Andrew's dealing with bugs, and Sean is slammed with job applications

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 we