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27 Apr 2025

How to Create Advertising that Sells by David Ogilvy

On creating ads that sell based on David Ogilvy's advice

A campaign featuring a man with an eyepatch sold out Hathaway’s stock of shirts in just one week. David Ogilvy was the mastermind behind many iconic campaigns. This article summarizes his advice on creating ads that sell.

MarketingAdvertising

24 Apr 2025

How to Promote Effectively on Reddit Without Getting Banned

A practical guide to promoting on Reddit without getting banned

Reddit is a great platform to promote your product. But the community is very sensitive to promotion. In this post, I share my learnings of how to promote on Reddit effectively without getting banned.

RedditMarketing

30 Mar 2025

Beginner's Guide to Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

A super simple guide to SEO that goes into depth on what matters most

The Search Engine Optimization (SEO) guide I've always wanted to write! It covers what matters most in a digestible format to help you get traffic from Google and other search engines.

SEOMarketing

22 Mar 2025

Understanding Middleware in Express.js

A simple overview of how middleware works in Express.js

Express.js is a backend framework built for Node.js that simplifies building server side applications. This post covers Middleware, the core concept of Express.js.

JavaScriptNodeExpress

04 Mar 2025

On Solving One Problem Well

Reflecting on what I learned from recent failures

In this post, I'll share two projects that recently failed and the significance of focusing on solving one problem really well.

StartupsEntrepreneurship

31 Jan 2025

The 5 Pillars of Great Content

Actionable advice on creating content that people love

I recently asked myself: What makes content great? Here's a summary of my thoughts and some advice for my future self.

PersonalReflection

24 Jan 2025

How to Run ComfyUi on Google Cloud

A guide to performant AI image generation

Running generative image models locally is often slow. This is a guide to setup a Google Cloud instance for performant image generation with ComfyUi.

ComfyUiAI

24 Dec 2024

How to Validate an Idea? Lessons from a Viral Post

How to validate an idea based on my viral post on X in the Build in Public community

A post I published in the Build in Public community on X, asking how to validate an idea, went viral. This blog post summarizes the responses.

EntrepreneurshipProductMarketing

20 Dec 2024

Supabase: A Guide to Local Development

My cheat sheet for local development with Supabase

This post summarizes how to setup a local development environment for Supabase with a focus on using the database locally.

SupabaseDatabase

06 Oct 2024

VPS Learning Log

A collection of notes about Virtual Private Servers (VPS).

I've been tempted to move away from serverless providers to a Virtual Private Server (VPS). This posts summarizes my notes from a 4 day learning marathon.

VPSServerLinux

30 Jul 2024

Google Analytics (GA4) for Next.js 14

Add Google Analytics to a Next.js site with a GDPR-compliant opt-in cookie banner.

I couldn't find a clean GDPR compliant implementation of Google Analytics (GA4) for Next.js 14 single page apps, so here it is.

Google AnalyticsNext.jsOpt-in

27 Jul 2024

Curated List of Software Tools to Ship Faster

A curated list of software tools that help me ship my projects faster

Over the years I've found a few tools that help me build my projects faster. I would recommend these to my friends and decided to make a list of them.

PersonalToolsDevelopment

10 May 2024

Comparing CSS Display and CSS Position

What do they do and how do they differ?

CSS display and CSS position are confusing because both properties influence where elements are located on a screen. This post interactively explains the two properties and how they differ!

CSSStylingDesign

01 May 2024

How Does the Internet Work?

Ever wonder what exactly happens when you open a website in your browser?

This post explains the sequence of events that occur from the press of the 'enter' key on the keyboard to the display of the website in the browser.

InternetDeep DiveExplainer

22 Feb 2024

JavaScript in a Nutshell

A summary of JavaScript in the form of a glossary

Since I often forget core JavaScript concepts, I wrote this glossary for myself. It is inspired by Dan Abramov's post titled "What is JavaScript Made Of".

JavaScript

22 Feb 2024

My Core Beliefs

A post in which I structure the core things I believe in

Writing things down often helps me think more clearly, so I decided to write down and structure the fundamental things I believe in.

LifePersonalReflection