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Mastering ChatGPT Prompts: Harnessing the Power of AI for Your Industry

Mastering ChatGPT Prompts: Harnessing the Power of AI for Your Industry

This comprehensive guidebook shows you how ChatGPT prompts can transform your operations in various industries.

2023

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Build Your Own Successful SaaS Business

I’ve been building successful (mostly!) SaaS businesses over the past 15 years. Here’s what I’ve learned.

Aug 14, 2021

Build Your Own Successful SaaS Business

Aug 14, 2021

Phil Smy

Using SQLite in Production with Ruby On Rails

Rails 7.1 makes SQLite viable for small prod apps. Covers setup, deployment with Capistrano, and database backup.

Jun 14

Using SQLite in Production with Ruby On Rails

Jun 14

Phil Smy

Demystifying Medium’s Earnings: When Fewer Reads Earn More

Have you ever been baffled by the earnings you receive on Medium? I certainly have. Let me illustrate with a perplexing example.

Mar 19

Demystifying Medium’s Earnings: When Fewer Reads Earn More

Mar 19

Phil Smy

Broken (Books) Butterfly

TL;DR I’m a whining Canadian, who cares about the money they spend. And the word ‘guaranteed’ means ‘not guaranteed’. Who knew?

Mar 2

Broken (Books) Butterfly

Mar 2

Phil Smy

5 Life-Changing Lessons: Escaping the Rat Race and Living on Your Own Terms

Discover the Five Key Strategies to Break Free from Conformity, Pursue Your Passions, and Craft a Life of True Fulfillment and Autonomy

Jan 18

5 Life-Changing Lessons: Escaping the Rat Race and Living on Your Own Terms

Jan 18

Phil Smy

Why Rust is the Future of Programming

Why Rust will take over the world.

Jan 17

Why Rust is the Future of Programming

Jan 17

Phil Smy

Unlocking Passive Income for Developers: My Gumroad Success Story!

All that hype you heard about Gumroad? Yeah. It’s true.

Aug 28, 2023

Unlocking Passive Income for Developers: My Gumroad Success Story!

Aug 28, 2023

Phil Smy

Parallel Testing in Rails 7: Benefits and Pitfalls

Unpacking Rails 7’s parallel testing: from setting it up for optimal performance to sidestepping common obstacles in the testing landscape.

Aug 21, 2023

Discover the power of parallel testing in Rails 7: a deep dive into maximizing speed and avoiding the unforeseen challenges it might bring.

Aug 21, 2023

Phil Smy

Building Robust APIs with Ruby on Rails: A Glimpse into Modern Web Development

Discover the nuances of Rails API development, from CRUD operations and serialization to testing and rate limiting. Elevate your skills…

Aug 17, 2023

Building Robust APIs with Ruby on Rails: A Glimpse into Modern Web Development

Aug 17, 2023

Phil Smy

Guide to running InvokeAI on AWS

Learn how to set up InvokeAI on an AWS EC2 instance, including instance type, installing drivers, configuring a GPU monitor and more

Aug 14, 2023

Guide to running InvokeAI on AWS

Aug 14, 2023

Phil Smy

Phil Smy

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Thinker, musician, writer and chief cook and code washer at ZonMaster.com. He’s also a published fiction author.

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