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Alex Duggleby @alexduggleby.com · 13h

Second to last day on the final stretch of my midlifecycle.com from Dublin to Vienna. On the first two parts I was blessed with awesome weather. On the last part, not so much. Weather forecast was completely wrong, but nothing some extra layers can't fix. At least it's dry. Onward!

My cycle/train trip through Europe in 2025

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Alex Duggleby @alexduggleby.com · 2d

With all the AI talk, this is the point that isn’t talked about enough.

Where is the next generation of seniors going to get their start? I fondly remember the amount of things I learnt from our seniors at my first job. It was invaluable for my career.

/ht @thepanel.bsky.social

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Alex Duggleby @alexduggleby.com · 4d

Recently rediscovered stamp collection of all things. Now I'm spending hours again reorganizing those little art pieces into shiny new albums!

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Alex Duggleby @alexduggleby.com · Aug 25

Is there a technical reason I'm not thinking of why this shouldn't be possible? I mean we've had the option to turn off Secure Boot for years and do it on x86, why all of a sudden is it not possible. What's tethered to what exactly on this architecture?

Alex Duggleby @alexduggleby.com · Aug 25

TIL: "Most Windows on ARM devices that use Snapdragon chipsets don’t support a full boot/install directly from USB"

Wanted to give them a try despite expected compatibility issues but this surprised me and I haven't seen mentioned in any review I read ...

Bloated cloud only restore says Asus. 🤦‍♂️

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Alex Duggleby @alexduggleby.com · Aug 20

Makes me smile to read my little baby is actually helping people get things done... 🥰

Alex Duggleby @alexduggleby.com · Aug 18

One of the few books we each bought as a couple separately 😅 so if you haven’t here’s your sign to do so.

Michele Hansen @mjwhansen.com · Aug 18

The updated edition of Deploy Empathy is now out! 🎉

Slight problem, though: none of the nearly 100 reviews can be transferred over 😭

I *really* need people to buy the new version and write reviews. So I'm making it as cheap as I'm allowed to — $£€ 2.99 on Kindle

www.amazon.com/Deploy-Empat...

Deploy Empathy: A practical guide to interviewing customers (Updated and Revised Edition)

Deploy Empathy: A practical guide to interviewing customers (Updated and Revised Edition) - Kindle edition by Hansen, Michele, Kalbach, Jim. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Deploy Empathy: A practical guide to interviewing customers (Updated and Revised Edition).

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Alex Duggleby @alexduggleby.com · Aug 16

For about a month now I've listened to my Spotify "Liked Songs" in descending chronological order and just kept going.

It's like a mini time travel experience, songs from ages ago bring back vivid memories of what I was doing then. Just wished I could see a timestamp.

Highly recommend!

Alex Duggleby @alexduggleby.com · Aug 15

Every. Single. Time.
0. Me: "Continue until all tasks are done."
1. Claude: "I have finished x tasks, there are y remaining."
2. Me: "Continue"
GOTO 1.
🤯

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Alex Duggleby @alexduggleby.com · Aug 14

Also is anyone else getting a lot of Google Classroom spam? Fake invitations with the spam content in the subject line mostly ... Hope Google fixes that soon. For now any class invites automatically go to Spam.

Alex Duggleby @alexduggleby.com · Aug 14

Is there a way to get ChatGPT to add new files (it has generated) to the Project Files (e.g. Create a summary of all files)? Ideally it could also edit them? Seems like a basic feature, but either I'm lacking in my prompts, or it's just not possible ...

Alex Duggleby @alexduggleby.com · Aug 3

With AI the amount of developers thinking "I can build that in a weekend" is going to explode and this time they actually may be right. I wonder what effect that's going to have on selling to a developer audience?

Alex Duggleby @alexduggleby.com · Jun 17

Not going to lie but I might just need that 😂

Simon B. Støvring @simonbs.dev · Jun 15

With the new AlarmKit from #WWDC25, I’m building Alarmageddon, the alarm app my girlfriend with ADHD wanted for years: one that continuously alarms you of tasks.

We call the alarms "task alarms". They’ll keep pestering you until you open the app and mark the task as done.

Alex Duggleby @alexduggleby.com · May 21

Really want them to build something good for the "new/upcoming" AI age of the web. All the arrows are pointing in the right direction, they're assembling a kickass team, but only time will tell.

Alex @alex.id · May 21

Wow, congrats @selig.bsky.social 🎉

TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · May 21

Apollo for Reddit dev Christian Selig to join Digg as an advisor

Alex Duggleby @alexduggleby.com · May 12

Can confirm and OBO flows will likely be the reason I rage quit and become a tea farmer one day. There's always Matcha at the end of the tunnel.

...now back to finding out which scope exactly I'm missing.

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Alex Duggleby @alexduggleby.com · May 7

Two super interesting finds this week on Reddit:
rybbit.io - self-hosted analytics, very quick to install on Hetzner and powerful like the old GA, but privacy first.
livecallerid.com - finally a spam call identifier for iOS, just installed and hope it works globally as promised.

Rybbit Analytics

Next-gen, open source, lightweight, cookieless web & product analytics for everyone — GDPR/CCPA compliant.

rybbit.io

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Alex Duggleby @alexduggleby.com · May 4

Harry Otter 🦦 oh wait you said ruin…

Then: Winnie the … I’ll leave it at that.

Martijn Smit @lostdomain.org · May 3

Remove a letter, ruin a movie.

Iron Ma

Miguel (austernotus) @austernotus.com · May 3

Remove a letter, ruin a movie.

Jurassic Ark

(I would 100% watch this)

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Alex Duggleby @alexduggleby.com · Apr 27

Same in Austria. It’s baffling that I can have good internet going across the Atlantic at 37000 feet but not between major European cities…

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Alex Duggleby @alexduggleby.com · Apr 23

Wise words. If you find a niche and channels that are working, you're not going to blast it out on social media. Mastermind groups, maybe.

@robwalling.com said it on "Startups for the Rest of Us" recently: "Build in Public" is "Be Copied in Public" (paraphrased)

Now back to work...

Thomas Sanlis @tsanlis.bsky.social · Apr 23

Most of the successful "indie hackers" you see on social media aren't "indie hackers" anymore.

They're influencers.

Don't be fooled.

Most successful entrepreneurs don't share their journey publicly.

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Alex Duggleby @alexduggleby.com · Apr 22

Basically some rounds of „Spruce up my landing page copy“ and me wanting more and more puns just led ChatGPT to give in and go „all-in“ on your style.

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Alex Duggleby @alexduggleby.com · Apr 21

Seems I may have summoned the "virtual" Lianna Patch one too many times?

Is "Full Patch Mode" trademarked @punchlinecopy.com ?

(And yes, it came up with that phrase all by itself...)

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Alex Duggleby @alexduggleby.com · Apr 20

Left political ad for Conservative-isch Party.
Right bank ad: reads „What will the future bring?“

Makes me wonder if it’s a coincidence or deliberate positioning…

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Alex Duggleby @alexduggleby.com · Apr 18

So I'm seeing it work again intermittently. Not going to inform my customers and just wait out my support ticket for now.

I would assume Microsoft has phased rollouts and a sudden spike in 401s will cause someone to take a look? But that doesn't explain why over 48h it works now and again.

Alex Duggleby @alexduggleby.com · Apr 18

Called it. Issue returned and now impacting all customers. Well this is going to be fun...

This is platform risk and for all the benefits that come from building on a platform there will be days and issues too where you basically can't do much and have to wait for a big company to fix something...

Alex Duggleby @alexduggleby.com · Apr 17

Seems Microsoft broke LargeFileUploadTask for Outlook yesterday (sudden 401s on the AttachmentSessions endpoint).
But it resolved itself 15 minutes ago across all tests.

I DON'T like "magic" fixes - keeps me on edge for days to see if it's a fluke.

But I *AM* happy my products are working again.

Alex Duggleby @alexduggleby.com · Apr 18

No unfortunately I don't think the team responsible for the API knows they've broken anything yet, so no public announcement. I haven't heard back from my support engineer, but maybe the cogs internally are working... That's wishful thinking ;)

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Alex Duggleby @alexduggleby.com · Apr 18

Called it. Issue returned and now impacting all customers. Well this is going to be fun...

This is platform risk and for all the benefits that come from building on a platform there will be days and issues too where you basically can't do much and have to wait for a big company to fix something...

Alex Duggleby @alexduggleby.com · Apr 17

Seems Microsoft broke LargeFileUploadTask for Outlook yesterday (sudden 401s on the AttachmentSessions endpoint).
But it resolved itself 15 minutes ago across all tests.

I DON'T like "magic" fixes - keeps me on edge for days to see if it's a fluke.

But I *AM* happy my products are working again.

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