RileyJames

I love that use of the VC domain. Refreshing.

Love it.

This response is very reactive heavy, where as it’s elixir I’m more interested in.

But well done on the execution. It does exactly what it states.

I’ve bookmarked.

I often search HN for additional articles and discussions based on something I’ve just read. Next time I’ll use this tool.

Yep, same situation. Looked into render. I liked what I saw (and spun up a trial). But it was going to be expensive for a bunch of low usage projects.

I ultimately went with a large-ish droplet from DO with dokku installed. It’s been great, for the many small sites use case. It doesn’t scale, but that’s fine. When projects get traction the intention is to move them.

Which one has, and is now on AWS. But if we’d been on render I wouldn’t have moved it. I’d just spin up its own db and scale up the processes.

It wasn’t a good experience on mobile (iPhone SE2020).

The background images took ages to load (I’m assuming they’re massive, I’m on 4g). The image didn’t complete loading before switching.

Swiping down brought up a modal, but it didn’t load correct, and it didn’t seem to yet any content beyond a vinyl logo?

Doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. While I wouldn’t have shifted my domains to google, because of exactly what has just transpired, I am considering moving everything to cloudflare for the same reason I should have moved them to google.

My domains are the starting point for my other infra/sites/web apps. And cloudflare has become that product that already sits there, dns, cdn and workers.

If google can’t sort that out, they seem dysfunctional. Cloudflare seems to understand the value and execute accordingly.

And their positioning as “at cost domains” makes it a no brainer. Only a matter of time before I move them all over.

I’ve been using Hotwire, stimulus and bootstrap (tho tailwind would work just as well) to build interactive front ends on top of rails without getting bogged down in over engineering.

Hotwire can be used outside of rails.

And LiveView is a similar framework from the elixir/Pheonix community (and probably now available for other languages).

I like the idea of paid to comment / interact.

I mostly lurk reddit / read.

But understanding its balance between sustainability and popularity, is there a lower bound to free that can ensure the content is posted to seo the space popular?

1-3 free submissions per month would be enough for me.but if I started a sub (which I’ve considered a few times) I’d see enough value to pay.

Love the idea. Good luck. The timing is great. The audience is ready for a new model.

>> "We tested this hypothesis through a survey comprised of two-paired alternate forced choice questions to identify which image of a cyclist respondents consider to be less human," the study's abstract explains.

Doesn’t structuring a study like this ensure the outcome / headline? An image of a cyclist was going to come out as “less human” even if none of the respondents would agree with that statement.

It’s like if I showed people two images of a politician and asked them “which individual most belongs in a zoo” and then concluded bald politicians are most likely to be perceived as “belonging in a zoo”.

Would any of the respondents make or agree with that statement? It seems unlikely based on the methodology of the study.

>> “was fined €63,680 in 2018, five years after being hit with a €95,000 ticket for the same offence.”

~€270,000 in fines… lol. Might be time to hire a driver…

Interesting. I’ll take a look.

Yes, plugging and unplugging is a major pain. I often find my windows re-appear on the wrong screen. And sometimes the wrong desktop… which is weird.

I notice your lowest plan is 2500 daily notifications. So you’re stating you have 25k users that use less than 2500 daily notifications?

I’d suggest your free tier is too generous if you’re struggling to convert free to paid.

I feel like the value of open source saas is that you’re not locked into the vendors roadmap or pricing in the same way as a closed source saas.

If you need feature xx in the future, and they don’t provide it. You add that feature, and move to self hosting (or maybe they’d even accept the PR and it could become part of the hosted service, tho less likely). And if your business / service thrives, and you scale to the highest tiers of the pricing, you have the option to move to a self hosted version. Obviously self hosting has additional dev ops costs, but once you’re at a certain scale, and you have those dev ops resources anyway, it could make sense to take more control over the services you rely on.

Those options give me the confidence to deeply integrate and plan for the long term. But it’s not about free, it’s about that flexibility in the future.

An overly generous free tier seems more in line with a closed source saas lock-in strategy.

I’d be keen to try something like that out.

I’ve been using pop os for the past few months and I’ve fallen in love with its snapping window manager.

I have a 4K screen plus the laptop (xps 13).

I can have two browsers open, then my ide. And then terminal on the laptop screen.

And I can easily slide the divider between the ide and browsers as necessary based on what requires the most space at the time.

Only issues I’ve run into is being able to move multiple stacked windows to a new location, all at once. I probably just haven’t found the right shortcut.

It’s not exactly what you’re talking about, as the browsers are independent, but I’d be keen to see new browsing options like that.

Unfortunately we’ve been piss farting around and never got round to writing a markdown parser for Aussie++.[1]

If you could do a bloke a favour and chuck up a pull request while we nip down the pub for a coupla you’d be a bloody legend.

Alright piss off now mate.

[1]https://aussieplusplus.vercel.app/

I’ve had success moving my family over to signal.

It took persistence.

What I’ve found to work is taking it one family member at a time. And do it in person, get them to commit to using it. Then ask if you can set it up for them, show them how it works. Join them into the group chat, and then at least you’ve removed the friction to joining.

I like the idea behind this.

My concerns with using it are that the app itself languishes, or doesn’t get traction.

Is there any capacity to use a neucard with a recipient that doesn’t have the app?

Are there any plans to open this up to alternative clients / implementations?

Are there parts you can open source while maintaining a business around some portions of the product? (Such as the physical cards)

Same deal, would love access in AU/NZ

Nice. I guess I don’t expect willow to cover the speaker element. I’d rather connect with my existing hifi / Bluetooth speakers.

But with google I’m stuck with their integration to Spotify. It’s that component I’d like control over, and that’s why I’d use willow.

That and not being spied on in my own home.

Definitely keen for one.

I’ve been living in a house for the past few months with a google assistant. I only use it to put on music, but I have noticed I play more music due to the ease of putting it on.

But I hate the privacy invasion aspect. I’m definitely in the market for something like this. And this one looks great.

Additionally, I’ve noticed that the google voice assistant (connected to Spotify) doesn’t keep playing the albums I ask for.

It states it’s playing the album. But after 4/5 songs it starts playing different songs, or different artists.

Doesn’t that beg the question? Why hasn’t a platform capitalised on the perpetual future in tradfi markets.

I can understand why CME might not. But why wouldn’t a new entrant like robinhood launch perpetual futures?

Looks like a great tool. And the video demo really sold it well.

The video demo did downscale / blur at times, which made it unreadable.

https://imgur.com/a/91Sgvgt

Everything else on the site was extremely clean. Love it.

Haha yep, I’m in that category at the moment.

I’ve been buying a lot of albums on Bandcamp, and in most cases I get the vinyl or cassette, which comes with the digital download for free.

I plan to get a record player, and full hifi. I do have a cassette setup, tho I use primarily for recording. The few tapes I bought were to a/b test against the digital on my cassette recording setup. And the fact that it’s often only a few $$ difference in price.

I got sick of “owning nothing” via the Spotify model. I like that Bandcamp gives me the option to get the files so I can do as a please with them.

Harvey bird man. Attorney at law.

Please be a reference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Birdman,_Attorney_at_La...

Tangential complaint on google account sign ins.

If I remove an account from an app / device, I expect it to be gone. But they clearly shadow it.

I have three google accounts (work, work and personal). And when I log into my personal account, which I have removed from the gmail app. It still uses that app as it’s “2FA”, and then reactivates the account.

1) if I remove the account, actually do it!!!

2) if I’m not logged into any apps, then use a 2FA method I DO have active (google auth app)

I don’t know. But I suspect they bought some established websites via a marketplace like flippa, that had established earnings (traffic, ad revenue). They then swapped the Adsense account to their own, and discovered that the ad clicks were fraud / bots, which resulted in their entire Adsense account being banned.

I similarly found the trackpad fine with Linux mint.

Tho I found the difference in gestures quite annoying. Primarily in web apps like Miro. And window / app switching.

With enough hacking around it seemed like all the gesture support was there, but making it all work in the same way as OSX was going to require a lot of configuration.

Do you want to re-check if that setting has been retained? It sounds like there may be a re-sync but with the carrier.

That’s awesome! Congrats.

Are there any feature requests / product directions that have been requested, that you’ve rejected / neglected? For better or worse.

Solo building is often about hard decisions on what NOT to do. And with a generic piece of software like this, I imagine there are plenty of niche operators asking for “just one thing to make it perfect for xxxxx”

Where’s the harm in releasing it anyway? You’ve done the work, put it out there!

I mean, the bank failed on Friday. They managed to get payroll out delayed a few days. It was a fast moving situation for everyone involved.

Being told that JPMorgan is taking over the deposit, and knowing your payroll payment automations are going to work a different things. I imagine they had to test, and likely rewrite them. Wiring $300M of pay checks as a “we’ll do it live” scenario seems unwise.

You’ve every right to be upset. But how long do you think it would take another payroll provider to recover after losing all funds due to their bank going under? 2-3 days seems pretty impressive.

And is that typically 10 years? Or 25/30?