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Derek Arends

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Did some nocode studying this weekend. If you are interested in adding automation to your business. Have a look at n8n. It can be self hosted and has enough integration to automate most business workflows. If interested or need help, hmu.

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How do ghost runners work? I remember using them as a kid for baseball/kickball but can't remember how they got out or scored.

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n8n and VS copilot agent is 🔥 Built a web scraper with full rag application in under an hour. 🤯 What do you want me to automate?

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OpenAI's new image model API is impressive. A simple prompt to create a goofy looking dog, a couple pennies to start the machine, and... You're welcome. Being a dog person I might just spend all my money on generating dog images.

OpenAI's new image model API is impressive. A simple prompt to create a goofy looking dog, a couple pennies to start the machine, and... You're welcome. 

Being a dog person I might just spend all my money on generating dog images.
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Would you like your own personal LLM? Most LLM models are able to be finetuned for a pretty reasonable price nowadays. I created a Derek-LLM based on the gpt4.1-mini model and it is able to create LinkedIn posts and Xeets with a very simple prompt. I am not sold on the content

Would you like your own personal LLM?

Most LLM models are able to be finetuned for a pretty reasonable price nowadays. I created a Derek-LLM based on the gpt4.1-mini model and it is able to create LinkedIn posts and Xeets with a very simple prompt.

I am not sold on the content
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If we thought the "this site uses cookies" was annoying, wait until each website makes you fill out a puzzle to make web scraping harder.

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Me: Hey Claude, I am a perfectionist and don't like to make uncomfortable calls so I am going to word vomit to you instead... Claude: I'm Drawing a Line I will not answer any more questions about this idea until you make the calls.

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If you are having GitHub Copilot in Agent mode doing your tasks, try adding the prompt below to the rest of your prompt. It has been an amazing addition for me. P.S. Add it as a prompt file or to your copilot instructions to avoid having to type it every time. ---- Add below to

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Today I learned a simple framework that can help make idea clearer: Character → Struggle → Resolution Example: Character: a shipper you're trying to help Struggle: the chaos they’re stuck in (late deliveries, bad visibility, angry customers) Resolution: a life of on time

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I’m learning growth can feel like two opposite emotions at once. On one hand, there’s excitement from the momentum, progress, and new skills clicking into place. On the other hand, there’s the frustration of dropping things, forgetting things, and feeling like I should be

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Anyone else impressed when getting AI to create HTML mocks it genereates the CSS first? I have a hard enough time adding CSS when I know where it is. I can't imagine predicting these styles will work, let alone make the app look good.

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I’m reading Thinking in Systems, and the book shares a simple story about two watchmakers. Both build the same watches. Both face constant interruptions. Yet one stays poor while the other becomes wealthy. The first watchmaker tries to assemble the entire watch at once. When a

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If you haven't used Claude Code cli or Github Copilot(GHC) cli, it is worth a shot. The last few days I am starting to understand when they say 10x engineer. I used to use GHC in VS code only and it was good. I did alright. Now I am throttled by the amount of context in my own