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Intro Getting funding for a startup can be quite a challenge, especially for founders in the deep tech sector, where the complexity of ideas often exceeds the average investor's understanding. To discover the best strategies for explaining tech ideas to investors, I spoke with and , co-founders of , mentors at Founder Institute, and venture scouts for Flashpoint VC. Arthur Gusev Vladimir Pletyukhin Launch Deck For the interview, we met in at a tech event held in one of the city's most prominent IT community spaces. Belgrade (Serbia) is all about helping startups, especially in deep tech, with their fundraising. They focus on crafting pitch decks, investor materials, and visual branding. Launch Deck leverages a unique blend of consulting, business, and design expertise to transform complex ideas into compelling narratives that resonate with investors (their clients already raised more than $60M). Launch Deck They’ve just , that I highly recommend for all tech founders, surveying over 100 venture capitalists, angel investors, and accelerators across more than seven regions and eleven industries about their pitch deck preferences. published an extensive research project This Pitch Deck Playbook is a complete guide that can help techy founders articulate their innovative ideas in ways that resonate with potential investors, turning complexity into compelling pitches. Q&A “Let’s begin. Does a Pitch Deck really matter?” Victor Markov: "Yes, a pitch deck really matters. It's one of the most important tools in a founder's toolkit. It's your chance to clearly explain your idea and move forward with funding. Our research shows that 96% of investors want to see your pitch before even agreeing to a meeting. So, it's imperative that your pitch deck is engaging yet straightforward." Arthur Gusev: “I know that you have some good examples of tech startups whose pitches significantly improved after your work. Can you provide us with your favorite one?” Victor Markov: "One standout example is , a biotech startup from Singapore. They developed an algorithm for identifying health-affecting rare mutations. Initially, their pitch was dense with technical jargon, making it challenging for investors to grasp the concept. Vladimir Pletyukhin: Gero.ai Our team conceptualized a visual metaphor comparing the human body to an orchestra and DNA parts to musical notes. This not only clarified their solution but also helped secure funding and close ." a significant deal with Pfizer “What role does storytelling play in a tech-heavy Pitch Deck?” Victor Markov: "We, as humans, are naturally drawn to stories. Our indicates that 69% of respondents prefer an element of story in pitch decks, while 31% opt for a straight-to-the-point structure. A pitch that weaves your technological innovation into a compelling narrative can significantly increase its appeal. Start with a problem, introduce your solution as the hero, and guide your audience through to the envisioned success. But also remember to remain straightforward." Vladimir Pletyukhin: research "However, the straight-to-the-point structure is also a relevant approach. It's essential to understand what investors want to see in your pitch. Here's a simple structure to follow: begin with an overview in the executive summary to engage and give top-level insight, helping investors quickly gauge their interest. Arthur Gusev: Next, outline the problem and your solution, then move on to the market landscape, illustrating where your solution fits and who the existing players are. Show your project's viability, including how you plan to monetize it and your current traction. Detail the next steps on your roadmap, and finally, introduce your team and your ask. This structure ensures you cover all bases, from demonstrating your solution's impact to showcasing your team's capability to execute." “Ok, but what is the most important thing investors focus on?” Victor Markov: "Usually, the next questions investors ask after you present your solution are: 'How will you make it work?' and 'Can you tell me about your team?' These questions underline the investors' focus on feasibility, scalability, and the team-product fit." Arthur Gusev: "Addressing these concerns directly in your pitch is crucial. Highlight your roadmap, demonstrate your team's expertise, and present any traction you've achieved. This approach not only builds investor confidence but also positions you as serious innovators with a clear path to success. Remember, investors are looking for teams that can turn ambitious ideas into reality. Prove that you're more than just dreamers—you're doers." Vladimir Pletyukhin: “How can founders balance Technical Detail with Accessibility in their Pitch? Any Tips for Tech Founders.” Victor Markov: "Use common frameworks like for market analysis and competitive positioning matrix to keep information investor-friendly. Metaphors are your friend; they can turn a complex concept into something relatable and understandable. Leveraging familiar concepts can also be incredibly effective. Arthur Gusev: SOM, SAM, TAM For instance, describing your solution as 'the Uber for dog-walking' or 'the Amazon for chatbots' instantly clarifies your business model and value proposition. It makes it easy for an investor to grasp what you're talking about, bridging any gaps in understanding with something they are familiar with. Ensure they can understand your idea without a deep technical background." “How does Design play a role in enhancing the Communication of Complex Tech Concepts?” Victor Markov: "Design is not just about aesthetics; it's a communication tool. A well-designed pitch deck guides the investor through your narrative, emphasizing key points and making complex information approachable. And considering that 69% of investors prefer well-designed decks, neglecting this aspect can significantly diminish your pitch's effectiveness." Vladimir Pletyukhin: “What Visual Strategies do you recommend for Making Complex Ideas more Tangible and Understandable for Non-Expert Investors?” Victor Markov: "Simplification doesn't mean dumbing down. It means making your idea accessible. Utilize visuals to break down your tech into understandable segments. Our quick design tips? Stick to no more than three font sizes, three colors, and always use high-quality visuals. This approach not only keeps your pitch deck visually appealing but ensures the complex tech concepts are easily digestible." Vladimir Pletyukhin: “Finally, any advice for Tech Founders who struggle to explain their solution?” Victor Markov: "Simplifying complex tech ideas for your pitch doesn't have to be daunting. Focus on storytelling, ensure your content is digestible, and leverage design to enhance understanding. Remember, you're inviting investors on a journey, not writing a PhD thesis. Keep it simple." Vladimir Pletyukhin: "Explain your idea like you're telling a story to a 5-year-old kid. You wouldn't use big, complicated words and nerdy jargon; you'd just say why you like it and why they might like it too. That's how you should talk about your project to investors. No one automatically knows what you're doing or why it's great, so it's your job to make it easy for them to understand and get them excited about it." Arthur Gusev: Outro As we navigate the complex landscape of startup funding, the insights shared by and underscore a universal truth: clarity, simplicity, and compelling storytelling form the cornerstone of successful pitch decks. Arthur Gusev Vladimir Pletyukhin By focusing on what truly matters to investors — feasibility, scalability, and a capable team — founders can transform complex tech ideas into compelling narratives that resonate. On the path from an idea to getting funding, the importance of a well-prepared pitch deck is huge. It's true for both cutting-edge deep tech ventures and those just starting their business journey. The way you share your vision matters as much as the innovation itself.

An Interview With Arthur Gusev and Vladimir Pletyukhin: How to Pitch Complex Tech Ideas Simply

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ARTHUR OR OSWALD?

About a year ago, I was visiting Sri Lanka and had the pleasure of visiting Arthur C Clarke’s well-preserved office (you can read about my if you like). Anyone who’s read that piece knows that I grew up as a big fan of Clarke’s science fiction, so it was a thrill to be there and see his books and office. He lived in Sri Lanka for 30 years before his passing in 2008. visit here This year, I’m unable to travel so far, but visiting my parents’ house in the midwest got me thinking about the times that I used to read Clarke’s science fiction books while growing up — imagining I was off with some crew on a “romp through the solar system”. While there were some elements of Clarke’s books that are way out of our league even today (think star child or childhood’s end), there were always others that seemed like they weren’t too far away. So, this Christmas holiday, I wanted to write about a few things that Arthur C Clarke predicted in his science fiction and science-related works that have (mostly) come true (or will very soon!). Science Fiction Turns Into Science Of course, science fiction has always had a way of predicting the future, going all the way back to Jules Verne’s 1865 novel, . While he didn’t have it exactly right, Verne’s prediction that it would be the Americans who first got to the moon, firing off a giant gun (rockets didn’t exist) from somewhere in Florida, were pretty spot on. And who doesn’t know about the flip phone being a descendent of Star Trek, and today’s facetime and iWatch look a lot like Dick Tracy’s watch-phone, don’t they? From the Earth to the Moon The difference between Clarke’s science fiction and much of these others was that he often put more thought into and — relying on them not just for convenience, but drawing on both scientific literature and scientific necessity. Unlike the Transporter in Star Trek, for example, which was created just for convenience (so that the producers wouldn’t have to pay for special effects of shuttles going to planets and back, which were costly), Clarke usually had some well thought out reason for the science fiction elements in his novels. how these things could work why they were the way they were From ACC himself Clarke himself once said that “trying to predict the future is a discouraging, hazardous occupation”, and some credit ACC (as he’s know in the science fiction world) with having predicted everything from the internet to email to google! In this article, I’m going to stick to what ACC did best, write about outer space and aliens! Now I’m not claiming that Clarke was necessarioly the first to think of all of these things — in fact, sometimes he was just the first to put them into popular science fiction even when a paper or a concept existed before. So, without further ado, here are some predictions that have already (to different degrees, of course) come true: 1. The Gravity Assist Maneuver In the novelization of , which was written concurrently with the movie (released in 1968), ACC had the Discovery go to one of Saturn’s moon’s (Iapetus) and not to Jupiter. In the movie, Stanley Kubrick (who was collaborating with ACC and wanted to use the latest images from NASA) decided to go with Jupiter as the destination because they had pictures from NASA about what Jupiter looked like. Kubrick was worried that since they didn’t have as many images of Saturn, the film might look dated once NASA got more accurate images. 2001: A Space Odyssey This is all a bit of history, but I recall reading the novelized version and it was the first time I had heard of the “gravity assist” maneuver. In the novel, the Discovery spaceship uses Jupiter’s gravity to speed itself up on the way to Saturn. While Jupiter is “only” 500 million kilometers away, Saturn can be almost a billion kilometers further away (depending on the position), even though we are used to them being close together . On average, the ringed planet is almost twice as far. This means that the ship didn’t have to carry as much fuel to get all the way to Saturn. This idea of using planets to “assist” in slinging a spacecraft was actually used by NASA in many probes including the Mariner 10 and Voyager probes. In some cases the probes went inwards towards the sun and used Venus for gravity assist to slow down, while the Voyagers used Jupiter to speed up on their way to Saturn, just like in ACCs novel! In another of his novels, (which we’ll talk more about in a minute), an alien spaceship built in an asteroid is using the Sun for a gravity assist on its interstellar mission! ACC wasn’t the first to think about this — the Soviets actually used the gravity of the moon for a flyby of a probe in 1959, but his use of it around a planet was the first time many science fiction readers like myself heard about it! Rendezvous with Rama 2. The Communication Satellite. ACC proposed using a satellite in geosynchronour orbit for boucning off radio signals (src: Wikipedia) Arthur C Clarke, in an article for in 1945, proposed the idea of a geostationary communications satellite, which was a satellite that stayed in the same position relative to the earth. Such a satellite, ACC proposed could be used to bounce radio signals off of and send radio signals all over the Earth. The editor of changed his paper title to . Wireless World Wireless World Extraterrestrial Relays According to many sources, the idea wasn’t taken seriously at the time as no one knew how to get a satellite into what became know as the “Clarke orbit”. 20 years later, in 1965, the first communications satellite was launched into the Clarke orbit, and today there are over 300 satellites on this orbit! 3. The asteroid from outside the solar system. In 2017, a controversial object appeared in the night sky and was observed for a matter of weeks. It was determined to be the first known object that came from outside of our solar system. Its strange maneuvers and properties made scientists think it was an elongated (cigar-shaped) type of asteroid or comet or alien space probe — we couldn’t be sure which. Conception of our first interstellar visitor , ‘Oumuamua (src: CNN) The scenario that astronomers found themselves in seemed eerily similar to ACC’s 1973 novel, Rendezvous with Rama. In the novel, an elongated asteroid was adapted into a space probe by an alien civilization, and wanders through our solar system, planning to use the sun as a gravity-assist maneuver to get where-ever it was going. The probe was abandoned in the book and its sequels by the alien civilization. Astronomers first proposed calling the asteroid discovered last year, which sure looked like it could be an asteroid steered by an alien civilization, Rama. In the end, the name ‘’Oumuamua was chosen (a good name which means “heavenly messenger” or “messenger from the past”), and of course scientists went ahead and stated confidently that there was nothing alien about the object. It’s a year later and what do we know? The object did in fact swing around the sun, and its velocity increased in a way that wasn’t consistent with the asteroid or the comet hypothesis, leading some including Harvard astronomer Abraham Loeb, professor and chair of astronomy, and Shmuel Bialy, a postdoctoral scholar, at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics to speculate that it was an alien probe after all. It’s acceleration properties were more consistent with the properties of a light sail then either an asteroid or a comet! So, while we don’t know what it was exactly, the best hypothesis we have that fits the data at present is that it was an alien probe going through our solar system swinging around the sun? Sounds familiar? Maybe it should be called Rama after all! 4. Building Ships in Orbit. The Discovery from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (src: syfy wire) ACC predicted that it would be much easier to build large space-faring ships in orbit and to use shuttles to get astronauts up to the ships. This is how the Discovery was built in and its successors in the sequels as well. This wasn’t an ACC invention — many science fiction writers predicted this. Are we doing this today? Not exactly, but it’s within reach. There are companies who have sent up 3d printers to assemble large structures in space (Made in Space is the company that has printed the largest 3d printed object ever in preparation for printing large structures in space) , and there are near-term plans for inflatable modules which get assembled into large structures in space (think Bigelow Aerospace). Thus far, the ISS is the only such structure that is fully deployed, but this prediction is not very far off. 2001: A Space Odyssey 5. Hal and Conversational Artificial Intelligence. Who can forget the classic line from 2001, which came from HAL 9000, the on-board artificially intelligent computer: “I’m sorry, Dave, I can’t do that?” I’m sorry Dave, I can’t Do that — the HAL 9000 computer from 2001 (src: wikipedia) There has been an artificial intelligence explosion in the last 10 years, as machine algorithms are now being used to learn to do everything from drive cars to play video games. ACC wasn’t the first to predict machine intelligence; MIT Professor and Bell Labs fellow Claude Shannon was one of many who said that someday machines would be able to beat a human grand master at chess and write poetry. The chess thing has happened already, not so sure about the poetry. In the age of Sofia and so many different kinds of AI and virtual influencers and personalities, it seems like an intelligent computer like HAL from 2001, that can converse with us, is not that far off — give it 10 to 20 years say some experts. 6. Europa, liquid water, and life. In the sequel to 2001, called and its follow up , Clarke scrapped Saturn’s moon Iapetus and made the books sequels to the movie, rather than to his novel. In this sequel, a crew of soviet and American astronauts went to Jupiter to find the Discovery and find out what happened to Dave Bowman and his crew, who had disappeared. 2010: Odyssey Two 2061: Odyssey Three When they got there, one of the moons of Jupiter that is most interesting to them (and to the alien StarChild that Dave Bowman has now become) is Europa, which is found to be covered with ice with oceans underneath. The second book ends wiht a whopper: Jupiter is transformed into a small star and Europa is the reason why, because there is life that can develop here! In a now famous line from the end of 2010: All These Worlds Are Yours Except Europa. Attempt No Landings There. In 2061, a crew actually goes to Europa, which has developed into a habitable planet thanks to Jupiter’s transformation at the end of 2010 into a small sun, called Lucifer from Earth. Leaving aside the super-intelligent aliens who were responsible for this, Clarke’s predictions about Europa being the most likely place for life in the solar system because of the presence of liquid water under the ice covering the planet has turned out to fairly accurate. Plumes of water have been seen on Europa (src: Space.com) Probes to the Jovian moons have shown that Europa has plumes of water that shoot up from the surface, and it’s estimated that it has a covering of water 100 km thick. Some estimates say that Europa may have more water than the Earth! Now, what might lie in wait in all that water under the ice? To quote the History Channel’s hit series, could it be … Aliens?? 7. Landing on a Comet. At the beginning of the novel 2061:Odyssey Three, published in 1987, in what I thought was a cool sequence, the spaceship Galaxy is landing on the surface of Halley’s comet which has returned to Earth in (do the Math and you’ll see why the novel was set in 2061!). Of course, there’s a lot more going on in this novel than the comet, but at the time, this part, along with the rest of the novel was thought of as science fiction. Today, we know that it’s not so far fetched. In 2004, the European Space Agency launched Rosetta, a space probe that was meant to study a comet. Twelve years later, in 2016, the probe not only surveyed a comet, 7P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, but it managed to hard land on the comet! I wonder what we’ll be doing in 2061?? OK so there you have 7 predictions that have either already come true, or are very likely to in a decade or two. Not a bad track record. But, of course, science fiction being science fiction, there are still lots of things in ACC’s novels and papers for us to aspire to. And those are just the ones that have or are likely to come true pretty soon! Wait until we talk about he Space Elevator (Fountains of Paradise), Diamonds in the heart of Gas Giants (2061: Odyssey Three), and interstellar colonization (Songs of Distant Earth), not to mention the tantalizing idea of artifacts hiding on the moon (if you were an ancient Alien visitor to the Earth, where would you put a communications device??). If you liked this article, please clap 20x and follow me.

The 7 Space Predictions from Arthur C Clarke That Came True!

**. (**BitMEX fees are much higher than on conventional exchanges because the fee applies to the entire leveraged position, not just your margin. Save on BitMEX fees with this coupon You pay $250 fees on trading with $1,000 margin on the ETH Futures at 50x at BitMEX compared with $2 on a $1,000 Spot trade at Binance.) TL, DR: This tweet went viral and was ridiculed. An educated analysis of the data suggests he might be right. On 2 August 2018 BitMEX introduced the new ETHUSD Perpetual Swap with a maximum 50x leverage. It was announced with a great deal of scorn for the Ethereum ‘shitcoin’. The product is a hit and one month later (12 September) 24h volume stands at 66,467 BTC ($414 million), making it the most heavily traded ETH/USD pair globally. And this happened: Has Arthur Hayes’ ETHUSD swap been the catalyst to destroy the Ethereum market and bankrupt the Treasuries of the ICO companies? The ETHUSD swap appears similar to the XBTUSD swap on first examination. Both have prices pegged to the underlying spot price by incentives to traders provided by the Funding rate. And the XBT swap is a well-established product used both by whales to hedge their Bitcoin and by speculators. But ETHUSD is unsuitable for hedgers as its contract value is affected by the Bitcoin price as well as ETH price, and because there is no ETHUSD Future. This has created a febrile and unstable ETHUSD swap market consisting entirely of unsavvy over-leveraged speculators with a heavy Long bias. The evidence for this lies in the chart of the ETHUSD swap funding rate. In such circumstances it was easy, cheap and profitable for large players to crash the market. The winners are BitMEX and possibly BitMEX’s trading / market-making arm, the BitMEX Insurance Fund, and the whales who executed the block shorts. The losers were amateur traders with Long positions. There is a counter-argument that the collapse in the ETH price is disconnected from trading at BitMEX. The ETHUSD swap is a derivative which derives its price from the Spot ETH prices at Bitstamp, GDAX and Kraken. And not the other way round. However the price of the derivative at BitMEX CAN influence the underlying spot prices via arbitrage bots. Intro Previously BitMEX only offered trading in ETHBTC, and the trading of ETHUSD on leverage was only available at OKEX, Kraken and Bitfinex. The came the ETHUSD perpetual swap. Full contract specs are stated . here As Hayes said, ‘ ’ . You never have to touch that shitcoin called Ether Meaning, the only collateral you can deposit at BitMEX is BTC. You cannot deposit ETH. They cleverly designed the ETHUSD swap and ETH Futures so that no ETH is required to trade it Long or Short. Contract Value Depends on ETH AND XBT Prices It is imperative to understand that the contract value of the ETHUSD swap depends on both the ETH price and the Bitcoin price. This is because it is a Quanto derivative: it is quoted in one currency (USD) and settled in another currency (BTC). This characteristic makes the ETHUSD swap almost useless for the purpose of hedging Spot ETH holdings and might be responsible for the destruction of the Ethereum market and the bankruptcy of the ICO company Treasuries. If you trade 1,000 Contracts of ETHUSD how much is your position in units we understand like XBT or USD? The USD value of a ETHUSD Contract is not shown in the Place Order box. ETHUSD Contract = 0.001 mXBT x 174.15 = 0.17415 mXBT = 0.00017415 XBT = 0.00017415 x 6235 = $1.085 Value of ETHUSD swap contracts depends on both ETH price and Bitcoin price. ETHUSD swap is like BTCUSD swap on steroids. If both Bitcoin and ETH rise vs. USD the gains on the ETH swap are the product of the two gains. And if they both crash ….. Want to hedge your Spot ETH with the ETHUSD swap? Forget about it because the value of the ETHUSD swap also depends on Bitcoin price. If BitMEX settled ETHUSD swap in ETH that would solve this problem. But they never will. ETHUSD Swap vs. XBTUSD Swap On superficial analysis, the mechanics of the ETHUSD swap are similar to the BTCUSD swap. But while the XBTUSD swap works like a well-oiled piece of German engineering, the ETHUSD swap works like a helicopter spiralling crazily out of control with Elon Musk at the controls. While taking a call from his creditors. Both have prices pegged to the underlying spot price by incentives to traders provided by the Funding rate. (In fact : 33% Bitstamp, 33% GDAX, and 33% Kraken). Both are quoted in USD, settled in XBT. (i.e. Quanto derivatives.) the underlying is the .BETH Index They have the same fees. Market makers (those who trade with Limit orders) get a 0.025% Rebate. Takers (those who trade with Market orders) pay 0.075%. One difference is that the XBTUSD contract value is simply $1 .The ETHUSD contract value is ETHUSD Price * Bitcoin Multiplier (100 Sat/$1). [About $1.07 at time of writing.] So far so boring. A significant difference is that the XBTUSD swap can be used to hedge Spot Bitcoin holdings. But the ETHUSD swap is not helpful for hedging Spot ETH as its dollar value depends as much on the Bitcoin price as it does on the ETH price. So there is no natural population of whales wishing to Short the swap to hedge their Spot ETH. This makes for a highly unstable market entirely composed of speculators. Another difference is there are XBTUSD Futures on BitMEX which can be used to hedge swap positions. Traders can build 2-legged trades, one in the swap and one in the Future, to obtain the XBTUSD funding income without market risk. This has a dampening effect on funding rates and strengthens the peg to the Spot Index and stabilises the market. But there is no ETHUSD Future. So it is very difficult to build hedged ETHUSD swap positions to get the Funding. So there has been no inflow of more savvy traders shorting the ETHUSD swap when Long speculators drive the Funding rate up to crazy levels. (There are ETHBTC Futures on BitMEX but these are unsuitable for hedging the ETHUSD swap.) There is funding fee or rebate every 8 hours with the ETHUSD swap, as with the XBT swap. But the funding rate on the ETHUSD swap is much more volatile, and can vary from min/ max limits of -0.75%/+0.75% per 8-hour session versus the limits of XBTUSD Funding of -0.375%/+0.375%. So we have the ingredients for a highly unstable ETHUSD market and a major clusterfuck. Funding rate cap on ETHUSD swap is double that on XBTUSD swap What Happened? This sounds plausible. But there is no long/short ratio at BitMEX. ‘Bitmex’s contract is P2P — For every long, there must be a short, for every sell there must be a buy. Each position is 1:1. Funding is not indicative of which side has more positions open, it’s entirely about the premium/discount that XBTUSD develops to the Index. ‘ [[Quote from BTCAurelius.] Well, it quickly became evident from the consistently high positive funding rates that there was more buyside pressure on the ETHUSD swap than sell-side pressure and as a result the BitMEX price was consistently greater than the index. Chart of Annualised Funding Rate on ETHUSD Swap from 10 August to 12 Sept. Rates have commonly been > 50%. This shows speculators driving the price above the Index and is a sign of an out of whack market in disequilibrium. The ETHUSD swap is just broken. This was probably amateur speculators with excessive leverage thinking ETH was cheap. And whales were not shorting because the product is no good as a hedge and because there is no means to short it risklessly to get funding income. I tried this unsuccessfully. The funding rate at the time was 0.1383% which is 356% compounded p.a. that Longs were paying Shorts. I tried to lend out $20,000 of other people’s money at that rate. In the absence of a hedge at BitMEX, I tried to make a Long ETHUSD hedge at Kraken but it turned out Kraken’s trading fees and funding fees made it unviable. So we have an unstable market with mainly speculative, highly-leveraged amateurs taking positions with a Long bias and no institutional or whale hedgers to provide deep-pocketed stability. We have crazy funding rates typically exceeding 50% annualised resulting from excessive buy-side pressure and no way to get at that income. And we might have institutional players coming in and savaging the market with very profitable block short orders. The winners? BitMEX. Possible BitMEX’s market-making arm. The BitMEX Insurance Fund. The whales who did the block shorts. The losers? The amateur traders with Long positons. Use the Tool to Trade ETHUSD Swap AntiLiquidation Surpluses from Liquidation of ETHUSD swap trades at BitMEX get paid into the same as all the other contracts. Insurance Fund The Balance when ETHUSD swap was introduced 3 Aug: BTC 10,640 Balance today: BTC 12,388. If you want to trade the ETHUSD swap efficiently then use the tool. It is free. There is a tab for trading the ETHUSD swap. AntiLiquidation Avoid Liquidation trading the ETHUSD swap using the tool. AntiLiquidation Trade ETHUSD Swap with up to 150x Leverage Using AntiLiquidation.com There is a limit of 50x leverage when you trade the ETHUSD swap using the Slider Bar. You can trade with 150x leverage when you create it from tight stops using . AntiLiquidation.com Note about Fees Note the ETHBTC futures has a different fee structure to the ETHUSD swap. It has no funding cost or rebate. Look at the taker fee on the ETH Futures: 0.25%. So if you trade 50x leverage at Market with $1,000 margin, creating a position of $50,000, your fees are [50 x $1,000 x 0.25% x 2] = $250 on a $1,000 trade! That’s it. **. (**BitMEX fees are much higher than on conventional exchanges because the fee applies to the entire leveraged position, not just your margin. You pay $150 on a $1000 trade at BitMEX compared with $0.2 on a $100 trade at Binance.) Save on BitMEX fees with this coupon

Has Arthur Hayes Destroyed the Ethereum Market and Bankrupted ICO Treasuries?

So I was in Sri Lanka over the holiday season. It was part vacation and part business trip (one of my MIT classmates, Prasath, had started a company there that I invested in and I have been promising to visit for many years). Sri Lanka is a pretty well-known destination for residents of the UK and Asia; not so much in the US. I knew little of its long history: In ancient times, the Anaradhapura kingdom sent envoys to Rome in the time of Julius Caesar, the Persians called the island Serendib (which circuitously led to the term serendipity), and during colonial times it was called Ceylon. When I was growing up in the Midwest, the first time I wondered about Sri Lanka was from the science fiction novels by Arthur C. Clarke: I found it odd that the popular British writer lived there. The opening scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey Clarke’s best known work was the source material for the movie, Since I was born the year after it came out, I didn’t get to see it in theaters, but I eagerly gobbled up the novel and its sequels as soon as I was old enough to appreciate “serious” science fiction ( , which came out in 1982 during my junior high school years, and , which was published in 1987 when I was in high school, and the final installment which was released in 1997). 2001: A Space Odyssey. 2010: Odyssey Two 2061: Odyssey Three 3001: The Final Odyssey ACC (as he’s known) was a prolific writer of both science and science fiction. In fact, many have credited him as the inventor of the communications satellite; he had proposed the idea of bouncing radio signals off of geostationary satellites to reach every part of the earth in the 1940s. So, as I said, I was in Sri Lanka over the holiday season, and I was re-reading ACC’s books and wondered how much fun it would have been to meet him. Of course that wasn’t possible (he passed away in 2008), but when I asked about him, my friend Prasath told me that ACC was very well known in Colombo; Prasath had actually been to ACC’s house with his old astronomy professor before the writer’s death. The 2001 Series of Books Since I was re-reading at the Galle Face Hotel, where ACC had written most of the book, I had an inspiration: Could we go by his former house? I was thinking a drive by and a picture of the house where he had lived might be a nice way tribute. 3001: The Final Odyssey Sitting at the Galle Face Hotel, reading 3001, where ACC had written most of that book! Prasath looked up the address and did a little Google research, which led us to an old article in Asia Obscura, where the author of that article bribed (err, tipped) his way into ACC’s office in 2013, which was more or less undisturbed following Clarke’s death in 2008. Five years had passed since that article, and I figured the chances that his office was still preserved seemed very remote, and finding a way in seemed even remoter, but we were inspired to try. When we found the house, there was a security guard. Prasath chatted him up and, pointing to me, told him that I had come from America and was a big fan of Arthur C Clarke. The guard seemed sympathetic and said he would check to see what he could do. In the meantime, I saw this inscription, Leslie’s House which listed both Arthur C Clarke and Hector as residents. I thought it was odd that this sign was still there after all these years. Plaque outside “Leslie’s House” The house was separate from the office area, and there were some dogs that started barking at our approach. The guard said something in Sinhalese that I didn’t understand and went towards the gate. There was an old woman there who told Prasath she was the caretaker, and after seeing how I was such a big fan, decided to let us in to see his office! As we entered inside the gate, there was a sign saying “Arthur C. Clarke” next to a little phone/speaker, presumably so that he could screen visitors. Where visitors would call up to ACC inside the gate but just outside the office When you walked in, there was a little foyer which had two armchairs and a painting behind it making it look like the occupants were on the moon, looking up at the earth. I was too shy to sit down on them at the beginning, marveling at our good fortune to just get in, but by the end of our tour, we built up the courage to ask if we could sit down and take a picture, which we did. Prasath and I sitting in the “moon” welcome area ! After this entry area, there was an original poster from 2001: A Space Odyssey: As you go up the steps there was a signpost towards Mars, followed by an open room that had tons of certificates and other awards given to ACC. One of the items on the wall was ACC’s oroginal paper from the 1940s about how geostationary satellites could be used to send radio signals all over the earth, which became reality in the 1960s with the Intelsat Early Bird satellite. Copies of the original article ACC wrote about putting a satellite in geostationary orbit to send radio signals It was only then that the door opened to ACC’s office — and it looked pretty much like it had in 2013, and I was told, pretty much as it had when ACC died in 2008. There were several bookshelves — the most prominent being the two bookshelves behind his desk. two bookshelves just behind his desk. Rather than a chair, there was a wheelchair where he used to sit in his later years. I couldn’t help take a pic. Felt like I was a famous sci fi writer for a moment! So, what was on his bookshelf? It turns out that the two bookshelves behind him had editions of all of his books. The right bookshelf was dedicated to to the 2001, 2010, 2061, 3001 — including many editions in English and other languages — hardcover and softcover versions. Here are some closeups. Just behind his desk, on the right were all the various editions of the 2001 series The left bookshelf had copies of many of his other works On top of the bookshelf were various awards and momentos, including the 1979 Galaxy award. Lots of awards and memorabilia sat on top of the shelves On the walls there were many momentos — including pictures signed to him by many famous people, a virtual who’s who of science and science fiction. Since ACC was consider one of the best (if not the best) science fiction writers of all time, most sci fi adventures were inspired by him. For example, There was a signed message/pic from David Prowse, who played Darth Vader in Star Wars. A signed picture by Darth Vader actor, Dave Prowse, above an image of a spacewalk above Europa? and next to that there was a picture of ACC with Patrick Stuart, who played Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation, next to a photo of one of ACC’s books floating in the space shuttle next to a real life astronaut! Left: Shuttle astronaut with ACC book, Right: ACC, Patrick Stewart, and? There was a picture signed by Buzz Aldrin, the second man to ever to walk on the moon. The moon, of course, was the location of the first monolith found in the movie/novel, 2001 (and based on an earlier short story written by ACC called the Sentinel) and played a big role in the photos and his books. Signed by Buzz Aldrin himself, second man on the moon! So what books other than his own, did ACC have in his office? On the right side of room was a small bookshelf that had a combination of fiction and non-fiction books; I recognized many of the books because I had many of the same ones., including Men of Earth (by Buzz Aldrin), Contact (by Carl Sagan) and many others. One of the shelves was dedicated to Isaac Asimov’s books. Isaac Asimov, considered one of the big 3 science fiction authors, supposedly had a pact with ACC that if asked who the best science author was, they would both answer Asimov; but if asked what he best science fiction author was, they would both answer ACC. One of the shelves had biographies, which included asimovs. On the right wall were videos — VHS tapes mostly. These seemed to be recordings ranging from the TV show, Arthur C. Clarke’s mysterious world, to the “World of Hal’s 2001” to random TV shows that had been taped. I wonder if this collection will ever be digitized? A big collection of VHS tapes was there — wonder how many of these have been digitized? There were many certificates and plaques and magazine articles posted on the walls. One of the books was titled, Arthur C. Clark, Genius It was a little overwhelming and I clicked as many pics as I could. Then, just as I was about to leave, I felt drawn to a shelf that had a bunch of random knick-knacks on it. For some reason, I hadn’t been drawn to photograph them yet, and didn’t see anything of note. I was about to leave when I noticed out of the corner of my eye. I had a funny feeling, as if it there was something alien in the room. it In my mind I heard theme music from 2001 ( ‘Also Sprach Zarathustra by Strauss) as I saw it. A replica of the Tycho Monolith 'There it was! Hidden amongst the kinck-kacs was The Monolith — or a replica of it. It reminded me of the original monolith which had been hidden on Tycho a long time ago by some unfathomable intelligence which had moved on, only to be discovered by explorers in the far future after their departure. It felt like monolith had also been left behind by some form of super-intelligent life that used to inhabit this corner of the moon, this very office in fact, but has long moved on to other dimensions! this I kept that funny feeling about visiting a place inhabited by another as I walked out and saw the moonscape entryway again. On the way out, we thanked the security guard and the caretaker and gave them a little tip, for making my day! For a science fiction geek like me, all in all it was an incomparable experience, bringing back the wonder of my childhood as I read ACC’s books about rromps around the solar system and alien life!

What I Found On Arthur C Clarke’s Bookshelf in Sri Lanka

This Slogging thread by Arthur Tkachenko occurred in slogging's official #programming channel and has been edited for readability. Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 9:40 PM Businesses have Messy Emails [pt 2] Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 9:41 PM Jumping to sales teams. Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 10:14 PM Security, sensitive information sharing, automation, tracking, and managing sales pipelines and business contacts. Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 10:22 PM How often do you reading your emails from your personal devices? Do you forward some sensitive information between your work address and personal email address? Let's talk about security. Links, Links, Links Monitor for Phishing and Scam Attempts. Ensure that you are cautious in the emails that you open, especially from unfamiliar sources. In the event of a phishing attempt, make sure to report it directly to your IT department and ensure that they have the most time possible to prevent any potential data breaches. While I'm not sure if it's doable in our modern world, but It’s important to make sure that all your client information is kept in one place, especially when working remotely. This is not only to reduce general data loss and increase efficiency but also to reduce the risk of data theft. The more places or applications you use to store your data, statistically, the greater chance that one of them will suffer a data breach. A lot of stuff we are doing with our mobile phones nowadays While working remotely, companies have less control over the networks that employees use. In a physical office environment, everyone uses the same network that the business has provided, meaning it’s safe and secure for all. While working from different locations, sales teams have more opportunities to connect to unsecured networks, which is one of the most common ways for data to be leaked or stolen. VPNs! Identity and Access Management solutions! Having a Universal Method of Communication! Haha, looks like it's impossible for small companies! singular form or method of communication can solve many problems companies face, especially when it comes to data security. Once again, spreading yourself too thin over several different sites and ways of communication can open yourself up to cyberattacks. In addition to having more security issues related to the different platforms, it also becomes easier for hackers to perform phishing attempts or gain access to private information and data due to potential confusion. When you have a lot of employees all communicating across multiple platforms with different uses, confusion is bound to happen. According to , over 1/5th of cybersecurity breaches occur due to human error, which goes to show, that streamlining communication as much as possible can reduce crucial errors. https://enterprise.verizon.com/resources/reports/2019-data-breach-investigations-report.pdf Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 10:34 PM Guys from Nord are providing cool service. Zero Trust security solutions Secure identities Ensure authorized personnel is accessing your user accounts, and nobody else. Secure devices. with alerts to admins Secure access to applications aka if your team is located in the US, nobody from Europe must be able to log in. or better have a whitelist of IPs.(yeah, no to working from a coffee, sorry not sorry) Secure data Secure network access > long passwords, encryption, backups and often review it again and again Visibility, automation, etc. Activity monitoring and logging So many things to talk about! Like how to prevent human errors? I don't have a proper answer. While planning and automation can help. And expertise. Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 10:37 PM Having a team of salespeople? The higher the number, the more risks and higher the probability of problems Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 10:37 PM Cross-teams collaboration can also be an issue Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 10:38 PM Salespeople have access to lots of data... in my previous article, I told a few stories, but I'm sure, there are more. Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 10:40 PM and it's hard to manage everything and prevent from leaking some personal information like bank details, personal email addresses, or just making a typo in email address and sending things to a wrong person Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 10:41 PM Cool article: https://www.tessian.com/research/the-psychology-of-human-error/ Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 10:42 PM While big companies have probably a great software and processes inside - there are a lot of things to do for a small companies Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 10:43 PM Yeah, it's hard to balance all risks at the same time, especially if your company is growing quickly and you have a lot of chats on Slack https://www.tessian.com/research/the-state-of-data-loss-prevention-2020/ Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 10:45 PM Threats prevention, Education, Automation, Great infrastructure setup, and centralized data storage might help Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 10:46 PM Training, Training, Training! Train your teammates. Reading list: Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 10:48 PM https://mapmycustomers.me/blog/data-security-awareness-and-its-importance-for-sales-reps/ https://intaso.co/news/building-a-high-performing-cyber-security-sales-team/ https://www.rossross.com/blog/top-5-cyber-security-tips-for-sales-teams https://www.stillpointsystems.com/your-sales-marketing-staffs-role-in-cyber-security/ https://www.nasp.com/blog/why-cybersecurity-is-now-a-more-important-topic-than-ever-for-remote-sales-teams/ https://securityboulevard.com/2020/01/the-importance-of-training-your-sales-team-avast/ Part one of this series: . https://hackernoon.com/businesses-have-messy-emails

Businesses Have Messy Emails: The Relationship between Security and Sales

This Slogging thread by  Arthur Tkachenko occurred in slogging's official #programming channel, and has been edited for readability. Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 7:44 PM Businesses have Messy Emails Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 7:45 PM recently I find a cool infographic called Businesses has messy data. And this image showed how hard is to operate data in our modern world. especially when you have a big company, with different departments, etc. I want to create a similar schema, but it's hard! Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 7:48 PM I'll use this thread to try to organize my notes and move it from my head Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 7:52 PM Let's start with a thing that 0 people on Earth like in email: long threads with link "Expand" They are so productive! Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 7:53 PM yes, we already invented tons of apps optimize emails and ... messengers to chat and replies. But we still have emails as a method to connect online Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 7:57 PM Let's dive deeper. Emails are still an essential tool for business development. But how often you are making typo mistakes, trying to reply quickly from your phone? not very professional, right? Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 7:59 PM or how many email addresses do you have? probably one for personal needs and another one for your work. Or more? hard to remember all addresses, right? I think I lost around 10 email addresses during my life. While most of them were personal, some of them were related to doing some business. and it means that I lost some precious contacts Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 8:10 PM And it's not cool if you are doing business and email your prospects. Imagine this situation: your employee working as a sales manager. And you are a small company and don't have a nice CRM system. Or it's not automated and requires manual input. How will you track it? are you sure that your manager imported all contacts he contacts? Or how would you manage the tone of those messages? It's important to be professional, even when things get hot. During my work, I have few strange situations in my life, related to online messaging. I was in chat with some prospects. Crazy dude, he was a rock star before and was running an agency at that time. I was trying to sell him our services, and at some point in our conversation he told me: "Fuck you, Arthur". I was polite and just finish our conversation. But what if I reply not politely, and he makes a screenshot and makes it public? this type of situation can hurt business. Another story was done by our first sales manager in NetWeight. He was doing his best and wanted to win a client. it was 2014 year, russland had already invaded Ukraine for the first time and he was stressed a lot. Our Ukrainian soccer fans created an idiom about Putin. And he used that idiom in the first message to our client. Yes, he added "Putin is c*** sucker" Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 8:15 PM I was able to catch it because we have tracking of all messages and I was able to go through the history of messages and be able to catch it. But i'm sure there a lot of businesses that can't manage things like this one. There is a new profession(5-7 years old), focused on managing the public image of brands online. Title: "Online Reputation Manager". Basically, the main task is to search the internet and see what people are saying. And if someone makes a bad comment about your brand, like "FU Amazon I hate you" - his person will try to reduce the hurt of this comment. Because bad branding can hurt your business These services work to ensure that positive news and reviews are the first things customers (and potential leads) see when they search for your business online. Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesagencycouncil/2016/10/31/why-brand-image-matters-more-than-you-think/?sh=33a230f410b8 Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 8:15 PM Ok, I think i'm slacking off from the topic of this thread. Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 8:31 PM : You have a newsletter signup form. How it was done? You can code it by hand, or use some generator from Mailchimp or other email marketing service provider. Then you embed this form into your website. Now you need to add some styles to it and play with CSS to make it nicer. If you using some website builder like Wix, Shopify, WordPress or custom made - you'll need to make some code adjustments. or maybe you even use a template from that website builder. Everything is cool and easy? No it's not. Where does data aka emails get stored after form submission? Is it your main website database? Is it secure or some hacker kid can easily access it after your system gets breached? Security is a huge problem and a lot of businesses struggle here. In my country, I recall not only small breaches related to personal data. Imagine you are going to the mall and they offer you to do a discount if you share your email/phone/full name in exchange. You want free stuff and you share your personal information. Later, someone offer a few grants to a person working in this mall for leaking a database dump that can be saved on one USB stick. and now your data is sold on some dark web. We even have leaks from our banks! 15 years ago someone from the police in russia sold the whole database of people recorded there. And you can go to some local flea market and buy a few CDs with that data for like $100 There can be other cases, for sure. For example you forget to pay for your hosting. And they blocked your website and wiped out all the data from it. Do you think everybody making data dumps very often? I dont think so Case Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 8:32 PM Or can you easily export that data? or you need to buzz your developer to do a database dump for you? and he is sending you a CSV file that you dont know how to open? Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 8:51 PM Case 2: How many email lists do you have in your company? You probably have a list of users that is using your online product. You probably have a list of newsletter subscribers You probably have a list of your clients You probably have a list of your prospects Questions to you: Can you easily access that data? Like in one click? Does that data update frequently? Did you clean up those lists? is it secured at least by a password? Your lists can be located in different places, and different services, can you easily export them? I can add another 20 questions easily )) Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 8:58 PM I remember another funny story: A huge outsourcing company. They have like over 300 people inside. Employees used the whole database of inner contacts when they need to sell something. Like when someone needs to sell a used MacBook, they used wildcard and send this spam to everyone. Do you think their CEO was happy about it? Can you confirm that your business contact book is managed properly? *@company.name Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 9:04 PM Another situation that I often face. HR managers use Linkedin to hire new employees. They add new people to their network, chat, and try to hire new people to the team. Business owner is paying them for their time. When this person is change the company - the database of people also migrates to the new company too. I'm not judging, but in terms of doing business, it's probably better to own that profiles, if you want to prevent this kind of situations Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 9:20 PM Case 3: You are running a few newsletters. They are separated by some category. For example one of my clients sends weekly emails with recipes with different types of recipes inside. Recipes for a family with kids differ from meals for couples that can eat some pizza or eat in a restaurant on Fridays. Some recipes are gluten-free, and others are for people with diabetes. Data is different, pulled from a bad database(her project was growing in years and DB expanded a lot). It's SaaS, her recipes are under a paywall and content is copyrighted. Now she wants to create a newsletter archive. Export all emails that was sent during the last 7 years, update the template and make it a separate website that can be indexed by google. It's a very hard task to do. Most of the emails were sent programmatically, by using some service like SendGrid or MailGun. She didn't plan to do it, so most of the work must be done manually. Plus she switched services, so some data is already gone. Ok, let's assume that we can get a dump of those completed campaigns. But even replacing a template or updating some links that can be broken is a task for some custom Python script A similar situation can be faced by businesses that used Mailchimp/Linkedin/Twitter/Substack for sending their emails and now migrating to other service providers. The best advice that I can give: after sending all campaigns you are going to do an HTML export and save it at some place. And do a few copies. Laptops can be stolen, you might cancel your Google Drive, or your home server can be damaged by a broken water pipe.  Later you might thank me. Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 9:27 PM Case 4: do you want to migrate from Mailchimp/Linkedin/Twitter/Substack? Don't forget to export stuff from it. Otherwise, your data will be deleted and you will lose everything Don't forget that when you don't have a custom email marketing setup you don't own that data. Read their Terms of Services. If you have an Instagram/Twitter/Facebook/YouTube account - all your followers might go in 1 day if you violate some terms. At the same time, if you have a huge list of contacts on your USB stick, even if you die tomorrow(sorry for bringing it here) - your family still can use it. Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 9:37 PM Let's go back to subscription forms. You have a form on your main website. is everything working fine? Are you sure? Are you sure? If it's integrated into your main codebase - you are in trouble. you cant move this form to another website easily. what if you decide to run an A/B test in order to increase rates? it's not easy to do and will require some manual work. what if your form has a few steps(as usual). what if you have users from around the world - can tell me that you follow all the laws of different countries. Like The EU law for example. General Data Protection Regulation Your sales team decide to run a marketing campaign, used some service like Unbounce, created a landing page, created another separate subscription form with Lead Magnet, put some advertising money and drive traffic to that page. after completion of that campaign, they export data and forget about that page. but that page gets indexed by Google and people still subscribe there. at this point, you are losing money. Nobody notified the developer about that page - because he is from another department and he didn't create a redirect to a proper page

Businesses Have Messy Emails

This Slogging thread by Arthur Tkachenko and Mónica Freitas occurred in slogging's official #random channel, and has been edited for readability. Arthur Tkachenko May 13, 2022, 12:20 PM Ok Elon, I'm really bored Arthur Tkachenko May 13, 2022, 12:22 PM Hello Slogging citizens, today wanna explore why Boring Company isn't makes me happy. Mónica Freitas Limarc Ambalina Ellen Stevens richard-kubina do you wanna hop? Arthur Tkachenko May 13, 2022, 12:22 PM Arthur Tkachenko May 13, 2022, 12:26 PM it's started at 2017 "Serial entrepreneur says his ambitious tunnel-boring endeavor, aptly named The Boring Company, has officially started digging underneath Los Angeles." https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/29/elon-musks-boring-machine-completes-the-first-section-of-an-la-tunnel.html https://www.cnbc.com/elon-musk/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP0DnKu6itE Arthur Tkachenko May 13, 2022, 12:28 PM there were a few iterations made after that. As an engineer in mind, he and his team decided to reinvent the wheel and upgrade current machines. it was not a bad idea btw, because this business is old and nobody want to be a gamechanger. at the same time - there a lot of things that slowing things down... like a huge machine that actually doing this digging https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrlXsHjbaNk Arthur Tkachenko May 13, 2022, 12:29 PM in a few years later there was a presentation party, which was funny, but still raised a lot of questions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS-swDhBrP0 Arthur Tkachenko May 13, 2022, 12:31 PM i'll skip monetization aka smart marketing where by using Elon's influence in Twitter(he bought it, funny right?) and raise money by selling flamethrowers and baseball caps. Arthur Tkachenko May 13, 2022, 12:32 PM as a startup in mind, everything changes quickly and few majors from big cities tried to push tunnels via Boring Company but were hit with bureaocracy and got silent... Arthur Tkachenko May 13, 2022, 12:34 PM but Las Vegas tunnel digging still started and I think started well. Even while we didn't get Sci-Fi "Maimi 80s" things - it proved the point. It actually can dig for a client https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02vsw1jWU8Q Arthur Tkachenko May 13, 2022, 12:34 PM Arthur Tkachenko May 13, 2022, 12:36 PM Cool company also jumped on this train and start to build their boring machines too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0SljoJPty0 Arthur Tkachenko May 13, 2022, 12:38 PM But again, if we want to move forward from traffic in LA into gliding in tonnels - there not a lot of progress, to be honest. Plus, I'm sure that Musk want to dig some dirt out on Mars... With this type of rate, it will be too far away for him to watch Arthur Tkachenko May 13, 2022, 12:38 PM As civilization moves forward, we did a great leap from trains running on coil https://media.giphy.com/media/ZzBtoSC42IrMQ/giphy.gif Arthur Tkachenko May 13, 2022, 12:39 PM But we still moving goods by tankers and then diesel trucks moving things into our malls. And we move goods from that malls into our houses using gas cars... Arthur Tkachenko May 13, 2022, 12:43 PM if we move heavy goods transportation under the ground - it can help a lot. Like it will not destroy roads quickly, not pollute our lungs with stuff and i'm sure it can drive cost down, which we all want to experience. while someone can say - we still have plenty roads - check what Jeff Bezos did. In order to be able to have his 1-day delivery - he bought a fleet(ok, lease) a fleet of airplanes. and i'm sure, Jeff and team know something.... Arthur Tkachenko May 13, 2022, 12:44 PM Here you can watch a long presentation from 2018 for some tech inspiration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwX9G38vdCE Arthur Tkachenko May 13, 2022, 12:46 PM While me still not satisfied with results, valuation is going up https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/21/elon-musks-boring-company-hits-5point7-billion-valuation.html Mónica Freitas May 13, 2022, 3:03 PM Arthur Tkachenko, I'm not super aware of what Boring Company is doing at the moment but though I get the perks of building tunnels for goods transportation, is Musk or anyone involved in this endeavor concerned about the environmental downsides that might come from this? Do these tunnels come with greener transport alternatives? If not, is it worth it to start tunneling? Arthur Tkachenko May 13, 2022, 5:29 PM Mónica Freitas there were two items that started Boring Company: Elon get crazy about driving and sitting in traffic jams and one SpaceX employee get hit by a car near their office. Can you explain what do you mean by "environmental downsides that might come from this"? He want to put Teslas inside of it, so cars with gas engines wouldn't be allowed. Plus, there are places, like stadiums, malls, and airports that always have huge parking lot areas. if tunnels will be connected to such places, people can use electro bus for moving out. as towns are growing(let's assume pandemic is over and everybody gets back to their offices) there is a need for tunnels(not just for transportation, but for water pipes, cabels, etc) < Do these tunnels come with greener transport alternatives? < If not, is it worth it to start tunneling? 😂 1 🔥 1 Arthur Tkachenko May 14, 2022, 8:46 AM wow, just figure out that there is a whole series about digging tunnels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE2MSXM1OpI Arthur Tkachenko May 15, 2022, 7:54 AM Cool video about how Chicago mayor trying to be cool and grow the city quickly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnobWh5iloE Arthur Tkachenko May 16, 2022, 10:49 AM Small boring machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HXfBprA7yU while it's smaller than previous titans, humans still can sit in it ^_^ Arthur Tkachenko May 16, 2022, 10:53 AM While i think hyperloops are still decades away, for sure, combining tunnels with loops without air is doable, but very hard to achieve. So they probably digging some dirt out, and building a straight line for Hyperloop(it doesn't like turns, so +1 problem with our towns) and testing some beta vehicles there. But not more that. only a test site https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YFKPsWdleI Arthur Tkachenko May 16, 2022, 10:56 AM This video also proves my point - right now Boring Company used mostly as PR stunt for promoting some crazy projects, instead of using real cases/towns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch_8uxlpmug Mónica Freitas May 16, 2022, 4:21 PM Arthur Tkachenko I love how Musk went like: I'm sick of traffic. Let's dig holes 😂😂 Mónica Freitas May 16, 2022, 4:23 PM Arthur Tkachenko so essentially it would be another way for him to establish a monopoly and get more money. Wouldn't it be more efficient to create another railway system underground but try to make it greener? Less traffic, more sustainable options, less pollution. Win-win Arthur Tkachenko May 25, 2022, 4:48 PM Mónica Freitas i think there are a few downsides to the "railway system underground". because it will require building more wide tunnels, railway require big machines/engines to drive trains.... while tunnels that Musk wants to build are not wide at all, they are mostly a size of a car that will run through them. Plus, as Musk building an autopilot - you don't need to have a pilot that will ride a train underground

Elon, I'm Bored [Part One]

This Slogging thread by Arthur Tkachenko occurred in slogging's official #technology channel, and has been edited for readability. Arthur Tkachenko May 9, 2022, 4:19 PM Cool resources for sending emails Arthur Tkachenko May 9, 2022, 4:20 PM today i find out that I have a lot opened tabs, related to emails. Let's close them and collect some important notes Arthur Tkachenko May 9, 2022, 4:21 PM A few tips for those who send cold emails. 🔥 Specifically, our best practices to avoid being trapped by spam filters and reach more prospects with your campaigns. Switch to dedicated IP address; Set up and regularly monitor DNS settings (SPF, DKIM, DMARC, BIMI: you can do it manually or with record generator tools); Respect sending limits (do not send 1000 emails per day per mailbox if your email service provider recommends 250); Make the ‘from’ line trustful (name, surname, and company name must be real); No caps lock, spam words, or exclamation marks in the subject line; Do not insert links or images with the first cold email (your prospects’ are not supposed to hear from you, any links will be considered suspicious); Check your email copy for spam triggers; Keep email lists clean (regularly validate them and stay away from bounces); Do the warmup properly (increase the limits gradually, interact with recipients with high sender scores). Me recommend to you pay more attention to these points Arthur Tkachenko May 9, 2022, 4:23 PM Also trying to play with Vercel and try few things related to form automation https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-build-a-working-contact-form-with-sendgrid-and-next-js/ Arthur Tkachenko May 9, 2022, 4:28 PM Great articles from EmailOctopus: https://blog.emailoctopus.com/10-powerful-conversion-tips-for-a-better-newsletter-landing-page/ https://blog.emailoctopus.com/how-to-write-a-great-welcome-email/ https://blog.emailoctopus.com/5-common-email-marketing-problems-and-how-to-solve-them/ https://blog.emailoctopus.com/how-to-use-humour-in-email-marketing/ https://blog.emailoctopus.com/b2b-email-newsletters-strategic-examples-and-best-practices/ https://blog.emailoctopus.com/types-of-newsletters-for-a-winning-email-strategy/ https://blog.emailoctopus.com/automated-welcome-email-examples-to-woo-your-subscribers/ https://blog.emailoctopus.com/fool-proof-ways-to-optimize-your-email-sign-up-form-capture-more-leads/ Arthur Tkachenko May 9, 2022, 4:30 PM free tools from Mail Meteor https://mailmeteor.com/spam-checker https://mailmeteor.com/email-checker https://mailmeteor.com/email-editor Arthur Tkachenko May 9, 2022, 4:31 PM https://www.htmlemailcheck.com/check/ Arthur Tkachenko May 9, 2022, 4:33 PM If you want to check and get inspired by other newsletters code, take a look this list below: https://github.com/designmodo/html-email-templates https://reallygoodemails.com/ https://github.com/derekpunsalan/responsive-email https://www.benchmarkemail.com/email-templates/ Arthur Tkachenko May 9, 2022, 4:59 PM Great deal on AppSumo - MailWarm https://appsumo.com/products/mail-warm Arthur Tkachenko May 10, 2022, 4:50 AM https://www.emailonacid.com/email-testing-and-rendering Arthur Tkachenko May 10, 2022, 5:18 AM A great tool that I recently find: https://www.mailkitchen.com/ https://www.drip.com/blog/ecommerce/transactional-email-examples https://www.drip.com/blog/ecommerce/forward-to-a-friend-email-examples https://www.drip.com/blog/ecommerce-marketing/brand-development https://www.drip.com/blog/email-marketing/drip-campaign-examples Automizy did a great job, by touching important topics https://www.drip.com/blog/ecommerce/how-to-use-popups https://automizy.com/blog/saas-marketing-tools/ https://automizy.com/blog/email-call-to-action/ https://automizy.com/blog/saas-marketing/ https://automizy.com/blog/18-saas-marketing-best-practices/ https://automizy.com/blog/email-marketing-skills/ https://automizy.com/blog/email-list-management/ https://automizy.com/blog/b2b-email-marketing/ https://automizy.com/blog/drip-email-campaign-examples/

*Cool resources for sending emails*

This Slogging thread by  Arthur Tkachenko occurred in slogging's official #programming channel, and has been edited for readability. Arthur Tkachenko May 3, 2022, 2:58 AM Here we'll explore cool newsletters for developers Arthur Tkachenko May 3, 2022, 3:00 AM developer tip, in the form of a gif, in your inbox each week Front-end articles, tutorials, and announcements every Friday. Sections for CSS/SCSS, JavaScript frontend development news sourced from the best subreddits articles, tutorials, opinions, and tools related to User Interface development "Frontend Related" Front-end Front https://frontendfront.com/ Dev Tips https://umaar.com/dev-tips/ Friday front-end https://zendev.com/friday-frontend.html Unreadit/front-end https://unreadit.com/n/frontend/ UI Dev Newsletter https://mentor.silvestar.codes/reads/ Arthur Tkachenko May 3, 2022, 3:02 AM A weekly email about software development, tech, and anything else Newsletter shares the latest articles in web development weekly newsletter discussing interesting and trending topics around the web platform latest programming news every two weeks mail about JAMstack ecosystem Weekly selection of five articles, videos or entire courses from FreeCodeCamp learning platform Weekly news about qualitative new projects and libraries in web development and design monthly newsletter about WordPress and web development "General Web Development" Labnotes https://labnotes.org/ Web Development Reading List https://wdrl.info/ Pony Foo Weekly https://ponyfoo.com/ Dev Awesome https://devawesome.io/ JAMstacked https://jamstack.email/ FreeCodeCamp https://www.freecodecamp.org/ Codrops https://tympanus.net/codrops/ The Comet https://wpuniverse.online/the-comet/ Arthur Tkachenko May 3, 2022, 3:05 AM Email newsletter twice a month with useful tips, tricks and resources for designers and developers. weekly JavaScript tips front-end development and web design newsletter with a focus on tools "awesome browser-side JavaScript libraries, resources and shiny things" TypeScript links every week Monthly JavaScript links Weekly rankings about the most popular open-source projects related to Node.js and the web platform Curated list of the top-rated articles from the community of JavaScript developers sent weekly JavaScript weekly news weekly roundup of news, tutorials and projects "Javascript" JavaScript Weekly https://javascriptweekly.com/ The Smashing Email Newsletter https://www.smashingmagazine.com/the-smashing-newsletter/ A Drip of JavaScript http://adripofjavascript.com/index.html Web Tools Weekly https://webtoolsweekly.com/ ES.next News http://esnextnews.com/ Awesome JavaScript Newsletter https://js.libhunt.com/newsletter TypeScript Weekly https://typescript-weekly.com/ JSter http://jster.net/blog Best of JavaScript https://weekly.bestofjs.org/ JavaScript Kicks https://javascriptkicks.com/ Bytes https://bytes.dev/ Deno Weekly https://denoweekly.com/

Cool Newsletters for developers [Part 1]

This Slogging thread by  and Arthur Tkachenko occurred in slogging's official #programming channel, and has been edited for readability. Arthur Tkachenko May 5, 2022, 6:49 AM #Together4Victory: List of Email Marketing tools Arthur Tkachenko May 5, 2022, 6:50 AM Today I'm collecting a list of email marketing service providers, aka Mailchimp alternatives. And I already find a lot of cool solutions for small businesses Arthur Tkachenko May 5, 2022, 6:52 AM Let's start with a list of cool articles that I find during researching on Zapier https://zapier.com/learn/email-marketing/ https://zapier.com/blog/mailchimp-integrations/ https://zapier.com/blog/automate-email-marketing/ https://zapier.com/learn/automation-for-small-businesses/email-marketing-automation/ https://zapier.com/learn/email-marketing/best-drip-email-marketing-apps/ https://zapier.com/learn/email-marketing/email-marketing-list-automation/ https://zapier.com/apps/email/integrations it was one of the easiest way to find a great and reliable service. if it's listed on Zapier, it's probably cool, right? Arthur Tkachenko May 5, 2022, 6:40 PM Sendy Sendfox TinyLetter Mailerlite BUTTONDOWN Upscribe Palabra Friendly Froged Moosend Mailjet UnderSend MailMeteor EmailOctopus NoCodeLetters BirdSend ActiveCampaign AWeber ConvertKit Constant Contact Omnisend Getresponse Sendinblue https://sendy.co/ https://sendfox.com/ http://tinyletter.com https://www.mailerlite.com/pricing https://buttondown.email/ https://www.upscribe.net/ https://palabra.io/ https://friendly.is/automate https://froged.com/ https://moosend.com/ https://www.mailjet.com/ https://undersend.com/ https://mailmeteor.com Customer.io https://customer.io/ https://emailoctopus.com/ https://nocodeletters.com/ https://birdsend.co/ https://www.activecampaign.com/ http://www.aweber.com http://convertkit.com http://www.constantcontact.com https://www.omnisend.com/ https://www.getresponse.com/ http://www.sendinblue.com Arthur Tkachenko May 5, 2022, 6:42 PM There a lot of things to take into consideration. And as marketing and email marketing is a huge market for services - its not about pricing or the number of emails. below is a set of options that can help to differentiate plans Arthur Tkachenko May 5, 2022, 6:43 PM - Email Builder - Email Templates - Landing Pages - Segmentation & Personalization - Retargeting Audience - Email Analytics - Dynamic Content - Marketing Calendar - Behavioral-based Automation - Custom-coded Templates - Lifetime Value - Surveys - Single-step Automation Rules - Multi-Step Workflows - A/B Testing - Multivariate Testing - Send Time Optimization - Phone Support Arthur Tkachenko May 6, 2022, 3:41 AM it is worth mentioning solutions, having different core values for example, the companies below work good with eCommerce Klaviyo https://www.klaviyo.com/ Campaign Monitor (listed before) Encharge https://encharge.io/ Newsletter2go https://docs.newsletter2go.com/ companies/services focused on marketing automation Aritic https://aritic.com/ ActiveCampaign Drip https://www.drip.com/ GetResponse Automizy https://automizy.com/ Sender https://www.sender.net/ MailPoet http://www.mailpoet.com/ Elastic Email https://elasticemail.com/ Woodpecker - http://woodpecker.co Zoho Campaigns and many more flodesk https://flodesk.com/ peopcampaigns https://pepocampaigns.com/ mailster https://mailster.co/ sparkpost https://www.sparkpost.com/ Jilt https://jilt.com/ Autopilot https://www.autopilothq.com/ Keap https://keap.com/ Arthur Tkachenko May 6, 2022, 3:41 AM I'll continue to extend this list later, thr source will be located in this repository: https://github.com/LLazyEmail/awesome-email-marketing

#Together4Victory: List of Email Marketing Tools

This Slogging thread by Arthur Tkachenko occurred in slogging's official #programming channel, and has been edited for readability. Arthur Tkachenko May 1, 2022, 1:23 AM Building Design System for Email Templates (React) Arthur Tkachenko May 1, 2022, 1:30 AM From April 2021 I'm pushing forward a few repositories that are part of LLazyEmail organization https://github.com/LLazyEmail/react-email-letter-components https://github.com/LLazyEmail/react-email-typography-components https://github.com/LLazyEmail/react-email-miscellaneous-components https://github.com/LLazyEmail/react-plain-template-example https://github.com/LLazyEmail/react-email-table https://github.com/LLazyEmail/templates-battlefield https://github.com/LLazyEmail/react-email-template As you see - a lot of links and repositories. Yes it was necessary. Before it was located in one featured branch. And i realized that it's a rabbit hole that sucking a lot of energy. This is why at some point I start to split core into pieces. main goal is simple: to create a set of components(right now it's React components, but i'm not married to it). Components that will help other developers to generate email templates easily and didn't hit the wall, as we did. before picking react as a main framework i was thinking for a few weeks. React was the best choice. I reviewed the progress of other tools that can be used as Template Engine. Most of them sucks and was not updated for the last 10 years. I can't put everything into one thread - one article. So let's start with basics and move forward from it later Arthur Tkachenko May 1, 2022, 1:34 AM Let's explore a few email template from developers perspective. they different from design standpoint, but still similar from the code perspective Arthur Tkachenko May 1, 2022, 1:35 AM This type of systematization helped me to understand how i want to organize layouts and components Arthur Tkachenko May 1, 2022, 1:36 AM plus i decide to test my components on different templates at the same time. while it's adding some chaos - i be able to really understand how to make these components useful for different cases. not to just one template. but it's draining my energy for sure. Arthur Tkachenko May 1, 2022, 1:40 AM At some point i stuck 🙂 and i decide to add even more templates. but much simple one. Email templates has old, boring and fragile HTML4 structure with inline styles. And is a huge part of building layouts for email templates. this is why i moved all components, related to table into this repository: While we need only one inside of it - i create a few child components from it <tables> https://github.com/LLazyEmail/react-email-table TableComponent Arthur Tkachenko May 1, 2022, 1:40 AM Arthur Tkachenko May 1, 2022, 1:41 AM all those components are tables with different set of attributes. , and are components that can help to shape layouts for email templates Row Rows Section Arthur Tkachenko May 1, 2022, 1:41 AM and yeah, nothing hard inside. as we have organization name LLazyEmail - everything should be very simple... Arthur Tkachenko May 1, 2022, 1:49 AM at the same time, by separating things we can create a system that might lasts for a few years. there are few libraries on github that was doing the same/similar things. But as their maintainer get busy or less interested in his project - it's actually pretty hard to grab and use as i want it. So yes, i'm reinventing the wheel, but there is more behind it. i hope to use these open-sourced modules as a gateway to hearts of developers 🙂 Plus, by doing it this way - I can get some street cred from communities like IndieHackers, ProductHunt and for sure, Hackernoon Arthur Tkachenko May 1, 2022, 1:49 AM Arthur Tkachenko May 1, 2022, 1:50 AM Arthur Tkachenko May 1, 2022, 1:50 AM Arthur Tkachenko May 1, 2022, 1:57 AM i didnt finish my readme file, so i cant put more screenshots 🙂 Arthur Tkachenko May 1, 2022, 1:59 AM one of the reasons of expanding TableComponent was changes in my coding workflow. Each template that I shared before has at least 1000 lines of code. and as cases are different, it's hard to just sit down, code for X hours and get done a few different email templates Arthur Tkachenko May 1, 2022, 2:02 AM during my work, sometimes i imagine myself as a wave, i can move forward and i also can step back and take some time to think. as i stuck, trying to attack complex email templates, i decide to start converting few more templates 🙂 I dont think it was a bad idea to try to bite a big piece in the begining. It helped me to face different issues and it was a reason of why i decide to cut components into pieces and make them independend as fuck. so from evolutional standpoint - it was a great idea. But i dont have enough resources to perform it. yeah, bad for productivity, but who is judging, right? Arthur Tkachenko May 1, 2022, 2:09 AM So i go to Really Good Emails and find a few Billing emails aka invoices/order confirmations. they are simple. they still have some important information inside. They are SIMPLE. and mostly build with Tables. Arthur Tkachenko May 1, 2022, 2:13 AM At this time i realized that our system and logic of how to organize components into folders is not ideal. A new challenge to solve. mindmapping and writing on a real board helped a lot. I still have that schema - it helps to dig into it pretty quickly, when i need a refresher. Like we have a typography folder. and it collecting things like Links, Headings(h1,h2,h3), Paragraphs, etc. and it's pretty isolated. But how to separate blocks, related to whole template, but still be able to re-use them? not an easy thing to be honest Arthur Tkachenko May 1, 2022, 2:24 AM and it can be a separate article related to organization of folders and components. I'm sure that my experience can help other frontend developers that trying to build a design system. so i go to a drawing board again. let me to present you my results! Arthur Tkachenko May 1, 2022, 2:26 AM cool huh? So it's a top-level of abstraction. like will contain both and inside. will contain everything related to content of these email templates. most of small components-wrappers will be put into folder Template Header Footer ContentLayout InteriorComponents Arthur Tkachenko May 1, 2022, 2:28 AM I think its enough for the first article... but i can tease you about what is coming next 🙂 here is a schema that i build in order to explain react components to other teammates Arthur Tkachenko May 1, 2022, 2:31 AM Email Marketing: Here is a list of other articles that connected to this topic https://hackernoon.com/email-marketing-and-how-to-curate-an-effective-business-newsletter https://hackernoon.com/5-reasons-why-newsletters-should-be-part-of-your-business-strategy Building Email Tool in Public: https://hackernoon.com/introducing-a-simple-npm-module-with-email-templates https://hackernoon.com/how-i-started-to-build-react-components-for-email-templates https://hackernoon.com/organizing-an-advanced-structure-for-html-email-template https://hackernoon.com/open-sourcing-regular-expressions-for-markdown-syntax-module

Building a Design System for Email Templates (React)

This Slogging thread by Arthur Tkachenko occurred in slogging's official #random channel, and has been edited for readability. Arthur Tkachenko May 4, 2022, 4:27 AM Exploring Substack for building your newsletter Arthur Tkachenko May 4, 2022, 4:29 AM Few days ago i made a post on IndieHackers about my recent accomplishment. I counted my articles on Hackernoon related to #food-tech category and realize that during these years i published 24 articles. It's a huge accomplishment for me and i was happy to share it with others. But comments went to another direction. I get asked if i want to create a newsletter, related to food tech. And yeah, i'm thinking about it, but there a lot of things to take in consideration Arthur Tkachenko May 4, 2022, 4:30 AM I get asked if Substack is a great option to build your newsletter. So I want to share my takeaways here Arthur Tkachenko May 4, 2022, 4:31 AM Let's start with basics. Substack is a SaaS (Software as a Service) platform that allows writers to monetize their newsletters via a subscription model for various prices starting at $5 per month Arthur Tkachenko May 4, 2022, 4:33 AM its focused on writers and editor is easy to learn. Plus you can pick if it's a free piece or you want to send it to your paid users only. While it's easy to write a post, there still a limitations to layout, i.e. you can't put everything there. which is probably fine Arthur Tkachenko May 4, 2022, 4:36 AM it's can be a great idea to starting from scratch, especially when you just want to start publishing your content and dont worry about everything else. It put readers first, which I also like. Not sure if i like an idea about "premium content" that hidden under paywalls. People that know me well, knows that I have motto "Fuck Paywalls". For years i'm skipping magazines with paywalls and publishing my content on Hackernoon Arthur Tkachenko May 4, 2022, 4:36 AM But there some Pros and Cons, for sure Arthur Tkachenko May 4, 2022, 4:41 AM You own your content and it's great. You can also easily export your email list, posts and other data from your settings page. From that page you can download everything that allowed by Substack right now. . I remember times when you can download all your business contacts from Linkedin into simple CSV list. But it's not allowed right now i think... Private companies can easily change their directions, ie pivot and update their terms. I also remember that I was able to download contacts to my 60k of students on Udemy and use it. But now I have a limited option to reach my students via 2 fields form on Udemy and I also should watch my words and didnt try to steal any traffic from Udemy(they better focus on applying some tools to DRM protection of video courses instead, so nobody can download them) sarcasm Arthur Tkachenko May 4, 2022, 4:42 AM Making money from newsletters is also fine. And the ability to set up paid subsciptions is a great way for monetization. Here is a guide from Substack to take a deeper look: https://substack.com/going-paid-guide Arthur Tkachenko May 4, 2022, 4:44 AM I think they allowing to connect your Stripe account via Settings But what if your country dont support Stripe(yeah, there so many countries worldwide, you know)... or what if i'm a crypto fan and I want to put some QR code or include unstoppableDomains links? not sure if it's possible. Arthur Tkachenko May 4, 2022, 4:47 AM as a company that want to be profitable, there is some fee for sure. While i'm fine with that(my Udemy profile has " "), someone might want to share their profit Substack allows you to use Stripe to accept payments. Stripe is available in select countries if you are not located in one of those countries then you cannot receive payments. Both Substack and Stripe take their cut from each transaction. Substack charges 10% and Stripe charges 2.9% + 30 cents on each transaction. This means if you charge $10 per subscriber then the Substack + Stripe fee will be 1.59. This may not sound a lot but let's suppose you have 100 paid subscribers each paying $10 per month. You'll be paying $159 each month and $1908 each year. your IRS withholding tax rate is 24% Arthur Tkachenko May 4, 2022, 4:48 AM SEO is a huge topic to talk about too. Basically, when you try to grow and promote your newsletter - you'll send traffic to substack website and work for growing their SEO index. And if you decide to part ways - you'll need to start from scratch with all those links, etc. Arthur Tkachenko May 4, 2022, 4:49 AM Limited integrations also limit your potential to access other tools that may help you convert more visitors into paying subscribers. Arthur Tkachenko May 4, 2022, 4:50 AM Huge plus is a simplicity. You dont need to be a pro in order to start. But again, you will be limited by a platform for sure Arthur Tkachenko May 4, 2022, 4:58 AM There is a limit to earn from single model of monetization. Only paywall is available, so... Imagine this situation: you work hard and be able to grow your readers list. let's assume it's related to tech. Your archive page(list of previously published pieces) gets a lot of traffic and you want to add to sidebar CarbonAds( ) you wouldnt be allowed to do that. https://www.carbonads.net/ Arthur Tkachenko May 4, 2022, 5:01 AM another SEO limitations. All images hosted on their CDN. Probably they woudnt be indexed as part of your newsletter here is a link: they dont put alts, so ... https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_704,h_396,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F590aa007-1c00-4f98-abcb-f717db528128_4032x3024.jpeg <img class="post-preview-inner-image" src="{URL}" alt=""> Arthur Tkachenko May 4, 2022, 5:05 AM Censorship. I dont know about situations where substack limited free speach or anything, but as a public company, i'm sure they have some rules or moderations inside. While i'm sure that HN readers are following some rules, there always another side Few years ago there was a situation when Parteon decided to ban some accounts because of a violation of rules. Jordan Peterson was affected I think https://www.businessinsider.com/jordan-peterson-says-hell-launch-patreon-alternative-before-christmas-2018-12 Arthur Tkachenko May 4, 2022, 5:05 AM Arthur Tkachenko May 4, 2022, 5:06 AM Quick mention(I didnt explore this tool) ConvertKit can be an alternative, btw: https://convertkit.com/ Arthur Tkachenko May 4, 2022, 5:15 AM again, substack is a great choice if you want to focus on content and dont distract your users with ads or something else boring. But if you will need some additional features that aren't in their roadmap - sorry. You can also benefit from their usebase. substack has more than 500k paying subscribers. And if you get featured, you can get some additional users from that. But as starter, it will be hard to get featured. And i'm not sure if you ready to do it. Plus, it's a competitive field. Like if you have your own website, your marketing, your newsletter and people go to it to read your content - it's your users. with substack case, your visitors can endup on someother profiles and as it's a platform that unite - they have right to switch. is it good or not - it's upon you. When i was running my previous company, we dont have a website and get clients from Elance website for freelancers. We have quite good profile, reviews, etc. We get into 14th LVL which is quite good accomplishment in my opinion. But when they decided to merge with oDesk and become an Upwork, shit things start to happen. But for details I'll advice to read articles from Nebojsa Todorovic after that situation I'll probably advice to build your own website and invest money into promoting it, instead of promoting your profiles https://hackernoon.com/u/nebojsa.todorovic Arthur Tkachenko May 4, 2022, 5:19 AM Let's imagine another situation. You have an upcoming product that you want to promote to your readers. In my situation it's a tools for newsletters, or modules for food tech startups. Will you be able to use your current userbase? I dont know. Let's imagine that you created Landing Page with lead magnet. Will you be able to add people that subscribed to that product into your Substack list? I dont think so. As substack controling subscription flow, you wouldnt be able to change something there. Arthur Tkachenko May 4, 2022, 5:21 AM Or what if you want to grow your newsletter and sell it later? I dont think someone will buy accesses to your Substack account 🙂 And if you decide to migrate away, you'll probably lost some users. Recenly i find this marketplace for selling newsletters: https://duuce.com/ Arthur Tkachenko May 4, 2022, 5:28 AM I recall a similar situation with Youtube creators. While recently Youtube added some features for monetization, there still a lot of cases when people lost their monetization of get some claims from copyright owners. if you reacting on some videos - you can get demonetized, if someone report your video - it can be deleted, etc. this is why some creators are leaving YT or exploring other alternatives. there a lot of great people that doing cool education videos. And as they want to grow and expand their businesses - they moving part of their content into or From Nebula website: https://curiositystream.com/ https://nebula.app/ Exclusive content. Original productions and bonus material. Support creators. Nebula is creator-owned and operated. No pre-roll ads. No need to skip what isn't there. Download videos. Watch offline in our mobile apps. Arthur Tkachenko May 4, 2022, 5:29 AM https://www.tubefilter.com/2021/09/21/youtube-creator-owned-nebula-curiosity-stream-investment/ https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55349255 https://www.businessinsider.com/creator-streamer-nebula-legal-eagle-wendover-productions-online-classes-2022-5 Arthur Tkachenko May 4, 2022, 5:30 AM will continue this thread later Arthur Tkachenko May 4, 2022, 5:38 AM Main Page layout on some popular newsletter for foodies

Exploring Substack for Building Your Newsletter

This Slogging thread by  Arthur Tkachenko occurred in slogging's official #programming channel, and has been edited for readability. Arthur Tkachenko Apr 7, 2022, 10:41 AM Hello hello and hope you missed my posts about simple modules that i'm working on. Another module that I'm trying to restart related to measurements Arthur Tkachenko Apr 7, 2022, 10:42 AM And im using the same logic of building it. It must be an isolated and independent module that Javascript people can include and use. Plus, as code is easy - people who using other languages can dig into that semantics and quickly copy it. A simple module doesn't mean it doesn't have a future for improvements. I even decide to create a separate GitHub organization, because i get stuck with so many repositories. It becomes hard to navigate there.I also adore the way how founders of DataHub did. They create a framework+test suite for checking and normalizing data. Plus i want to separate code, related to food data and data itself, so other professionals can use it separately too. Arthur Tkachenko Apr 7, 2022, 10:53 AM At some point I'll test this assumption and try to convert my modules via tools, similar to make in Linux. one of the easiest tasks will be to migrate to TS https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/migrating-from-javascript.html https://leanylabs.com/blog/migrate-javascript-to-typescript/ Python has module JS2PY for similar things - https://pypi.org/project/Js2Py/ Arthur Tkachenko Apr 7, 2022, 10:54 AM And yeah, I hope that Babel can help with tasks like that a lot. Ave to Babel! But lets get back to my "measurements module" Arthur Tkachenko Apr 7, 2022, 11:01 AM Let's start with basics aka why your ordinary programmer shouldn't know about it. And if you think it's was easy for me to figure it out - you really wrong. It take years to get to this point 🙂 In my article I told how hard it was to generate a grocery list when you have a set of recipes for a week. While one recipe can be a simple 1-2-3, another can be 1-1.1-1.2-1.2-2-3 🙂 and sometimes you need to combine 1/4 cup with teaspoons... (just trust me, it's not easy) https://hackernoon.com/the-crazy-problems-with-creating-pdfs-on-the-frontend Arthur Tkachenko Apr 7, 2022, 11:03 AM And let's not forget that US and Europe have different food measurement systems. And it's not helping here as well 🙂 Arthur Tkachenko Apr 7, 2022, 11:03 AM Arthur Tkachenko Apr 7, 2022, 11:05 AM I remember reading Robinson Crusoe as a kid and i was not able to figure out how much food he has. Or reading "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" by Jules Verne. My book version was 20k miles, btw Arthur Tkachenko Apr 7, 2022, 11:06 AM If you are already confused, I hope I answered to your question about why this module can become a great tool in future Arthur Tkachenko Apr 7, 2022, 11:08 AM This module is a set of constants that can be easily imported Arthur Tkachenko Apr 7, 2022, 11:10 AM Calculations and moves between cup1/8 and cup1/2 aren't supported now. As you might see - we have strings here, so it's mostly for displaying data Arthur Tkachenko Apr 7, 2022, 11:11 AM The math part will be supported later, when this module will be tested for different projects. Arthur Tkachenko Apr 7, 2022, 11:14 AM Let's think about where this module can be used. In my opinion, there is a huge variety of things, related to food measurements. From meal preparations for a family to catering. For weight loss, counting calories, fitness, and different diets From food delivery and restaurant management or POS From replacing ingredients, nutritional values to inventory tracking Arthur Tkachenko Apr 7, 2022, 11:14 AM and yeah, grocery shopping and family finance management Arthur Tkachenko Apr 7, 2022, 11:14 AM Arthur Tkachenko Apr 7, 2022, 11:15 AM Arthur Tkachenko Apr 7, 2022, 11:16 AM And while your designer can build a good looking app in a month(probably). You will have a huge opportunity to stuck with measurements. Arthur Tkachenko Apr 7, 2022, 11:20 AM Building a database can be a pain as well. Here is a schema that I built 5 years ago. Now I think it's so outdated approach to building things.... Arthur Tkachenko Apr 7, 2022, 11:28 AM I remember a cool example, related to building a database for grocery lists. My developer argued with me because i created a table called and we have table In his opinion, this is just the same thing that will be duplicated and mess with our data. and I understand why. But my idea was simple: ingredients are a thing that is related to recipes. And an item is a thing that is located on a grocery list and can be purchased. Items should also have a price field. So each item can be ( ) + ( ) + ( ) + ( ) such small nuances can adjust a lot of things during development. Especially testing. if you don't know that this can be a problem - later you'll be upset when things start to crash. Items Ingredients. milk Ingredient 1 L Qty and measurement id ingredient stored at favorite list id item is purchased at current shopping list Arthur Tkachenko Apr 10, 2022, 10:40 PM While someone can say that doing math convertions is not important, I can't agree with you. If you take a deeper look, there are people that always looking for a solution in a way, that suits them better. Someone wants "one app to rule em all", someone else wants a simple tool that can be easily imported/exported into no-code tools like notion. recently i was looking at notion templates for inspiration and find that people start to store recipes in Notion too! So it's hard to know what people will adore later. What i know for sure - simplicity is a king. Arthur Tkachenko Apr 10, 2022, 10:42 PM Let me continue. Someone get a prescription from a doctor and downloaded an app with app-purchases. Other people want to have a free app with only 10 free recipes inside. if you google online food calculation you will find a lot of strange and old things that sitting and actually still working - - - - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kitchen-calculator-pro/id316131048 https://mykitchencalculator.com/ https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/apr/07/cooking-food52-recipe-app-improvising-kitchen https://whisk.com/recipe-converter/ Arthur Tkachenko Apr 10, 2022, 10:44 PM And while UX designers trying to figure out the best way to fit a lot of functionality into a mobile screen and make users happy, measurements calculations work as before under the hood Arthur Tkachenko Apr 10, 2022, 10:46 PM if we go deeper, you may even find microsoft excel templates for managing recipes and making them scalable.... Check the images below, looks so fun. But i'm sure some people still using it for a convenience sake. Arthur Tkachenko Apr 10, 2022, 10:55 PM probably, next stage will be to polish this module and maybe make it language agnoslic. One of the easiest way that I know is to setup an API at someplace like and provide it as a service for other companies. https://konghq.com/ Arthur Tkachenko Apr 20, 2022, 2:05 PM If you want to read more articles about food tech: https://hackernoon.com/7-companies-with-recipe-apis-in-2022 https://hackernoon.com/food-tech-stories-how-an-indian-ghost-kitchen-received-dollar5m-from-an-indonesian-investor-9s1l31ij https://hackernoon.com/food-tech-stories-why-meal-kit-delivery-business-has-great-potential-a91q313s https://hackernoon.com/food-tech-stories-the-secret-of-the-sustainable-food-system-4k1y3198 https://hackernoon.com/food-tech-stories-how-sugarmate-helps-people-with-diabetes-b51g3111 https://hackernoon.com/food-tech-stories-solving-food-waste-problem-with-the-help-of-ai-yn1j3wbw https://hackernoon.com/food-tech-stories-how-these-guys-built-a-multi-billion-dollar-family-business-vfp3tg5 https://hackernoon.com/food-tech-stories-food-on-wheels-can-solve-last-mile-problem-xo4f3udd https://hackernoon.com/food-tech-stories-amazing-dahmakan-part-1-342c3u57 https://hackernoon.com/food-tech-stories-amazing-dahmakan-part-2-0s1q3uit https://hackernoon.com/food-tech-stories-how-food-can-fix-your-depression-tg4w3y9t https://hackernoon.com/food-tech-stories-will-you-marry-me-cooking-robot-ey5v3y2z https://hackernoon.com/food-tech-stories-how-to-fail-food-delivery-startup-ymk3yvi https://hackernoon.com/food-tech-stories-yummy-trends-in-2020-887f3ysr https://hackernoon.com/food-tech-stories-how-walmart-is-growing-food-subscription-business-ko193y7z https://hackernoon.com/food-tech-stories-how-italy-fighting-with-food-waste-jvw3ytk https://hackernoon.com/food-tech-stories-will-amazon-go-grocery-improve-our-shopping-n2403ygn https://hackernoon.com/food-tech-stories-digital-transformation-of-restaurant-industry-fwk3yvj https://hackernoon.com/traditional-ukrainian-food-beginners-guide-6w27329i https://hackernoon.com/what-is-meal-planning-uw1i3y8f https://hackernoon.com/junk-food-why-its-still-a-problem-ny36630mv https://hackernoon.com/junk-food-whats-inside-it-107ar30zv https://hackernoon.com/machine-learning-food-datasets-collection-fz5i130w0

Introducing a Simple NPM Module for Food Measurements

This Slogging thread by  Arthur Tkachenko occurred in slogging's official #programming channel, and has been edited for readability. Arthur Tkachenko Apr 17, 2022, 11:12 AM Glossary for Non Technies Arthur Tkachenko Apr 17, 2022, 11:14 AM Today I realized that some people dont know much about things like "Server", "Frontend" and others. I used them on call, and ... Person was not on the same page with me. Let's collect cool definitions! And after that we'll be able to share it as one article Arthur Tkachenko Apr 17, 2022, 11:16 AM – The process of detecting and removing from a piece of software. Both developers and quality assurance teams engage in this practice regularly to ensure that code is working as intended. They employ methods like automated and manual tests, as well as unit tests. My personal favorite type of debugging is widely applied and very efficient, and it's also got a humorous name: . Simply put, many developers keep a rubber duck on their desk—yes, an rubber duck. When they run across a problem in their code that they can't figure out, they start explaining their code out loud to the duck—who is, by the way, an listener. This process is very effective and helps developers iron out any flaws in their logic or identify code that isn't doing what it's supposed to be doing. In the unlikely event that you don't have a proper rubber duck, you can ask your co-worker to serve as a substitute! Debugging bugs rubber duck debugging actual excellent Arthur Tkachenko Apr 17, 2022, 11:17 AM – An error or flaw in your code that causes unexpected behavior in the associated program. My favorite story is one that most computer scientists are familiar with. In the late 1940s at Harvard University, an error was detected in an early electromechanical computer, Mark II. One of the operators of Grace Hopper's team found a real moth trapped inside the computer that happened to be causing the machine to malfunction. The moth was taped to a log book with a note that read, "First actual case of bug being found." To my knowledge, this is the earliest usage of the term "bug" in the context of computer science. Bug Arthur Tkachenko Apr 17, 2022, 11:17 AM – A pre-written collection of code that can be added by a software developer to a program to achieve some specific functionality or automate a process. Without libraries and linking, you'd have to repeatedly copy-paste source code into your project directory, or re-write the code yourself. Library Arthur Tkachenko Apr 17, 2022, 11:18 AM – A data structure where all necessary files for a project or application are stored, as well as the history of all changes made to those files. Repositories make it easy for you to track all changes in your development in case you ever need or want to restore an older version of your code. Repository Arthur Tkachenko Apr 17, 2022, 11:18 AM – A prior version of a software that typically includes the design of the project on a structural level (structure of content, functionality, and user journeys). – A simple working version of the software that typically is the next step in project design after wireframing. – A ‘client’ software that the users interact with. It’s a presentation layer, the way the software looks. – A ‘server’ software that the users do not interact with directly. It’s a data access layer, the way the software works. Wireframe Prototype Front end Back end Arthur Tkachenko Apr 17, 2022, 11:20 AM The practice of reducing redundancy in a relational database by separating conceptually distinct data (e.g. books, authors) into different relations (tables). There are several different levels of normalization. An algorithm is a set of instructions or rules designed to solve a definite problem. The problem can be simple like adding two numbers or a complex one, such as converting a video file from one format to another. Normalization Algorithm Arthur Tkachenko Apr 17, 2022, 12:28 PM Application Programming Interface (API) is a set of rules, routines, and protocols to build software applications. APIs help in communication with third party programs or services, which can be used to build different software. Companies such as Facebook and Twitter actively use APIs to help developers gain easier access to their services. Hypertext Transport (or Transfer) Protocol, the data transfer protocol used on the World Wide Web. Basically the same as HTTP, but uses encryption methods to secure the data passed to and from webpages. The way the frontend and backend communicate with each other is with requests and responses. A frontend script can request data from the backend, and a script in the backend can then send that data as a response. The cache is where data can be temporarily stored on a browser or computer in order to save time loading the same data over and over again every time it is required. The command-line is an interface for typing commands directly to a computer's operating system. This is the most direct and fastest way to perform operations on a computer's operating system like launching a PHP server, creating directory, executing scripts, changing file permissions and much more... API HTTP HTTPS Request/Response Cache Command-line Arthur Tkachenko Apr 17, 2022, 3:53 PM Usually, this refers to a new version of the application. It very often is, but does not necessarily need to be, customer centric. The moments before the release are always tense because everyone tries to finish as many tasks as possible without causing a catastrophe in the production environment. That's why some companies host " " to make it less stressful for the team and avoid potential trainwrecks just before weekend. Putting the code to the server where it’ll work. The process of converting the source code (written on the programming language, understood by humans) into machine code (understood by machines). A set of solutions for organizing the software structure: choosing structural elements and interfaces, the correlation between elements and their behavior. Source code freely available for making changes and free to download. A project management technique used to split the complex problem into parts that are easier to execute. Backend development refers to the server side of development where the main focus is on how the site works. This usually consists of three parts: a server, an application, and a database. Users can’t see the backend work, but code written by back end developers is what communicates the database information to the browser. Bootstrap is an intuitive and powerful front end framework that is an open-source collection of tools for creating websites and web applications. It was developed by Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton of Twitter to encourage consistency across internal tools, and was originally named “Twitter Blueprint.” Front end development refers to “client-side” development, where the focus is on what users see. Front end developers will be engaged in analyzing code, design, and debugging applications along with ensuring a seamless user experience. Release no-release Fridays Deploy Compiling Architecture Open Source Decomposition BACK END BOOTSTRAP (aka TWITTER BOOTSTRAP) FRONT END Arthur Tkachenko Apr 19, 2022, 12:48 AM React is currently the most popular javascript front-end framework. Developed by Facebook in 2013, React is used to build interactive user interfaces. MySQL is a relational database management system (RDBMS) developed by Oracle that is based on structured query language (SQL). A database is a structured collection of data. It may be anything from a simple shopping list to a picture gallery or a place to hold the vast amounts of information in a corporate network. NoSQL is famous for its high functionality and ease of development with a performance at scale. NoSQL is called a non-relational database. It does not follow the rules of relational database management systems (RDBMS), and hence does not use traditional SQL statements to query data. 2 famous examples of NoSQL systems are and . Docker is a software platform that allows you to build, test, and deploy applications quickly. Docker packages software into standardized units called containers that have everything the software needs to run including libraries, system tools, code, and runtime. Using Docker, you can quickly deploy and scale applications into any environment and know your code will run. Kubernetes is a portable, extensible, open-source platform for managing containerized workloads and services. The name Kubernetes originates from Greek, meaning helmsman or pilot. K8s as an abbreviation results from counting the eight letters between the "K" and the "s". Google open-sourced the Kubernetes project in 2014. Kubernetes combines over 15 years of Google's experience running production workloads at scale with best-of-breed ideas and practices from the community. Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon providing on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis. These cloud computing web services provide a variety of basic abstract technical infrastructure and distributed computing building blocks and tools. One of these services is Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), which allows users to have at their disposal a virtual cluster of computers, available all the time, through the Internet. AWS's virtual computers emulate most of the attributes of a real computer, including hardware central processing units (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs) for processing; local/RAM memory; hard-disk/SSD storage; a choice of operating systems; networking; and pre-loaded application software such as web servers, databases, and customer relationship management (CRM). ReactJS MySQL NoSQL https://www.mongodb.com/ https://neo4j.com/ Docker Kubernetes AWS Arthur Tkachenko Apr 19, 2022, 12:53 AM An object is a combination of related variables, constants and other data structures which can be selected and manipulated together. An object can include shapes that appear on a screen or the age of students in a school. Objects

Glossary for Non Technies

This Slogging thread by Arthur Tkachenko and Mónica Freitas occurred in slogging's official #random channel, and has been edited for readability. Arthur Tkachenko Oct 15, 2021, 2:28 PM Arthur Tkachenko Oct 15, 2021, 2:28 PM Arthur Tkachenko Oct 15, 2021, 2:30 PM Images from recent tests in Uganda https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/late-blight-disease/108180/ Arthur Tkachenko Oct 15, 2021, 2:43 PM I think the main question is: how to change minds, that are scared of the idea of GMOs? I mean - the man is the biggest selector, related to food. for eons, we selecting animals and plants for our needs. Arthur Tkachenko Oct 15, 2021, 2:44 PM Modern tomato vs one grown from 150yo seeds Mónica Freitas Oct 18, 2021, 10:58 AM Hey Arthur Tkachenko great topic. I think the GMO discussion still revolves around the same pros and cons: is it safe? How does it affect the environment? Because it's cheaper, can it be used to irradicate food deficiencies around the globe? The long-term effects of GMOs on general human health are still factors delaying their production, I think. Besides, there's still a stigma around consuming food with altered DNA, which can get some people cautious - some may think it's too "processed and unnatural" and, therefore, not good for you. Maybe through more in-depth studies, we can reduce suspicion around GMOs and their risks. Arthur Tkachenko Oct 18, 2021, 11:47 AM totally agree Mónica Freitas and great point to address! I can also add: while GMO usually related to our food - similar mechanisms can with animals/mammals. even people can be "modified". and this is a huge topic that will raise even more concerns. Arthur Tkachenko Oct 18, 2021, 11:48 AM Is it safe: https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/gm-plants/is-it-safe-to-eat-gm-crops/ Arthur Tkachenko Oct 18, 2021, 11:54 AM Important to mention how GM crops can work with local water recources: How does it affect the environment? https://massivesci.com/articles/gmo-excerpt-environmental-damage/ https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2015/gmos-and-pesticides/ Mónica Freitas Oct 18, 2021, 1:16 PM It's already tricky when we talk about crops, but adding DNA modification on animals adds a whole other component. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/theworldpost/wp/2017/12/11/gmo-animals/ 💯 1 💡 1 Mónica Freitas Oct 18, 2021, 1:18 PM Arthur Tkachenko This article focuses on the review of the existing trails at animal modification with commercial applications which you may find interesting: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924224415001223 Arthur Tkachenko Oct 20, 2021, 1:48 PM Opening it right now! thanks! Arthur Tkachenko Oct 20, 2021, 2:17 PM CRISPR is a huge breakthrough and can be used for so many things. And it's another huge topic. A lot of things to be discovered and will be related to research around this technology. Maybe also combined with AI that can solve some issues around folding proteins and other stuff... A lot of people can live better lives. Arthur Tkachenko Oct 20, 2021, 3:55 PM Yesterday find this article in my facebook feed: https://www.freethink.com/health/biopharmaceutical-drug-for-parkinsons Mónica Freitas Oct 27, 2021, 11:10 AM Arthur Tkachenko I didn't know about cancer treatment uses for GMOs. It can be a game-changer in public opinion. You inspired me to better look at that topic, and I found out about gene therapy based on the same engineered organisms. Here's the article if you're interested: https://medicine.missouri.edu/centers-institutes-labs/health-ethics/faq/gene-therapy Arthur Tkachenko Nov 9, 2021, 3:30 PM Just recently find some more cool news https://www.freethink.com/science/gene-edited-fish Arthur Tkachenko Nov 11, 2021, 12:19 PM and this clip is amazing

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This Slogging thread by Arthur Tkachenko occurred in slogging's official #programming channel, and has been edited for readability. Arthur Tkachenko Apr 2, 2022, 1:24 PM Let's explore cyberattacks on Russia that are helping Ukraine win this war. Do you want to help too? How to Help Ukraine? If you want to help and donate some crypto, here is (already raised > $65 million)". Ukrainian Crypto Fund Сryptocurrency address: 🔹 BTC - 357a3So9CbsNfBBgFYACGvxxS6tMaDoa1P 🔹 ETH - 0x165CD37b4C644C2921454429E7F9358d18A45e14 🔹 USDT (trc20) - TEFccmfQ38cZS1DTZVhsxKVDckA8Y6VfCy 🔹 SOL address:66pJhhESDjdeBBDdkKmxYYd7q6GUggYPWjxpMKNX39KV 🔹 DOT: 1x8aa2N2Ar9SQweJv9vsuZn3WYDHu7gMQu1RePjZuBe33Hv. Be safe and #StayWithUkraine Please do everything that might help us to win this war sooner. And it will return to you 1000x. Thanks again. Arthur Tkachenko Apr 2, 2022, 1:26 PM The main inspiration for this article was a message from, GhostSec team of hackers that destroyed a network of printers that their military used. For details, you can subscribe to their Telegram channel: https://t.me/GhostSecc Arthur Tkachenko Apr 2, 2022, 1:30 PM Quote: "We created a simple page that we will be printing across Russia including gov/mil networks! we have already printed this page across 100+ printers and MANY more to go! SLAVA UKRAINI Hey Russia do you liek mudkipz? PS:(all our attacks are against the gov of Russia and military, we do our total best to avoid harming or attacking innocents we suggest anyone working on this op to insure the same)" By printing a lot of pages with a black background and red font color they basically eat all the ink. And without ink resupply printers are useless in a few military offices Arthur Tkachenko Apr 2, 2022, 1:31 PM Quote: "10K+ Copies printed many printer's on Mil and Gov networks = ink completely wasted SLAVA UKRAINI" Yeah, Everybody knows that networks with printers are always vulnerable. Arthur Tkachenko Apr 3, 2022, 12:26 AM 2nd story I read while being underground and playing chess. An Anonymous family hacked servers related to russland aviation. and just erased tons of data. rus IT admins started to look for backups, but ... As a goverment organization - nobody approved spending money on backups 😍😍😍 Learn from this story and always do backups. Link: https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/03/31/ukraine-crisis-kaspersky-exclusive Arthur Tkachenko Apr 3, 2022, 11:42 PM Today(April 3th) leak around 120.000 profile information related to soldiers who is killing Ukrainians. I know that this data already started to be analyzed. source: Twitter post: https://ddosecrets.com/wiki/Category:Russia https://twitter.com/youranonnews/status/1510494900713840641?s=21&t=XXAJ6ihSnyD6kgkxVv2l3w Arthur Tkachenko Apr 4, 2022, 9:19 AM as the same time - https://www.forbes.com/sites/masonbissada/2022/03/30/russian-hackers-target-nato-and-eastern-european-militaries-google-says/ - https://www.reuters.com/world/fbi-says-russian-hackers-scanning-us-energy-systems-pose-current-threat-2022-03-29/ - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/30/ukraine-suffered-two-cyberattacks-lead-up-russia-invasion/ Arthur Tkachenko Apr 4, 2022, 9:19 AM More articles: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/01/russia-ukraine-cyberwar Arthur Tkachenko Apr 4, 2022, 9:33 AM Let's read more about how the Anonymous group attacked different places to help Ukraine https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/03/31/ukraine-crisis-kaspersky-exclusive https://www.hstoday.us/featured/hackers-turn-conti-ransomware-against-russia-as-twitter-suspends-some-anonymous-accounts/ Arthur Tkachenko Apr 6, 2022, 11:28 PM One of the first big attacks that get reported Arthur Tkachenko Apr 6, 2022, 11:32 PM The Anonymous representative told Taiwan News that Rosatom had been "owned for Ukraine" and included links to , the Russian nuclear power plant operator , and the (VNIIAES). A new html page with the letters was added to each of these three websites. Link: https://rosatom.ru/fckptn.html https://rosenergoatom.ru/fckptn.html https://vniiaes.ru/fckptn.html "fckptn" (f*** Putin) https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4474025 Arthur Tkachenko Apr 7, 2022, 9:00 AM Feb 26 statement March statement Arthur Tkachenko Apr 7, 2022, 9:01 AM IT Army of Ukraine doing a great job as well. I like how they pick a category of websites and do DDoS attacks. Arthur Tkachenko Apr 7, 2022, 9:03 AM for example here they pick food delivery services Arthur Tkachenko Apr 7, 2022, 9:04 AM or media websites that support propaganda Arthur Tkachenko Apr 7, 2022, 9:05 AM or cinemas(no Spiderman in Russia, only movies about war and rus fake bravery) 🙂 Arthur Tkachenko Apr 7, 2022, 9:11 AM Plus, sanctions work as well. After this document starts to work, there wouldn't be fast internet in Mordor anymore. At least while they didnt figure out how to fix it. But it will require sitting down, thinking about the internet and worldwide collaboration, making new deals and signing contracts, buying some tech solutions, etc. And as we are all seeing right now that russland is managed by grandaddies, nobody cares about it. Arthur Tkachenko Apr 7, 2022, 9:12 AM Attacks on Electronic Sign services(analog of HelloSign) Arthur Tkachenko Apr 7, 2022, 9:13 AM Online Banking Arthur Tkachenko Apr 7, 2022, 9:20 AM Great way to illustrate how things like this can be annoying for your enemy. KEEP GOING! Arthur Tkachenko Apr 7, 2022, 7:57 PM Long interview Arthur Tkachenko Apr 7, 2022, 7:57 PM Arthur Tkachenko Apr 7, 2022, 8:51 PM CNBC article: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/16/what-has-anonymous-done-to-russia-here-are-the-results-.html Arthur Tkachenko Apr 7, 2022, 8:53 PM Cool personal stories inside this article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/15/volunteer-hackers-fight-russia Arthur Tkachenko Apr 12, 2022, 11:20 AM At the same time, russland also trying to attack our important infrastructure, like energy production and distribution centers. Files were compiled @ 23.03.2022 But our guys trying to defend our important networks. Microsoft and ESET helping us a lot. Thanks for that!

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This Slogging thread by Arthur Tkachenko occurred in slogging's official #programming channel, and has been edited for readability. Arthur Tkachenko Mar 27, 2022, 11:05 PM Today I want to introduce a simple module for parsing CSV files Arthur Tkachenko Mar 27, 2022, 11:25 PM Recently I was exploring my old repository: https://github.com/Food-Static-Data/food-datasets-csv-parser Arthur Tkachenko Mar 27, 2022, 11:26 PM Inside I have a cool set of small modules, that helped me a lot. As my code is highly tied to those packages -> I need to pray for developers that build them, so I don't need to spend precious time. List of modules that I'm using: csv-parser fs lodash path path-exists shelljs Arthur Tkachenko Mar 27, 2022, 11:27 PM Why did I create this package? It's simple. During our work @ Groceristar, we came around a number of databases and datasets, related to "food-tech". To be able to extract that data and play with it -> you need to parse CSV files. Arthur Tkachenko Mar 27, 2022, 11:27 PM Arthur Tkachenko Mar 27, 2022, 11:28 PM Arthur Tkachenko Mar 27, 2022, 11:28 PM Arthur Tkachenko Mar 27, 2022, 11:29 PM Arthur Tkachenko Mar 27, 2022, 11:36 PM Link to the repository: Link to npm page: https://github.com/Food-Static-Data/food-datasets-csv-parser https://www.npmjs.com/package/@groceristar/food-dataset-csv-parser Arthur Tkachenko Mar 27, 2022, 11:44 PM I will also post updates about building modules for static data on indie hackers. While it didn't help with promotions a lot, founders are pretty positive people and their support really matters. Here is an org that I created few years ago: https://www.indiehackers.com/product/food-static-data Arthur Tkachenko Mar 27, 2022, 11:45 PM As usually, experienced developers might tell me that I'm stupid and CSV parsing is a mundane procedure. But I don't care. I realized that for a few separate projects we are running similar code. So I decided to isolate it. I did it a few times before I finally find a way to make it work as I like. And you can see how it looks right now. I can say, not ideal, but it was working fine for me. Right now I plan to revamp this package a little bit, in order to make it work with the latest versions of rollupjs and babel. Arthur Tkachenko Mar 27, 2022, 11:50 PM Arthur Tkachenko Mar 27, 2022, 11:58 PM While the idea is simple: connecting a dataset in CSV format, parsing it, and exporting data as you need it, while you need to make it work with 10 different datasets, things arent as easy as they sound in your head. CSVs not only related to food tech datasets. But for me was important to be able to use different datasets and easy to play with it. It makes other modules that we are building data-agnostic and more independent to a database/frameworks/logic. Basically, around this idea, we created and optimized like 13 repositories. Recently I created a separate organization that will be focused on those repositories only. Link: https://github.com/Food-Static-Data Later I plan to remove some repositories when they wouldn't be replaced by other, more popular, and stable tools. This current module can be useful for parsing other datasets too. But making it separate from the food tech topic isn't my task at this point. Arthur Tkachenko Mar 27, 2022, 11:59 PM And I was able to include and implement cool and important packages, like husky and coveralls. I can't say that I get most from them, but at the same time, it helped me to jump into the "open source ocean" that related to the GitHub rabbit hole that I'm still exploring for so many years. Arthur Tkachenko Mar 28, 2022, 12:00 AM and it's good to not just type another line of code, but also be able to see that your codebase is solid and nothing breaking it behind your back Arthur Tkachenko Mar 28, 2022, 12:02 AM Arthur Tkachenko Mar 28, 2022, 12:02 AM CodeClimate( ) helped me to explore and be able to take another look at how to develop things. https://codeclimate.com/ Arthur Tkachenko Mar 28, 2022, 12:03 AM Arthur Tkachenko Mar 28, 2022, 12:04 AM Arthur Tkachenko Mar 28, 2022, 12:05 AM Arthur Tkachenko Mar 28, 2022, 12:07 AM Yeah, codeclimate shows that I have code duplicates and ~50h of tech debt. Looks like a lot, right? But this is a small independent package. Imagine how much tech debt has your huge monolith project. Years of wasted time of developers, probably 🙂 Arthur Tkachenko Mar 28, 2022, 12:07 AM At some point i'll remove duplicates and it will reduce number of hours on this page. Arthur Tkachenko Mar 28, 2022, 12:10 AM Plus, usually, your product owner or CTO is busy and can't review code and be able to track things inside your code. CodeClimate can do some stuff for you. Just check those settings. Plus, they support open-source movement. So if your code is open and located on GitHub, you can use it for free. Arthur Tkachenko Mar 28, 2022, 12:14 AM Stretch goals are simple I want to invest some time into CI/CD stuff. At this moment i'll pick Travic CI. At some point i'll extend it, so when a new version of this package is published, i'll run it against our datasets and will see if something breaks or not. I also need to remove duplicated code that i was moved into separated packages but still present here, due to back capability. and it's also not cool to see JS code with all there csv files at the same repository. I need to came with idea about how to organize folders and make it easy to navigate. While it works for me - other people might find it very confusing. Arthur Tkachenko Mar 28, 2022, 12:17 AM We even did a great readme file with an explanation of how to run this package We collected a great number of datasets that can help a wast number of food projects. Some of them even sell the latest updates for money. Right now this module was tested with: - FoodComposition dataset - USDA dataset(i pick 4 major tables with data) - FAO(Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) dataset This module is not just for parsing data, we also have a need to write files in JSON format with formatted data inside. Arthur Tkachenko Mar 28, 2022, 12:18 AM Show some love if you want more articles like this one! any activity will be appreciated. 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