- Posted in pre-accounting workflow
This is another pre-accounting post. Last time I talked about dealing with international invoices in Google Sheets. This post is about processing credit card statements efficiently. What do I mean by “processing credit card statements”? The task at hand here is to compare the expenses you have in 1 table in a sheet, with the […]
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In what I call my “shadow bookkeeping”, I have a table with expenses. In this table, I have various invoices with various currencies: euros, US dollars, British pounds and Mexican Mexican Pesos. I pay most of my business expenses with a business credit card. If the expense is in a foreign currency, a transaction will […]
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How to kill processes that are running on a certain port? For example, I am running shadcn but I get an error that the port is in use (“EADDRINUSE”). How can you fix that? For example for port 4000 – list the processes (PIDs in macOS): Then kill those processes: That should do the trick!
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This week I got a chance to try out Subframe. It’s a new design tool that is slightly hard to position within the category of design tools. Subframe follows the logic of Subform (RIP) where you are not working on a free canvas, but all your designs are “auto layout” by default. A tool like […]
Within AI, there were a few “breakthrough” moments after I thought that there wouldn’t be any breakthrough moments any more. After OpenAI’s GPT4 released, there was a period of around 6 months where I felt what we could get from AI kind of stagnated. But all in all I felt AI was a helpful tool, […]
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A client might come to us with the question to design a logo; but in our minds, it’s the start of a larger branding process. A logo can hardly be designed in isolation; it’s necessary to cement it within a cohesive brand, with considerations for typography and colours. Ideally, there is room to work on […]
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As I mentioned in my previous blog post about AI wireframing, your biggest asset as a startup is speed. The last two workdays were spent using a combination of Claude, Figma, Cursor, and Wispr Flow to work on an HTML prototype. I created a large desktop React prototype with seven modules (launch checklist, [secret module […]
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As a start-up, your biggest asset is speed. I’ve used a new technique that I’ve called prompt wireframing where I use a combination of tools to get the job done. There is this moment in a project when it’s unclear where things are going. There are designs somewhere. There’s a user story spreadsheet somewhere else. […]
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Today I was converting an mp4 video to a gif and I figured I’d document some commands that helped in the process. I used ffmpeg to do this. You can install it on Mac or Linux using homebrew: For optimal quality, generate a color pallette based on a timestamp in the video: This will generate […]
Leuk, zo met 1 klik van dark naar light mode met deze plugin.