Should have maintained a python interoperable runtime. Less and less people use JVM languages for things like web apps, data eng, data science, ML, etc.
This is awesome. I am highly interested in the BioTech space and happened to work with electro-wetting for zero gravity space applications almost 10 years ago!
This is such a cool application of the tech. Everything is accelerating in biotech.
We were using electro-wetting as a low power heat pipe on the Space Station, since heat doesn’t dissipate the same way there as it does on Earth. The tech I built with some engineers used these tiny DC to DC high voltage transformers that would step up the voltage from the 18V power supply to something like 450V on the circuit board to enable the electro-wetting heat pipes to move water droplets.
Would love to chat sometime if you are ever interested.
I run a bunch of blogs from a single Django app with a CMS, SQLite, and extremely optimized SEO hacks.
It’s the perfect use case, light on writes, super heavy on reads. Almost as fast as any caching solution would be, except it’s actually running live SQL queries on the data. I am not sure why more people don’t opt for this to start.
Growth hacking, marketing, and sales for SMBs and solo-preneurs.
Think highly paid freelancers (we find opportunities for them) and blue-collar service companies (they want more leads, but can't afford a high talent growth team).
https://smashamp.com - we currently serve clients in an agency capacity and are building tools/SaaS to do all of this in a self-serve fashion.
The most exciting frontier we are positioning ourselves for is LLM growth hacking, i.e. AI SEO. But, our current company/product is still going to be living in agency/SaaS mode for years to come.
I worked on this in 2018/19. It's a really hard problem, and the only people I've found doing it at scale is a small Norwegian company called https://piql.no. They encode large files into film and store it in the Arctic World Archive - and they did GitHub's Arctic Code Vault.
DNA storage is interesting, though can be damaged by radiation. Would love to see where you land with this project - it's one of the few cases where crypto may actually be the only real digital solution.
I think boring, standard solutions are actually pretty effective. We use commercial cloud cold storage for primary backup, with a self-hosted cache layer in front to drive down cost. Commercial off-the-shelf storage is also the best characterized and has a proven track record.
NIST has some great reviews of the stability of optical media, and it’s quite good, done for the library of Congress.
DNA storage would enable some pretty crazy storage density, but ensuring there’s a compatible reader around in 30 years might be difficult
Function Health | Technical Product Managers and Software Engineers | Austin or Remote | https://functionhealth.com
We are the fastest growing health membership in the US right now.
We're on a wild ride of insane growth from basically $0 to tens of millions in revenue over the last year. Beyond revenue, we went from a few hundred subscribing members to tens of thousands. All of that and we're still in Beta.
Our team is intense and strong. I'm hiring TPMs to join my team as the driving force of our engineering and product org. You'll work across eng, design, marketing, and operations and be the glue that ties all of our pillars together.
Our roadmap has amazing applications of AI, wearables, health data, and more. I struggle to think of a product more interesting or impactful to work on.....and you'd be joining at the perfect time to scale it all up with us. It's not easy, but you'll understand how special the team is after you give us a shout.
You still need heavy EE understanding to know how to develop PCBs, so it’s not going to turn every software engineer into a PCB pro, but it could totally change the game for EEs that can learn to code.
This is definitely a step in the right direction though and I’m wondering how much of a PCB can be represented in an abstract syntax tree or something similar. Are there edge cases, or could you completely describe a PCB layout using code?
Definitely agree this isn't taking away EEs - anytime soon or ideally ever! The goal is to make EEs far more potent, rather than bring SWEs to hardware (although letting them easily tweak existing board's filter constants, vdivs etc... would be awesome too!)
We're honestly not sure how explicitly we want to describe a layout in code, or if it's a more declarative thing. Currently we're leaning more towards the declarative approach (eg. this trace carries 100mA of current) rather than the imperative (this trace is 0.150mm wide) since it should scale more intuitively with equations and layer better with DFM specs etc...
Treating it declaratively is what I initially thought it would be, but what happens when the user needs to tweak the layout for some unique requirement? My guess is what would happen is it would force them to completely eject from your declarative approach, similar to how if you build software on low-code tools, and need to tweak something, you typically have to completely eject. The low-code thing has no understanding to render your custom thing.
Idk maybe this can be solved, but seems problematic to describe layouts like SQL then rely on query planners to deliver the perfect execution.
Function Health | Technical Product Managers, React Native Lead | Austin or Remote | https://functionhealth.com
We are the fastest growing health membership in the US right now.
We're on a wild ride of insane growth from basically $0 to tens of millions in revenue over the last year. Beyond revenue, we went from a few hundred subscribing members to tens of thousands. All of that and we're still in Beta.
Our team is intense and strong. I'm hiring TPMs to join my team as the driving force of our engineering and product org. You'll work across eng, design, marketing, and operations and be the glue that ties all of our pillars together.
Our roadmap has amazing applications of AI, wearables, health data, and more. I struggle to think of a product more interesting or impactful to work on.....and you'd be joining at the perfect time to scale it all up with us. It's not easy, but you'll understand how special the team is after you give us a shout.
You’re in a bubble if you believe this. On a personal level sure, but my middle aged and old family members use it for everything and they are the last ones to understand internet things. They have 0 complaints, though I personally have my own issues with listing quality and review growth hacking.
Thanks for sharing all the resources and giving me guidance a few years ago. Still very thankful for a few of your posts and pointing me to read Venture Deals, all made me a much better CTO and founder. Hope your current journey is going great!
