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by sophiabits 4y ago
I'm not sure I understand the business model. How's it possible to offer unlimited tasks for such a low fee without compromising on quality or delivery time? Especially when there's a 20% commission for referrals? Otherwise,
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by sophiabits 4y ago
I think there's a tendency in our industry to forget just how hard it is to get decent at programming. All three of those topics you've listed are big, complicated, and hard to get right. I have coworkers today who struggle to wri
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by sophiabits 4y ago
In New Zealand (probably other countries as well?) businesses put up QR codes during covid which citizens would scan in order to track where they'd been for contact tracing. Hard to imagine a world where my grandma knows how to scan a
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by sophiabits 4y ago
> Your end-users should always trump your design "guidelines". Period. Agree with this point at least—there are some truly god awful brand design languages out there. Low contrast ratios, confusing color palettes, hard to read
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by sophiabits 4y ago
Every now and then I think about Marc Andreessen’s “software is eating the world” article. He was extremely excited about investing in EdTech and HealthTech software companies at the time—for obvious reasons! But EdTech hasn’t really delive
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by sophiabits 4y ago
If you’re already on the cloud and operating at sufficiently large scale, moving to colo is REALLY hard. It took Dropbox ~2.5 years. There’s a LOT of room to cut costs by moving off the cloud—AWS has profit margins ~30% even with significan
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by sophiabits 4y ago
It would be nice to see comparisons to other options in this space—e.g. I’m currently self hosting umami for analytics, and it does what I need it to (I think anyway—I’m a software engineer and not a marketer/SEO!) How does Counter com
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by sophiabits 4y ago
While you might not value it, GitLab’s CI story was for a long time way better than GitHub and even a number of dedicated CI/CD providers. If you want to build and deploy microservices from a monorepo independently based on what change
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by sophiabits 4y ago
Cargo is really nice! First party integration of developer tools is a big step forward and it’s nice to see it become more widespread (other examples include golang and Terraform) Bryan Cantrill has a number of talks about Rust which are si
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by sophiabits 4y ago
Alex’s posts on web performance are always on point and it’s a real shame that there are so few people talking about both the ethical crisis and climate impact of slow software. I live in New Zealand where we had a remarkably successful fib
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by sophiabits 4y ago
A particular application of #2 which works well as an extension of #3 is to have your workers implement a lightweight backend-for-frontend layer in between your frontend and more traditional API This approach works pretty well when you have