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by Glench 3y ago
I had some money saved up and also worked part-time contract jobs in tech while in school. I went to school full-time but my school also had a part-time program that would have made it easier to balance everything. Feel free to reach out if
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by Glench 3y ago
Good to see fellow tech quitters, although I'm sorry to hear about the author's health issues, and interested that her journey led her back to tech. I quit tech to become a therapist! http://glench.com/WhyIQuitTech
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by Glench 3y ago
Ah thanks! Was wondering if the site was down. Didn't know that DNS did that!
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by Glench 3y ago
Please excuse the self promotion but I’m actually building something like that for SvelteKit! http://sveltekitsaas.com/
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by Glench 3y ago
> That being said, I definitely agree with the sentiment here that the file based routing is sub-optimal Not sure if you're talking about the article, but I'm the author and I love file-based routing. I think it's an excep
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by Glench 3y ago
Why did you post this?
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Reflections on Migrating My SaaS to SvelteKit(sveltekitsaas.com)
66 points by Glench 3y ago|44 comments
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by Glench 3y ago
Wow, just want to say that this parent comment is so great. Good criticisms along with demonstrated in-depth knowledge and shared for others' benefit. Did the parent comment author play with the mmap / synchronous / temp_stor
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by Glench 3y ago
A small point but is it really a “splurge” to spend money on ensuring the planet’s climate isn’t terrible? Splurge usually means impulsive greed, but in this case that money is “desperate attempt to ensure survival.”
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by Glench 3y ago
> As an outsider, that American obsession with prescripted medication seems maddening. Totally sympathize with that viewpoint, but I'm not sure if this commenter knows that MDMA will not be a prescription medication — no one is pr
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by Glench 3y ago
Personally, I left tech in large part to become a therapist doing psychedelic-assisted clinical work when it becomes legal. It really does seem like it can be a potent tool for relieving great suffering. You can read a little about my story
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by Glench 3y ago
My friend has been one of the clinicians on the MAPS trials in Boston. He says it's abundantly clear that people are able to have powerful internal experiences of emotional opening, fear-reduction, release of bodily tension, and self-c
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by Glench 4y ago
Not sure what your experience is but I'm running SQLite in my production web app and it's just fine :)
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by Glench 4y ago
It's a little off-topic, but agreed! I use SQLite on production. Here are more resources talking about the trade-offs: - https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/consider-sqlite - https://fly.io/blog/a
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by Glench 4y ago
Incorrect. Here are some actual numbers: https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/consider-sqlite > Writing 512 byte blobs as separate transactions, in WAL mode with synchronous=normal3, temp_store=memory, and mmap enabled,
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by Glench 4y ago
Author here! Happy to answer any questions the HN community might have about my experience with SvelteKit.
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Reflections on Migrating My SaaS to SvelteKit(extensionpay.com)
1 points by Glench 4y ago|1 comments
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by Glench 4y ago
This is cool, thanks for sharing. How did you find or form the mastermind group you mentioned in the post?
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by Glench 4y ago
I run a service that lets browser extension developers easily take payments in their extensions: https://extensionpay.com Started making $0.15 a day and has taken a couple years to make decent monthly revenue. One cool thing is
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by Glench 4y ago
yay :D
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by Glench 4y ago
In the US grid capacity doubled from 1960-1970 and doubled again from 1970-1980. We can do it again :)
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by Glench 4y ago
Economically-speaking, in the next decade we'll need to deploy a massive amount of electric replacements for fossil-burning things, about a billion machines in total. So heat pumps, electric cars, induction stoves, electric bikes, elec
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by Glench 4y ago
Yep! I run ExtensionPay, a service to allow browser extension developers to take payments in their extensions: https://extensionpay.com I made it after Google shut down their Chrome Web Store Payments system and I realized how a
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by Glench 4y ago
> It's been said that ideas don't matter, and that only execution does. I wholeheartedly disagree. You need both to succeed, but you can only get so good at execution. A great idea gives you much more leverage. https:/&#x
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by Glench 4y ago
In these threads I see a lot of RSS reader recommendations, but never the one I use, which is in fact the only personal software I pay for: https://bazqux.com It started around when Google Reader shut down and had all the exact
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by Glench 4y ago
Hello! I've been transitioning out of tech to psychotherapy! http://glench.com/WhyIQuitTechAndBecameATherapist/
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by Glench 4y ago
Svelte creator Rich Harris gave a great middle-of-the-road talk about single page apps with examples a year ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=860d8usGC0o Then he released SvelteKit which has the best of both worlds: htt
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by Glench 4y ago
Please excuse the self-promotion, but I made some documentation that includes interactive explanations that I think is really good: http://glench.github.io/fuzzyset.js/ui/ The interactivity really lets you play ar
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by Glench 4y ago
Maybe you would enjoy reading about why I quit tech to become a therapist: http://glench.com/WhyIQuitTechAndBecameATherapist/
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by Glench 4y ago
There are lots of projects that start you off with things most SaaS projects need. Eg https://bullettrain.co/ Personally I’m also loving SvelteKit. To me it perfectly bridges the front and backends. I ported most of my SaaS

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