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   by rozenmd 2y ago

   All of my projects get access to the same two hours I set aside every morning before work, to work on something meaningful. I also tend to default to working on my business, but if something has my curiosity going, I give myself time to exp
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   by rozenmd 2y ago

   My business has about a dozen lambdas that I configure using terraform, and to deploy I use a regular CI service with the AWS CLI installed. Been working great for about 3.5 years now
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   by rozenmd 2y ago

   I've worked for some fairly large tech companies, building products customers more or less want. About 6 years ago, I convinced myself that I just need to build something, anything, and customers will come flowing in immediately. So I
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   by rozenmd 2y ago

   AWS for the important stuff: DB, core services Cloudflare/Vercel for the UI Increasingly moving the important stuff to Cloudflare
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   by rozenmd 2y ago

   Performance seems to be impacted whether you're logged in or not: https://hackernews.onlineornot.com/
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   by rozenmd 2y ago

   Same as photos, I edit them and upload to Flickr
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   by rozenmd 2y ago

   JavaScript - not hard to get productive, opportunities to go deep are still there. SQL, as hard as folks try, it's not going away. Also Ruby on Rails too.
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   by rozenmd 2y ago

   Yeah, doing alright - might end up employing me eventually.
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   by rozenmd 2y ago

   My hack was to start my own product, that way (at least for two hours a day) I get to play messiah for 100% of my own equity
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    by rozenmd 2y ago

    OnlineOrNot has a cron job/scheduled task monitoring system that integrates with PagerDuty fwiw edit: on second read, it sounds like regular uptime monitoring for your API would do the trick
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    by rozenmd 2y ago

    Just work on your own projects two hours before work each day, no need to give up salary. You'll be amazed at what you can build with consistent effort.
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    by rozenmd 2y ago

    When it's broken, fix your bike - because when you're broken, your bike will fix you.
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    by rozenmd 2y ago

    Absolutely - immediately getting upset that folks that didn't spend their teenage years on IRC (I did, but still) don't know the etiquette is just as annoying as not knowing the etiquette.
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    by rozenmd 2y ago

    This kinda sounds like the tool I built: OnlineOrNot ( https://onlineornot.com ) It sends reminder alerts over email and SMS (and phone calls soon) until the incident is resolved. It also integrates with PagerDuty/Opsgenie&#x
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    by rozenmd 2y ago

    I have a long running project with thousands of companies using it on a pretty basic stack: React on the frontend Node.js on the backend Postgres as the database (managed by RDS) Works pretty well!
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    by rozenmd 3y ago

    I use this both on Cloudflare Workers and classic Node servers, it's fast and reliable.
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    OnlineOrNot Diaries 20 – on dipping my toe in enterprise sales(maxrozen.com)

    2 points by rozenmd 3y ago|1 comments
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    by rozenmd 3y ago

    Ahrefs - expensive for individuals, but very much worth it as a business expense.
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    by rozenmd 3y ago

    D1 (the ability to query your database at the edge) didn't get knocked offline during that outage though?
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    by rozenmd 3y ago

    I built OnlineOrNot's cron job monitoring service in a weekend (at least the initial version). Since I already had a scheduler job running for regular uptime checks, I wrote an SQL query to find jobs that hadn't reported in the ex
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    by rozenmd 3y ago

    Yaak, made by the original maker of Insomnia.
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    by rozenmd 3y ago

    It's interesting that you exclude the top 3 vendors that EU customers tend to automatically trust when you say you use them (in my experience, anyway - I wouldn't even put toy projects in GCP these days).
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    by rozenmd 3y ago

    Exactly what I'm doing now - building a sustainable business while also full-time employed.
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    by rozenmd 3y ago

    As a fellow Aussie that left the motherland, I'd advise folks to learn JavaScript and earn 4x that (in AUD) in the US
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    How to be a (good) podcast guest(blog.scalingdevtools.com)

    2 points by rozenmd 3y ago|0 comments
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    by rozenmd 3y ago

    I thought about it early in my career (5ish years), and I realised it's not so much "can work X hours" as much as "has to work X hours, often starting at 5am", especially early in the trade career. Your tech career
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    by rozenmd 3y ago

    Everything I have, I did it through consistency - a couple hours a day is all you need to get started.
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    by rozenmd 3y ago

    Astro, it works very well on Cloudflare Pages.
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    by rozenmd 3y ago

    Depends on your field, but when interviewing I tend to get excited reactions to telling folks I run a product with thousands of users, and have experience understanding customer pain and converting that into a product that meets their needs
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    by rozenmd 3y ago

    Forget what you built the solution with. What problem does this solve? For early validation you can email/LinkedIn message 100 people you know, and ask if they've been having the same problem, and what they've tried to do to