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by jmstfv 7y ago
It is just static HTML and CSS files, with sprinkles of JS when necessary. I don't like using third-party frameworks or themes because they tend to get in my way. I designed it all from scratch. I've been experimenting with functi
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by jmstfv 7y ago
I do consider that but I'm still early in this game. My AWS spending is $1.38/day on EC2 and $1.05/day on RDS, all covered by AWS credit: https://tryhexadecimal.com/costs
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by jmstfv 7y ago
I send my logs to Papertrail and they have a feature that will notify you if your logs match a predefined pattern. Some of the patterns that I use: * Account deletion (DELETE FROM \"accounts\") * New successful sign up (INSERT INT
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by jmstfv 7y ago
From time to time I ponder about all the terrible things that could happen: what can go wrong will probably go wrong so it helps to be (kinda) prepared.
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by jmstfv 7y ago
I am a solo founder of a website monitoring SaaS [0]. Theoretically, my uptime should be higher than that of my customers'. Here are a few things that I found helpful in the course of running my business: * Redundancy. If you process b
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by jmstfv 7y ago
Start with a "boring technology" [0], something that has been around for a long time and is likely to remain around for a long time. You don't want to waste too much time fighting with the new and shiny tech because building
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by jmstfv 7y ago
For short-term items, I use pen and paper. For long-term ones, I use TODO notes scattered around my Rails codebase. I have segmented those items into 3 categories: high, medium, and low. Whenever I create a new TODO note, I append one of th
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by jmstfv 7y ago
The easiest way to start would be introducing an invisible form field [0] and on submission, checking if it is not empty. Give this form field a random name so that it wouldn't be populated by password managers. You can take it one ste
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by jmstfv 7y ago
They still try to sign up, but none of them can actually bypass the captcha. I implemented a custom callback that returns a HEAD response with 404 to fool them (because I noticed that attacks intensified when I returned 2xx or 3xx responses
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by jmstfv 7y ago
Two weeks ago my website [0] got hit by a botnet attack. These bots were submitting 2 POST requests to /login, followed by 2 POST requests to /signup, and since there were no checks in place, they were getting in quite easily. All
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by jmstfv 7y ago
After many months of working on a product, I finally managed to (soft) launch it a few days ago. It definitely took way longer and turned out to be way harder than I expected it to be (it usually does). Surprisingly, I really enjoyed workin
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Ask HN: Why is Docker useful?
1 points by jmstfv 8y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: How do you track your domains for expiration?
2 points by jmstfv 8y ago|3 comments
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by jmstfv 8y ago
If you are just building an MVP, you'd want to spend very little time on actually building the product. Here are some choices: * Discourse forum: https://www.discourse.org/ * Slack channel * Google Docs spreadsheet
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Ask HN: How to stop bot onslaught on my website?
3 points by jmstfv 8y ago|4 comments
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Ask HN: Optimising very slow query
1 points by jmstfv 8y ago|1 comments
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by jmstfv 8y ago
Is there a hosted version of Gitea? Would it be possible to host it and offer unlimited repos for let's say $5/mo as a service?
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Ask HN: API for restaurant reservation?
4 points by jmstfv 8y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: DIY Virtual Private Server with AWS
1 points by jmstfv 8y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Contact Facebook regarding GDPR
1 points by jmstfv 8y ago|0 comments
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How a Misfit Group of Computer Geeks and English Majors Transformed Wall Street(nymag.com)
1 points by jmstfv 9y ago|0 comments
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Data transfer in the age of floppy disks(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
1 points by jmstfv 9y ago|0 comments
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Why everything might have taken so long (2017)(meteuphoric.wordpress.com)
2 points by jmstfv 9y ago|0 comments
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Graph theory puzzle [video](youtube.com)
4 points by jmstfv 9y ago|0 comments
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Bitcoin and peer-to-peer networks (2011)(treskal.com)
2 points by jmstfv 9y ago|0 comments
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What medium should be used for long term, high volume, data storage (archival)?(superuser.com)
2 points by jmstfv 9y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Which WSGI/web server do you use in production?
1 points by jmstfv 9y ago|0 comments
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What details should a web developer consider before making the site public?(softwareengineering.stackexchange.com)
3 points by jmstfv 9y ago|0 comments
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The Floating-Point Guide(floating-point-gui.de)
2 points by jmstfv 9y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What is your favorite web font?
1 points by jmstfv 9y ago|1 comments

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