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Top 5 FinTech Pitch Decks That Pulled Millions

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Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas. — Paul Samuelson. Hey guys, recently I’ve been dabbling on a pitch deck creation. To create a better pitch deck that will captivate investors and clients alike. Upon reading multiple pitch decks that have been submitted to YCombinator 1 , I’ve concluded that there is a certain pitch deck structure and characteristics needed. For me, I think a pitch deck must contain only the core of what you’re trying to do or achieve. I mean, just keep it short and simple which even a 5 year old could understand. Don’t put any jargon and highlight the important parts like graphs and figures. Anyways, let’s dive on some pitch decks used and created by well known companies in this day and age. Coinbase If you’ve been in the crypto space for a while, I know for sure you’ve heard the name Coinbase. Its one of the top cryptocurrency exchange that is base
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Change Default Template In Inkscape For Windows 10

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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. — Pablo Picasso. Hey guys, recently I’ve been doing some vector and animations, It’s for my new android app for the stock market. Every time I open Inkscape 1 , it always greeted me with the default template the next thing I do is change the document properties to the way I want, and it became a chore. So I searched the internet on how to basically set the default template to my liking. Steps to change the default template Create a new document and set its document properties which can be found on File > Document Properties . It will show a simple dialog which is this. In the dialog do what to your liking. Modify it base on what you want to see everytime you open Inkscape. After that, do a File > Save As... and save it to your local user inkscape directory which will be in C:\Users\<your-user>\AppData\Roaming\Inkscape\template Save it as default.svg . The
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Some NMAP Flags That I Use Daily

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It is not the monsters we should be afraid of; it is the people that don’t recognize the same monsters inside of themselves. — Shannon L. Alder. Hey guys, if you’re a network IT (Information Technology) engineer or cybersecurity professional for sure you’d know about the tool nmap . The tool nmap which stands for network mapper 1 is an open source tool for network discovery and is mostly use for security auditing. Been using this tool for many years and this are my favorite command line flags: Skip reverse DNS call This is a helpful flag specially if you don’t want that additional millisecond of fetching records from a DNS server. Or you have a specific case scenario that involves using only internal cached host file. nmap -n scanme.nmap.org Stop ping checks The -PN flag specifically tells nmap that the host is online, skipping check if its alive through ping 2 . This is particularly useful in situation where you know the target is blocking all ICMP (I
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Creating A Cloudflare Worker Using Rust For Fetching Resources

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To learn something new, you need to try new things and not be afraid to be wrong. — Roy T. Bennett. Hey guys, have you ever worked on Web Assembly? Now is a good time, first because its already supported by your browser from Chromium based (e.g. Edge, Brave, Google Chrome) to Firefox and its enabled by default since 2019. Plus you can use your favorite language (technically not all) to develop web assembly. In this quick tutorial we will be using Rust, not the game though. Ferris saying hello 👋. Come on, let’s jump in! 💪 Prerequisites First of all, you must have a Cloudflare account. Second, the Rust tool chain installed in your computer and I also assumed you are currently running Windows 10 or a Linux distro with proper environment set. If you don’t have Rust, go to this link in order to install it. And for the Cloudflare account, basically just use the free tier which gives you 100,000 worker calls per day and a free Key-Value (KV) storage. So
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Winnie The Pooh Quotes That Inspires Me + What's Up With Me

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We didn't realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun. — Winne The Pooh. Hey guys, been back after a few months since COVID-19 started. So what am I up to recently? Currently started writing in Medium, but still this blog will be my main blog. I’ll duplicate my post here and put as canonical link to my medium article. You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think, and loved more than you'll ever know. Yes you are! a great motivation quote to love yourself more. A friend is one of the nicest things you can have and one of the best things you can be. Sometimes, a friend is all you need. A friend can help you lift up your mood, but still its your life that depends on your own action. How do you spell love? You don't spell it, you feel it. I agree with this one, loving don’t come with a plan you just go with it and feel it. Life is a journey to be experienced, not a problem to be solved
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Find Public IP in Linux Using CLI

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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be — Abraham Maslow. Hey guys, ever been in a situation you need to query your public WAN IP without any browser. Glad you came to the right post. Prerequisites dig - Dig stands for (Domain Information Groper) is a network administration command-line tool for querying Domain Name System (DNS) name servers. It is useful for verifying and troubleshooting DNS problems and also to perform DNS lookups and displays the answers that are returned from the name server that were queried. curl - cURL is a computer software project providing a library and command-line tool for transferring data using various network protocols. The name stands for “Client URL”, which was first released in 1997. wget - GNU Wget is a computer program that retrieves content from web servers. It is part of the GNU Project. Its name derives from
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Reset Start Menu Layout Windows 10

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Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals. — E. James Rohn. Hi guys, recently on my Windows workstation a bug occurred on which the Recycle Bin doesn’t refresh its icon on desktop. I know for a fact that I’ve recently deleted some file so there should be contents inside the bin. Let’s jump in! What are the steps to reset explorer? Here are the steps I’ve created for when I do not need to restart the PC to reset overall explorer settings or when its has flaw. Open the “Run command” window by pressing WIN+R. (i.e. hold down the Windows key and then press R.) Type cmd at the prompt, and press Enter. Wait for the command prompt to open. (It will be a flashing cursor block.) At the command prompt, type this: taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F You should notice these all vanish: Start Menu, Taskbar, any open File Explorer windows. Type this at the command prompt explorer.
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Sending Email Using MailKit in ASP.NET Core Web API

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You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope. — Thomas Merton. Hey guys, recently I’ve been working on an ASP.NET Core project that needed email services to send reports. And I’ve been dumbfounded by some tutorial on how they implemented the email service functionality. Some are over complicated while others were over simplified. So here I am creating yet another tutorial for sending email using MailKit and .NET Core . Let’s jump in! Prerequisites First of all, you must have a . NET Core 3.1 SDK (Software Development Kit) installed in your computer and also I assumed you are currently running Windows 10 or some Linux with proper environment set. And MailKit on which this package becomes a de-facto standard in sending emails as its being preferred and recommended by Mi
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Haylou GT1 Fix Earbuds Pairing

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Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you. — Anonymous. Hi guys, I’ve recently bought an Haylou GT1 earbuds (this are China manufactured earbuds). The earbuds was good but after a few weeks on using it on multiple devices, suddenly the earbuds doesn’t pair on each other. After searching some manuals I’d found out that there are steps to pair them back again. So this is just a small compilation of what I did. First, remove your earbuds from its casing (they were off and just turned on). Turn them off by touching them for 3 seconds (a red LED will blink once it turned off). When both the earbuds are already not running, touch both of the earbuds at the same time and wait for 20 seconds The earbuds LED should blink red and white at around 15 seconds and then it would blink again in 20 seconds mark (make sure both earbuds blinks twice ) Return both earbuds back into its case. Then on your phone’s Bluetooth settings delete the pairing connec
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Headache And P90X Training

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Hi guys, today I woke up early with a mild headache. Even though I do have a mild headache, I still continue my early workout routine. I’ve mostly finish my 4x3 push-up reps, and some ab core cruncher. I usually followed the P90X (a commercial exercise which is popular around 2007’ish) routine.
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I've Discovered 8D Surround Sound! And It's Amazing!

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Hey guys, today I’ve started doing some exercise (some basics stretching and push ups). Then after that I’ve played some music on my laptop. Most of the music I’ve played were EDM (Electronic Dance Music) genre on 8D surround sound, I’ve tried to dance to it but I failed horribly. At around 8am, I’ve started cleaning the outer room. I’ve moped the tile floors till it became white again. Four hours passed after cleaning, a Shopee (an e-commerce site that is popular on Southeast Asia) delivery guy arrived to deliver a package that I’ve ordered last week. You know what is interesting in that event is when I asked the price, the delivery guy said its 215 pesos. I went back into my room to get my money pouch, I’ve checked my phone and to my disbelief that the actual price was 200 pesos only. I’ve told him about the price indicated on the app, suddenly he changed his statement. What the fudge, that cheap sore guy trying to rip me off. At 3 PM PST (Philippine Standard Time), I’ve st
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Top Three DNS Providers That Provides Good Service in SEA (Southeast Asia)

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If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works. — Jamie Zawinski. Hi guys, this are my top three good DNS (Domain Name System) providers that are really fast, secure and reliable that can be use in Southeast Asia. Cloudflare Cloudflare Public DNS (IPv4) 1.1.1.1 1.0.0.1 Cloudflare Public DNS (IPv6) 2606:4700:4700::1111 2606:4700:4700::1001 So why Cloudflare 1 ? Choose Cloudflare if you want less than <1ms of domain name resolution. Seriously, they have the fastest name resolution on the internet. Google Google Public DNS (IPv4) 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 Google Public DNS (IPv6) 2001:4860:4860::8888 2001:4860:4860::8844 So why Google 2 ? You will use this if you need an old but still good reliable DNS server. Its been used as a primary name resolution on big companies as well as local workstation. Its much more better than your ISP (Internet Service Provider) provided DNS. Yandex Yandex DNS (IPv4
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Sending Email Using MailKit in ASP.NET Core Web API

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You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope. — Thomas Merton. Hey guys, recently I’ve been working on an ASP.NET Core project that needed email services to send reports. And I’ve been dumbfounded by some tutorial on how they implemented the email service functionality. Some are over complicated while others were over simplified. So here I am creating yet another tutorial for sending email using MailKit and .NET Core . Let’s jump in! Prerequisites First of all, you must have a . NET Core 3.1 SDK (Software Development Kit) installed in your computer and also I assumed you are currently running Windows 10 or some Linux with proper environment set. And MailKit on which this package becomes a de-facto standard in sending emails as its being preferred and recommended by Mi
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Disable mDNS and SSDP Discovery in Google Chrome

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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. — Orson Welles. Hi guys, if you ever check your task manager you’ll notice chrome is listening to port 5353 on Linux. Did you know you could stop it? as what this sub-process is specifically doing – listening and doing some device probing like an auto discovery which is similar to avahi . In order to disable this Chrome functionality you need to first create a directory and policy file. You could do this by executing the command below. sudo mkdir -p /etc/opt/chrome/policies/managed/ sudo touch /etc/opt/chrome/policies/managed/block_mdns_ssdp.json What this does is first create a directory inside the /etc/opt/chrome which will be used to store manage policies and create the initial policy file that we would be editing. Then we edit the block_mdns_ssdp.json file that we created earlier and then we put the contents
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