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by jw1224 4y ago
I found the School Of Life’s videos to be compelling, thought-provoking, and insightful when I needed them the most. I dropped in a few times at critical points in recent years. They helped me look at my current circumstances in a more obje
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by jw1224 4y ago
> Are those real peoples' photos? Certainly not the portrait photos — they’re unmistakably sourced from https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ (once you’ve seen enough of them, they’re impossible to miss…)
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by jw1224 4y ago
If anyone has a similar investment philosophy for Laravel-based companies/founders, I’d love to chat too. We’re looking to raise investment at the moment, and this kind of ethos really resonates with me.
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by jw1224 4y ago
Just an interesting curiosity I stumbled across, after watching Craig Federighi talk at Berkeley Engineering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43sjym5ZS68 He discussed how he took 2 years out from management to go back to hi
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Craig Federighi's commits to the AribaWeb framework (2009)(github.com)
1 points by jw1224 4y ago|1 comments
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by jw1224 4y ago
> “You can change a password, but you cannot change your fingerprint” I’ve never understood this argument. I could just as easily say “someone else can use your password, but they cannot use your fingerprint”.
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by jw1224 4y ago
Got a lot of nostalgia seeing OPL being mentioned… Twenty years ago my grandfather gave me his old Psion 3c. To a curious 10-year-old, the novelties of a world clock, spreadsheet and diary grew old after a few hours — but OPL caught my imag
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by jw1224 4y ago
I just realised I’ve been using Kaleidoscope for maybe 10 (?) years now. I certainly didn’t pay $150 for it at the time, but if I had done, it would’ve been worth every penny. — I seem to recall the app was acquired by a new development tea
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by jw1224 4y ago
Ugh, same. Edit: I just followed the link from the other comment about contacting support… > To get phone, chat, or email support for your legacy free account at [mydomain.com], you need to upgrade to Google Workspace So I can’t contact
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by jw1224 4y ago
Have you seen https://ohmyz.sh/ ? It’s indispensable, can’t imagine zsh without it now…
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by jw1224 4y ago
I appreciate they serve different purposes, but I had some unknown bottlenecks I wanted to discover, and explored 3 ways of doing so. In my case, one was far easier to actually gain any insights from than the others :) FWIW I use Xdebug reg
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by jw1224 4y ago
Funny timing — I just spent 4 hours this morning comparing Xdebug, Blackfire, and New Relic. After feeling like my SaaS application is starting to hit some scaling bottlenecks, I had a play with all 3 services to try and get some performanc
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by jw1224 4y ago
I’m in exactly the same boat with my B2B SaaS — particularly with the champion finding time to onboard the rest of their team. Our app takes a bit of setup time, and I put a lot of work into making a really user-friendly “onboarding guide”,
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by jw1224 4y ago
Laravel’s “Collections” library [1] solves this, and is a breath of fresh air. Easily one of the best features of the framework (though you can also use it as a separate package, outside of a Laravel app [2]). It’s simple to use, but extrem
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by jw1224 5y ago
The download attribute is useful with images or files which the browser would normally preview. If I give my users a button labelled “Save PDF”, I want to know the Acrobat plug-in isn’t just going to hijack the response.
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by jw1224 5y ago
The universe appears to be fractal-like in nature, so I would speculate these biological symmetries are a reflection of the symmetries we find in the laws of physics, too. ScienceClic is an extremely underrated YouTube channel producing inc
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by jw1224 5y ago
nslookup.io is great — bookmarked it, I’m sure I’ll be using it in future! Side note, curious how the domain name autocomplete works when searching? My domain wasn’t suggested, but all the other services I tried in my sector all came up. Wh
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by jw1224 5y ago
I searched for a competitive keyword my SaaS business recently reached #1 on Google for. All of our competitors came up, but we were nowhere to be seen (I gave up after page 5). Does this mean we’re not in Commoncrawl? Or are there any fact
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Ukraine: Spam website set up to reach millions of Russians(bbc.co.uk)
13 points by jw1224 5y ago|5 comments
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by jw1224 5y ago
> Four thousand years ago, the Babylonians invented multiplication Invented… or discovered?
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by jw1224 5y ago
A similar setup, for those more comfortable with PHP, would be Laravel [0] in conjunction with Livewire [1]. Laravel is basically the “Rails of PHP”, and has an absolutely incredible ecosystem to go with it. Livewire was directly inspired b
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by jw1224 5y ago
> As a solo bootstrapped SaaS founder that literally relies on my app to pay my rent and food, I owe my sanity to Laravel I’m in the same boat as you, and I couldn’t agree more. Your comment absolutely nails it. Laravel is a pleasure to
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by jw1224 5y ago
Free: - Breeze: authentication starter kit - Cashier: payment processing through Stripe or Paddle - Dusk: automated browser testing - Echo: real-time broadcasting - Horizon: queue handler - Jetstream: application scaffolding - Mix: frontend
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by jw1224 5y ago
Does “Sign up for iCloud” count as an ad? It’s a core (albeit optional) feature, included with the product the user has bought. The same could be said of Fitness+, or any of their other services. Yes, it’s “advertising”, but sits pretty ino
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by jw1224 5y ago
> My interpretation was that the person likes doing their work and wants to outsource distractions This is true. For additional context, I’m also a single man in his late 20s, with the blessing/curse of ADHD. Whilst I can throw myse
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Ask HN: I’d like to hire a personal/executive assistant – any tips or advice?
247 points by jw1224 5y ago|230 comments
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Ask HN: What’s the best SEO software these days?
9 points by jw1224 5y ago|7 comments
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by jw1224 5y ago
If we didn’t have currency, our only means of exchange would be through bartering: I have food, you have clothes. I need clothes, and you need food. I’ll swap you 5 bags of corn for 3 pairs of socks. Do we have a deal? >> The only way
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by jw1224 5y ago
> You know, I wish that there were a requirement for people to read just one book on economics before blathering about cryptocurrencies Well you’ll be pleased to hear I’ve read plenty of books on economics, and hey — I even hold a qualif
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by jw1224 5y ago
Exactly this. I see so many people conflating NFTs with “expensive JPEGs”… No, an NFT is a cryptographically-secured representation of ownership of an economic asset . Yes… It also happens that there’s a ton of money being ploughed into we

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