Per Borgen

CEO of (YC S20). Helping devs learn faster and grow their careers.

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Software development jobs grew 10% over the last year while the overall market declined 5.8%.

Quite the narrative violation.

[Scrimba @scrimba]

Explain turns Reddit into a TV station – https://t.co/7JCziTplXx 🍿
See the thread 🧵 below for details:

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@Isolveissues Hah, good point!

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Ran my first ever half marathon this weekend. Worst two hours of my life.

Here’s me in severe pain getting overtaken by one happy smiling person after another👇

Did finish though, in 2:04. Next goal is under 2 hours.

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Here's a graph of how Explain has grown since we launched it 👇

Almost 200,000 explainer videos created in September alone 🤯

I know people say this all the time: but I truly did NOT belive it would grow this fast.

Feeling privileged to be able work on a product that so many people enjoy.

Thank you to everyone using it 🙏

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@lizziepika Thank you, Lizzie!

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@RyanMallin Lol, the pain is addictive!

This was San Sebastian in Spain.

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@MurefuFredrick Thanks, I hope so!

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@_davideast Yes, that and pacing correctly out of the gate. Went too hard early this time around, classic mistake.

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@keithwhor Thanks, I'm very pleased with that one!

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@DanielLockyer Damn, that's impressive!

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@ramprakash0324 Surprised at how addictive it is to do these types of runs.

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@DanielLockyer Sure hope it gets easier! Did you get below the 2 hour mark the next time?

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@macien_ Thanks!

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Join the discussion here: https://t.co/vMTKL9XNUF

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We just launched a little side project called https://t.co/1ZIi1HHQCs that lets you watch videos of Hacker News articles.

It’s aimed at people who’d like to sound smart when chit-chatting about AI with colleagues but don’t have the attention span to parse the walls of text that usually dominate HN. I'm definitely in the target group.

Hope you like it!

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@sachinkmohan @scrimba Got it.

We're not fetching images ourselves, but if you use Explain via an MCP, your agent will in most cases be able to do that. And then it can send it to us via one of the MCP tools.

The extension just grabs the content directly from the tab, so it doesn't need to use fetch.

[Jaren B. @jarenoid]

Holy shit! @scrimba's Chrome extension is insane.

You don't even need to know what Scrimba is. Just create a free account, install the extension and give it a try. It literally takes 2 mins, thank me later.

PS: This is not an ad, nor an exaggeration. If anything, A FAVOR✨

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@jarenoid @scrimba Thank you very much, Jaren! We're considering adding the video as a modal on top of the webpage in the next iteration. Do you think you'll prefer that, or the current version where it opens a new tab?