Andrew Hudson (@MyBuddyAndrew) is an indie hacker who has taken an unconventional journey. From getting his hands dirty as an auto mechanic to now paving the way as a software entrepreneur, Andrew shares how skills honed in the garage fuel his tech ventures, Hauling Buddies and WrenchRadar. We get under the hood of his entrepreneurial journey, discussing the challenges and triumphs of running a two-sided marketplace for pet transportation and how his knack for logical thinking and compartmentalization drives his businesses forward.

We explore how a simple Facebook group grew into a booming business, with Andrew shedding light on his strategies to harness social media and tap into niche markets. We also discuss Andrew's exciting book project inspired by his son's love for space. This episode is a deep dive into the world of independent hacking, entrepreneurship, and the power of passion projects that all started with an auto mechanic's love for problem-solving.

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00:00:00 From Auto Mechanic to Software Entrepreneur
00:09:53 Building Facebook Groups for Hauling Services
00:19:44 Running a Marketplace Challenges and Solutions
00:29:07 Business Idea Development With AI and Automotive Data
00:36:16 Challenges With Car Software Updates
00:46:53 Learning, Building, and Sharing

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• (00:00) - From Auto Mechanic to Software Entrepreneur
• (09:53) - Building Facebook Groups for Hauling Services
• (19:44) - Running a Marketplace Challenges and Solutions
• (29:07) - Business Idea Development With AI and Automotive Data
• (36:16) - Challenges With Car Software Updates
• (46:53) - Learning, Building, and Sharing

This week, our guest is Paolo Maccario, President and CEO of Silfab Solar. Silfab Solar is a Canadian company headquartered in Mississauga that manufactures solar panels in Ontario, Washington State, and South Carolina.  The South Carolina facility will manufacture solar panels and cells with operations expected to be online in the third quarter of 2024.  Cells are a critical input to making modules, and the South Carolina facility will be the first of its kind in North America. 

Paolo explains that with the significant incentives offered in the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Canada is unable to compete with the United States to attract investment in solar panel manufacturing facilities. 

Here are some of the questions that Peter and Jackie ask Paolo: Why have the share prices for publicly traded solar manufacturing companies fallen this year?  How has solar panel pricing changed in the past year? Have the US tariffs on Chinese panels resulted in a boost for US domestic manufacturing?  How impactful are the IRA incentives for solar manufacturing, both the production tax credit (PTC) and the investment tax credit (ITC)? How do the incentives in Canada compare with the United States?  What is the efficiency of solar panels today, and is there room for improvement?  How can manufacturers keep up with the rapid pace of technical innovation?  What is the state of solar panel recycling?  The Canadian government has offered more generous incentives for producing lithium-ion batteries, how do the jobs for manufacturing batteries compare with solar panels?  

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• Silfab Solar Sustainability Impact Report 
• ARC Financial Sustainability Report  

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In today's episode we discuss running your first game.  How do I get started GMing my first game?  What do I need to know in order to run a game?  What resources are out there?  Do I have to do all this prep that you guys talk about?  We give you our thoughts and answer all these questions and more in today's episode.

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Hey Friend, In today's episode I'm chatting about the five things you absolutely shouldn't do before launching your digital product or online course.

Trust me, these tips are absolute game-changers, so you'll definitely want to grab a pen and paper for this one. They are simple reminders that will make such an impact on finding the right students for your launch.

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In this very special episode, host Josh Lindquist hangs out with fellow Dungeon Master Tony Krimson to talk about his podcast Enter the Fungeon! 

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In today's episode, we have a thought-provoking roundtable discussion on a topic that is often overlooked in the workplace - grief. We are joined by our guest, Dana Powell Baker, who is the manager for academic partnerships with the Association of Public Health Laboratories. Dana brings a wealth of expertise in higher education, relationship building, laboratory operations, and healthcare simulation.

Together, we delve into the importance of having tools and resources to manage grief in the workplace, sharing personal experiences, and exploring how to support colleagues in their own grieving processes. We discuss the stigmas and misconceptions surrounding grief, particularly for minority women. We also highlight the need for proactive support and discuss ways in which managers and colleagues can create a compassionate and caring environment.

Key takeaways from this episode:

1.  Educate and Familiarize: Become familiar with bereavement policies and resources within your work setting. Regular communication with HR will help you better understand the available support. Advocate for interactive presentations and modules on grief leadership to bridge the training gap.
2.  Create Spaces for Dialogue: Foster open and compassionate communication by creating safe spaces for professionals to share their experiences with grief. Incorporate bereavement education and training into leadership conferences and online learning packages.
3. Normalize the Conversation: Address grief in the workplace and break down stigmas and biases. Provide support and resources, even for colleagues who may choose not to disclose their situation. Have resources readily available, such as bereavement policies, leave procedures, and community resources for financial assistance.

Remember, supporting grief and loss is an essential part of building a compassionate and inclusive workplace culture. Let's come together to create a space where everyone feels seen, heard, and supported. It's time to eLABorate on this important topic. Let's get started!

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Dana Powell Baker is the Manager for Academic Partnerships with the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL). An ASCP-certified Medical Laboratory Scientist, her areas of expertise include higher education, learning and development, relationship building, laboratory operations, interprofessional education and healthcare simulation. In addition to her professional responsibilities, she is a champion for STEM as well as an advocate for diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. Furthermore, she serves as an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center in the Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences. Mrs. Baker has been recognized with various awards for her contributions and service to the laboratory profession most recently being named as a co-recipient of the 2022 ASCP President’s Award. She serves in leadership roles across professional organizations including the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) and the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS). She is actively engaged mentorship of emerging laboratory professionals.

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Subdomena czy bounded-context może być odkryta lub zamodelowana z użyciem heurystyk, które pojawiły się już kilkukrotnie we wcześniejszych rozmowach. Ale jak te koncepty mapują się na kod naszego systemu? Gdzie i jak zobaczymy w IDE ich istnienie i zakres? Odpowiedzią na te pytania mogą być opisane przez Erica Evansa moduły, zwane także pakietami.

Dziś ponownie moim gościem jest Marcin Markowski, a nasza rozmowa będzie dotyczyć wspomnianych już modułów. Będzie i teoretycznie i praktycznie, z obowiązkowym przykładem.

W dzisiejszym odcinku rozmawiamy z Marcinem m.in. o:

• decyzjach wpływających na kształt subdomen biznesowych i bounded contextów,
• modułach i ich roli w projekcie,
• organizacji kodu i struktury aplikacji w pakiety.

Materiały dodatkowe:

• Tacking Complexity in the Heart of Software, Eric Evans, rozdział poświęcony modułom,
• Modules in DDD, artykuł podsumowujący wspomniany powyżej rozdział,
• DDD Starter DotNet, przykład organizacji kodu w repozytorium Marcina,
• Modular Monolith with DDD, przykład organizacji kodu w repozytorium Kamila Grzybka,
• Modularization of domain models, darmowy rozdział książki Functional and Reactive Domain Modeling,

We could not be more psyched to be joined this week by New York Times bestselling author, podcast legend and Vanessa's "Ibiza" co-star, Phoebe Robinson! On this incredible episode we talk about how the three of us all grew up in the same suburbs of Ohio and our favorite hang-outs, reminisce about our favorite shops to hit at the local mall and talk about how our teenage fashion choices were informed by our developing sense of identity. We also dig deep into the history of Sketchers shoes and the controversy surrounding their "Shape-Ups" shoes that almost led to the company's downfall. Finally, we play a powerful game of LEGIT MOAN OR UNNECESSARY GROAN where we celebrate the legacy of local newscaster Ramona Robinson, debate if aesthetics are more important than doctors when it comes to hospitals and explore if the world is truly made up of—as one disgruntled Plain Dealer reader puts it—"crooks and liars." In a universe of unlimited podcasts, this is a conversation that cuts through all of the fluff and proves why Phoebe is a truly podcasting legend as well as a very cool friend. 

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We outline the advantages of running a homebrew adventure vs. a published adventure/module. We talk about what ratio of the two we think makes for the best campaigns, and discuss what room if any there is for hacking an existing adventure. Also, 2 new 'Dusty Stack' items! || Twitter: @passive_podcast || Email: passiveaggropod@protonmail.com || Logo By O_Oblique: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3clQyg-hJNTFNNvydS6fFQ 

Something I've become more and more passionate about over the last two years is to help side hustlers define their own success and have less overwhelm in their businesses. I have been a side hustler for many years and I have struggled to find education to help me have success as a side hustler. Not everyone wants to go full-time, and not everyone can go full-time, but everyone can have more success and still live a life on our own terms.

And through that journey, I’ve found that I love helping side hustlers do the same. That is, save time, bring in more revenue and live life on your own terms of success.

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Have you considered putting your backups on auto-pilot? Rebecca Fitzhugh, Director of Developer Relations at Rubrik, discusses the modules that leverage Puppet on Pulling the Strings. Learn how to automate your Service Level Agreements and a simple way to install Backup Connectors across a fleet of servers simultaneously. After listening to this episode and grabbing the module off of GitHub, your boss might consider giving you an extra vacation day. Be sure to stay until the end to learn about a recent Ransomware attack and how immutability gives you control to recover quickly.

In the circumstances this was a decent effort, especially with the cancellation of Mobile World Congress hanging over proceedings.

As it was over 900 exhibitors decided to attend. The test and measurement, software, boards and modules and interconnect sectors were particularly well represented. 

The ranks of the semiconductor manufacturers and component distributors were heavily depleted.

No Texas Instruments, Microchip Technology, Analog Devices, NXP, Arrow, Avnet, Digi-Key and Mouser took its toll. These are the blue-chip companies of embedded world so understandably their absence had a knock-on effect on the attendance.

When the exhibition doors closed, visitors numbered 13,000, which while well down on the previous year did offer some benefits. 

“The good news,” one exhibitor told Electronic Specifier, “is that many visitors arrived with a specific purpose or project, and with fewer visitors we had more time to talk to them, so some serious discussions took place.”

There was of course no getting away from the impact of the coronavirus crisis.

Metz, Sandi. Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby

Chapter 7. Sharing Role Behavior with Modules

Welcome to iteration

A weekly podcast about programming, development, and design through the lens of amazing books, chapter-by-chapter.

Modules! Modules! Modules!

Last episode we talked about inheritance which was kind of an extension of duck typing… but sometimes we need to combine the qualities of two existing subclasses, something that inheritance cannot readily accommodate.

Many object-oriented languages provide a way to define a named group of methods that are independent of class and can be mixed in to any object. In Ruby, these mix-ins are called modules.

Discovering the Schedulable Duck Type

The Schedule expects its target to behave like something that understands lead_days, that is, like something that is “schedulable.” You have discovered a duck type.

This specific example illustrates the general idea that objects should manage themselves; they should contain their own behavior.

Mountain Bike? Mechanic?

Now, in the code above, the dependency on Schedule has been removed from Bicycle and moved into the Schedulable module, isolating it even further.

Like Using Inheritance

COMES BACK TO AUTOMATIC MESSAGE DELEGATION

Loggable Example

When Bicycle includes Schedulable, all of the methods defined in the module become part of Bicycle’s response set.

When a single class includes several different modules, the modules are placed in the method lookup path in reverse order of module inclusion. Thus, the methods of the last included module are encountered first in the lookup path.

When a single class includes several different modules, the modules are placed in the method lookup path in reverse order of module inclusion. Thus, the methods of the last included module are encountered first in the lookup path.

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John: Type to Siri - Accessibility > Siri > Type to Siri

JP: Scrimba - https://scrimba.com/playlist/pKwrCg

Wouldn't it be great to have a logical approach to creative disciplines? Today we talk about "the web design equation" — a system similar to atomic design which uses mathematical principles. Our guest is Sean Doran, Head of Design at Wiretap. You'll learn how to think systematically about constants, variables, constraints, maximums, and minimums — concepts that we face daily in our design projects.

Podcast feed: subscribe to http://simplecast.fm/podcasts/1441/rss in your favorite podcast app, and follow us on iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Play Music.

Show Notes

• Wiretap — Sean's place of work
• Val Geisler, David Sherry, Dennis Field — some of our previous guests from Sean's community in Columbus, Ohio
• The Web Design Equation — an episode of Sean's previous podcast, All of the Above
• Atomic Design — a blog post by Brad Frost
• Figma, Sketch, InVision Studio — popular design tools
• Graceful Degradation — an article at Zurb
• Mockaroo — random data generator for UI/UX
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
• Sean's website
• Follow Sean on Twitter: @spjpgrd

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