Mark Denford

Tweets about dev & growing things.

[Mark Denford @markdenford]

For all the talk of Deep Work and Focus, this comic on why you shouldn't interrupt a programmer resonates the most to me. Maybe that's why as a developer at heart, I struggle doing many time-spliced interrupt driven tasks at work: https://t.co/sbDyjL0K0O

[Mark Denford @markdenford]

@Alan_Couzens I’m really into your tweets and content. Is there an anticipated release date for the book?

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@DanielleMorrill Ah, but maybe you *didn’t* order 2 lbs of garlic cloves…oh…wait…

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@LudicrousFeed @TheDriven_io @TeslaGong @VedaPrime No more collection at Chatswood, did you notice that or just me?

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@BeABetterDevv Congratulations - if it’s half as good as your YouTube vids it’ll be great

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@damengchen @GeoffTRoberts @outseta I reckon. I even integrated Outseta into a SaaS hobby project in a custom React site with an AWS API Gateway backend and it works a charm.

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@JustinKuijpers Interesting, what’s the epicentre in this sense? I often think about the epicentre or seed of an idea, or putting it another way a specific problem I regularly experience that I, at the very least, want a solution to. That’s my epicentre, where I start.

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This is the longest blog post that I’ve been the happiest to read. Awesome details from your journey @JhumanJ

[Julien Nahum @JhumanJ]

I've left my job at AWS and bootstrapped @NotionForms to $10k MRR.

Here's EVERYTHING I did to get there. There were ups and downs, but the journey was amazing.

I hope this inspires you to achieve your goals 🎯

Can't wait to get your feedback! 💫

https://t.co/vg0pwkTaB6

[Devluc @webdevluc]

Top 5 best selling items on ThemeForest marketplace accounting for more than $100 million in sales are multipurpose WordPress themes

Conclusion is not that WordPress sells well. The point here is that making tech accessible for masses of non-tech users sells the most

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@flying_hacker @arvidkahl @amazon That’s how ya do it!

[Mark Denford @markdenford]

@luciantartea That sounds really exciting. Good luck !

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@GeoffTRoberts @thisiskp_ @outseta Love this stuff. I like “projections” - if all goes well this is where we might be. But a goal (especially revenue) as a target almost certainly warps behaviour and introduces sub-optimal decisions - just to hit that target.

[Mark Denford @markdenford]

@agazdecki Agree. One by one make yourself “redundant” in whatever roles you’re doing, letting others in the organisation pick them up. They grow. Company can scale. You can focus on, rather than in, the business.

[Mark Denford @markdenford]

Current status: getting familiar with the Twitter APIs

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@arvidkahl Reminds me of the ToMo Total Motivation stuff which builds on Dan Pink’s book Drive. If “work” can become more like “play”, you’re into a good thing. Play as in stuff you’d do even if you weren’t getting paid.

[Mark Denford @markdenford]

@arvidkahl Comes down to what "sellable" means for the bootstrapped founder, I imagine often it's the "life changing event", so when in the VC world can you "retire" (in a very broad sense)? Meaning open up a different life.

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@BeABetterDevv When you’re a developer I feel like it often also culminates in that feeling that you’ve painted yourself into a corner, you’ve got no more degrees of freedom, without re-engineering out the complexity and opening up some “space”

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@flying_hacker Good stuff! All’s well :)