AlexITC

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by AlexITC 3y ago
I have been involved in a few projects using postgres-bakend queues for a few years, scale hasn't been a problem so far. On the other hand, I have done a few experiments with postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY, while the feature seems nice at
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by AlexITC 3y ago
I built yet another similar platform with the goal to keep accounts fully isolated, while it started with preview environments only, we started handling some prod deployments too. There are nice perks on this approach but the complexity (fo
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by AlexITC 3y ago
That's an interesting post, thanks for sharing. I forgot to link a small technical thread I created explaining my case: https://twitter.com/alexitcdev/status/1696582302267236604 EDIT: Same thread but as an im
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Tell HN: Be cautious with take-home challenges
5 points by AlexITC 3y ago|2 comments
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by AlexITC 3y ago
With self-hosting, you can do it but it takes time to get good reputation. I have set https://github.com/postalserver/postal and there are many details you usually don't worry about, the cost involved is whatever
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by AlexITC 3y ago
Similar to Fastmail, Zoho mail also allows you to link many domains and it is cheap (I think it's $1/user/month). The interface works and you can easily switch the sender domain.
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by AlexITC 3y ago
This is the closest I have found, unfortunately, devices have been out of stock in many stores: https://github.com/espressif/esp-box
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by AlexITC 3y ago
First of all, congrats on reaching $500 MRR, I have been running my own product for longer and I'm still not there yet, I also know many friends in a similar situation. Related to sales strategies, have you considered talking directly
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by AlexITC 3y ago
Which should be good enough for a home lab as well as many prod apps. Many times, simplicity is key and occasional downtime can be accepted.
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by AlexITC 3y ago
> Someone is building a systemd based kublet replacement. I'm working on a product that uses something like this internally, basically, we provide multiple preview-environments in the same big server, these are managed by systemd.
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by AlexITC 3y ago
AWS SES works nicely and the costs for personal usage will likely be close to 0.
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by AlexITC 3y ago
Simple, use services providing a fixed price like DigitalOcean, with services with variable cost like Github Actions, we just set a monthly limit. I avoid services where this isn't possible unless I'm confident that there is no wa
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by AlexITC 3y ago
For some reason the link isn't complete, this one worked for me: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Lang...
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by AlexITC 3y ago
Hi hn, Since I shared the AudioCraft cool project with my family, they were keen to try it but there does not seem to be any live version from it, I decided to host my own for a while and detailed my steps in this guide. There is a live Mus
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Show HN: A guide to self-host AudioCraft demo(wiringbits.net)
8 points by AlexITC 3y ago|1 comments
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by AlexITC 3y ago
These look very cool, I wonder if there is anything supporting rokutv to set photo wallpapers picked from my server, do you happen to know any? Thanks.
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by AlexITC 3y ago
- Postgres over mysql/mongo/sqlite, I'm yet to come up with a use case where Postgres doesn't fit well for a while, while mysql is considerably better than before, it just bit me again where I had to run `mysql_tzinfo_to
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by AlexITC 3y ago
Location: C-Corp from Chicago Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Scala/Scala.js, Java, Rust, Postgres, Pulumi, Ansible, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Ruby, Blockchain. Résumé/CV: linkedin.com/
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by AlexITC 3y ago
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE | CONTRACT > Alexis consistently proposed solutions that were both practical and innovative, illustrating his commitment to our project's success above his own billable hours I grabbed a piece shared by one of
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by AlexITC 3y ago
The next AI tool for catching these people?
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by AlexITC 3y ago
That's a reason to keep doing it, 6 months of income is a considerable amount.
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by AlexITC 3y ago
I have been on the other side, people wanting to hire me to be the front-door either take interviews or the front-door with customers, the last time I was offered $xx/h + 20% from each project's revenue. Darknet dairies has an int
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by AlexITC 3y ago
Last year I tried but switched to Xorg, screen sharing neither xbindkeys worked with Wayland, I wrote a bit about that at https://wiringbits.net/accessibility/2022/12/05/macos-like-p...
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by AlexITC 3y ago
We did it and I'd definitely do it again but my whole team is in the same timezone. Our situation is a bit particular because we sell software development services while using the funds to create our own product. I'd suggest you t
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by AlexITC 3y ago
You have already got many useful comments, I can tell that what you need ask for is hard to get because these kind of tasks are not lucrative. I'd suggest you to consider an alternative, hire someone for a retainer covering up to X hou
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by AlexITC 3y ago
> No one is talking about redundancy though. I love setups like this but prod environments need robust forms of redundancy Not really, there are many kinds of apps that don't need such redundancy. > Also, none of the solutions di
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by AlexITC 3y ago
I guess, still, the image needs to be built somewhere, my bet is that you will do this on the server itself, its unnecessary complexity.
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by AlexITC 3y ago
Interesting post, I liked the deploy script that keeps the app versioned in the server, which is helpful to do rollbacks. I have been running a similar setup for many years with some differences: 1. Use `EnvironmentFile` on systemd to load
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by AlexITC 3y ago
> If on AWS, and if your servers are behind a load balancer, just install a certificate on those. Isn't that a little better? My take from the post is that author's goal is simplicity, AWS isn't simple, also AWS load balan
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by AlexITC 3y ago
Any reason to use systemd timers instead of cron jobs?

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