What’s this page about?
I write about /now pages, or “changelogs” here
Doing
- Polishing my Python Skills to build useful tools like termbot and other WIP projects.
- I’ve been glued to Perplexity.ai and ChatGPT for some time now to try to make the most of them.
- Tinkering with OpenAI and Anthropic’s APIs (Python SDKs).
- Rebuilding my Homelab (Which I may write about someday).
- Waiting for a good Sci-Fi movie to be released…
Books & Study
- Wallace Wattles’ The science of getting rich
Amazing book, basically about encouraging readers to enter the “growth mindset” - The idea of contrasting mindsets like coping vs. thriving, creative vs. competitive, and constricted vs. expanding. In Stoic philosophy, there is the concept of focusing on what is within one’s control (thriving mindset) vs. worrying about external circumstances beyond one’s control (coping mindset)[1]. Buddhism also emphasizes accepting reality and detaching from desires and aversions. Coping vs. Thriving. More recently, author and entrepreneur Michael Gerber contrasted a “technician mindset” focused on daily tasks and putting out fires (coping) with an “entrepreneur mindset” focused on vision and growth (thriving). Coping vs. Thriving. Other thinkers like Robert Greene, Carol Dweck, and Tony Robbins have also popularized the idea of an abundant, growth-oriented, creative mindset leading to “thriving”, as opposed to a scarcity-based, fixed, competitive mindset leading to “coping”. Definitely a short book to be devoured, and digested more than once.
- High Performance Habits by Brendon Burchard
Great book which is a mix of old self-help (Like 7 habits of highly-effective people, which actually has the same structure), but condensed into quick and easy to follow everyday life actionble steps to become:More engaged with our everyday life and increase our energy levels and happiness.More “prolific” in the quality output in our work (And discovering what our PQO - “Prolific Quality Output” actually is) Sounds corny but it’s as useful as we make it.
Random
- Perfume: Rocking Bravo Monsieur by El Ganso
Articles & Researching
Random Cybersec & IT reading material:
- Read about the “Now Page” and really liked the idea (This is the first one I write).
- Anatomy of OpenAI’s Developer Community: Insight into OpenAI’s developer community.
- Amazon-Bedrock-Claude3-Multi-Modal-Sample: Demonstrates Amazon Bedrock usage.
- Is TikTok safe?: An in-depth look at TikTok’s safety.
- Leaked-Credentials: Github project on leaked credentials.
- It’s Time to Switch to a Privacy Browser: Discusses need for privacy-centric browsers.
- You’re Vulnerable - And Malicious Actors Know It: Insight on vulnerabilities frequently exploited by cyber attackers.
- OWASP Data Breach Notification: Notification about an OWASP data breach incident.
- Risky Biz News: F-Droid narrowly avoided XZ-like incident in 2020: Coverage of a near-incident with F-Droid in 2020.
- Massive Phishing Campaign Strikes Latin America: Venom RAT Targeting Multiple Sectors: Report on a large phishing campaign targeting Latin America.
- Google now blocks spoofed emails for better phishing protection: Google steps up phishing defense by blocking spoofed emails.
- Proton Pass now supports passkeys on all devices and plans: Announcement about Proton Pass supporting passkeys.