Elias Hickman

[Paul Sims @SimslearnAi]

Forget TikTok.
Forget YouTube.
Forget Instagram.

Amazon can pay you $3,000/month to start AI publishing.

It’s boring... but if you start today, you could make $3,000 by the end of March.

I’ll send you a free course showing exactly how to do it.

Just like this post and comment “SEND”

(Make sure you follow.)

[Elyra Future Tech @TechElyra]

I GAVE CLAUDE MY SALARY AND IT GAVE ME A PLAN.

USE THESE 10 PROMPTS TO TURN YOUR PAYCHECK INTO A STRATEGY:

[Nabil Abdullah @NabilMinhaz]

The Rothschild family chef forbade them from eating THIS after the age of 40, and they all lived past 90 years old.

[Abhinav Upadhyay @abhi9u]

You can read it here for free: https://t.co/ZzF3HzosyV

And if you prefer PDF, you may buy it here: https://t.co/fbUy2atjVo

[Dr Milan Milanović @milan_milanovic]

𝗟𝗮𝘄𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 🎧

A lot of people told me the same thing after the book came out: I want to read this, but I can't find time to sit down with it.

So I made the audiobook.

Laws of Software Engineering is now something you can listen to. On your commute, at the gym, or on a long walk. Six hours and nine minutes, all 63+ laws, all seven parts, narrated start to finish.

The laws don't change in audio form. Conway's Law still explains why your architecture mirrors your org chart. Brooks's Law still bites when you add people to a late project. Hyrum's Law can still make every API you ship problematic. You just take them in differently when someone walks you through them, one at a time, while you're out walking yourself.

The audiobook is DRM-free. You get one M4B with chapters, plus the MP3s if you want them. Download it once, and it's yours, on any device, for good.

There's a sample too, so listen first and decide for yourself.

🎧 𝗔𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸: https://t.co/JZwxwryzyo

🔊 𝗦𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲: https://t.co/YMRvdLAPY5

Prefer to read? You can do it in two ways:

📕 𝗘𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 (𝗣𝗗𝗙 + 𝗲𝗣𝘂𝗯), 20% off this week: https://t.co/dZGIgJELVf

📔 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸, 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿, 𝗼𝗿 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗺𝗮𝘇𝗼𝗻: https://t.co/SzVJSmYyxo

What is interesting is that most readers chose to buy a hardcover.

If you've already read it, thank you. If you've been meaning to, now's a good time.

[Terence Michael @ProofOfMoney]

At 144 slides, this Bitcoin talk from Vegas 2026 @TheBitcoinConf retains the title for most slides per minute.

And everyone knows that
more slides = more value!

In under 20 minutes...
enjoy a Bitcoin keynote like no other.

Because, again... MOAR SLIDES!

[DefenceInstinct | Cinematic Reels @DefenceInstinct]

Pay attention because I'm only going to teach this once!

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Watch Bob Fosse's snake performance in "The Little Prince" from 1974 and tell me you don't see Michael Jackson's entire dance career born in real time.

Wild to see the source material...

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Here's my conversation all about @FFmpeg, the legendary open-source software powering most video on the Internet. In the episode, I talk with Jean-Baptiste Kempf and Kieran Kunhya. JB is lead developer of VLC and Kieran is FFmpeg contributor, codec engineer, and the person behind the now-infamous @FFmpeg account on X.

VLC (@videolan), by the way, is also a legendary piece of open-source software: it's a video player that can open basically anything & has been downloaded over 6 billion times.

I think both FFmpeg and VLC are two of the most important and impactful software systems ever created, both open source, and both created & maintained by volunteers: brilliant engineers from all walks of life.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to FFmpeg and VLC, and in general to all engineers giving their heart & soul to building systems used by millions (or billions) of people, and often doing so not for money, status, or fame, but purely for the love of building great software and doing good for the world.

Thank you to the builders! 🙏❤️

Shoutouts in this chat to @ID_AA_Carmack @karpathy @elonmusk @TimSweeneyEpic and everyone who is a contributor & fan of open source!

It's here on X in full and is up everywhere else (see comment).

Timestamps:
0:00 - Episode highlight
2:17 - Introduction
5:35 - Weirdest things VLC opens
9:59 - How video playback works
19:20 - Video codecs and containers
30:07 - FFmpeg explained
51:07 - Linus Torvalds
55:46 - Turning down millions to keep VLC ad-free
1:10:04 - FFmpeg & Google drama
1:29:18 - FFmpeg developers
1:35:55 - VLC and FFmpeg
1:40:29 - History of FFmpeg
1:43:46 - Reverse engineering codecs
1:57:01 - FFmpeg testing
2:01:08 - Assembly code (handwritten)
2:25:26 - Rust programming language
2:34:42 - FFmpeg and Libav fork
2:43:04 - Open source burnout
2:50:51 - x264 and internet video
3:04:07 - Video compression basics
3:11:04 - CIA and fake VLC
3:21:39 - Ultra low latency streaming
3:39:07 - AV2 codec and video patents
3:48:59 - VLC backdoors
3:59:14 - Video archiving
4:05:51 - Future of FFmpeg and VLC

[Brett Pike @ClassicLearner]

There is currently a court case in NY w/ huge 1st Amendment implications, & no one is talking about it. They are trying to imprison a software developer for 40 years for creating tech that allows encrypted financial transactions.

Take away social media censorship & control over money & cancel culture is gone forever.

[ATL Uncensored @ATLUncensored]

This for the people who park on the side of the highway by the airport exit

[🍓🍓🍓 @iruletheworldmo]

a masterclass in coding agents from the head of anthropic.

there’s still a tonne of leverage in knowing how to use these systems optimally and this is the best i’ve seen.

make sure to bookmark so you can watch again and again chat

[sysxplore @sysxplore]

Quick Linux tip:

Got log files compressed as .gz? You don’t need to extract them to read or search through the content.

Use the 'z' tools directly:

• zcat - view the file
• zless - scroll through it
• zgrep - search inside it
• zegrep - search with extended regex
• zfgrep - search for fixed strings
• zcmp/zdiff - compare files

These commands let you inspect compressed logs without unpacking them first, perfect for quick troubleshooting sessions.

[Mr. Jason💡 @jason_coder0]

🚨 The 48 Laws of Power has sold 5.5 million copies, spent 230 weeks on Amazon's bestseller list, and is banned in US prisons across 18 states.

The reason it's banned? "Manipulation techniques."

I turned all 48 laws into 12 Claude prompts.

You describe any social, corporate, or political situation and it tells you which law you're violating and the exact counter-move.

Save for later 🔖 — all 12 prompts 👇

[Roan @RohOnChain]

This 2 hour Stanford lecture shows exactly how Stanford trains it's engineers to build AI systems. It's more practical than every Claude tutorial & prompting threads you've seen.

Bookmark & give it 2 hours, no matter what. It'll be the most productive thing you do this weekend.

[Alex Xu @alexxubyte]

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