Advance your career in VC: join the Supernovas VC Academy The VC Academy empowers top women junior VC investors who want to fast-track their careers in venture capital across Europe.

European women considering a move into venture capital or looking to grow career in that field - this free education programme is for you:
supernovas.eitcommunity.eu/advance-your...

#VentureCapital #WomenInVC #Innovation #Startups #CareerGrowth #DiversityInTech

I let one domain expire yesterday, and today I bought four new ones. 🙈

You're most welcome. 🥹

Commission presents proposal for EU Inc. - unlocking the full potential of the Single Market for Europe\'s entrepreneurs Today, the European Commission presented its proposal for EU Inc., a new single set of corporate rules, building the cornerstone and starting point for the EU\'s 28th regime. EU Inc. is an optional, d...

EU Inc. – Game-Changer?

✅ 48h setup, <€100, no min. capital
✅ 100% digital – register, operate, liquidate online
✅ No intermediaries for shares, stock exchange access
✅ EU-wide stock options, taxed only at sale
✅ Choose any EU country, full Single Market access

#Startups #Innovation #EUBusiness

Meet US Job Market Visualizer by @karpathy.bsky.social
This interactive tool uses AI to score & visualize job exposure to AI.

Try it out:
karpathy.ai/jobs/

Source code:
github.com/karpathy/jobs

#AI #CareerPlanning #JobMarket #FutureOfWork #Automation #Workforce

New @AnthropicAI study on #AI impact on jobs:
✅ AI still far from its full potential—real-world use lags behind possibilities.
⚠️ High-exposure jobs face slower growth by 2034.
📉 No unemployment spike yet, but hiring of juniors in these fields is slowing.

#FutureOfWork #TechJobs #Automation

Machine Learning Models Rival Some Human Translators AI translation models are now rivaling junior and medium-level human translators.

Only experts with 10-plus years of experience outperformed the LLM.
spectrum.ieee.org/chatgpt-tran...

#free #opensource #AndroidApp Healthy Battery Charging just hit 120 ⭐️️ and expanded to 22 languages, now including #Italian & #Slovenian! Thanks to @weblate.org for making it happen! Grab the app on @github.com, #FDroid or #IzzyOnDroid. The app is suspended on Google Play.

#buildinpublic #indiedev

Image Converter is updated to work on the latest #Android devices + uses #MaterialDesign3 & #DynamicColors. Explore, fork or simply use it to convert images between formats.

🔗 Google Play: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

🔗 GitHub: github.com/vbresan/Imag...

#OpenSource #AndroidDev #BuildInPublic

Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign A report describing an a highly sophisticated AI-led cyberattack

@anthropic.com stops AI-led cyber espionage targeting tech, finance, and gov agencies. Linked to Chinese state group, attackers used Claude Code for 80-90% autonomous ops. One person + AI now rivals entire teams. Details: www.anthropic.com/news/disrupt...

#Cybersecurity #AI #TechNews #CyberDefense

I plan to gradually open-source everything I’ve created. Tech solutions expire fast, and one day I will too. Someone can pick up an open-source project and give it new life. This is a far better destiny for software than being forgotten and deleted.

#OpenSource #FutureOfSoftware #IndieDev #DevLife

GitHub - vbresan/Image_Converter: Convert images between formats: BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG, TIF, WEBP. An android app targeting api version 30. Currently it does not work with newer devices that do not allo... Convert images between formats: BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG, TIF, WEBP. An android app targeting api version 30. Currently it does not work with newer devices that do not allow direct filesystem access. - v...

Built Image Converter during a 2020 hackathon — a small Android app for converting image formats. It earned $22.50 in ads 😅 and is now open-sourced on GitHub as my 9th open-source Android app! 🎉

github.com/vbresan/Imag...

#AndroidDev #OpenSource #MobileApp #Hackathon #IndieDev #FOSS #BuildInPublic

Following advice, I promoted Worderer by posting daily gameplay clips from random past challenges. After a month of posting (31 videos), results are modest: <50 downloads, 9 installs, 4 active users. Daily posting didn’t boost visibility.

#IndieGameDev #IndieDev #IndieGame #BuildInPublic

The prompt was:

"Please OCR the file for me. Except the first row with two numbers, there are only 4 different characters in the map (X, o, ., and -) and each row has the same length."

All failed OCR task: Google Docs, Free Online OCR service, LLMs Gemini, Copilot, Claude, Perplexity, Mistral, Grok, ChatGPT.

Any suggestions how to convert this? Please, someone stop me before I start building my own OCR script! 😅

🚀 One month since launch!
📥 Downloads: 10
👤 Daily Active Users: 0

Current marketing: posting in puzzle/game subreddits (most posts got auto-filtered 😅).

I’d love ideas on how to boost growth! Any tips or tricks are super welcome 🙏
#IndieDev #GameDev #AndroidGames #PuzzleGame #WordGames

Big milestone achieved today! So big that I made a meme about it.
#DevLife #ProgrammingHumor #CodeMemes #SoftwareEngineering #VersionControl #GitHub #SVN #CVS #SourceControl #MemesForDevs #NerdHumor #DeveloperProblems #SmallWins #Progress #MilestoneUnlocked #DeveloperJourney

In 2020 I built an app for a US Army hackathon—cancelled after SolarWinds. Threw it on Google Play, earned $4.28 😂 After 5 yrs I updated it. Celestial Illumination helps SAR, pilots, sailors, astronomers, farmers & adventurers.
play.google.com/store/apps/d...

#AndroidDev #Astronomy #Outdoors

Almost 2.5 years after open-sourcing it, I have decided to update Weather Forecast USA using Material Design 3. By the way, the app has made me $10.83 during that period, so my effort is more than justified! GitHub:
github.com/vbresan/Weat...

#opensource #androiddev #appdev #IndieDev #buildinpubic

🎮✨ Love #WordGames? Worderer is officially published yesterday on #Android 🎉
Transform a word step by step, changing 1 letter or shuffling them all. Ready for the challenge? 🧩🔤 Get the game at: worderer.com

#MobileGames #PuzzleGame #BrainTraining #MindGames #IndieGame #WordPuzzle #GameDev #IndieDev

🎮✨ Love #WordGames? Try Worderer, the new #Android game — before everyone else! Transform a word step by step, changing 1 letter or shuffling them all. Ready for the challenge? 🧩🔤
#MobileGames #PuzzleGame #BrainTraining #MindGames #IndieGame #WordPuzzle #GameDev #IndieDev

Remember Escapa? One of the first viral JavaScript games from about 25y ago. I ported it to Android in 2010. After 15 years & $22.43 in ad revenue, it’s now open-source.

Play: play.google.com/store/apps/d...
Code: github.com/vbresan/Escapa

#JavaScript #AndroidDev #OpenSource #IndieDev

Blocking bots = reducing server costs

In the past week, my website saw 20 human visitors and a staggering 115,420 bot requests. GoogleBot isn't respecting the crawl-delay directive. Thankfully, @cloudflare.social offers an option to block overly zealous bots, allowing my website to breathe again.

Targeting #Android #SDK35? Your app UI may break due to enforced edge-to-edge layouts. Quick fix: override it in res/values-v35/themes.xml with windowOptOutEdgeToEdgeEnforcement. Minimal code, no layout chaos. ✅ Read the full instructions:
viktorbresan.blogspot.com/2025/07/andr...

#AndroidDev

Releasing a new #android game soon. #buildinpublic

How To Price For B2B | Startup School YouTube video by Y Combinator

How to price your #B2B product? Video:

➡️ Put value at 25-50% of savings/revenue
➡️ Use costs as floor, aim for 80-90% margins
➡️ Differentiate from competition, do not engage in price wars

Summary: viktorbresan.blogspot.com/2025/03/how-...
Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=4hji...

#StartupTips #SaaS

Healthy Battery Charging android app feature graphic with Hebrew text

Starting from today, #free #opensource #AndroidApp Healthy Battery Charging speaks its 20th language - #Hebrew! Thank you @weblate.org! You can grab the app on @github.com where it has been rewarded with 82 ⭐️, on #FDroid or #IzzyOnDroid. Meanwhile, Google Play suspended it.

#buildinpublic #indiedev

I have just redesigned my #Bluesky contacts export tool in dark mode. The address is tiptopbot.com

#buildinpublic

Tracking competitors, as well as relevant keywords across social networks. For that purpose built a scraper + RSS feed generator. New tech explored: #Cloudflare workers in #JavaScript and their KV (key-value) datastore.

RSS alerts running smoothly, but dedicated account is marked as probable spam.