I’m heading out to Philly Tech Week and wanted to plan out my conference schedule. Normally this would cause me much consternation.

In my quest to offload as much low value work as possible, I turned to ChatGPT.

1. Described my goals for the conference
2. Pasted in the conference agenda from the website
3. Ask ChatGPT to generate me a Calendar ICS file.

Full workflow and prompt in my latest blog post.

www.joecotellese.com/posts/cha…

New single from one of my favorite bands – The New Pornographers Ballad of the Last Payphone

🎵

Cybertruck more explosive than the Pinto.

fuelarc.com/evs/its-o…

I realized I’m currently paying for four different cloud providers and I want to consolidate things.

rclone is the perfect tool for this.

https://rclone.org

#tools #commandline

Just pushed a new version of ezdocker. You can now open the URL of a running container with

ezdocker open <containername>

https://github.com/JoeCotellese/dockit

#docker #cli-tools #tools #python

TIL that Saturday Night Live has a bunch of VR content. It was really fun watching some of the skits from SNL50 on my Quest 3. I felt like I was part of the audience.

I stumbled upon it accidentally. I wish the Quest Youtube app did a better job surfacing VR content.

#vr #quest3 #virtualreality

Hate reading T&Cs? Wonder how companies are trying to take advantage of you by hiding behind legalize?

Try this prompt in ChatGPT or Claude

Act as an attorney representing an end user. Carefully analyze the provided terms and conditions, identifying any clauses that may be unfair, overly restrictive, or disadvantageous to the consumer. Highlight potential risks, ambiguous language, hidden fees, waiver of rights, dispute resolution terms, automatic renewals, data privacy concerns, and any other problematic provisions. Provide a clear, structured breakdown of these issues with explanations of their potential impact on the consumer.

For example, buried in Independence Blue Cross billing T&C update is this:

Point 3 - Lack of Liability for Unauthorized Transactions

Issue: The company disclaims liability for unauthorized transactions, even when caused by security breaches.

Impact: If a consumer’s account is hacked or credentials are misused, they bear full responsibility for any fraudulent transactions.

Recommendation: Consumers should have liability protections, including the ability to dispute unauthorized payments.

#chatgpt #claudeai #machinelearning #llms

Facebook flags a post of mine as Spam.

I’m on my app page, promoting an update to my app. #WTF

This is a cool #opensource project if you want a terminal UI for #git.

github.com/jesseduff…

Pop-tarts taste worse than I remember as a kid. Have they changed the formula or have I just out grown them?

I made a dumb little command line tool to make launching containers easier for my lazybrain.

https://github.com/JoeCotellese/dockit

So, instead of

cd /path/to/containers/openwebui
docker-compose up -d

I can just type

dockit openwebui

#cli #terminal #shell

This is cool. #Apple #Reminders will let you trigger a reminder when you get in or out of your car.

This biomass plastic looks promising. Starbucks in Japan is piloting it to replace paper straws. kanekagreenplanet.com

Handy spreadsheet trick to document your formulas in-line:

=Pricing!$D$2 + N("You can mess with the ASP on the Pricing sheet")

#spreadsheets #data #googlesheets

Someone made an animation out of post-it notes. 30 drawings every day for a year.

www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/11/d…

#animation

My desire to avoid specific news sites coupled with my desire to still consume content has lead me to rediscover the joys of RSS readers.

TIL

• Fish is fast. My initial impression is it feels much faster on startup than ZSH.
• OMF is a handy package manager for Fish

Today I tried to schedule a bloodwork appointment that required fasting for 12 hours. I aimed for the earliest slot possible. Booking it was much harder than it needed to be.

Your #datamodel shouldn’t dictate your #userinterface.

www.joecotellese.com/posts/dat…

#productmanagement

Xcode 16 is nearly unusable on my M1 Mac :/

Which is worse? Airlines or Cable companies?

I’ve been binging the Ultra podcast from Rachel Maddow. It is riveting.

Some things I’ve learned so far…

• Sitting members of Congress were trying to overthrow the government.
• Holocaust denial began just after WWII ended.
• McCarthy was a bigger pr*ck than I realized
• How much the Chicago Tribune carried water for the Nazis.

This is history I wish I learned in school.

www.msnbc.com/rachel-ma…

The new iPhone mirroring feature is really cool. If you’re having problems getting it to connect, make sure you have Internet sharing turned off.

If you use your Mac as a Wifi hotspot features like this fail and don’t really tell you what’s wrong.

#themoreyouknow

Someone once said to me “I can tell how much we’ve done this year by looking at the product releases on our blog.”

I definitely had my work cut out for me.

Executive stakeholders often want to see a roadmap plotting out the course over the next year.

As product managers, we grudgingly go through the exercise of filling up a roadmap – laying out projects side by side over the course of the year. We know full well it doesn’t feel right but maybe aren’t sure why.

Well, there are two problems with this. It damages culture and, it never gives you the opportunity to really operate in a Lean build-measure-learn cycle.

To address this you need to focus on outcomes, not output. But, how do we enact change when an organization is focused on output?

Start with this, for each product you are working on, identify the key drivers that will make it a success. Then, ask the executive stakeholders what they think the key drivers are. If you or the other stakeholders don’t know, that’s red flag. Get in the habit of leading with KPIs and talking to the org about aligning the outcomes of the features with the goals of the business.

You can read more thoughts on transitioning from output based roadmaps to outcome based roadmaps below.

www.joecotellese.com/posts/202…

Cool, just got invited into the Vivaldi for iOS Beta. Looking good @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net