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I like websockets. Sometimes I hit concurrency or reconnect limitations under load and I move to socketIO which is more high level. I don't like setting up another server just for communication.

I do have Redis running so I was thinking to use that for communication between systems. But I am not sure yet. gRPC seems like an overkill to me. Any thoughts?

I use Zadarma for 3 years now, without problems. Not sure if they have implemented STIR/SHAKEN but our calls are not marked as spam.

Work as a freelancer in any field for €95 an hour, 40 weeks per year, 27 hours per week.

We needed about 1 year to rebuild the tech and find the right spot in sales. It was a process we both went through. The year after it was a stable growth. This year its a rocket. We are now considering to take a step back and integrate another management layer. I think it is sustainable. It probably sounds kinda weird, but we both did a personality test. We are total different persons. He has qualities I do not have and vice versa. That's our superpower now. I trust him 100% and looking back on all our mistakes, I regret nothing.

This 10k that he paid me; People told me it was too less, it did not value the product good enough. They were right, but I was not looking for the jackpot. I was looking for a sustainable income. Mission accomplished.

I have been in the same situation as you for many years. 5 years ago I tried a different approach. I created a POC, some slides about the tech and recorded my screen while giving a demo of the software. I sent it out to about 20 people in my network and asked them if they knew someone who was willing to partner up with me for the sales/marketing part. Some people contacted me, 1 was interesting for me. After weeks of talking he paid me €10k and put 10k in the company. I gave him 50% of the stocks and made him CEO. Best choice of my life.

Is it deta.space?

Your core feature is live updates of changes. That is actually a nightmare. I don't want live updates. It will be a mess.

If you really want to do cloud. Use git.

I have the exact same setup. Firefox does not work well with Google Meet. Thanks to the folks at Google, because a few years ago there was no issue at all.

It's not a book, but I consider this movie important enough to mention it here: "What the bleep do we know!?" I saw it around 2005 and it was mind-blowing to me.

Drop me a message. Email on profile.

This is probably a new way of a Indian dev hub to sell their services.

I would pay to have all my (forgotten) accounts deleted at socials, but also websites and apps

In Europe this works for Bunq, N26 and Revolut. Some other banks like ING are working on it. I applied several times for a developer account for ING but was never accepted.

My girlfriend works as a teacher at a school that is part of a school affiliation. During the COVID-19 pandemic, students had to work from home, which put pressure on the IT infrastructure. To assist, I offered advice and developed a small web app to help teachers organize their homework and lessons. I did it for free but the app spread like fire around others schools. Some needed support, some needed new features. That's how I got started. After a few weeks I started to charge.

I own a commercial softwarecompany and we build software for non-profit. We create software for education (schools) and give the full rights on the code back to the schools. This give them a way to get rid of expensive license models (EUR 15 per student for poorly build software is no expception). We build internal tools for students and teachers. Sometimes integrated in Microsoft Teams and Azure. We use PHP (Laravel Livewire) and Python (FastAPI, Django).

This organisation is not going to make me rich. We are interested in becoming a non-profit organisation ourselves in the future.

My learnings so far:

- The elephants of the industry are perfectly organised to win the public tenders

- The product they deliver checks all the boxes, but is poorly exectuted. Leaving schools with expensive, restricted contracts for 5 years

- They earn money by asking an amount per student per year. A simple synchronisation tool (to sync agendas between 2 sytems) costs them EUR 2 per student per year. (We built that in 2 weeks and give it away for free these days)

- We work for 65 schools. At least 12 of them bought software for 100-150k per year that they do not use (bugs, bad UI).

- We are cheap compared to the market, but we charge fair. Our profit is very low (10% or less) but we cover all costs and pay 3 fulltime developers. We have work for years.

I had the same experience. I really tried to use Kagi as my main search engine but it just was not good enough for me. I did like the feature where you can exclude domains from the results. It couild work nice as some kind of addon to Google search results.

I will give it another try in the future and hope my experience is different. I do like the company and the vision behind it.

Outseta is nice, real problem solver, but I have some issues.

- Webhooks are slow. Often delayed. - Subscriptions are not saved in Stripe, but in their own platform - I found a huge dataleak a while ago. They fixed it quite fast after reporting. - Hard to use for European companies (tax). - API is quite basic

Is Xiaomi Redmi Note 13 an environmental friendly phone built by well paid human beings?

Eagerness. That is what I look for in developers. The will to build. The will to survive.

I use deta.space these days. I have a much better fit with it because I often create small, experimental apps for my own pleasure and use. Heroku limits me and screams for payments. That blocks my creative process and makes me worry about unimportant stuff.

The article makes a comparison with PHP. I recently worked on a Laravel Livewire project and learned that it could do everything I used to do in React, from PHP.

Do you have an example?

Thanks. Another reason to move to another mobile OS.

I was 14 during the bubble and started a webdesign and hosting company with a 16 year old friend. It took weeks to open a business bank account as it was not possible for 18- to do so. We sold 25mb webhosting for 30,-. We designed websites with Photoshop and programmed them in php with an IDE called AceHtml Pro. We sold them for 1000,-.

The media coverage was big. Local newspapers, local TV. I was too young to know what I was doing, we only had 2 customers. Internet was booming news and offline channels covered whole pages about us. After the media attention we grew fast. We hired a rack at a datacenter and were refused many times at the door, because we looked like kids.

We earned quite some money for our age, build pc's and servers, went to LAN parties.

We hacked the webserver of a competitor company in a village nearby and replaced the photos of employees with edited variants with different ugly color shades. It took them weeks to notice. We used Telnet to find the version of the Exchange server, hacked into the email, found webserver credentials.

One time a company wanted a contract for the webdesign. We didnt have those. We took the contract from some competitor but forgot to change their business name. They signed without reading.

We communicated over IRC and landline phone. I had an internet connection over ISDN, my cofounder cable (CATV). Sometimes we used ICQ.

We had business cards with our logo and we would give them to everyone. On a bicycle we went through the villages to spread businesscards to farmers. Those cards had the sticker of a cow on it. 2 weekends spreading cards gave us about 10 clients. We created a simple website with pictures of the farm and equipment. They paid 750 for it and 150 per extra page. They shared the website with family and other farmers. Often this gave new clients.

After 2 years or so we got bored and gave everything away to a company we were friends with.

Now I own several software companies.

'Tweet' is a word pronounced pretty good in many european languages. 'X' does not.

I don't find this a smart move for such a big brand.

This is not the experience I have with Mollie. Their API and payment integrations with the subscriptions API is pretty good. Very stable, fast to integrate and all European payment methods we need.

I don't agree with the "Gen X metric", I do agree with low MTTR.

Time has changed, but back in the days there were basically 3 types of servers. Linux, Unix, Windows. The last one was the least stable and used most resources. Here we are, 20 years further, still the same systems and still Windows uses most resources. No more sudden blue screens tho

I have an older laptop which runs Debian 12 with xfce rather slow. Browsing the web with Firefox goes fairly slow. Clicking a button can take a second before something happens. I changed the OS for GhostBSD (=FreeBSD) and now have a major improvement in speed. Buttons and links in Firefox feel snappy again.

I was not aware that FreeBSD would be this much resource-friendly.

I have good experience with Mollie. Implemented it on several projects. Great support, clear docs and subscription management is managed from the API.