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by tbran 6y ago
I like Tailwind a lot, but for anyone else reading, you still need to purge css classes to not end up with a very large css file (187kB gzipped) [1]. This requires a build step with PurgeCSS. (I haven't checked, but maybe Netlify offer
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by tbran 6y ago
Love using Ansible (though I don't always love writing YAML). PROTIP: I use it to manage my laptops/workstations with a hosts entry like: [laptop-thinkpad] localhost ansible_connection=local Sometimes I think it's ov
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by tbran 6y ago
Congrats on the revenue! I would possibly be worried if revenue wasn't coming in faster that my product wasn't really a hit. Perhaps you could consider a better angle or target a more specific audience? I like the idea of charging
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by tbran 6y ago
So, I'm on the same version of Ubuntu and LibreOffice and I use Calc almost every day without problems. Also, on the infrequent occasions that I need to do document recovery (usually from my unplugged laptop running out of battery), it
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by tbran 6y ago
While the creator of Buttondown [0] and Spoonbill [1] wasn't trying to get a job, I really like the philosophy he talks about in this post about side projects [2]: > If you are going to find a project, I encourage you to find someth
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by tbran 6y ago
Good stuff. This author builds businesses off kind of serendipitous domain name purchases. Find a domain, build something useful on it, grind for a while, you have a business. He also wrote: I Sell Onions on the Internet [0] - He buys the
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by tbran 6y ago
I'm planning to launch a newsletter soon for a site I own that gets a moderately decent amount of traffic. Here is a snippet of some handy things I've found: The cost of sending email is a lot on some platforms (Mailchimp is $30&#
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by tbran 6y ago
I wanted to create a slideshow a couple weeks ago and came across this article [0] on creating a Ken Burns Effect Slideshow. Very cool and is a great demo of some of ffmpeg's functionality. However, the final command is a little crazy:
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by tbran 6y ago
Hey, the end of your logo is clipped on Firefox: https://imgur.com/pZPmlR2 I tried it with a totally clean Firefox and with Chromium (both Linux) - Chromium is fine, Firefox is clipped.
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by tbran 6y ago
I came across this article when I was grabbing some links for this comment [0] I wrote that talked a little about unbundling. I didn't find the article very meaty, but I agree with the main point of it - that there is probably a lot op
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by tbran 6y ago
That's great then! BannerBear actually fits into OP's desire to be making $1-1.5k in 13 months! Kidding aside - yes, I get it. SAAS products take a while and are hard. According to BareMetrics, after a year most companies are maki
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by tbran 6y ago
I think having a niche or single product focus is great advice! Imagine if OP: 1) Picked a product/tech 2) Did a deep dive into it for 3 months - setups and teardowns, reading, learning everything in the docs, and experimenting 3) Star
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by tbran 6y ago
Some business-y ideas: 1) Build an affiliate site. Some of the older posts on /r/juststart [0] are helpful. 2) Organize information and sell it. See the stuff made by Pieter Levels [1] or BuiltWith [2]. I just put together LotsofO
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by tbran 6y ago
I also recently signed up, and totally agree that it was a little bit of a PITA. I will say, however, that a lot of the difficulty appears to be tied to the privacy aspects. I think it's the only service I checked out that didn't
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by tbran 6y ago
Check out BannerBear [0]. Made with Ruby on Rails by this guy [1]. Pieter Levels uses jquery and a single large php file for NomadList [2]. I think there's a pretty solid group of people using "old" tech to build modern inter
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by tbran 6y ago
I completely agree! I started using Vue from a script tag a year ago (not that hard). But when I started building an SPA, things got complicated very quickly. I found myself longing for a really good tutorial similar to Django's [0], r
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by tbran 6y ago
The most important thing to me when building a blog or info type site is how hard it will be to maintain or change in a year or more. I have one site running on Wagtail (Django) for the past 3 or 4 years, and two other sites currently built
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by tbran 6y ago
I just started working on a list of gigs/side hustles - you can see it here: https://goofy-swartz-25f1b7.netlify.app/ or here in a day or two: https://www.lotsofopps.com Filter by skills, physical level, ti
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by tbran 13y ago
Regarding the "messy account passing", I'd just like to be able to interact with a vendor's own UPS account with minimal setup from my vendor. Thanks for the info! It clears some things up.
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by tbran 13y ago
I'm launching a marketplace within a month or so for custom machining and fabrication. Vendors want instantaneous quotes and labels. I'll probably be integrating with EasyPost to start. Here are some thoughts: I need an API so