kugelblitz

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by kugelblitz 6y ago
I used to favor .io, now I like .dev or .sh. .ai if appropriate. Never really liked .co (too close to .com).
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by kugelblitz 6y ago
Yeah, really sucks, am in similar boat. Also single income household with runway running out. Am a freelance contractor, projects are rarer than last year. My last long contract ended earlier than I thought. Was able to get a one month proj
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by kugelblitz 6y ago
I changed from "regular freelance" project work with 2 to 4 clients at a time, to contract work one client at a time, usually as an extension of their dev team. This has cut negotiating time significantly, I can bill pretty much 3
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by kugelblitz 6y ago
What has your experience been with Render? Never heard of it, but looks interesting. What's the advantage over, say, DigitalOcean or AWS Lambda or Netlify? That everything is in one place?
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by kugelblitz 6y ago
What is the application stack you are using? Something like Laravel or Symfony (PHP) or Django (Python) would come with auth stuff already and it wouldn't take too much effort to make it API-oriented. Connect it to something like Strip
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by kugelblitz 6y ago
It doesn't sound obvious at first. Once you have a few years of work behind you, it starts becoming more obvious. Once you see CEOs say "Everything's fine" one day, and 2 weeks later lay off 10% of the company (or 70% of
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by kugelblitz 6y ago
I use my own domain and have a catch-all. I usually enter the domain name as the identifier. I.e. here it would be news.ycombinator.com@mydomain.test
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by kugelblitz 6y ago
I went from Laravel (PHP) to Symfony (PHP) to Flask (Python), and Django (Python). Django feels the best to build medium-big stuff quickly, but all of the ones mentioned above are decent. Frontend-wise Angular feels too bloated, Vue.js 2 i
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by kugelblitz 6y ago
Hm, not sure how big of an issue that could be. Though, yes, it might pop up sometime in the future. Similar to Apple - "Apple Corps (owned by Beatles) vs. Apple Computer": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_
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by kugelblitz 6y ago
Neither, really. Just for me it has a meaning already. Like if a service is called "Time" or "Hour". It's not bad or good, I just already associated with something else.
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by kugelblitz 6y ago
Yeah, a rebranding will always sound weird at first. The question is whether the upside is better in the long-term - time will tell. Vercel does sound good (though does sound close to parcel for me and also reads like vermicelli a bit). For
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by kugelblitz 6y ago
Yep, boredom is definitely one reason. Also, when I was assigned to a new project where I get to work on a modern tech stack and create a proof of concept, I was able to got 6-10 hours of high productivity (sort of like a honeymoon phase wi
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by kugelblitz 6y ago
I use #2 (blocking distractions by editing the /etc/hosts) and it does work. Mostly because it's already a reflex strategy to go on these websites. Stuck on a problem? Check Hacker News or Reddit for a short-term dopamine tri
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by kugelblitz 6y ago
I find Django a good place for rapid development, Laravel is also great and cranking out new features all the time, but I feel the rate of change is too high for me. There's lots of options for frontend but since you wrote "Mobile
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by kugelblitz 6y ago
Very lucky that we moved to a 4-room apartment (away from a 2-room) last year (with wife and 2 kids). Also wanted to build a PC after 15 years of notebook-only work (I do contract freelance software development work for 3 to 12 months at a
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by kugelblitz 6y ago
Same here. I have 2 Fastmail accounts (1 personal, 1 business, paid 2 years in advance for both because I'm certain I will stick around), and use Amazon Prime Family, Spotify Premium Family... would really like to use a Fastmail Family
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by kugelblitz 7y ago
Similar. Also discovered Docker (Compose) for local development. Didn't like it at first, because most of the projects I worked in had some huge and slow setups, but for my own projects I tried to keep it very lean and it makes develop
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by kugelblitz 7y ago
Yeah, my first Laravel application (actually my first use of a framework) was Laravel 4.2 because my personal project was getting more and more complex. When I wanted to upgrade, reading this did make me wonder a bit: "The recommended
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by kugelblitz 7y ago
No, not really. It was my entry point into Python, now I use Django mostly. PHP opportunities are much more. I like using Symfony, though I also get Laravel or E-Commerce (e.g. Shopware, Spryker) offers. But of course this is because my pro
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by kugelblitz 7y ago
Why is this downvoted? I'm a big fan of PHP, but I feel something like Netlify CMS + Jekyll on Netlify is appropriate for this. It would be super fast (statically generated and on Netlify CDN) and secure (no database or app scripts) an
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by kugelblitz 7y ago
I've stopped using since Laravel 5.4, switched to Symfony 2.8 up to now (5.0) and recently also Flask or Django (at least for back end). My biggest pains were the facades and also I wasn't a big fan of the Active Records (with the
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by kugelblitz 7y ago
Google One Today, 1,5 months ago, ~8 days notice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22184937
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by kugelblitz 7y ago
Sometimes this is true. I've started several side projects to learn a new programming language. So I created 2-3 projects with the different frameworks, never feeling guilty if I should give up or restart with a different approach. But
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by kugelblitz 7y ago
With regards to oppslist, I think many people don't realize they have a problem. They might copy and paste data from one list to another, never realizing that the daily 1 hour job can be done with a script within seconds and with less
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by kugelblitz 7y ago
It will vary depending on where you live, but in terms of general market demand, Ruby / Rails is just a much smaller market segment. I'm not talking about how it is in technical terms (Laravel was inspired by Rails in many ways, I
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by kugelblitz 7y ago
It will often be about a balance of speed of development vs stability. And it will be impossible to create something bug free. I focus more on backups and monitoring. So I might not prevent all bugs from happening, but in case they do - a)
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by kugelblitz 7y ago
Unless performance is a key component to your service, I would focus on launching and marketing. Being an engineer, I've often fallen into the trap that a product has to be technically perfect before launching. Being a freelancer and i
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by kugelblitz 7y ago
I have enough MRR to cover about 50% of living costs. But I had once put enough of a financial buffer and I thought I could just work full-time on my projects for a few months and make it grow fast enough, so I can fully live off of them. I
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by kugelblitz 7y ago
React is the frontend winner, Vue is good if you look for work in startups, Angular if you're more into enterprise work. Backend... matter of taste. And each local / regional market is different. PHP has always been big and it has
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by kugelblitz 7y ago
I try build something niche-y and cool and then automate it as much as possible. And: Price point is not usually the main selling point. Because then: It's usually not big enough to be interesting for copycats, and with the higher pric

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