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__natty__··on Photino: A lighter Electron
Or Wails with Go. It’s good we have more competitors in the desktop space.
__natty__··on Stripe acquires Lemon Squeezy
LemonSqueezy itself or Paddle. Both are merchants of records. At least paddle (maybe LS too) allows reverse invoice which is important for some home grown startup saas as they simplify taxes to single customer (paddle), one invoice and one tax jurisdiction usually.
__natty__··on Show HN: A modern Jupyter client for macOS
Yes. You can use Jupyter notebooks with both JavaScript and TypeScript. Such support is from Deno for example [0]

[0] https://deno.com/blog/v1.37

__natty__··on Discussion on why SQLite is gaining popularity [audio]
I like the idea of SQLite, even more with tools like Litestream [0] when the database is replicated - in this case, just continuously backup to S3 (and from S3 during startup). I found often for my and my friend's hobby projects, single server instances can be optimized easily enough to handle small and medium traffic. In such cases, I don't even bother with a fully managed database because SQLite covers all the needs and when it's located on the same machine as the server is extremely fast [1].

[0] https://litestream.io/ [1] https://www.sqlite.org/speed.html

__natty__··on Stop postponing things by embracing the mess
I like to think about discipline in terms of habits, either built in a perfect environment or real and messy, as described in the article. The perfect ones are what we aim to achieve, but they are flimsy because once we are in a different environment, the habits disappear. The latter are much more prone to changes but harder to initialize.
__natty__··on Show HN: Open SaaS – An open-source alternative to paid boilerplate starters
Great project. I’m curious if you know live and earning startups made using this or other boilerplate.
__natty__··on Marketing for Product-Obsessed Developers
During a gold rush, sell shovels.
__natty__··on Cold-blooded software
In the Node & JavaScript ecosystem, there is the web framework Express. The current major version 4.x.x branch is over 10 years old [1]. And yet it powers so many apps in the ecosystem (over 17M downloads every week [2]). It lacks some features and is not the most performant [3]. But me and coworkers I talked with, like it because it allows for quick, stable development and long-term planning without worrying about drastic API changes and lack of security patches for older versions. Even better stability is provided with Go where we can run over 10-year-old programs thanks to a mix of wide stdlib and the promise of compatibility. [4]

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/express?activeTab=versions

[2] https://www.npmjs.com/package/express

[3] https://fastify.dev/benchmarks/

[4] https://go.dev/doc/go1compat

__natty__··on Mindustry: Open-source automation tower defense game
I love this game and even more the distribution model. Do you want a free game? Use officially available sources. Do you want to support the developer or have Steam integration? Buy on Steam. Just want to donate? Donate. Want to change something in the game? Git clone.
__natty__··on UK becomes first G20 country to halve its carbon emissions
That's pretty cool. Now I'm waiting for India and China.
__natty__··on Polish trains lock up when serviced in third-party workshops
Will be interesting to see the impact of this situation on the contract with European railroad services Akiem - they signed a 164 million euro contract with Newag for services and trains for France. [1]

[1] https://biznes.pap.pl/pl/news/all/info/3509606,newag-inks-eu...

__natty__··on Show HN: Atlassian Design for Bootstrap v5
Atlassian design has been the ideal model for enterprise™ design for me. It's like promo videos with smiling people from stock. Look nice and clean but you just feel the rat race behind.
__natty__··on Bruno – Opensource, sustainability, privacy, freedom and incentives
I like the simplicity of Bruno and that the author is aware why devs liked the Postman and Insomnia. I will wait however until it will mature a little more as my huge project in Insomnia can’t be imported (I guess because I left empty names to see directly URLs and Bruno doesn’t allow that).
__natty__··on Ask HN: SaaS pricing pages with high prices and not “contact sales”
Just fyi, I’m missing the previous dynamic logo
__natty__··on Why’s that company so big? I could do that in a weekend (2016)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12626314 Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend (danluu.com) 712 points | 423 comments
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