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18 Feb 2022
I worked for a $4 hourly rate as a Web Developer.
Now, my freelancing brings me 5-figures per month.
Here are some of the lessons I learned along the way
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Jun 11
The dogfooding that ElevenLabs has done made almost any idea of an app to use their API obsolete :D
They're doing amazing work, though.
Crazy progress.
Jun 11
Introducing Avatars in @ElevenCreative.
The best AI voices, now with a face. Create studio-grade talking videos from a script, a voice, and an avatar - all in one place.
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Jun 11
The grass I worked on week or so ago started growing.
The rain from few days ago did re-arrange some seeds so had to plant morenon areas without it.
But it's showing results.
Still need to remove some weeds, but happy that the soil is fine for the grass (saved some 2k Eur).
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Igor Benić retweeted
Jun 9
It has been a couple of years since my last @IndieHackers interview so they reached out for a follow-up. This time, the numbers are less positive so it’s an honest reflection of what’s happening and why:
indiehackers.com/post/divers…
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Jun 9
We're looking for software product people to be guests on WP Product Talk. If you have experience that other product makers can learn from, please apply below!
wpproducttalk.com/be-a-guest…
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Jun 9
New outdoor table delivered.
Some 1L of water must have gone out from my body while assembling and carrying this.
Might try coding today from this area (el. socket is near for charging).
My mother-in-law must love me since this is just too expensive. 🤣
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Jun 5
Had the idea for some time to build a book narrator SaaS to help authors convert their work into audibooks with each characters having their voice etc.
Went to look at the new pricing of @ElevenLabs just to see they've built that exact idea.
Can't compete with it. It's great😅
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Jun 1
Once I turned off the floor heating, my el. bill is now 100-150 EUR lower.
It was a mistake getting it and would have 4k EUR more (could put all 7 ACs right away) :D
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May 28
The podcast @TokenTownPod might be my new favourite one by @aarondfrancis and @IanLandsman.
Just because of today's episode and the pivot it took :D
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May 26
RT @igorbenic Got some 5-10 hours/week freed up for the next month or two. Would love a challenging WooCommerce or e-commerce Laravel project, but any WP/Laravel project is welcome.
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May 26
Created custom WooCommerce code to show the whole variation form on the list of products.
All works on regular Woo and default themes.
Locally configured client's site.
Ofc, doesn't work.
Theme (or other dev) decided to comment out hooks when overwriting templates. 🤦♂️
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May 24
Very productive offline Sunday.
- Installed door trims for the 1st time. Very happy with the result (finally used the table saw)
- Prepared the whole living room for painting
- Since grass seems to be growing, I prepared another portion of the land.
And now: coding :D
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May 23
Few days ago, bought a Parkside grass trimmer for 12 EUR.
Had a battery already from other tools.
Tested it today.
Trimmed around 100m2.
Even some bulky plants went down.
Great buy for trimming around the house.
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May 18
Started tinkering around the code that AI did for @wpgiveaways's visual builder.
Finally 😂
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May 11
So, I spent some time reading the code of Woo.
For some reason, events that should trigger a refresh of cart (such as wc-blocks_added_to_cart), don't do anything to update the mini cart Woo block.
Found a way that directly calls the action to refresh the cart, with type "hack"
May 6
I kind of miss the days when you could just read the frontend JavaScript code of WooCommerce to see how you can extend it, what events to trigger and such.
Now, reading the github monorepo in code view just to figure out how to trigger addtoCart event in shop block.
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May 12
Sometimes, if I receive a call from an unkown number, if I answer, I answer with a slightly different voice.
Just in case it's something to do with AI & voice.
If no response within 2 seconds, I hang up.
I am probably dumb for doing it :D
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May 6
I kind of miss the days when you could just read the frontend JavaScript code of WooCommerce to see how you can extend it, what events to trigger and such.
Now, reading the github monorepo in code view just to figure out how to trigger addtoCart event in shop block.
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May 6
First time experiencing Agent orchestration with Solo.
This is a perfect tool to start a real AI Augmented development.
And also a very smart implementation by using official CLIs, so no risk of being banned.
@aarondfrancis I hope you get lots of customers!
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May 5
Giving away @CommandCodeAI Max subscription to someone at random who follows me and Command. RT.
That’s more than 5 billion tokens of DeepSeek v4 pro.
In 24hrs. LFG!!
Read the eng deep dives below, good for all not just us.
May 4
interesting milestone: @CommandCodeAI on pace for ~1,000 new subs/day today.
the broader thought imo is that devs are figuring out that running open models inside Claude Code was leaving a lot on the table.
seeing more and more posts of DeepSeek/Kimi beating Opus/GPT once you swap them into Command Code instead. the harness matters, often as much as the model itself (a point that i think is still pretty underrated).
my eng notes on our harness engineering below.
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May 6
Was thinking yesterday how good we had it in Croatia before EUR was introduced.
I would pay myself an above average salary of 10 000 HRK which was enough for me and my wife to live off save go on trips/vacations.
Now, the same amount doesn't give the same possibilities.
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