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I'm opening a UG as I'm getting more interest in my SaaS (yay!). However, I'm going the bootstrapped way, and it really hurts having to pay a tax advisor 100+ euro/month, mostly just to upload some data to the Finanzamt. I will just make a couple of customer invoices per month, plus I pay for those 2-3 software tools - nothing crazy.

Is having a tax advisor really the only way? I've seen some tools to keep track of invoices etc, but most seem to still need a tax advisor for the last step. Is there any way to learn about this myself? Any tip is appreciated.

Between newsletters, podcasts, Youtube videos, (tech) news, articles, and (of course) books, how does one keep up with it?

I currently try to read long-form content that requires deep focus in the morning before work (30-45 mins depending on my day). Then during the day I have some breaks and read newsletters and other posts. Videos and podcasts are difficult for me to consume, as they are often a bit too padded with small talk and non-essential conversational information, but I sometimes listen to them when I work out or while I cook. I recently started taking notes when I read, I would like to extend this system into rewriting my synthesis in Obsidian or Notion.

However, despite all, I feel my reading list keeps growing and I'm always catching up with what happens in our field, but as if I'm always a few steps behind. There are many more articles and books that would make me better as a professional, but I simply don't have time to go through them. (Not to mention other topics I'd like to learn aside from my work, or simply read for pleasure.)

So my question is: how do you keep up? How do you stay up-to-date in your own profession?

And I mean it both in terms of your approach/methodology (e.g. when do you read and what, how do you retain information, what aids to reading/bookmarking do you use) but also in terms of the mental aspect/wellbeing (how much is "good enough" for you? How do you keep yourself from being overwhelmed? Do you feel energized by reading?).

I am a FE developer and am overall interested in LLMs (although who isn't atm?). I have a broad understanding of how LLMs work and a decent knowledge of software, but I clearly don't have the same knowledge an ML engineer would have to understand such a topic.

Therefore I find myself wanting to learn more, but I either find basic resources that already cover what I know, or too advanced stuff that is meant for another audience.

I was wondering if there is somebody producing content for my segment instead. Ideally somebody is very technical on the topic, but that explains it for a broader audience. To be clear, I don't want to become an ML engineer, but I'm interested in learning about updates and breakthroughs (and why they are such), as well as deeply understanding the challenges, limits, applications, and potential of LLMs.

I realize that by using chatGPT (and similar), there are certain situations in which they perform really well (e.g. code suggestion) and others where they give bland and generic responses. Therefore I would like to become better at using them.

I've seen a lot around "Prompt Engineering" but so far I haven't seen anything that is significantly better than OpenAI's own documentation about GPT's best practices. Is there actually valid content being produced in this regard?

Furthermore, aside from Prompt Engineering, I would be interested to understand how LLMs work. My goal is to be able to evaluate critically what I can use them for, and what are their limitations (i.e. since the quality of their output changes depending on the area of expertise). If it helps, I'm happy to start studying Machine Learning, but my goal –at least atm– is not to build models from scratch. Is there any resource that is oriented towards a general understanding rather than in-depth application of LLMs?

TLDR: I feel I have a lack of understanding about how LLMs work, and I would like to make up for it in order to employ them better in my work.

Thanks

With OS Sonoma, Apple will finally allow users to save website and Progressive Web Apps from Safari, and have them accessible form the browser. Although it's nothing new (and possible to do with other browsers), the fact that Apple is not fighting against them a strong signal imo. As a fairly new FE dev, I wonder whether we're going towards a direction where native apps will become less common, in favor of PWAs or similars. Or, to ask it differently: what are the advantages of developing native apps nowadays? Sure performance is a big argument atm, but will we get to a point where the difference is negligible? If so, what then?