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"01a0ca50-97a2-72cc-8da1-637fa052fc8e", "title": "Facebook’s Yarn is the shiznit", "url": "https://seanshadmand.com/2016/11/16/facebooks-yarn-is-the-shiznit/", "published_at": "2016-11-16T20:13:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-97a2-72cc-8da1-637fa12504ae", "title": "GoGong: An open-source, non-SaaS, screen capture & share platform", "url": "https://seanshadmand.com/2016/07/17/project-open-source-non-saas-capture-and-share-tool/", "published_at": "2016-07-17T15:27:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-97a2-72cc-8da1-637fa17e5d0c", "title": "Docker for Dummies", "url": "https://seanshadmand.com/2016/07/13/docker-for-dummies/", "published_at": "2016-07-13T17:27:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-97a2-72cc-8da1-637fa2525b6e", "title": "New FB Messenger Bot Port to Python Based on Quickstart Guide", "url": "https://seanshadmand.com/2016/04/15/new-fb-messenger-bot-port-to-python-based-on-quickstart-guide/", "published_at": "2016-04-15T15:07:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-97a2-72cc-8da1-637fa312d1f5", "title": "Attention Deficit or Boredom Adverse", "url": "https://seanshadmand.com/2016/02/03/attention-deficit-or-boredom-adverse/", "published_at": "2016-02-03T16:10:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-b774-7372-b2d1-6320712cd9a9", "title": "Creating your deck: 5 tips to avoid common pitfalls", "url": "https://seanshadmand.com/2016/02/01/creating-your-deck-5-tips-to-avoid-common-pitfalls/", "published_at": "2016-02-01T23:11:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-b774-7372-b2d1-632071d33ddb", "title": "Why you want hard problems and not difficult ones", "url": "https://seanshadmand.com/2016/01/23/why-you-want-hard-problem-and-not-difficult-ones/", "published_at": "2016-01-23T15:24:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-b774-7372-b2d1-63207285e39c", "title": "[Video Excerpt] Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolph Plots", "url": "https://seanshadmand.com/2016/01/17/video-excerpt-vagabonding-an-uncommon-guide-to-the-art-of-long-term-world-travel-by-rolph-plots/", "published_at": "2016-01-17T18:47:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-b774-7372-b2d1-632073821e5f", "title": "Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely", "url": "https://seanshadmand.com/2016/01/12/predictably-irrational-by-dan-ariely/", "published_at": "2016-01-12T18:18:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-b774-7372-b2d1-6320738e7f12", "title": "TuneTime: This Game App Takes Music Trivia to the Next Level", "url": "https://seanshadmand.com/2016/01/08/tunetime-this-game-app-takes-music-trivia-to-the-next-level/", "published_at": "2016-01-08T18:30:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-b774-7372-b2d1-632074631df1", "title": "Hawkers in the Singapore Night Markets", "url": "https://seanshadmand.com/2015/12/31/hawkers-in-the-singapore-night-markets/", "published_at": "2015-12-31T14:36:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-b774-7372-b2d1-6320753c121c", "title": "BitLang: My First iOS App", "url": "https://seanshadmand.com/2015/12/28/bitlang-my-first-ios-app/", "published_at": "2015-12-28T16:05:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-b774-7372-b2d1-6320756baf27", "title": "Key links to finally learning iOS development", "url": "https://seanshadmand.com/2015/12/26/the-key-links-to-finally-learning-to-develop-in-ios-are-here/", "published_at": "2015-12-26T20:00:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-b774-7372-b2d1-632075c24e81", "title": "A long drive to Galle through the jungles of Sri Lanka", "url": "https://seanshadmand.com/2015/12/25/a-long-drive-to-galle-through-the-jungles-of-sri-lanka/", "published_at": "2015-12-25T15:10:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-b774-7372-b2d1-632075c64312", "title": "A day in Kandy and the Temple of the Sacred Tooth", "url": "https://seanshadmand.com/2015/12/25/a-day-in-kandy-and-the-temple-of-the-sacred-tooth/", "published_at": "2015-12-25T13:39:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-d449-73b8-bbb9-dc0ea5de7d13", "title": "Isurumuniya Temple in Sri Lanka", "url": "https://seanshadmand.com/2015/12/25/isurumuniya-temple-in-sri-lanka/", "published_at": "2015-12-25T12:16:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-d449-73b8-bbb9-dc0ea6233995", "title": "Camping in a dubanese desert", "url": "https://seanshadmand.com/2015/12/25/camping-in-a-dubanese-desert/", "published_at": "2015-12-25T08:12:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-d449-73b8-bbb9-dc0ea68bc2e5", "title": "Indian Street food in Dubai", "url": "https://seanshadmand.com/2015/12/25/indian-street-food-in-dubai/", "published_at": "2015-12-25T06:23:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-d449-73b8-bbb9-dc0ea6c9c2cf", "title": "Next Stop, The Dead Sea to float like a log!", "url": "https://seanshadmand.com/2015/12/25/next-stop-the-dead-sea-to-float-like-a-log/", "published_at": "2015-12-25T05:13:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-d449-73b8-bbb9-dc0ea6fa2daf", "title": "Visiting Petra in three videos", "url": "https://seanshadmand.com/2015/12/24/visiting-petra-in-three-videos/", "published_at": "2015-12-24T05:27:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-d449-73b8-bbb9-dc0ea7f08bf0", "title": "Hilarious guys move their queen mattress via scooter in Vietnam", "url": "https://seanshadmand.com/2015/12/23/hilarious-guys-move-their-queen-mattress-via-scooter-in-vietnam/", "published_at": "2015-12-23T09:23:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-d449-73b8-bbb9-dc0ea81458e6", "title": "The things we loved and hated about Bangkok", "url": "https://seanshadmand.com/2015/12/22/the-things-we-loved-and-hated-about-bangkok/", "published_at": "2015-12-22T18:39:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-d449-73b8-bbb9-dc0ea8b765c4", "title": "The Martian: A perfect book for the casual Product Manager", "url": "https://seanshadmand.com/2015/12/21/the-martian-a-perfect-book-for-the-casual-product-manager/", "published_at": "2015-12-21T18:30:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-d449-73b8-bbb9-dc0ea98f46da", "title": "Things that go BUMP in the night (in Sri Lanka) by Jackie", "url": "https://seanshadmand.com/2015/12/09/things-that-go-bump-in-the-night-in-sri-lanka-by-jackie/", "published_at": "2015-12-09T06:04:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-d449-73b8-bbb9-dc0ea9ecbd95", "title": "Bab Al Shams Resort for some good eats, shows and camel rides", "url": "https://seanshadmand.com/2015/11/29/bab-al-shams-resort-for-some-good-eats-shows-and-camel-rides/", "published_at": "2015-11-29T16:49:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-f6d1-72dc-b6b4-3769f37ca24a", "title": "We took a boat across the Creek to checkout the Gold Souq", "url": "https://seanshadmand.com/2015/11/26/we-took-a-boat-across-the-to-checkout-the-gold-souq/", "published_at": "2015-11-26T13:22:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-f6d1-72dc-b6b4-3769f45e2807", "title": "A boat ride around the man made islands of Dubai", "url": "https://seanshadmand.com/2015/11/15/a-boat-ride-around-the-man-made-islands-of-dubai/", "published_at": "2015-11-15T13:24:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-f6d1-72dc-b6b4-3769f55bc5a9", "title": "The many things you won’t believe you can do in a Dubai mall", "url": "https://seanshadmand.com/2015/11/12/the-many-things-you-wont-believe-you-can-do-in-a-dubai-mall/", "published_at": "2015-11-12T12:03:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-f6d1-72dc-b6b4-3769f64d258a", "title": "A night at Rocky’s", "url": "https://seanshadmand.com/2015/11/10/a-night-at-rockys/", "published_at": "2015-11-10T10:01:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-f6d1-72dc-b6b4-3769f6f5e372", "title": "Our Düsseldorf Bier Haus experience", "url": "https://seanshadmand.com/2015/11/06/our-dusseldorf-bier-haus-experience/", "published_at": "2015-11-06T19:00:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-f6d1-72dc-b6b4-3769f786a4b6", "title": "Urquhart Castle on the Loch Ness", "url": "https://seanshadmand.com/2015/11/05/urquhart-castle-on-the-loch-ness/", "published_at": "2015-11-05T21:10:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-f6d1-72dc-b6b4-3769f7cc30d2", "title": "Hitting the range at St. Andrews", "url": "https://seanshadmand.com/2015/11/05/hitting-the-range-at-st-andrews/", "published_at": "2015-11-05T20:33:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-f6d1-72dc-b6b4-3769f84e97a7", "title": "A walk to the Cologne Cathedral from the Rhein Garden", "url": "https://seanshadmand.com/2015/11/05/cologne-and-the-cologne-cathedral/", "published_at": "2015-11-05T18:54:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-f6d1-72dc-b6b4-3769f8ea23dd", "title": "Dunnottar Castle: an emotional site with a rich family history", "url": "https://seanshadmand.com/2015/11/04/dunnottar-castle-an-emotional-site-with-a-rich-family-history/", "published_at": "2015-11-04T19:23:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0ca50-f6d1-72dc-b6b4-3769f9b0c750", "title": "Kilkenny and Jackie’s moment in heaven", "url": "https://seanshadmand.com/2015/11/03/kilkenny-and-jackies-moment-in-heaven/", "published_at": "2015-11-03T09:16:04+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog

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2026

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.original ↗

9 Sept 2026

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom original ↗

2 Sept 2026

Think in Sprites When You Generate Images with GPT original ↗

26 Aug 2026

Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired original ↗

16 Aug 2026

La folie de Dieu, c’est la vie.original ↗

17 Jul 2026

You can’t build a vision original ↗

10 Jul 2026

What You Won’t Do Defines You original ↗

19 Jun 2026

Ideation without execution is delusion original ↗

14 Jun 2026

Keep It Right-But-Light original ↗

12 Jun 2026

Can You, Did You, and Taste original ↗

9 Jun 2026

Mountain West road trip 2026 original ↗

21 May 2026

“What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then.”original ↗

10 Apr 2026

“art’s true value lies in its ability to not only survive times of change, but to actively drive and lead that change”original ↗

16 Mar 2026

Folks still wonder “why MCP?”. Here is a step-by-step comparison original ↗

6 Feb 2026

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”original ↗

25 Jan 2026

“I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, and his son a poet.”original ↗

25 Jan 2026

2025

“Driving to the future via the rearview window.”original ↗

23 Dec 2025

Multi-Prompting Makes Multitasking Real original ↗

20 Nov 2025

If only we lived longer to tell our stories first hand original ↗

4 Nov 2025

“When power speaks the truth goes silent.”original ↗

21 Oct 2025

Socratic AI: The debate-based Writing Method to create better content original ↗

21 Aug 2025

Good, Fast, AND Cheap: How Great Founders Achieve the Impossible original ↗

13 Aug 2025

“We waste precious life doing things we don’t like, to prove ourselves to people we don’t respect, to get things we don’t want.”original ↗

6 Aug 2025

“My dear Degas, poems are not made of ideas, they are made of words.”original ↗

24 Jul 2025

Start Coding from Your Phone for $15/mo original ↗

21 Jul 2025

Building with AI Is Easy. Choosing What to Build Is Not.original ↗

10 Jul 2025

“Life can be so much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call ‘life’ was made up by people who were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.”original ↗

2 Jul 2025

The Studio Era of Startups Has Begun original ↗

29 Jun 2025

The Tension Between Big Visions and Small Iterations original ↗

26 Jun 2025

“We must tend to our garden.”original ↗

20 Feb 2025

2024

The time has come. You must adapt to LLM/AI/Agentic based development.original ↗

23 Dec 2024

“Doubt can only be removed by action.”original ↗

1 Dec 2024

Windsurfer: Codeium’s Answer to Cursor original ↗

22 Nov 2024

“From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.”original ↗

13 Oct 2024

These 2 Apps made My LLM-Based Dev Environment awesome original ↗

17 Sept 2024

“The actions of the wise seem like folly to the unknowing, who mistake brilliance for chaos and success for mere luck.”original ↗

16 Sept 2024

“None of you are going to get everything you want, but all of you are going to have more than you have right now.”original ↗

15 Jul 2024

More tips for early stage startups original ↗

25 Jun 2024

2023

Determine my head’s direction from web cam original ↗

27 Nov 2023

If you do not take the whole, the demon takes two chairs.original ↗

14 Nov 2023

“Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.”original ↗

14 Jul 2023

Updated Review of LLM Based Development original ↗

12 Feb 2023

Steps in overcoming the great blank page. Write more, write well, write often.original ↗

7 Feb 2023

“They defended their worldly desires by citing scripture the did not understand. They celabrated their intolerance as proof of their convictions.”original ↗

6 Feb 2023

Don’t sell the sale original ↗

31 Jan 2023

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”original ↗

25 Jan 2023

The Future of Work: We are not giving up, we are finally letting go original ↗

24 Jan 2023

“Cemeteries are filled with indispensable people.”original ↗

17 Jan 2023

Hitler’s Shadow: The warning signs are not hyperbole original ↗

10 Jan 2023

2022

“We all have a comfort zone, a learning zone, and a panic zone.Aim toward the outer edges of the learning zone. While you don’t want to panic, you’ll grow the most when you’re past your comfort zone and stretch yourself to learn something new.”original ↗

4 Aug 2022

Finding hidden talents lost to your childhood original ↗

3 Aug 2022

“Don’t let schooling interfere with your education”original ↗

1 Aug 2022

Finding Nebo original ↗

17 Jul 2022

“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.”original ↗

16 Jul 2022

From a writing hater, to a writing lover original ↗

13 Jul 2022

2019

I finally mastered my reading list!original ↗

18 Jan 2019

2018

How this Google Home app helped my father after his stroke original ↗

26 Nov 2018

Keeping Bad Passwords Out with BreechLists original ↗

29 Sept 2018

Biohacking: The Iceman Runneth original ↗

15 Jul 2018

How To Think by Alan Jacobs original ↗

2 Jul 2018

Firebase is 🔥original ↗

10 Feb 2018

2017

GitLab and My Transition from GitHub original ↗

23 Dec 2017

Digging into the Monte Carlo Algorithm original ↗

23 May 2017

Touch Sensitive Button Using Conductive Fabric and Velostat original ↗

23 May 2017

The Best of Reykjavik Dinning original ↗

23 May 2017

2016

Facebook’s Yarn is the shiznit original ↗

16 Nov 2016

GoGong: An open-source, non-SaaS, screen capture & share platform original ↗

17 Jul 2016

Docker for Dummies original ↗

13 Jul 2016

New FB Messenger Bot Port to Python Based on Quickstart Guide original ↗

15 Apr 2016

Attention Deficit or Boredom Adverse original ↗

3 Feb 2016

Creating your deck: 5 tips to avoid common pitfalls original ↗

1 Feb 2016

Why you want hard problems and not difficult ones original ↗

23 Jan 2016

[Video Excerpt] Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolph Plots original ↗

17 Jan 2016

Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely original ↗

12 Jan 2016

TuneTime: This Game App Takes Music Trivia to the Next Level original ↗

8 Jan 2016

2015

Hawkers in the Singapore Night Markets original ↗

31 Dec 2015

BitLang: My First iOS App original ↗

28 Dec 2015

Key links to finally learning iOS development original ↗

26 Dec 2015

A long drive to Galle through the jungles of Sri Lanka original ↗

25 Dec 2015

A day in Kandy and the Temple of the Sacred Tooth original ↗

25 Dec 2015

Isurumuniya Temple in Sri Lanka original ↗

25 Dec 2015

Camping in a dubanese desert original ↗

25 Dec 2015

Indian Street food in Dubai original ↗

25 Dec 2015

Next Stop, The Dead Sea to float like a log!original ↗

25 Dec 2015

Visiting Petra in three videos original ↗

24 Dec 2015

Hilarious guys move their queen mattress via scooter in Vietnam original ↗

23 Dec 2015

The things we loved and hated about Bangkok original ↗

22 Dec 2015

The Martian: A perfect book for the casual Product Manager original ↗

21 Dec 2015

Things that go BUMP in the night (in Sri Lanka) by Jackie original ↗

9 Dec 2015

Bab Al Shams Resort for some good eats, shows and camel rides original ↗

29 Nov 2015

We took a boat across the Creek to checkout the Gold Souq original ↗

26 Nov 2015

A boat ride around the man made islands of Dubai original ↗

15 Nov 2015

The many things you won’t believe you can do in a Dubai mall original ↗

12 Nov 2015

A night at Rocky’s original ↗

10 Nov 2015

Our Düsseldorf Bier Haus experience original ↗

6 Nov 2015

Urquhart Castle on the Loch Ness original ↗

5 Nov 2015

Hitting the range at St. Andrews original ↗

5 Nov 2015

A walk to the Cologne Cathedral from the Rhein Garden original ↗

5 Nov 2015

Dunnottar Castle: an emotional site with a rich family history original ↗

4 Nov 2015

Kilkenny and Jackie’s moment in heaven original ↗

3 Nov 2015