agopaul

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by agopaul 9y ago
And also, the main takeaway from his story (like so many other similar stories) is: build a community. Really, his projects are interesting and all but "just ship it" is not enough, it has never been.
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by agopaul 9y ago
A while ago while looking at the apache logs I noticed that the AdWords remarketing pixel does the same, it was trying to crawl private URLs that are only accessible to 'admins' that are not linked publicly. I'm not sure if t
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by agopaul 9y ago
It seems they're seeing their customer adopting Front for more than a "simple" shared inbox and so they're grasping the opportunity to expand the scope of the product and reach its untapped potential as a "communica
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by agopaul 9y ago
I'm using webpack on a ~60 TS files project now. It takes a few seconds to bootstrap, but then, in watch mode, it only compiles the files that are changed and it's really fast.
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by agopaul 9y ago
I plan to move a small react project to TS so it will be easier to work with complex objects coming from API endpoints. Having used TS quite a bit with "vanilla" JS and seen the advantages of using strong typing (eg. easier refact
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The end of Silex(symfony.com)
2 points by agopaul 9y ago|0 comments
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by agopaul 9y ago
It seems you have a high churn rate among your subscribers. Have you ever investigated that? An automated plain text email asking for feedback or a survey after someone unsubscribed would probably do it, though I guess you probably tried th
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by agopaul 9y ago
Many Adobe CC products support CEP which allows to run HTML5 + JS panels/extensions. Under the hood, it's a nodejs environment with additional APIs to interact with the application (launching scripts). Edit: fix typo
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by agopaul 9y ago
IFTT mobile app > create recipe > set trigger "You enter an area" > Then "Add row to spreadsheet" You have to do two "applets" though, one for entering and one for leaving, but you might be able to log
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by agopaul 9y ago
You could do number 2 completely automated with just the IFTTT mobile app. I used to track the time when I arrived and left the office on a gApps spreadsheet but later disabled the task due to battery draining (old iPhone 5).
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by agopaul 9y ago
I did some research myself to decide which storage solution to use for backups and B2 is the cheapest of all, at least for backups. I hope that Backblaze will also offer some kind of redundance option (replicate customer data in 2+ datacent
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by agopaul 9y ago
I setup crawlers to make specific queries on various website. I used them in the past with: - used car dealer websites - job posting boards (found a job a few years ago with that) - craiglist-like websites - coupon websites (looking for sus
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by agopaul 9y ago
I've been thinking about automating this myself. Which Saas is it? ("another SaaS that will let me download a zip file containing all invoices from a date range.")
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by agopaul 9y ago
There are other Saas services for that, like https://www.imgix.com/ . Not sure if this plays well with S3 out of the box though
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by agopaul 9y ago
That's impressive! I read a few stories about reverse engineering the PSD format and how much technical debt it carries in it
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by agopaul 9y ago
Nice! Are you using an ExtendScript script to extract all the info? Or is it an in-house C++ extension for Photoshop?
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by agopaul 9y ago
What a coincidence, I've been working on a PHP state machine implementation myself in the last few days. Anyway, I find the concept of "events" a bit weird in this case and I prefer to work with "states" only (state
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Your SaaS isn’t charging enough(medium.com)
1 points by agopaul 9y ago|0 comments
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by agopaul 9y ago
I found this service a few days ago to monitor our own deliverability. It allows you to test if your emails are delivered by the most common ESPs: https://glockapps.com (I do not have anything to do with the product or team behi
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by agopaul 10y ago
I don't know how their service works. Do they pose as a 'gateway company' between you and your customers or are they just a payment gateway? If it's the latter, then the hardest problems still stand since accounting and
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by agopaul 10y ago
Definitely, and hopefully, an API that works better than the one already in place for VAT validation (which is quite unreliable)
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by agopaul 10y ago
Well, corporate taxes and income taxes are already quite high in some countries (eg. Italy) and I'm not sure what other alternatives there are to VAT other than raising those two to compensate
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by agopaul 10y ago
The barrier of running an EU B2C business is so high if you need to sell all over EU that most of the time it doesn't even make sense. It's a shame because if you're in the EU and you want to bootstrap a small B2C business yo
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Symfony 4: Compose your Applications(fabien.potencier.org)
3 points by agopaul 10y ago|0 comments
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by agopaul 10y ago
I feel like Typescript is the only thing that will stick around for sure in the coming years. Frankly, I don't know if I can say the same about all the other libraries/frameworks/etc since every month there is something new t
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by agopaul 10y ago
We got a couple cases of false positives ourselves, and I admit that the Stripe UI wasn't very clear on the fact that we couldn't override the "block" (even though the button was there, it didn't do anything). That
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Debugging a PHP application with strace(medium.com)
1 points by agopaul 10y ago|0 comments
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by agopaul 10y ago
"and even Samsung TVs, which are turned into covert microphones." - Sounds very Orwellian
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by agopaul 10y ago
> and the site getting bumped up is either a.) more relevant or b.) isn't being a jerk to its users. This is the key point of SEO nowadays. Google basically awards you if you: 1) provide good (better) content 2) have good UX
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by agopaul 10y ago
Are those Google ads Search or Display?

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