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by casperb 3y ago
Fascinating how many pages in the top 20 of today of topics I have never heard of. Seems like a great way to see what is being talked about in the culture, without depending on the news?
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by casperb 3y ago
I don’t like the frame of “it costs the economy X billion”. Without piracy people would not have bought it. It is not a cost. Maybe “street value” would be a better term? If it was payed for, it would have the value of X billion. But it cos
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Reverse engineering the BMD camera HDMI control(blog.brixit.nl)
4 points by casperb 3y ago|0 comments
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by casperb 3y ago
> …in the operation of our business I don’t know what they mean with that, but they had 100M+ losses and 45M+ negative cashflow in only the last two years. So they used the money but not for “operating”, or got it from somewhere else tha
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by casperb 3y ago
I am always surprised when I realize this in conversations with entrepreneurs. They explain something to me about how they “control” their employees, then I say it out loud that it seems weird to me and then they try to explain it to me lik
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by casperb 3y ago
After 15 years of heavy restful API usage, building 10 restful API’s, using the GitHub and Shopify GraphQL API’s and providing our own GraphQL API in PHP, I think this article puts the nail on the head. It is nice to only get the data you n
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by casperb 3y ago
In the Netherlands, Europe. We had a small agency with 3 friends. We did around 250k a year in revenue. Exactly the type of team that is super productive for these kinds of job imo.
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by casperb 3y ago
In our agency 10 years ago we build such websites, it would cost 3000-5000 dollars max. Just with PHP and a simple self build CMS. Including a simple responsive design. We also hosted around 250 of such websites on a single dedicated server
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by casperb 4y ago
> Let’s start with the fact that the M2 MacBook Air is most likely the most expensive Air ever. The original Air was starting at 1799, with a hdd. Add an extra 1000 dollars for the SSD. Just like then, this Air is not the most basic Mac
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by casperb 5y ago
I have the same feeling in a Range Rover. It is not about wind noise, but the sound of a running ICE that annoys me.
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by casperb 5y ago
> "quiet ride" - I've never once in my life wished that the interior of my vehicle was quieter, this is such a superficial benefit to consider. This is for me the single biggest reason I will never go back to an ICE car, a
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by casperb 6y ago
There are lots of use cases where you need a PDF document, without letting the user print to PDF it manually. For example sending PDF invoices per email, or generating reports and uploading it to a Dropbox directory.
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by casperb 6y ago
We use wkhtmltopdf and it works fine for us. But I would like better support for newer CSS. I like the functionality from Chrome to use it headless, but my main problem with it is that text is not selectable in the rendered PDF. It seems to
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by casperb 6y ago
This was always the case with the Shopify App Store. They were more loose in using other payment systems, as long as you payed them their 20% by wire transfer. Since end of 2019 they give that permission to almost nobody. It is also a big p
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by casperb 6y ago
As far as I know, before these changes selling virtualized macOS was not allowed at all. That is what Brian was celebrating, to see some approval.
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by casperb 6y ago
I met Bert a couple of times 10 years ago at meetups in the Netherlands, he is a wonderful person and a great mind. I think it is great that he walks away when his hart is not in it anymore. I think a lot of big open source projects can bec
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by casperb 6y ago
Wow, that Wordpress blog is bad. I have seen a lot of projects add support for PHP 8 in recent weeks and they were all kind of easy. Mostly waiting for upstream packages to be ready. You get nice warnings for years about stuff to fix. If yo
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by casperb 6y ago
It depends on the continent you live on.
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by casperb 6y ago
Probably because they have 1600 employees and the 2500 branches are the active ones.
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by casperb 6y ago
Like 60-70% of all internet users: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=ipv6...
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UI Color design tool with easing(sitehero.nl)
3 points by casperb 6y ago|0 comments
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by casperb 6y ago
I am the cofounder of Picqer. We provide modern warehouse management software for e-commerce businesses. We are here for 8 years, bootstrapped and profitable. We have a modern and open API, see picqer.com/api.
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by casperb 6y ago
Maybe a little, but if you want to acquire the business for the product than it is weird to let your product completely stagnate. If your team cannot keep shipping while other things happening, is it really worth to acquire?
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by casperb 6y ago
That is a bold move. It is not easy as a warehouse to switch for your WMS software. So to give all your customers ~6-8 months to switch to something else is not a nice move. They were pretty big on the Shopify App Store alone and had decent
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by casperb 6y ago
Luckily I handled it better (I think) when it happened to me in 2015. I forked a MIT licensed project and improved it because it was a mess but useful. Turned out that project was copied from another project that was LGPLv3 licensed but all
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by casperb 6y ago
Same here on a 4000 euro MBP 16”. I tried everything, but multiple times a day having kernel panics when starting up from sleep in clamshell mode.
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by casperb 6y ago
I wonder if it is harder to let so many engineers go when you have so many microservices as Uber has/had. Seems to me that a monolith is easier to maintain when the amount of people working on it goes down, then with all those small mi
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by casperb 6y ago
I used this 10+ years ago, was really cool to pair program in the office. We also used it to take notes in meetings. But liked TextMate better for programming and then sort of stopped using it.
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by casperb 6y ago
Yes, they had private networking. Now with VPC’s it is basically multiple ‘private networks’ within one account. As mentioned in the article.
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by casperb 6y ago
Is this the first step from Shopify to create an Amazon-like marketplace?

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