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by stevoski 2y ago
This is awesome. A reminder why I avoid working in the corporate world - or even full time.
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by stevoski 2y ago
Did I just go back 40 years in time?
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by stevoski 2y ago
The irony is that Joel’s “FogBugz” product eventually got rewritten many years later.
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by stevoski 2y ago
Going back even further in time, Java.util.Date was was heavily inspired by a C library. That’s the origin of getMonth() in Java (and therefore in JS) returning a value from 0-11 and not 1-12 as many coders initially expect. What was the or
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by stevoski 2y ago
Sublime Text is great the way it is. If you have to change things, please make them just tiny, incremental changes.
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by stevoski 2y ago
I feel that 50 people is not a small company! It’s all relative, of course. But 50 people is big enough that as the business owner, you’d need to be permanently in hire mode, just to replace people moving on for various reasons. And you’d b
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by stevoski 2y ago
I’m referring to specifics in the article. The interview was for a remote job paying €50K/year.
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by stevoski 2y ago
I predict that very soon you are going to be offered a remote job paying more than €50,000/year. That’s due to this excellent post about your excellent abilities and reasoning appearing on HN. ¡Mucha suerte!
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by stevoski 2y ago
This is what keeps me from using Tailwind too. I simply do not want to add the maintenance headaches of an npm-based build process to my project.
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by stevoski 2y ago
Love this. The attitude of the htmx developers is highly commendable.
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by stevoski 2y ago
Many of the brand-name VPNs are owned by the same parent company. They were gobbled up one by one.
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by stevoski 2y ago
Ernest Hemingway - starting with “The Old Man and the Sea”. After reading that, you’ll no longer think that Nobel Prize winners for literature write books that are difficult to read and understand.
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by stevoski 2y ago
Replying to myself: I got it working by plugging my Yamaha P-515 MacBook Pro into my computer. The ergonomics of playing the piano while viewing on a laptop were awkward. As to the game, well, it doesn’t do much yet. Just prompting me to pl
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by stevoski 2y ago
I’d love to try this. But… I’ve connected my Yamaha P-515 electric piano to my iPad, and it doesn’t show in the app’s “MIDI keyboard” dropdown. Lots of Googling comes up with nothing helpful - or understandable, at least, to me, a novice wh
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by stevoski 2y ago
They’re talking about Australia, and the robodebt scheme. Read the Wikipedia article and you’ll probably feel outraged. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robodebt_scheme
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by stevoski 2y ago
Does it have dark mode?
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by stevoski 2y ago
The idea of hiding your business makes no sense. You need people to hear about it if you want customers. Getting mentioned on forums like HN is exactly how a business like this gets more customers.
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by stevoski 2y ago
He is the founder of WP Engine, by far the biggest WordPress hosting service.
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by stevoski 2y ago
I enjoyed reading this book. It inspired me to simplify some things in the app I currently work on - and from which I earn my income.
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by stevoski 2y ago
Revenue, not profit.
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by stevoski 2y ago
My SaaS uses Cloudinary for uploading and storing images. It’s not particularly cheap. But it is fast and flexible and safe.
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by stevoski 2y ago
This is an awesome strategy! I want to print this out and put it above my computer.
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by stevoski 3y ago
I lived in Germany for years. I listened to Germans gripe about how bureaucratic it was to do things there like open and run a business. Then I moved to Spain and started a company there. Germans, your country has NOTHING on Spain when it c
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by stevoski 3y ago
The article is from 2007. The reality in 2024, alas, is that spambots long ago learnt to defeat these approaches. After trying several clever techniques like the one in the article, we eventually and reluctantly added a CAPTCHA. For a CAPTC
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by stevoski 3y ago
Adding to my own comment, because I was curious and had to look it up: In Galician (which is very similar to Portuguese), the days of the week use the Roman-derived names, unlike Portuguese.
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by stevoski 3y ago
> The Spanish names retain their Roman origins. As do the French, Italian, and Catalan names. But Portuguese, no. For Monday to Friday they use something like “second”, “third”, “fourth”, “fifth”, “sixth”. And that, perhaps coincidentall
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by stevoski 3y ago
This makes me somewhat nostalgic for the days when I would regularly encounter software that used Sparkle for updates. The days when I’d mostly use downloadable native software for my Mac. The days when most of the software I regularly used
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by stevoski 3y ago
My dictionary says "faux pas: an embarrassing or tactless act or remark in a social situation" I can't work out how packing the coffee in a moka pot is a faux pas.
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by stevoski 3y ago
IIRC Visual Basic 6 was good in many ways but in (at least two) areas, it wasn’t: * re-laying out the UI controls when the user resized the app window * nicely handling long-running tasks, with progress updates, allowing user interruption I
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by stevoski 3y ago
What’s the latency like, when hosting your app on Fly, and your db on Supabase? Is there some coordination happening to make sure they are in the same data centre? Edit: I should have read the article. All explained in the first paragraphs

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