Select By ID - A Podcast by Ibrahim Diallo

Oracle is not a giant of tech because it makes great software. Instead, it's because they have great salesmen who can lock you into a contract for 10 years. No ingenuity can help you escape.

Have you ever watched an educational video like Veritasium and felt super smart? But then, when you want to explain the concept from the video, you brain falters? Very often, we feel smart because we pickup on the confidence of the person presenting the video. But the knowledge itself never makes it into our head.

Microsoft is in a campaign to alienate their most loyal users. I've been using multiple OS on a regular basis, but they are making it harder for me to work. It's time to ditch them for good.

When you go to a store, they ask you for your phone number casually. As if it is required to perform any transactions. This is data collection in disguise. Just remember, you don't have to share any information to buy anything. You have the power to say no.

What happens to your website after 100 years? How can you ensure that your work continues to exist and is accessible after you pass? There are two answers. One is: use paper. Paper is accessible, is sturdy and is easy to read. But what happens to a 100 year old blog that nobody reads? This brings us to the second method. Share your work recklessly, and don't worry about paper. Let your ideas b...

Behind our phones are experts and psychologist that are working tirelessly to manipulate us to increase engagement with their apps. They use the defense of "Use our app responsibly" to throw every tactic of manipulation at us. The strong willed user can resist, but for most of us we are at their mercy.

It's not often that you hear stories from inside the tech industry. It's easy to get lost in the hype and forget that there are real people working behind every product. As a tech worker, I've been telling these stories from the inside for a decade. Through this podcast, I will like to share my perspective and help you navigate through the hype and help you distinguish pure innovation...

Adding a chatbot to your website doesn't automatically make it a better website. Instead, it just mops up the UI issues that you should focus on.

Being ghosted by my recruiter felt like a romantic break up. Join me in this adventure as I recount the tale and the struggles that I went through.

This podcast is not sponsored by NordVPN. Instead, I want you to differentiate marketing from the reality of using a VPN. They are useful for many cases, but they are not a tool that creates complete anonymity online.

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Those are the words we use whenever a person finds himself complaining about a job. Just get another job. It's almost always bad advice. Let's dive into the why.

As soon as you try to learn something interesting and the process starts to become hard, you feel bored. That's when we pull out our phones, watch youtube videos, scroll on tiktok, or do anything that will produce more dopamine then learning. I'm here to tell you that you are supposed to feel bored, and you have to power through it. Boredom is the gatekeeper that filter people who aren&#39...

Before getting started on writing on your own blog, your own platform, we tend to have such an intimidating high bar. We may have great ideas, but wonder "What if I am wrong?" I'm here to tell you that this is the wrong attitude. Write it down, and learn to structure it right here in public.

I used to pay $3 for my 5-mile daily commute. Today, the exact same ride cost $24 dollars. That's what subsidy looks like when investors want their money back. Now, we are basically getting all these AI services for free. That's the result of investor subsidy. You can guess what happens next.

Every year, the same question is asked. Is Blogging dead? We could go around and research the subject, but instead I decided to test my own theory. For the year of 2025, I've blogged every other day, writing a total of 201 articles. The result is I saw a huge growth in both my RSS readership and daily traffic. I've been featured in the top 10 blog of the year on HackerNews. Let's get i...

This is it. We leave 2025 behind and embrace the new Year. Let's look back at what we've accomplished. I'm looking forward to what comes next.

No Exceptions * I know it is a bold claim. But there is a good reason I make it. When the vast majority of use cases of a tool is to spam, scam and trick people, we should just call it for what it is. There are simpler use cases that are harmless, but the problem is that they numb us to the harmful parts. Join me as I take you through my experience with AI videos.

LLM encourages everyone to take a shortcut. The Software Architect uses LLM to generate specs, introducing hallucinations. The developer uses LLM the generate the code, introducing errors. The review uses LLM to review the code, also propagating the issue. When the code fails in the hand of real users, nobody knows how to fix it. Nobody bothered to learn what the code was actually supposed to do....

One of the biggest hurdle in getting started is thinking about how others will perceive your work. "What if I suck?" Let me reassure you. When you are just getting started, no one is going to pay attention to you. And that's a good thing. Join me as I give you a more realistic approach, and perhaps a more sobering view that will help you get started.

Every avenue that implements gamification will slowly fall into gamblification. When believe that everything fun is good, including education, we slowly turn into gamblers. In fact, it becomes the natural next step. Join me as I take you through the journey of how apps turn you into a gambler.

I started my career with PHP and jQuery. It was a refreshing simple and low barrier of entry for anyone who wanted to start a career in tech. It's rare to see any tool that has as much impact. Even with AI, people still have a hard time getting started because tools like these are no longer at the forefront. Join me as I discuss what we gained and what we lost.

We've created a hiring system that reject all candidates and hire only those who can game the system. Gen Z has adapted to it, and we are mad at the way they apply. "hi, hire me, thanks" That's the message I got. Let me tell you why this is not a rude message.

After 15 years, I can assure you. I don't interview for Jobs. I audition. Why? Because the job interview and the position you are being hired for are two different things. Join me in this episode where we dig into the experience. Original Article

The cloud isn't a magical thing in the sky. It's real servers bolted to the ground with steel and concrete. Join me in this podcast where I dig into the real impact of data centers both on our resources and communities.