Blogs
on October 1, 2025
Once the lock lifts, run a half-hour retro. Collect the triple crown: compile minutes, defect count, user-task success. Plot them on a communal canvas; trends over six sprints predict future pain with seventy-eight percent accuracy. Lock the next no-edit window while adrenaline is high—memory blurs after 24 h, so strike while fresh.
Use Jekyll for zero-config blog support: add _posts/YYYY-MM-DD-title.md with metadata; GitHub builds it server-side, no local Ruby install needed. Add _config.yml to set title, description, skin (pick minima or primer for blazing load).
Lodge an "1(b)" application the second you finalize a moniker or logo; the USPTO’s TEAS Plus filing runs $250 per class and locks in nationwide priority. A Brooklyn print studio sat on it six months–an Arizona knock-off shop filed first, triggering a $140,000 federal battle and a complete rebrand. Use TESS to vet live marks solo; don’t rely on a cursory Google search. Classes 16 (prints), 25 (apparel), and 42 (design services) handle 90% of visual-art ventures.
Run the first $600 through payroll if the freelancer is U.S.-based–runs you 7.65% extra FICA but cements "employee" status under 17 U.S.C. §101(1). Foreign contractors: bolt on a 150-word "supplemental WMFH" paragraph that tracks U.S. language; most Berne nations recognize the concept when the contract seat is Delaware.
Create a Direct-Download MP3 Link from Google Drive
Hit the file’s share settings, flip "Restricted" to "Anyone with the link," snag the 33-character ID that sits between /d/ and /view, then drop it into this pattern: https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=FILE_ID. Replace FILE_ID with the snipped ID; the resulting URL returns the raw audio stream with a 200 header—perfect for enclosure tags. Test with curl: curl -I "https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1aB2cD3eF4gH5iJ6kL7mN8oP9qR0sT1uV"—look for Content-Type: audio/mpeg and Content-Length above 1 000 000 bytes. If the server serves a virus-scan warning on files >25 MB, append &confirm=t to bypass the interstitial. Stash the final link in a plain-text file; RSS readers will pull the episode without sign-in prompts. For a ready-made validator, use <a href="https://Testgitea.educoder.net/leonorex865559">direct link generator for Google Drive</a>—paste the URL and it spits back HTTP status, MIME type, and byte size in one click.
Track the designated agent.
Query "[Platform] DMCA agent" within the U.S. Copyright Office catalog or check the footer "Report" URL.
Save the email address ending in "@company.com"; 80 % of phony agents run no-cost webmail accounts.
Build the evidence bundle.
Screenshot the violating post with the browser bar in view.
Record date & time via archive.today.
Extract original RAW file EXIF (File → File Info in Adobe) displaying birth date and camera serial.
Write the notice in plain ASCII.
Paste the text below, swapping the brackets; limit lines within 70 characters to dodge server filters.
Deliver the Feed URL via Apple Podcasts Connect Dashboard
Access via podcastsconnect.apple.com with the identical Apple ID that controls your RSS permissions. Hit the magenta "+" button in the left-top corner, pick "Add a Show", then "Add with RSS Feed". Drop the entire HTTPS address from your Google Drive-hosted XML file into the sole text box and click "Validate". Apple checks within 30 s; if scarlet badges show, repair the specific tag Apple mentions—no re-upload needed, just modify the file in Drive and re-validate.
Subject: DMCA Notice – [Your Name] v. [Infringer Username]
1. Copyrighted work: [Title, Year, URL on your site]
2. Unauthorized material: [Exact URL of post]
3. Contact: [Your name, address, phone, e-mail]
4. Declaration: "I have a bona-fide belief that use of the material is illegal."
5. Oath: "Subject to penalty of perjury, I am the legal owner."
6. Sign-off: /s/ [Your official name]
Swap the template "About Me" page with a 38-second elevator deck: the opener is a razor-sharp value proposition, panel two displays three metrics (code deltas, co-op return, GPA delta), slide 3 embeds a 12-second screen recording of your instant-compile flow, fourth card lists three micro-certificates and serial codes, mid-deck is a bar chart of user growth you engineered, slide 6 gives a Calendly link, slide 7 ends with a QR code to your token safe. Recruiters at 2024 spring career fairs spent median 38 s on portfolios that followed this flow; interview invitations jumped 2.7× versus story-heavy sites.
Re-use the same snippet on Gumroad: duplicate the ScribbleMint PDF, upload as a 99-cent "pay-what-you-want" item, add a twenty-five suggested price. Gumroad’s discovery feed pushes annotation files to 4300 active "meta-learning" tag followers; conversion runs four in a hundred, so 100 views ≈ $28 gross.
Plot the Skill Gap Between You and Your Partner in 15 Minutes
Fire up a shared Google Sheet, label column A "Task", B "Me", C "Ally", D "Delta". List 20 core tasks your joint venture calls for (XD, cold email, SQL, TikTok ads, contract redlines, Kanban, etc.). In the next five minutes each of you rates 0–4 for every row: 0 = never tried, 4 = can teach. Conditional-formatting turns any gap ≥2 cells red—those are your choke points.