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by skwee357 10mo ago
I run a dead-simple, one-time, online fax service called JustFax Online[0]. While I don't have a recurring revenue as I operate one one-time payment, for the past months I have been consistently grossing over €500/mo. This also br
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by skwee357 10mo ago
I truly don't understand how people can make such comparisons, and in general defend social media. Is this some sort of Stockholm syndrome? Social media has ruined my mental health, when I fell into a deep hole of propaganda. It took m
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by skwee357 10mo ago
No, it’s not. It’s a link aggregator and a discussion platform, it is not centered around social aspects like user profiles and followers.
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by skwee357 10mo ago
The next step is to outlaw social media in general, and maybe the world will become a bit better. Edit: in case someone decides to disagree with me, here is a non-exhaustive list of issues that social media has created: isolation from the r
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by skwee357 11mo ago
Well, there are two aspects from which I can react to this post. The first aspect is the “I don’t touch AI with a stick”. AI is a tool. Nobody is obligated to touch it obviously, but it is useful in certain situations. So I disagree with th
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by skwee357 11mo ago
I think Stipe is one of the best designed APIs I ever had to work with. But to reply to your point, there is no way out of this. You either understand the tools you work with, or you end up vendor locked to tools like vercel/next (the
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by skwee357 11mo ago
I feel like fullstack engineer was a BigTech manufactured title designed to save costs compared to hiring two experienced engineers, one in frontend and one in backend, but ended up leaving the fullstack engineers in a limbo state where the
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by skwee357 11mo ago
I'm sorry, but seeing the words "dev" and "struggling with webhooks" in the same sentence makes me cringe. I mean, I have nothing against higher level abstractions, but I'd be worried to ship (as a dev) and use
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by skwee357 11mo ago
This is insane! I got 2 sticks of 16GB DDR4 SODIMM for €65.98 back in February. The same two sticks in the same store now cost €186
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Not knowing is part of the path(kudmitry.com)
3 points by skwee357 11mo ago|0 comments
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by skwee357 11mo ago
People who live on the edge of updates always risk vulnerabilities and incompatibility issues. It’s not about node, but anything software related.
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by skwee357 11mo ago
I’m not a node/js apologist, but every time there is a vulnerability in NPM package, this opinion is voiced. But in reality it has nothing to do with node/js. It’s just because it’s the most used ecosystem. So I really don’t under
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by skwee357 11mo ago
One speculation would be is that most Java apps in the wild use way older Java versions (say 17/11, while the latest will LTS is 21).
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by skwee357 11mo ago
I through I’m just getting stupider and stupider with each day. I even started to reset my iOS keyboard autocorrect dictionary or whatever-magic-learning they do to fix this, but eventually will still mistype words. Thank you for this video
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by skwee357 11mo ago
I don’t want AI in my browser. I don’t want AI in my thermostat app. I don’t want AI showed into my face on every website I land. It honestly feels like a plague worse than ads. At least ads I can block in various ways.
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by skwee357 11mo ago
But isn’t the point of ads and all these tech companies with billions of data points, is to optimize ads to the people who are most likely to click them? I hate ads, and I hate Facebook and all its products, but this just sounds like a bunc
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by skwee357 11mo ago
I never understood the appeal of AWS like cloud for non corporate. Sure, when you run a BigCo, you have all the money and people to throw at big cloud providers, obtaining pointless certificates, and configuring obscure IAM roles. But why s
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by skwee357 1y ago
When you buy a physical product, do you expect the company to stand behind the quality of their product by providing (limited) warranty and/or support, despite the fact that this won't bring the company any new income? Nobody forb
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by skwee357 1y ago
It's the cost of running a business.
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by skwee357 1y ago
People on HN act like it’s so easy to reach all the addressable market. Most software, especially in the world of mobile/desktop apps are usually feature-complete. The problem is that developers keeps redesigning and refactoring them t
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by skwee357 1y ago
Define successful. I run a SaaS that relies on one time payment. The income currently covers all the expenses, and leaves me some nice pocket money. Is this model for everyone? No. The unique proposition of my service is actually the one ti
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by skwee357 1y ago
But how will the company “maximize shareholder value” then?
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by skwee357 1y ago
Don't worry, I sleep tight and don't grind my teeth (at least not over Affinity). What bothers me, however, is that I bought Affinity tools in the first place in order to avoid marrying myself with Adobe and their predatory busine
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by skwee357 1y ago
Kind of a bummer. I paid for Affinity tools some time ago, but I guess my license is now worth trash, and if I want to use the new Affinity tools, I need to have "Canva account". I mean, free tools are good. But I smell a road to
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by skwee357 1y ago
I feel it spans way wider than just hobbies. For example, when people film in gyms, which is a private place. Or everywhere you go, there is a good chance you will be in someone's vlog/photo/youtube video.
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by skwee357 1y ago
I got used to naming files/folders with leading zeros when I want them to be sorted alphabetically (for example payslips/invoices, etc). But I'm a tech guy, I know what does "alphabetically" mean in the tech world.
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by skwee357 1y ago
I don't think hobbies are in decline. Anywhere I go, anything I do, it's packed with people, with a backlog of reservations that spans months. So I guess it's the "doom and gloom" of MSM. As for me: programming, hik
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by skwee357 1y ago
I have this dream that one day I can write markdown files from my phone (or buy an iPad), and with some git software I can push it to GitLab, which will trigger a deploy pipeline. But sure, pushing from your local machine works as well.
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I Am Netlify-Free(yieldcode.blog)
2 points by skwee357 1y ago|4 comments
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by skwee357 1y ago
Wireguard is the answer. That's how I use it

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