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Ecommerce. Electronics. Vintage Tech & Media. Right to Repair πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ¦„ ArbiFlip.com

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Serious question for resellers:

What’s your biggest operational headache right now?

– Tracking inventory?
– Knowing real profit?
– Storage chaos?
– Taxes?

I’m curious what actually hurts.

24.02.2026 15:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The β€œprosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

07.01.2026 20:26 πŸ‘ 86923 πŸ” 21339 πŸ’¬ 1612 πŸ“Œ 1508
Paul Graham, Y Combinator co-founder, posts: The rational fear of those who dislike economic inequality is that the rich will convert their economic power into political power: that they'll tilt elections, or pay bribes for pardons, or buy up the news media to promote their views.

I used to be able to claim that tech billionaires didn't actually do this β€”  that they just wanted to refine their gadgets. But unfortunately in the current administration we've seen all three.

Paul Graham, Y Combinator co-founder, posts: The rational fear of those who dislike economic inequality is that the rich will convert their economic power into political power: that they'll tilt elections, or pay bribes for pardons, or buy up the news media to promote their views. I used to be able to claim that tech billionaires didn't actually do this β€” that they just wanted to refine their gadgets. But unfortunately in the current administration we've seen all three.

Corrupt tech billionaires are buying power to tilt the world in their favor.

Even the co-founder of Y Combinator is saying it. ⬇️

The radical death cult rising from Silicon Valley venture capital is metastasizing rapidly.

It's an existential threat to democracy and humanity.

02.01.2026 18:22 πŸ‘ 2444 πŸ” 849 πŸ’¬ 57 πŸ“Œ 58
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Recent pickups from the thrift.

Violent Femmes
Aqua
Ministry

10.12.2025 17:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Human "resources".

Just another line item.

03.12.2025 19:06 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Been learning how to create Laravel Packages to use w/my project(s).

Started pulling out pieces in anticipation of being able to manage multiple projects more effectively w/packages.

What I envisioned leaving college MANY moons ago is FINALLY coming to fruition!

`The Pizza Oven` isa working!!!

23.11.2025 15:31 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The album I've always used in a new car to test the bass!

09.11.2025 17:17 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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INTRODUCING THE VANCOUVER GOLDENEYES

Vancouver Goldeneyes and Seattle Torrent now have names and logos. #PHWL

06.11.2025 18:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What's the humidity like?

I hated winters when I lived on Vancouver Island because it was wet and icy (more humid near the coast) but was okay with Okanagan winters (much drier in the Interior where snow evaporated!) because it was dry and much easier to deal with!

05.11.2025 22:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"The day NYC elects a Muslim Mayor will be the day I die."

--Dick Cheney probably

05.11.2025 03:34 πŸ‘ 7792 πŸ” 1284 πŸ’¬ 46 πŸ“Œ 45
Screen shot of my setting screen. Settings > Manage Apps shows a list of apps that are connected to my account with the checkbox "Use by default" next to Gemini checked

Screen shot of my setting screen. Settings > Manage Apps shows a list of apps that are connected to my account with the checkbox "Use by default" next to Gemini checked

Check Settings > Manage Apps in your Google Drive, Gemini was enabled by default for me. I only checked because someone had pointed it on Twitter

27.10.2025 13:13 πŸ‘ 81 πŸ” 48 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 2

Have already had to deal with and fix this a couple of times!

Implementing morph maps now! Thank you for the suggestion!

21.10.2025 22:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This feature has been on my mind since the beginning & I've feared it being a major PITA to integrate later into the project. I think we were done within an hr!

My 1st Laravel project using polymorphic relationships & I am LOVING them! I noticed a HUGE speed boost the first ones I implemented!

21.10.2025 19:12 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Whenever you see hateful posts on social media, please remember that about 50% of internet activity is now AI/bots, so it's likely that it isn't even a real person. Don't fall for the crap that's trying to divide us, just ignore (block) and move on.

21.10.2025 11:34 πŸ‘ 855 πŸ” 306 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 6

Marked safe today because I never left my VPS for that overhyped cloud thin

20.10.2025 13:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Working on the really important things today:

ensuring the cli looks great when running an `npm run refresh`

🚧 🚧 🚧 Resetting: All data 🚧 🚧 🚧

Reality: about to test the shit out of last two Models I need to get finalized before finishing auditing my own data && updating the underlying software!

17.10.2025 15:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Been on a social media redux since summer.

But, I need to get back into it!

I'm getting very close to releasing my project (to others) & then I'll be forced to talk about it if I want more customers!

Current MRR: $24.95

I've been paying for dogfooding since I started charging my own cc in June!

15.10.2025 18:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

08.10.2025 10:29 πŸ‘ 27040 πŸ” 10278 πŸ’¬ 424 πŸ“Œ 184
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06.10.2025 03:57 πŸ‘ 39 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

05.10.2025 09:08 πŸ‘ 38296 πŸ” 17037 πŸ’¬ 829 πŸ“Œ 2406
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01.10.2025 18:46 πŸ‘ 191 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

"What I did on my summer vacation..."

Literally 😞

Almost back to where this ai led slide quest started on the summer solstice!

08.09.2025 18:20 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, I'm firing up the socials, again!

Because apparently this thing won't sell itself! πŸ€“

07.09.2025 19:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

For those wanting the geeky details of this Laravel project:

VILT (Vue, Inertia, Laravel, TailwindCSS/UI) with Jetstream, Spatie's Roles/Permissions, Pest, Stripe, Paddle, and a mix between VSCode w/CoPilot, Cursor, and ChatGPT (for higher level architectural discussions).

07.09.2025 15:33 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A screen snip of ArbiFlip's GitLab repo showing 1,002 commits, 1 Branch, 2 Tags and 543.5 MiB Proeject Storage

A screen snip of ArbiFlip's GitLab repo showing 1,002 commits, 1 Branch, 2 Tags and 543.5 MiB Proeject Storage

I knew it was coming up!

Pushed my 1,000th commit on ArbiFlip a few days ago!

Not shown: Created on January 16, 2023

Once tests are 100% passing, I will finally "put the guardrails up", work on my data entry backlog to test the shit out of the app, and then finally, FINALLY I will launch it!!!

07.09.2025 15:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"βœ… Perfect! You Were Right - Here's the Proper Solution"

If there's 1 thing I've learned, it's NOT to let the bot loose in my project w/o babysit/questioning it the whole time!

Any time I have, it's taken me weeks to get my project back from the depths of the hell it's introduced into my codebase!

07.09.2025 15:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

1 failed, 1 risky, 8 skipped, 1478 passed (10313 assertions)

ofc, that 1 passes in isolation.

me too unit test. me too.

07.09.2025 14:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A class instantiates an object.

06.09.2025 12:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Finally finalizing the Windows setup of the laptop I bought over 2 years ago. This hasn't been my daily OS since I left the corporate IT world of Microsoft in 2010!

Fumbling to find stuff on this OS but at least I finally started my Electronics Technician Program today!

05.09.2025 19:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Got a free Lenovo tablet w/points a while ago.

I don't think I've ever used this tablet and YouTube not crashed on me at least once!

From what I can tell, it crashes during transitions to/from ads in case anyone can fix this POS tech!

Old tablet NEVER crashed! Today, I can't get YT to open again!

21.08.2025 16:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0