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by mperham 7y ago
I love these stories. I'm a one-person company too: contribsys.com. My production server stack is Apache + some Ruby CGI scripts, to serve static files and handle billing webhooks. I spend less than an hour per week on devops maintenan
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by mperham 7y ago
I built a billing site for my software business and had to decide which tech to use. SPA? React + Rails? Elixir? Keep in mind we are talking about single digit req/min. I went with CGI. It has some drawbacks but consider the advantages
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by mperham 7y ago
Likewise. Note ddg.co works too, saves lots of typing.
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by mperham 7y ago
I'm the author of Sidekiq, which supports first-class scheduled jobs. It's designed for Ruby apps. https://sidekiq.org I'm also the author of Faktory, which supports first-class scheduled jobs and is designed for
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by mperham 7y ago
Open source developer here making 7 figures per year on my own. I don't take donations, I use an open core model and charge companies for access to my commercial products. AMA! https://www.indiehackers.com/interview&#x2
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by mperham 7y ago
90% of high earners will have kids. A great school district becomes a top 3 criteria, typically this is only found in affluent clusters in each state.
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by mperham 7y ago
The first amendment applies to government censorship only. Cloudflare is not the government. A business can choose not to service someone based on almost any criteria, that's not "crushing free speech". You can then choose no
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New Linux Memory Profiler from Nokia(github.com)
8 points by mperham 7y ago|0 comments
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by mperham 7y ago
> My library uses this. They have a 3pm batch job that grinds the system to a halt for 2 hours. What did they say when you told them this?
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by mperham 7y ago
No expensive IBM hardware support/services needed.
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by mperham 7y ago
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” ― Upton Sinclair
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by mperham 8y ago
There's a fix that every person over 40 eventually learns: Settings > General > Accessibility > Larger Text
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by mperham 8y ago
A city designed around cars is still a miserable place to be, no matter the type of drivetrain. Needing 4000 lbs of steel and batteries to get a bag of groceries is a horribly inefficient way of life. Cities should be designed so that walk
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Using Faktory with Python(mikeperham.com)
3 points by mperham 8y ago|0 comments
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by mperham 8y ago
My Sidekiq project makes over $100,000 per month. I'm happy to video chat with anyone weekly at my Happy Hour if you want to discuss business and sustainable OSS. https://sidekiq.org/support.html
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by mperham 8y ago
Yep, and there's an easy value proposition here: Almost all of those features are available as OSS plugins. Do you want to gather 5-10 complex plugins, integrate them all, debug them and support them for years to come? Or pay for a t
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by mperham 8y ago
If you don't think about how you will sustain an open source project, your project will not be sustainable. "Those who fail to plan, plan to fail." Building a business model on top of my open source Sidekiq[0] project was th
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Aleph: A Leaderless, Asynchronous, Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus Protocol(arxiv.org)
4 points by mperham 8y ago|0 comments
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by mperham 8y ago
Waiting a few months is good. It's a reasonable strategy to wait for x.y.1 but Rails 5.2.0 was so stable that 5.2.1 took ~6 months to appear.
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by mperham 8y ago
I find it confusing and nonsensical. As they say, naming is hard and using the correct term is a worthy refactoring IMO.
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by mperham 8y ago
There are at least four easter eggs in the Sidekiq source. You've found one. Kudos to antirez for starting this refactoring. Switching to replica will clear up this confusing terminology.
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by mperham 8y ago
You're misunderstanding. You pay $xxx/employee to buy a license to use ALL software with that license. You aren't buying one thing for N employees. Let's assume Linux, Apache and PHP all licensed via the OSCC. $xxx&#x
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by mperham 8y ago
The easiest, fairest sliding scale I can think of for charging corporations for this is per employee . Charging based on revenue or other accounting metric allows for monkeying and funny math. For example, $500/yr/employee. T
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by mperham 8y ago
Apache committers are almost all employed to work on the projects, a patronage model. Nothing wrong with the patronage model as long as you realize you work at the behest of the King. Mozart and Bach, for instance, spent much of their lif
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by mperham 8y ago
Vue.js is the only OSS success story on Patreon that I'm aware of. https://www.patreon.com/evanyou/
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by mperham 8y ago
And they use checks, bank transfers, etc for those transactions. Not cash.
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by mperham 8y ago
Is it just me or is failory a blatant copy of indiehackers?
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by mperham 8y ago
Yeah, something like RedHat does make lots of money off pure OSS because they sell huge support agreements to large orgs. It's harder/impossible to get smaller businesses to pay for smaller things like tools without holding back
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by mperham 8y ago
waves https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/sidekiq
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Taming Rails memory bloat(mikeperham.com)
1 points by mperham 8y ago|0 comments

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