Russell Brown

A whole new world of "SEO"? I don't even know where to start to get Photivo.com on ChatGPT to come up for "Whats the best online gallery for professional photographers" - especially since the results it gives now are absolute total shit.

Thats awesome, congrats. It really is hard sometimes to feel like things have changed or improved as much as they have when it all comes in a stream of small and medium wins.

File that core memory away with that time I started an update on a million+ row db table without a where clause back in 2001 that I still lay awake thnking about sometimes!

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and says whoops . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and says whoops .

So last night while upgrading through Terraform versions because we were still on version 1.4.7 - and what could go wrong? Well I managed to scale down all of our services to 0 (ZERO) for more than a few minutes until I fixed a migration issue and a befuddling deploy script bug.

I love Terraform. Right up until the point where all it does is make me rage against my machine until I fix one dumb entry or make the proper migration hinted by a horrible error message and then I love it again!

Perpetually telling yourself that next month will be less crazy…. I feel that.

I know that simply using my own words and polishing them through ChatGPT or Grammarly alone causes “AI detection” to go off. I had an “AI Expert” and old connection call out one of my linked-in posts last year (for clicks I’m sure) that I wrote 95% of.

I don’t do post purchase / sign up surveys and I keep kicking my self for it. It keeps getting pushed down my todo list.

I tell my AI tool to misspel at least one common typo per every post it writes to make it more believable

I find my most valuable question when I interview to be some version of “tell me about a recent big mistake you’ve made. What happened, what were the results, how was it resolved & what was the takeaway” - The bigger the fuckup, the more details has directly correlated with success. Bad answer = 🚩

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I rocked the De'Longhi ECP3630 for a long time & loved the simplicity. I eventually killed it and went overboard w/ an Ascaso Steel Duo machine.

One you geek out on grind, pre-infusion, brew length & measure everything to the gram.... well it's all over. Def a rabbit whole for the engineer minded!

The only way I was able to do this even close to 100% was to leverage docker containers. PyEnv and Poetry were the only way to do it, and yes every now and then they just have a total melt down!

Photivo - Client Galleries for Photographers Beautiful, easy to use client galleries for your photography business

At a time when I was expecting to be broadening our target photographer market at Photivo.com, this year we’ve actually decided to narrow our focused growth areas; specifically on established higher-end photographers. Which is a little scary, but also feels awesome!

Are people who excel on the marketing side of SAAS just naturally good at it, or did you learn or just force it over time? Because I’m looking to hire a team to make up for how much I suck at it and $$$$$ FK! But what’s the point of solving a problem if you can’t sell it?

Lazy writing for lazy viewers. Also as I understand it they are always telling writers to dumb things down for “second screen” viewing because so rarely now for especially younger viewers are they giving the TV show or movie full attention. Instead they are browsing on their devices while watching!

For the first time in a while I’m not feeling like Christmas at all. We’ve got the house decorated, but I think we’re so focused on the upcoming Engage conference at Amelia Island next week I haven’t looked up to breath much.

One almost $300 car battery later swapped in the restaurant parking lot and it started right back up no problem. I would highly recommend everyone NOT use autostop in their cars.

Software testing is hard! Yesterday the battery in my wife’s new SUV had a battery “failure”, 👍 volts / 👎 amps. The cars software, threw a failure on every single system check on start and then basically hard crashed & disabled the car w/ no message. All because of a failed pre-ignition unit test.

There is just something special about waking up to your refrigerator’s compressor having failed overnight. Packed with groceries and leftovers. What an expensive day it’s gonna be.

✨ You know it's funny? Among all the fancy tech I work with daily, it's TailwindCSS that brings me the most joy! Sometimes the simplest tools make the biggest impact. It's not the flashiest part of a stack, but man, does it really effect how I build front-end code and makes me oddly happy to use! 💙

Starting fresh with my follows here - just a few familiar faces from a Slack group. Using this as a chance to discover entirely new voices! Now I'm diving deep into profiles and links, giving context to all these avatars. It's like a digital treasure hunt. 🔍

Unless you are doing video editing or running training on a laptop for some reason will you be able to actually tell a difference? There is practically zero difference between my M1 and M3 as a software engineer and photographer. Topaz does render a little faster.

Seeing too many people came here to have a smaller echo chamber of ideas, not for something different or better.

I click on “see less” on every single political post here. I do not even care if I agree with it.

Love it! I can't find it, but just the other day I saw a social media post about a coffee shop, and a restaurant (unrelated) that required customers to lock their phones up. Don't forget maybe a few bookshelves of games!

Is it lame if you are already doing it? I love photography & technology & business... Photivo.com gives me all of those. Although if I really thought about it, maybe I'd become a sailing social media influencer and just sail full time LOL

The resume submission system is fundamentally broken. When candidates can blast 100 applications in an hour, and hiring managers face 1k+ submissions per role, quality gets buried in quantity. We're drowning in a sea of PDFs where neither side wins. There has to be a better way. 🤔 #Hiring #JobSearch

While building Photivo.com, I'm still consulting to keep things afloat. Currently hunting for my next gig and man, what a reality check. The last thing I want to be is a "LinkedIn thought leader" 🤮 but here we are - playing the game because it works ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #TechCareers

Reality check: Applied to 40+ jobs in 3wks w/ 2 decades of experience and marquee names on my resume. Zero call backs. Yet one well written critical post on LinkedIn w/ 80K+ views netted 4 solid leads. The traditional job hunt is broken. Social media engagement is the cover letter and I'm not a fan!