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by markhalonen 2y ago
I recently evaluated web tech stacks and my thesis is that Next.js is the most powerful and will win in the long run, but right now it's a bit too new for most web projects -- the ones that are low-traffic, simple apps. Migrating your
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by markhalonen 2y ago
implementing double-entry accounting for the 10,000th time in human history on our ERP/MES product.
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by markhalonen 2y ago
I can say with 100% confidence that GraphQL via Postgraphile & TypeScript is a stellar tech stack for web applications beyond "hello world". If you are building on Postgraphile and raising from angels, dm me.
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by markhalonen 2y ago
one starts to understand the imperative of colonizing mars...
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by markhalonen 3y ago
we've been pretty happy with just a Clickhouse DB and sending metrics directly from api servers to Clickhouse HTTP https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/interfaces/http . Hook up Grafana and you have a nice raw
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by markhalonen 3y ago
at Steelhead we use RLS (row level security) to secure multi-tenant Postgres DB. Coolest check we do is create a new Tenant and dbdump with RLS enabled and ensure the dump is empty. Validates all security policies in 1 fell swoop.
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by markhalonen 3y ago
Postgres can do a pg_dump with RLS (Row Level Security) enabled to only get 1 tenants data. Very convenient if you use RLS already, if you don't, wouldn't take too long if you have tenant_id on every table
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by markhalonen 3y ago
Elon's algo is to push hard enough such that consequences are observed, then pull back a little. In twitter's case, moving an entire data center over christmas break was a too fast.
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by markhalonen 3y ago
they don't care about mDAU anymore, that was for public markets. Elon's metric is "unregretted user minutes", however that is measured idk
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by markhalonen 3y ago
He admits he overpaid for it, not that cutting tons of people was a mistake
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by markhalonen 3y ago
Works fine for me and a lot of other people. What other site gets used for official announcements? Democrats still use it
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by markhalonen 3y ago
I would say Elon cutting 80% of Twitter to no real consequence is the real driver. Everyone is asking "are we Twitter 1.0?" Edit: actually increased engineering velocity
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by markhalonen 3y ago
Steelhead | FullStack Engineer | On-site (Calumet, Michigan) or Remote (EST) US only | FTE Steelhead is a SaaS for job shops. Our customers rely on Steelhead to do work like PowderCoating, Anodizing, and Plating for customers like Tesla and
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Ask HN: How would you build Stripe Sigma
1 points by markhalonen 3y ago|0 comments
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by markhalonen 3y ago
We're currently grappling with trying to build a system similar to https://stripe.com/sigma with a single multi-tenant Postgres db as the source and an SQLite read replica per tenant. Currently we re-generate the world
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by markhalonen 3y ago
> As long as it isn't web applications everything is fine. The irony!
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by markhalonen 3y ago
Steelhead | Head of DevOps | On-site (Calumet, Michigan) or Remote (EST) US only | FTE Steelhead is a SaaS for job shops. Our customers rely on Steelhead to do work like PowderCoating, Anodizing, and Plating for customers like Tesla and Joh
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by markhalonen 3y ago
Related project of mine is https://uncertain.io/ -- I have no statistics background but this is a caveman chart drawing tool that I thought made sense
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by markhalonen 4y ago
Very cool -- developer experience on larger TypeScript projects has poor performance. Auto-complete is perceptibly slow. Interesting to see this project and Bun get thousands of stars in just a couple days, the People want Performance!
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by markhalonen 4y ago
would be cool to have 2 password managers that each store 1/2 of all passwords. Then you login to the 2 password managers and a client-side plugin does the concatenation. The chances of LastPass and a competitor getting hacked is very
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by markhalonen 4y ago
This was a shock to us after using RLS for a while. The solution outlined here worked great for us: https://www.benburwell.com/posts/row-level-security-postgres...
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by markhalonen 4y ago
I've found libraries to be superior to cafes for working -- dead quiet. Funded by the taxpayer, so zero financial worries, just a public space. Free WiFi, Printer, etc. Nice chairs too
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by markhalonen 5y ago
The huge downside of Flutter is no support for CodePush service such as https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/appcenter/distribution/code... . For a startup, being able to deploy new product to the customer in 5 mi
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Show HN: Tadpole – Generate a Scenarios Table for Gathering Requirements(tadpole.lauriumlabs.com)
1 points by markhalonen 6y ago|1 comments
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by markhalonen 6y ago
Tadpole is a free tool that simply takes in user variables and generates a table of all the combinations of those variables. I found myself building these tables manually when specifying system behavior, so figured I'd build a nice lit
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by markhalonen 6y ago
the acquisition https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23102430
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by markhalonen 6y ago
I was tempted to self-host, but went with https://element.io/matrix-services If I had an IT department and a secure server center I would for sure self-host. In the mean time I will get used to the tech and support the caus
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by markhalonen 6y ago
After getting burned by Keybase, I didn't even look at Signal. I am curious to see how Signal works in the long term without a revenue model. I paid for Matrix and got my team on it, working great. The nice thing about paying for somet
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by markhalonen 6y ago
I do 16:8 to maintain weight. To lose weight, I'd do OMAD (One Meal A Day)
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by markhalonen 6y ago
a similar open source project is Postgraphile: https://www.graphile.org/postgraphile/ I've used it on 3 non-trivial projects with great success

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