Brian P. Hogan
@bphogan
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Technical content expert, developer education leader, author, educator, mentor, and software developer. I develop people, content, and code. He/Him.
Wisconsin
Joined December 2007
The person on the stage or the person who wrote that book isn’t better than you. They just took a shot. Don’t be afraid to take yours and share your knowledge. And don’t listen to anyone who tells you you’re not good enough. Especially the voice in your head. It’s a jerk.
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Hyphen: -.Underscore: _.Em-dash: —.En-dash: –. So many dashes…. .
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You “log in” with your login. Your users “sign up” for your service and you track “signups.”. Go check your buttons.
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RT @DGlaucomflecken: Can’t speak for teeth, but 99% of eyeball disease is covered by medical insurance. Vision insurance is for glasses and….
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Today, I used ChatGPT o3 to research two articles for my newsletter. Every article it found was current and relevant. Every fact it cited was made-up. The statistics did not appear in the article cited. Content without curation will be painful.
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I have been thinking about a podcast….
Tech is kind of funny because if you’re wildly successful, the logical end-state of your career is that you start a podcast, maybe launch a tequila brand, and dabble in some angel investing. And if you’re unsuccessful, you start a podcast, maybe launch a tequila brand, and.
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Some things I learned while using Claude Code on some personal projects over the last two weeks.
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Some things I learned while using Claude Code to build projects and tools.
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With major providers down, this feels like a snow day, where the school's closed and all the work that was due today is now due tomorrow.
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Centralizing everything behind a couple of cloud providers really does help us build things faster. But when there's an outage, you really feel it.
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Now his hat is on backwards.He can show you his tattoos.He is in the music business.He is calling you
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RT @bcardarella: .@AnthropicAI's Claude Code charges you for doing nothing. It sat open for nearly two hours, no prompts. Still ate tokens,….
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Few things are more condescending than trying to do something online and being told you have to call, only to have to listen to the automated system tell you that you can manage your account online. I promise you. I tried. Talking to people is a last resort.
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I was never in advanced English classes. Teachers didn’t think I was good enough. I am writing my 14th nonfiction book, am a content editor, and I lead education and content teams.
There's no better motivator than proving people wrong.
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Tailscale has a lot of cool features I didn't know about until I joined, but tsnet ( is one of the best. With tsnet I can write Go apps that have Tailscale built in. Makes creating internal services so easy. Even on the free plan.
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Use the tsnet package to embed Tailscale inside a Go program.
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Heh that worked ok. Overhead cam overheated so had to shut down early. Learned a lot tho.
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Going to attempt to live stream some music making over at for a bit. Come say hi.
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Brian writes code and music.
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That unfortunate feeling when you check something so many times and only find the blatant spelling mistake after you hit publish. Related news: the new newsletter issue is out.
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