caseydm

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by caseydm 25d ago
OpenAlex | Software Engineer | Remote | Full-time | $150–200k USD OpenAlex is an open index of the world's scholarly research: hundreds of millions of articles linked to authors, institutions, and topics, free via API and bulk download
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by caseydm 2y ago
"Hey I got some great news. Got 20 minutes for a call later today?"
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by caseydm 3y ago
Oh really? Logging into the portal or logging into with the CLI to push code? The CLI login is down for me.
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Heroku Login and Deployment Down
13 points by caseydm 3y ago|8 comments
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by caseydm 4y ago
Our startup uses managed elasticsearch through elastic. We're a very small team so support/consulting advice is important to us and they are good at that.
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by caseydm 4y ago
Ha! I always laugh when I hear those. Guess we will find out!
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by caseydm 4y ago
I was a naysayer but find copilot makes me more productive. Especially at writing tests. It's very good at recognizing patterns in your own work, and completing an entire test based on the function name.
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GitHub Copilot Is actually Good
5 points by caseydm 4y ago|6 comments
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by caseydm 4y ago
Anybody using Cloudflare to cache an API that serves JSON? Thinking about setting that up.
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by caseydm 4y ago
No I never used any of that. I would have moved on to another job if someone insisted on it.
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by caseydm 4y ago
I sound like a shill for Upwork (promise I'm not!). But the fees for long-term clients (>$10k in earnings) is 5%. If you go on your own and bill through a system you will likely pay 3%. So it's not that different.
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by caseydm 4y ago
I would give it another shot. Since your history is older you likely need to keep your rate at $60 for a while and complete a few jobs. But UpWork has the biggest market and there are plenty of people out there willing to pay for developers
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by caseydm 4y ago
I was very successful on UpWork. However, it is not something you can jump into with no work history on the site, like "I have 16 years experience so my rate is $125/hr." People don't believe you when you say that. They
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by caseydm 4y ago
I agree that a small team of engineers can do big things. But 15 engineers to run Uber ride share in maintenance mode? That's insane. I would love to see a breakdown of each engineer's responsibilities in that scenario.
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by caseydm 4y ago
Heroku is my tried and true. I've likely done thousands of deploys over the years and have never had one go bad or leave my app in a bad state. I have rolled back an app a few times due to bad configs and it was always quick and left m
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by caseydm 5y ago
That's great. They make good points on securing databases as well. Everything has to be open with Heroku's basic dynos. It would be nice to secure PostgreSQL or Elasticsearch so the IP is not publicly available.
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by caseydm 5y ago
I'm excited to see a solid competitor to Heroku. While I trust Heroku due to using it for so long, they have become complacent with pricing and features. For example, affordable autoscaling looks awesome.
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by caseydm 5y ago
Anybody else prefer Google meet over zoom lately? I feel like it's a cleaner layout.
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Easy API Pagination in Flask(pycare.com)
2 points by caseydm 5y ago|0 comments
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by caseydm 5y ago
This is a great idea. There are well-documented ways to undo things on stack overflow, but almost every way: 1. Has three competing ways available to complete the 'undo' 2. Every way has a scary caveat that the user must be aware
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by caseydm 5y ago
Location: Omaha, NE Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Django, Flask, Elasticsearch Email: casey@pycare.com I specialize in the upkeep and growth of python web applications (website or API) built with Django or Flask.
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by caseydm 6y ago
Maybe he can close out this 9 year old feature request to add custom domains to cloud apps: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CLOUD-6999
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by caseydm 6y ago
Location: Omaha, NE Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python Django and Flask Résumé/CV: https://pycare.com Email: casey@pycare.com I specialize in the upkeep and growth of python web applica
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by caseydm 6y ago
I was thinking the same thing. I used Doordash a while back and figured they were making good money based on the fees they were adding in, such as delivery fee, service fee, tips to the driver, maybe a markup on menu items. But then I disco
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by caseydm 6y ago
My favorite book on this topic is the DevOps Handbook. The author lays out a very clear and easy to follow path that gives you the same result: secure and reliable systems.
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Timeouts on Heroku? It's probably you(pycare.com)
2 points by caseydm 7y ago|0 comments
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by caseydm 7y ago
I freelance and agree that you will command higher rates with another language or speciality. Yes PHP is widely used and can get the job done just like a lot of other languages. However, I worry clients do not appreciate a professional PHP
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by caseydm 8y ago
I'm in the same boat as a solo developer. I recommend subscribing to Safari Books Online ( https://learning.oreilly.com/ ). As your first action, watch the video series for Clean Code. It's just incredible and has h
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by caseydm 8y ago
I agree security issues are the main drawback. This can be mitigated by using managed hosting providers. I've had several wordpress sites running on managed hosts for years with little oversight and no issues.
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by caseydm 8y ago
One of the many reasons I let my Amazon Prime subscription expire last month. Amazon is selling convenience. But it's not convenient to: 1. Filter out products full of Vine program reviews, which I believe are completely skewed due to

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