marvinblum

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   by marvinblum 4y ago

   I also started a privacy-friendly analytics SaaS without looking at the market. Sometimes it's better to just get started. Otherwise you probably won't start doing anything, as there are existing products most of the time. In my c
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   by marvinblum 4y ago

   We have Hetzner for this.
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   by marvinblum 4y ago

   I feel like Google could filter out a lot of SEO spam by simply ignoring or downranking heavy sites. Everything that loads more than "n MB" is probably bloated and made to trick you into buying something or generating traffic with
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   by marvinblum 4y ago

   Oh, thanks for letting me know, we'll look into it!
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   by marvinblum 4y ago

   Thanks! It's always nice to hear positive feedback :)
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   by marvinblum 4y ago

   Yep, we'll add another database instance in the future. But 250€/month for the AX161 is something we first have to justify...
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   by marvinblum 4y ago

   I love Hetzner. Why not use their cloud offering? You can also combine that with dedicated servers if you need a lot of computation power. We use 4 VMs + on AX161 in the same network for Pirsch [0] and it just works. Spinning up a new VM ta
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   by marvinblum 4y ago

   I really like that they use Energy as currency in Stellaris (the game made by Paradox). I think it shows what really matters.
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   by marvinblum 4y ago

   No, it's called "résumé-driven design".
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    by marvinblum 5y ago

    > I also love, love, love plain Fargate. Same goes for the HashiStack. I really don't want to work with Kubernetes anymore simply to deploy some containers.
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    by marvinblum 5y ago

    I use a somewhat similar approach for Pirsch [0]. It's build so that I can run it locally, basically as a fully fledged staging environment. Databases run in Docker, everything else is started using modd [1]. This has proven to be a go
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    by marvinblum 5y ago

    It looks like Google is finally reacting to some of the criticism [0] and changes a few things. I think it's still best to switch out your analytics or abandon it entirely if you don't rely on it. There are plenty of alternatives
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    by marvinblum 5y ago

    This article doesn't seem to be thought out properly. I mean the name already suggests what Single Page _Applications_ are good for. They are useful when you want to build an application in a browser and not just a regular website. S
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    by marvinblum 5y ago

    Thanks! I will check it out :)
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    by marvinblum 5y ago

    That's nice! I started similar [0], but by intercepting requests on my server instead of parsing logs. Do you filter bots? How effective is it? [0] https://pirsch.io/blog/introduction/ (find an image below &q
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    by marvinblum 5y ago

    Or the IDE. GoLand from JetBrains is very helpful there.
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    by marvinblum 5y ago

    I had the same thought. This looks over engineered and much harder to read than explicitly passing dependencies.
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    by marvinblum 5y ago

    I use a password manager and would recommend you to do so too. Depending on a SSO provider just seems to risky to me right now, considering how easily you might lose access to your account. Of course, you also need to use your own domain fo
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    by marvinblum 5y ago

    Check out Pirsch Analytics: https://pirsch.io
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    by marvinblum 5y ago

    And why should browsers other than Chrome implement this?
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    by marvinblum 5y ago

    You can do the same on Amazon for free. I get a free month at least once a year, when they try to get me back in. I usually also buy a single month on Disney+ and watch the handful of good movies and shows that came out since my last subscr
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    by marvinblum 5y ago

    As infrequently as possible. I usually re-install my main OS (Manjaro atm) every two years or so, mostly to upgrade the desktop environment (this doesn't seem to work properly sometimes, even though it is a rolling release distro). I r
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    by marvinblum 5y ago

    Pirsch Analytics: https://pirsch.io Only the core (golang) is open-source though, so you won't get the dashboard.
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    by marvinblum 5y ago

    > Heating a home with electricity is simply immoral. Well, I built it last year, so I didn't know how much energy it would consume. Also, I'm still up to adding a photovoltaics plant on my roof and energy sources should be most
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    by marvinblum 5y ago

    I'm German and I don't know what we're doing. Prices are insane right now. New electricity contracts cost 45 cents per kilowatt-hour. Heating my home (82 sqm) with electricity costs about 400 euros a month right now alone. Th
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    by marvinblum 5y ago

    Same here. Sometimes I add comments like "don't change this shit!" to remind myself that there is a reason why it is like that.
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    by marvinblum 5y ago

    Playing Age of Empires IV :D
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    by marvinblum 5y ago

    Pirsch does track returning visitors. As long as no PII is stored, it's fine.
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    by marvinblum 5y ago

    > I'm guessing uBlock Origin blocking GA by default is a likely cause. Yep, GA being blocked is a major issue. You can use server-side analytics [0] to prevent any JS from being blocked. [0] https://docs.pirsch.io/ge
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    by marvinblum 5y ago

    Clearly Pirsch Analytics! https://pirsch.io/ No cookies, open-source core, GDPR compliant, nice UI, and an extensive API.