jmarchello

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by jmarchello 3y ago
You should start with a single monolithic application on a single server that you scale vertically as much as possible before even thinking of scaling horizontally. Most apps won’t ever need architecture more complex than this.
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by jmarchello 3y ago
I love that the idea of the one-person framework is spreading to other languages and ecosystems. I personally love rails AND Ruby and will stick with them. But there’s always more room for great frameworks like it and they can all be better
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by jmarchello 3y ago
I'm not saying businesses shouldn't make bets or innovate, but in my experience hiring more people to do those things has a point of diminishing returns, and that point is much lower than most people think. From what I've exp
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by jmarchello 3y ago
Anytime I see layoffs like this, All I hear is "We hired for the sake of hiring when money was cheap and we wanted to signal 'growth', But now reality has set in and we need our employees to serve a purpose beyond simply head
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by jmarchello 3y ago
This tool is absolutely fantastic. I’ve used it for years and makes communication and thinking so much easier. I know that really applies to any diagraming tool but excalidraw is particularly simple with a non-existent barrier of entry.
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by jmarchello 3y ago
Haha yeah text communication can be dicey. What are you taking courses for?
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by jmarchello 3y ago
Please see my response to pipes above
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by jmarchello 3y ago
Author here, I have 4, soon to be 5 small kids, a full time job, church responsibilities, etc. This exploring and tinkering and learning doesn't have to take up a ton of time. 30 minutes a day can make a huge difference. I get quite a
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by jmarchello 3y ago
ripgrep is easily one of my most used and most loved tools. I use it directly and also have it set as my grpprg in neovim.
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If I Were Starting a Software Engineering Career Today(jmarchello.com)
29 points by jmarchello 3y ago|44 comments
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by jmarchello 3y ago
I’ve been primarily using lazygit and man is it nice. It’s perfect for typical workflow stuff (pulling/pushing, branching, even conflict resolution). Occasionally I’ll reach for the command line for more advanced tasks though. There’s
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by jmarchello 3y ago
Came here to say this. Rails is by far the best option for a startup. For starters you can focus on business-level design rather than building a bunch of plumbing. Also, the framework lends itself to small teams extremely well. A single dev
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by jmarchello 3y ago
I don’t know if it’s exactly the same, but I had old DNS record pointing to a deleted DO droplet. Then someone started hosting a phishing site on a droplet with the same IP, which led to my domain getting flagged as a phishing site. I was a
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by jmarchello 3y ago
"Deep Work" by Cal Newport. One of my favorite productivity books of all time. "Digital Minimalism" by Cal Newport. Where "Deep Work" focuses on attention and focus at work, "Digital Minimalism" takes
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Give yourself more space to think(jmarchello.com)
1 points by jmarchello 3y ago|0 comments
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by jmarchello 3y ago
I agree, in fact I used it to generate a list of colors for a very simple color picker at work. It was very helpful. That said I could also have a chat interface do that for me when I want it, so I can keep my editing experience distraction
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by jmarchello 3y ago
I used Copilot for several months and there were times when I was “wow”ed and others where it’s just got in the way. I recently decided to make my editor much more minimal and even went so far as to disable autocomplete entirely. So far I h
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by jmarchello 3y ago
Good point, a poor assumption on my part
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by jmarchello 3y ago
The lack of Error Handling in Go is a feature, not a bug. See here: https://go.dev/doc/faq#exceptions . I think I'd be disappointed if Try/Catch ever made their way into the language.
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by jmarchello 3y ago
This is awesome. Coming from dealing with lots of Ruby, JS, and Python, having a built-in version manager that you don't really have to think about is amazing. Being a compiled language makes this simple too. Go is such a phenomenal la
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by jmarchello 3y ago
Genuine curiosity. How hard is it to creat web applications in C? It sounds appealing but I come from Ruby/Python/Js primarily and worry about how complex it would be to manage memory and all that?
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by jmarchello 3y ago
Large app - Ruby on Rails with Hotwire for FE and PostgreSQL for database. Small App for fun - Golang and SQLite with as little external libs as possible.
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by jmarchello 4y ago
Try “Rucking”. Get a backpack, put some weight in it (start with 15-20 lbs), and go for a walk. That’s it. I lost 9 lbs in just a couple weeks Rucking about 2 miles 2-3 times per week. In an additional to high calorie burn and low impact ca
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by jmarchello 4y ago
Thanks!
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Ask HN: Where can I find detailed startup case studies?
1 points by jmarchello 4y ago|2 comments
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by jmarchello 4y ago
It’s been my experience that Seth can fit more wisdom in 55 words than most can get into 1000
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by jmarchello 4y ago
I’m not sure the age of your child but have you tried one of those toy sinks that continuously pump water? There’s plenty on Amazon under $30. My neurotypical 2yo would play with it for hours at a time.
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by jmarchello 5y ago
This is great! I built something similar on itunes here https://apps.apple.com/us/app/timeyet/id1613447823 I feel like tools like this are extremely valuable to those with time blindness from ADHD, Autism, et
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by jmarchello 5y ago
I think this is how software development should be done as well. Software, like literature, requires one to hold all the context in order to avoid contradictions and to get things to fit together. I think in most cases the best software is
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by jmarchello 5y ago
Yes, Especially for a solo founder, Rails is an effective and powerful choice. It scales from "Hello World" to IPO and allows you to do 10x the work while focusing on your users rather than boilerplate and plumbing. Its also trust

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