Max Braglia

I build stuff for fun and profit | Full-Stack Digital Marketing, Web Development & Applied AI 👉

[Max Braglia @maxbraglia]

Between stimulus and response, there is a space, and in that space lies your freedom.

[Max Braglia @maxbraglia]

Price is positioning, not just payment.

[Max Braglia @maxbraglia]

"The compression of complicated ideas into mind-numbingly simple takes is the new normal."

@thejustinwelsh latest newsletter.

Worth reading it a few times.

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

If you don't wake up excited and go to bed tired, drop everything and think of what your future will look like if you keep repeating the same day for the rest of your life. Sit with that discomfort until a new direction appears.

[Max Braglia @maxbraglia]

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[Max Braglia @maxbraglia]

I renamed my publication today.

For a year it was "AI That Works." It made sense at the time, as everyone was talking about models and agents and I was trying to keep up.

Then I read back through a year of posts and I noticed something: I was not writing about AI, but about one person trying to build useful things on his own.

Turns out the thread was never the tools. Instead, it was the operator.

So it's "The Operator's Notebook" now (link in comments).

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

The fastest way to change your life is to rip yourself out of your (physical and digital) environment. Change everything overnight. The places you go, the accounts you follow, the info you consume, etc. It's difficult but it absolutely works.

[Joost de Valk @jdevalk]

Launching https://t.co/36UBUXMmiq.

A platform-agnostic spec of what a good website does: SEO, accessibility, security, agent-readiness, performance, privacy, i18n.

Every claim cites a source. Ships with a checklist, llms.txt, MCP server, and Agent Skill.

Free. Open Source.

[Max Braglia @maxbraglia]

Regardless of your religious beliefs, when the Pope publishes a 100+ page document focused on AI, you know we're living through a significant shift.

The document dominated Hacker News this week, and rightly so.

Its core message is surprisingly simple:

Build AI.
Use AI.
Innovate aggressively.

But never forget that technology exists for people and not the other way around.

The link to the whole thing is below. Worth reading.
Or just ask AI to summarize it for you.

https://t.co/1qYD8mGGsS

[Max Braglia @maxbraglia]

By endurance, we conquer.

[Max Braglia @maxbraglia]

A year ago, I was mostly a marketer using AI tools.

This year: 789 GitHub contributions while building production apps with Django, FastAPI, React, SSR, realtime voice AI, PWAs, and iOS deployment pipelines.

Small compounding effort starts looking very different after 12 months.

[The Italian Way of Life @learnitalianpod]

🚨 New in ItalianChat: every lesson now ends in a real spoken conversation.

You speak. The teacher guides. Out loud. In Italian.

The fear of speaking? Gone.

Rolling out now across the curriculum, a few lessons at a time.

Try it free for 3 days. Link in bio.

[Max Braglia @maxbraglia]

@noahkagan It does. I too went back and forth for 2 weeks then found SimpleTexting. Not an affiliate. 2 hours was up and running.

[Max Braglia @maxbraglia]

One of my favorite Claude features.

You can move any chat from one project to another. The chat keeps its full history but picks up the new project's context, instructions, and knowledge files.

I use this constantly. A conversation starts in one project, evolves, and suddenly belongs somewhere else. One click. Done.

Small feature. Big workflow improvement.

[Max Braglia @maxbraglia]

AI is not the first "everything changes" moment I've lived through.

I was there for the dot-com explosion in 2000. Literally moved to the US the year the internet took off.

I was there when Google Ads changed how businesses spent money.

I was there for the social media wave. The mobile wave. Programmatic advertising. Marketing automation.

Every single wave had the same pattern.

Hype. Panic. A flood of new "experts." Then a correction. And the people who actually executed? They won.

Every. Single. Time.

AI is no different.

The hype is louder this time. The tools are better. The pace is faster.

But the pattern is identical.

The winners won't be the people with the best predictions.

They'll be the people who shipped.

[Max Braglia @maxbraglia]

Just marvelous.

[Max Evans @_MaxQ_]

@NASA has just released some EXTRAORDINARY tracking footage from Artemis II's launch just one week ago.

Mesmerizing exhaust flow interaction between all four RS-25's & twin SRB's.

[Dr. Jen Wolkin | ADHD + Trauma Therapist @drjenwolkin]

Society “you’re too old”
Artemis 2 Crew: “hold my beer”

[Max Braglia @maxbraglia]

Everyone's building AI writing tools for "content creators."

Almost nobody is building them for industries where compliance comes first.

Legal. Financial services. Healthcare. Insurance.

These are industries where content marketing could be a massive growth driver. But the compliance overhead makes it nearly impossible to produce at scale.

Think about it.

A financial advisor wants to publish a weekly article about retirement planning. Every article needs SEC/FINRA review. Every claim needs substantiation. Every social post needs approval.

That's quite a lengthy process.

AI workflows that bake compliance into the generation process don't just save time.

Human compliance still reviews everything. But instead of rewriting from scratch, they're approving content that was built with regulations in mind from the first draft.

They unlock an entire content strategy that was previously impossible.

[Max Braglia @maxbraglia]

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[Max Braglia @maxbraglia]

I built something for Python developers who want to go full-stack.

JavaScript for Web Dev.

Free. Open source. Nine sections.

You go from "I know Python" to "I can build a full-stack web app with React and FastAPI."

JavaScript core. Working with data. Async and APIs. DOM fundamentals. React essentials. Full-stack integration.

Every section builds on the last. There's a companion repo with a production-ready FastAPI + React app you reference throughout.

No fluff. No filler. Just the 20% of JavaScript you'll use 80% of the time.

If you're a Pythonista looking to build real web apps, this is a good starting point.

Link in comments.

[Max Braglia @maxbraglia]

The next wave of profitable AI is content infrastructure.

Tools that produce content. Optimize it. Distribute it. Repurpose it. At scale.

Think about where the money actually flows online.

Content drives traffic. Traffic drives leads. Leads drive revenue.

The bottleneck has always been content production. AI just removed that bottleneck.

But only if you build the machines to take advantage of it.

Not generic "AI writing assistants."

Real infrastructure. Pipelines. Generators. Distributors. Repurposers.

That's where the leverage and the revenue are.