I was going way too hard and staying up way too late and totally crashed on Friday and was out of commission for about 2.5 days.... it's easy to get amped up here and drive yourself too hard to keep up. But gotta remember everyone's journey is their own even if the world seems like its speeding by. If not you may end up taking a detour instead of continuing on the path. But now back in business and gonna try to pace myself a little better..

So this year I want to do a digital nomad trip from Latin America to Asia since I have some leverage of being able to work remotely as a software engineer. But I had a couple constraints, like I don't have North American visas to do flyovers there; I only want to do the long-haul trips on weekends; and also that I want to do multiple countries with an itinerary that is still not defined. So what I did was basically brainstorming, and then I thought, okay, what if I try to give Claude Code API access to another platform that scrapes flights data and filter out what I need, especially because I want to avoid to manually uncheck all the Canada and USA airports that were pre-selected in all the flights that I was looking for because I don't have those visas. And I ended up building this Claude Code session like very specific to my case considering preferences for my previous trips that I have done in the past: times to do the departure and arrival flights to avoid the jet lag, to avoid sleeping on airports, to avoid a lot of things that I already know I don't want to experience while doing such a trip. And at the end, I built something that not only scraped all the data and filtered out manually, but also advised me on routes or stopovers or changes of itinerary based on price and convenience. it managed to save me like a couple hundred dollars and idk how many hours of research for that. And I thought, how can I sell this value without having to do the whole hassle of building a platform to provide it? I've already done that mistake before and getting 0 customers. I’m thinking of selling this as a service first to travel agencies . But thats definitely a new field for me because I've never sold that kind of services. Before, I have done consulting a couple of times, but never B2B sales to agencies that plan corporate fields or these kinds of stuff. And I'm just curious about the 101 for B2B sales, what mistakes people that have already done doing this kind of ventures or a book where I can learn that, what errors have you done before that I could avoid? Any resources in this community regarding that?

Just had a perfect reminder while building out a client workflow. Yeah, you could throw an LLM at generating a thumbnail for a PDF. Or... a little bash command: "magick bulletin-050326.pdf[0] -background white -alpha remove -alpha off bulletin-050326-tb.png" One line. One battle-tested tool. Instant result. This is the difference between hacking around with AI and actually shipping like an engineer. The Unix/Linux world is full of these quiet, rock-solid one-liners that have been refined for decades. ffmpeg, pdftk, exiftool, jq, ripgrep, parallel... the list goes on. Before you reach for the shiny new wrapper, ask yourself: what's the battle-tested command line way?(Pro tip: ask Claude or Grok to show you the classics. You'll be amazed how often the 20-year-old tool still wins.) Simple. Reliable. Fast. That's engineering. 🚀

Tell us three things: 1. What you do (job, industry, student, career-changer, whatever) 2. What brought you to Clief Notes 3. One thing you're trying to figure out right now related to computing or AI I'll respond to every single one. And read each other's intros too because the person who's stuck on the same problem as you might already be in this thread. I'll go first I am Jake, I have been working in tech for 15 Years, building with Generative AI for 3 Years straight now! Excited to teach and learn! That's it. Simple, scannable, gives you data on who's joining and what they need, and keeps the feed clear for content that retains people past week one.