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by jwr 2y ago
Amazing work. I am also impressed by the advances in technology. 20 years ago, I had severe RSI problems and worked on "vx-mode", a package for interfacing XEmacs to Dragon NaturallySpeaking, the best speech-recognition solution a
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by jwr 2y ago
> What if it’s 100% green energy? It is very much not: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/feb/18/bitcoin-m...
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by jwr 2y ago
I wonder how many people understand your username (I my case, having a Hungarian friend helped).
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by jwr 2y ago
The answer is "no, it doesn't". I've been running my SaaS first on a single server, then after getting product-market fit on several servers. These are bare-metal servers (Hetzner). I have no microservices, I don't
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by jwr 2y ago
Some apps enforce this flow, e.g. there is no way to log in with a password. I hate this. Because of the developers of these apps assuming that E-mail guarantees instant delivery (it doesn't), I can't use greylisting, which reduce
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by jwr 2y ago
Please do not let a story like that discourage you from running your own mail server. I am really worried about the future where 2-3 adtech corporations control what we receive and read, and we are not far away from that future. As a counte
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by jwr 2y ago
Good thing I use my YubiKeys with RSA keys, protected with a PIN, following the most excellent guide by DrDuh.
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by jwr 2y ago
This is such an amazing engineering achievement, especially if you consider the technology available at the time (computers!) — I'm worried that we are unable to produce such wonderful work anymore. And that most of the effort seems to
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by jwr 2y ago
Used it for many years on various machines, good stuff!
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by jwr 2y ago
Makes sense, that's kind of what I figured, but it's nice to get a confirmation. Good luck!
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by jwr 2y ago
The pricing page (in the FAQ section) has a "c..e@buttondown.email" address, so the grep must not have been complete :-) (I've migrated a domain from .io to .com, I can relate) I'm a possible customer, so I looked at the
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by jwr 2y ago
As a European, this article is outright bizarre, and makes me appreciate what we have much more. I will complain less about trains from now on.
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by jwr 2y ago
Apple acquired the company in 2015 and 3 years later open-sourced the database. (so much misinformation in this thread, this isn't hard to check)
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by jwr 2y ago
If what you mean by "horizontal scale of writes" is a distributed database, then there is FoundationDB, which is one of the very few databases that offers strict serializability (see https://jepsen.io/consistency
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by jwr 2y ago
This is a good time to mention vpncloud, a fantastic Linux-daemon solution for connecting several cloud machines together without relying on cloud provider dependent VPNs. I've been using vpncloud in production for several years now an
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by jwr 2y ago
Wow, this reads almost as my story. Similar goals, similar time frames, even the hosting provider and the payment processor we use is the same. I have to contact my new-found twin!
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by jwr 2y ago
> Low UI density is the new emperor's clothes in modern UI design I design, develop and maintain an ERP-style application with lots of tables. The fashions in UI design have made my life much more difficult over the last decade. The
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by jwr 2y ago
> I'd be very interested to see how France responds. I'd be interested to see if French businesses that chose to ignore the atrocities committed by Russia finally withdraw from that market. France has a number of large business
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by jwr 2y ago
I own an ID.4. I absolutely hate the capacitive controls. They can easily be activated accidentally, and you never know what happens if you touch a certain area. Some places/buttons are sensitive, some are not. It's a UX nightmare
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by jwr 2y ago
I see this all over the place and I've by now learned to always answer "no" if anybody offers currency conversion. It's sometimes difficult, because some terminals will only show you a choice of currencies, and you have
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by jwr 2y ago
It's pretty amazing how Microsoft has consistently been shitting all over E-mail for the last 30 years or so. I still remember how Outlook was introduced in the 90s and E-mail started going down the drain because of it.
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by jwr 2y ago
As I read these comments, there is plenty of outrage at how Google keeps invasively tracking us. And rightly so. But I wonder about the other side of it: in my SaaS business I made a point of not using any tracking whatsoever and not lett
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by jwr 2y ago
I have worked long. And I can think of many, many examples of people quitting suddenly and leaving everything hanging, in companies of various sizes. These days I run a solo business. I do not want to have any employees. I've been burn
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by jwr 2y ago
A subscription is actually better, because at least there is a chance of a sustainable business model. Your phone app will stop working within 2-4 years of being abandoned anyway, whether you "bought" it or whether you were paying
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by jwr 2y ago
> I plan to continue its development regardless of revenue I would respectfully suggest that this can be understood by some as a promise, and I think it is not a promise anyone should make. Doing things for free is not sustainable. We al
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by jwr 2y ago
I like it a lot. I currently mostly use Simplenote for quick note taking, but that often takes too long and I have to come up with a "note title", which I do not like. I just want to jot something down, quickly. I'll be tryin
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by jwr 2y ago
No, you are not the only one. My body does the same thing, and I think this is related to lower amounts of oxygen in the air. It's not about the noise (noise canceling headphones do wonders), it's definitely about the air. But app
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by jwr 2y ago
Serious question: what is the value of web analytics for people? I run a SaaS business and I dropped Google Analytics a long, long time ago. Primarily because of the tracking, but also because I really couldn't see the value of the dat
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by jwr 2y ago
> is the interface also horrendously slow in yours Yes. But I consider this to be the least of its problems — if it were slow, but actually worked, I'd be OK with it. The problem is that it is quite simply broken in a number of ways
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by jwr 2y ago
As a VW EV owner (ID.4), I can attest to this. The software is a burning dumpster fire, usability is terrible, the most common workflows break or simply never work, the car forgets even basic settings like whether you want to charge to 80%

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