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Learning, failing, and growing.

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Get $100 in free ChatGPT credits.

Get free ChatGPT credits.

#ChatGPT#Free Credit
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Solo SaaS Payments — Starting With Stripe, Ending Up on Paddle

How I finished wiring Stripe subscriptions into MatchDa, only to discover four days later that the account country itself made the whole setup unsustainable — and the technical lessons from migrating to Paddle (Merchant of Record)

#Paddle#Stripe#Payments#SaaS#Webhook
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Fable5, which I thought was over... got extended... T_T

Entropic extended my Fable5 subscription again, and now I have zero excuse to stop building

#Fable5
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My last day using Fable5....

I'm using Fable5 like crazy right up until the very last day.

#essay
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Building a Prescription Fraud-Verification Blockchain With an AI Coding Assistant (From Smart Contract to Web UI)

A record of recording prescription hashes on-chain with a Solidity smart contract, going from a local demo to a Sepolia testnet deployment and a web UI, all in one day

#Blockchain#Solidity#Hardhat#Ethereum#Claude Code
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Landing a Job in Deep Learning & Big Data — What a Developer Should Nail Down in 6 Months

A portfolio beats finishing every course. A learning roadmap for deep learning and big data, organized by job role, aimed squarely at getting hired

#Deep Learning#Big Data#Career#PyTorch#SQL
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