider getting a teaching cert and teaching high school, or going back and getting a graduate degree. Will likely have to borrow money, and it will take a year or two. But by then, job market might have turned around and with a graduate degree, you’ll be worth more.

If hard up for cash, pick up gig work, but leave time for doing these other things.

Best of luck!

… And the love of my life, my wife Justin.

I have friends working on ways for content providers to charge AI training models. But I have a feeling that’s not enough.

The future will have to be where creators have an incentive to consistently create, and consumers pay for what they like, or services to keep them informed and entertained without them having to do much.

In between will sit middlemen and aggregators to enable a smooth flow. Who that will be and what they do in this next phase is the big question.

Under the current method, Google’s search and ads groups are competing against each other. Don’t see that going well for anyone.

Amazing voice and arrangement. Also, thanks for pointing out the show. Never heard of it. Lots of great music there.

8 / 10.

But it wasn’t fair. I actually met Guido at a PyCon conference.

Go big or go home.

Spiral… without the handrails.

Once these AI companies go belly-up, those people with critical thinking and research skills will be able to name their price.

Those abilities have been in high demand for millenia. Focus on the basics.

Love it. Lots of good ideas there. They really need to simplify their pitch, though. First thing would be to use a simpler logo. Just go and own 🔥

A couple years ago, I would have agreed. Most of our email is junk. But nowadays, you can have an LLM digest and summarize it for you. That could also be a service the legacy system offers. Grandkids can just ask for a free-form search term without having to wade through everything.

A long time ago, I had the idea for a startup to keep digital material, including accounts, passwords, old documents, etc. in a digital vault that would be released to the next-of-kin when someone dies. It would also convert documents to newer formats so your old unpublished WordPerfect novel could be opened and read by the grandkids (should they choose).

Problem is, nobody would (or should) trust a startup with that material. This is stuff that should be around for many decades and most startups go out of business.

Same question applies to all the other websites out there being mined to train LLMs. Google search Overviews removes the need for people to visit linked sites. Traffic plummets. Ads dry up, and the sites go out of business. No new content to train on 🤷🏻‍♂️

Skinny solar panels, feeding back into the grid?

First job out of college. New city and state. Everyone at work was older and/or had families. After a few months, looked up ‘bartending school.’ Took classes and got a certificate. That helped me get a night job at a local concert hall/restaurant. Met lots of people there on top of co-workers.

Also, community college courses, but the age difference was hit and miss. And also volunteer/non-profit work. Between all those, made it through my 20s without too many scars. There are also community sports leagues for people into that.

Return them to original form. 30 second pulse in blender. Throw in a cup of coffee and some non-dairy creamer.

Drink on way to work through a fat straw.

• Nutrition ✅

It actually is pretty incredible. You get paid to draw boxes with icons, and arrows connecting them.

In case needed, may want to also look into multi-arch images so it also supports the right ARM build for the Pi: https://www.docker.com/blog/multi-arch-images/

Wait, did I read that right? After all that drama, they upstreamed the Rust drivers anyway?

Dammit! Wish there was a way to avoid inadvertently leaking github secrets.

Oh, wait: https://github.com/security/advanced-security/secret-protection

What happens after ‘No?’ 🤔