Season 2: Episode 3

It's a Small Efforts Double Header! We were late getting this episode out, so we decided to go ahead and publish two weeks of episodes at once. In this episode Andrew is coming straight from a tattoo session, and talks about fighting bugs with ChartJuice. Meanwhile, Sean has gotten over 300 APPLICATIONS to his open job post, almost all from Dribbble. And he previews the consumer SaaS/community he's building on the side. Andrew and Sean discuss the strategy behind the new ConvertKit rebrand, and finally debate whether AI-generated book notes can be a good growth strategy for Andrew's personal blog.

Differences between serverless functions and edge functions according to Claude:

1. Execution Location: Serverless functions run on the cloud provider's servers centralized in large data centers, while edge functions run on edge servers distributed across multiple locations closer to the user.
2. Latency: Edge functions have lower latency compared to serverless functions due to their proximity to the user.
3. Scalability and resource constraints: Serverless functions scale automatically based on demand, while edge functions have a more limited scalability. Edge servers generally have less compute power and storage compared to cloud servers.
4. Use Cases: Serverless functions are better suited for compute-intensive tasks, while edge functions are more efficient for data processing and content delivery near the user.

Links:

• Andrew’s Twitter: @AndrewAskins
• Andrew's website: https://www.andrewaskins.com/
• ChartJuice: https://www.chartjuice.com/
• Sean’s Twitter: @seanqsun
• Miscreants: http://miscreants.com/
• StackWise: Coming soon...

For more information about the podcast, check out https://www.smalleffortspod.com/.

Transcript:
00:00:00.69

Sean

What's up?

00:00:02.02

Andrew

Not much, just got back from a little tattoo session, got some fresh ink.

00:00:06.48

Sean

Very cool. What did what you get?

00:00:08.97

Andrew

Uh, got a piece of flash. So I was at a fundraiser for, um, a friend's, a friend was organizing the fundraiser. He's part of this group called prism, um, that raises money to support, uh, GSAs in schools, which used to stand for gay straight alliances.

00:00:19.32

Sean

Cool.

00:00:27.96

Andrew

Now I think stand for gender sexuality alliances.

00:00:31.21

Sean

Okay.

00:00:31.48

Andrew

Um, so he's part of this group prism. They were doing a fundraiser and they had a raffle as part of the fundraiser.

00:00:38.18

Sean

Hmm.

00:00:38.43

Andrew

And they were raffling off three flash tattoos. Um, so it was like a design and you could put. ticket in, and if you won, you would get that tattoo. And um I like two of them. And so I put a ticket in each one and was like, well, let fate decide. And I got picked. And so I went and got this cool vase with, it's like kind of an abstract vase with monstera leaves sticking out.

00:01:04.13

Sean

Yeah.

00:01:06.90

Andrew

And it's my first leg tattoo, got it on my thigh. um it will be very visible when I wear shorts.

00:01:14.20

Sean

Hell yeah.

00:01:14.51

Andrew

um So, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:01:15.18

Sean

Five inch the blue velvet shorts.

00:01:18.18

Andrew

When I wear my short shorts, which is all I wear.

00:01:19.60

Sean

Nice.

00:01:20.58

Andrew

So, um yeah, I'm pretty into it.

00:01:20.75

Sean

Nice.

00:01:23.87

Andrew

It was cool. This was my first, I guess it was my second flash tattoo. um But the artist, she was great. Her name was Ali Gostella, I think. Super chill, super welcoming, had a great time, made the experience fantastic.

00:01:40.32

Sean

Hmm.

00:01:41.67

Andrew

And one of the cool parts was she really was stoked about this design, which was so much fun because she was having fun tattooing it and was really hyped and excited about it. And that made it more fun and made me more excited about getting it. And so it was just like just good energy.

00:01:55.53

Sean

Nice.

00:01:58.07

Sean

I like it. Congrats.

00:01:59.08

Andrew

Yeah.

00:01:59.96

Sean

Yeah, congrats on waiting.

00:02:01.33

Andrew

Thanks. I'm I'm stoked. i'm I'm really excited about it.

00:02:04.48

Sean

Cool.

00:02:04.66

Andrew

I will show you after the podcast because it will not get podcast content.

00:02:08.82

Sean

That's true. That's true. We are, we are not a video podcast yet. We tried, but yeah.

00:02:13.67

Andrew

We can be. I guess whenever we just got to commit to doing another thing, which is not like us.

00:02:18.46

Sean

Yeah.

00:02:21.08

Andrew

Well, and is also like us. You know what I mean?

00:02:23.70

Sean

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. For sure.

00:02:26.97

Andrew

Yeah. So what's up with you?

00:02:29.04

Sean

Um, last week was brutal. Last week was a couple, a couple of our folks are out on like PTO and then some folks got sick.

00:02:31.81

Andrew

Yeah.

00:02:36.01

Sean

Um, uh, yeah. Uh, so I didn't sleep much and that was, that was exciting, but we're back to it.

00:02:44.58

Andrew

Oh, that's rough.

00:02:45.14

Sean

You know, I'm on eight hours, so extra energetic today. Um, I mean, Oh,

00:02:52.52

Andrew

How is hiring going?

00:02:55.23

Sean

dribble is not dead.

00:02:56.62

Andrew

Oh, really?

00:02:56.72

Sean

dribble not that hot take dribble like yeah yeah hiring our type form

00:03:00.41

Andrew

For hiring designers specifically? Yeah.

00:03:06.01

Sean

So we were going to do we're going to do like an online, we're going to put a form on our website at first and then I was like, I don't i ...