Mystery monk makes billions with 5-hour energy (2012)

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Manoj Bhargava. Photo by Eric Eggley. This story appears in the Feb. 27 edition of Forbes magazine. In one corner of Manoj Bhargava’s office is a cemetery of sorts. It’s a Formica bookcase, its shelves lined with hundreds of garishly colored screw-top plastic bottles not much taller than shot glasses. Front and center is a […]

How to write stuff no one else can

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Last week, I wrote a piece about five of the key hires who took Morning Brew to $40 million in revenue. I mentioned that I had a process for finding such people, and was surprised by how many of you were interested in hearing more about that. So this week, I’m going to show you that […]

Mozilla places Microsoft under fire for using deceptive tricks in Edge

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What you need to know New research commissioned by Mozilla reveals the Microsoft uses harmful designs and deceptive tactics to push its Edge browser to Windows users. The report details that the tech giant uses misleading UIs and ads, and more to prevent users from using other browsers aside from Microsoft Edge as default on […]

Spreadsheet “breaks” Apple Vision Pro eye-tracking

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Introduction Today’s article is just some early findings on the Apple Vision Pro (AVP). I’m working on many things related to the AVP, and it will take me a while to prepare all of them for publishing. Among the things I am doing, I am trying to capture “through the optics” pictures of the AVP, […]

Writing HTTP services in Go after 13 years (Mat Ryer, 2024)

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Nearly six years ago I wrote a blog post outlining how I write HTTP services in Go, and I’m here to tell you, once again, how I write HTTP services. That original post went a little viral and sparked some great discussions that have influenced how I do things today. And after years of hosting […]

Power of small optimizations

Overview In this post, I will talk about the importance of small optimizations that can provide a lot of performance improvements. Generally, when I think about different optimizations, I place them in a hierarchy of different levels: Architecture level optimizations. Algorithms and data structures level optimizations. Source code level optimizations. Typically, optimizations from higher levels […]

GoGoGrandparent (YC S16) is hiring a senior/staff back end/full-stack engineer

About us: We’re a digital caregiver that helps older & disabled adults avoid retirement communities and age well in their own homes. We tailor on demand APIs from companies like Uber and Instacart to the needs of people living with cognitive, visual, mobility and dexterity impairments. We’re operating profitably with millions in revenue and growing […]