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pqdbr··on Show HN: Tier.run – Terraform for Stripe
From the Pricing JSON page, on the 'Why Each Plan Must Have At Least One Feature' question, it says:

> Without this restriction, it would be significantly more expensive to fetch your pricing model from Stripe's data.

I didn't quite get that. I understood that application code should reference features (and not plans directly) so it becomes easier to change plan structure (via https://priceops.org/4-entitlement), but that's not the reasoning laid out here, is it?

pqdbr··on Show HN: Tier.run – Terraform for Stripe
As a Stripe customer, I think that the principles on which Tier were built constitute best practices that could have been taught to me by Stripe docs.

For instance, the idea that plans should be treated as immutable (and versioned when changes are desired) and that we should attach application code to features (and not directly to plans), having a lawyer of abstraction that links features to plans, could have been laid out to us at the very beginning of our integration.

They seem obvious in retrospect, but one is not guaranteed to derive them on first try; the fact that they wrote https://priceops.org/4-entitlement is telling.

pqdbr··on BuiltWith: $14M ARR, no employees
So building an actual business, by providing a service that other people see value in, and decide to pay money for, is "everything that's wrong with our society"?
pqdbr··on The Hummingbird Clock: date videos by background mains hum
@dang Maybe you could add a [Loud sound] tag on the title. I clicked on it without knowing and blasted a huge noise from external speakers at midnight.

Wife and neighbors are not happy.

pqdbr··on ClickHouse Cloud is now in Public Beta
Care to elaborate? I’m a fullstack Rails dev for 12 years and I had no idea either, just like OP. Why alienate potential users from the get go?
pqdbr··on The Lilium Jet
Those are crazy ideas. I love them. Anywhere they have been experimented with before?
pqdbr··on 1 in 4 Gen Z-ers plan to become social media influencers
I think you answered your own question about what this is supposed to tell us.

I’d love my child to long being an astronaut, and all the studying and life choices it will impose on them. Can’t say the same about becoming a TikToker.

pqdbr··on Show HN: Crawlee – Web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js
Just found this on the Apify documentation: https://docs.apify.com/tutorials/log-into-a-website-using-pu...

Is there a similar guide for Crawlee?

pqdbr··on Show HN: Crawlee – Web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js
This looks really great. However, I can't find examples of how to handle scraping behind a login or a paywall, without having to 'type' credentials every time.
pqdbr··on Quaise Energy is working to create geothermal wells
I actually got really excited after reading the article, and the entire piece is about how "down to earth" (pun intended) the technology being developed here really is.

They are going to great lengths to make it compatible with the existing power grid (just replacing the heat source for current generators), re-utilizing abandoned mines and all.

So, would you care to elaborate why you think it would never materialize?

pqdbr··on DALL·E now available in beta
What was your prompt?
pqdbr··on James Webb first images – complete set of high resolution shots now live
Does that also include the very tiny little dots? I have the same question as OP, and I thought the tiny dots were single stars, and the little bigger ones (brighter) were galaxies.
pqdbr··on Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement
On the agreement he signed, maybe?
pqdbr··on The local news crisis is deepening America's divides
If, like me, you read "Axios" as that js library, and PR as Pull Request, you too, my friend, need to take a break.
pqdbr··on Fresh is a new full stack web framework for Deno
Now with Turbo, Rails is very opinionated about the frontend side. Which is a great thing.

My productivity with Rails 7 and Turbo has never been higher.

pqdbr··on Cloudflare had a partial outage
I'm having '500 Internal Server Error' (nginx) on a regular tab, and everything working fine on an icognito tab. Go figure.
pqdbr··on WorldWideWeb.app
With Ruby, `ruby -run -e httpd . -p 8000`
pqdbr··on Logitech MX Mechanical Keyboard
I also went with keychron a year ago and I’m very pleased. My only complaint is that battery is shitty if you use the wireless mode with the led backlight on all the time (it will last about 4-5 days max).
pqdbr··on I fell in love with low-JS
Not op, and I’m on the phone so can’t post an example. But I just wanted to add that Rails + Vue (only for those views that require heavy reactivity) is the most productive stack I’ve ever worked.
pqdbr··on Sorbet and 100% cov makes Ruby refactoring possible
It's a shame the article ends with "So as usual, consider not writing Ruby, but if you do, ...". That's worthless advice and many people, myself included, have Ruby as their most beloved programming language.
pqdbr··on Ask HN: Have you used SQLite as a primary database?
Would love to know more about how you set this up.
pqdbr··on Ruby 3.2 preview 1 with support for WASM compilation
Lol, good analogy. “But can it run Rails?”
pqdbr··on Ruby Together
I started a new company at the end of 2021 and I chose Ruby/Rails ... once again.
pqdbr··on I live in the country with the most expensive Apple products on the planet
He was being ironic
pqdbr··on Deepfakes, can you spot them?
I only did 13, and got 100% right.
pqdbr··on Current MFA fatigue attack campaign targeting Microsoft Office 365 users
The backend should use an exponential backoff to block repeated failed MFA requests within a short period of time like the one demonstrated in the video.
pqdbr··on Akamai to Acquire Linode
Longtime customer here (10+ years). I can only hope that now they finally set up a datacenter in Brazil!
pqdbr··on Files – Single-file photo gallery and file manager
Does anyone know any open source library that provides this feature as a widget for a web app?

I’d love to use Rails active storage + S3 to allow users to have a “mini Dropbox” inside my web App; the only one I could find that was nice enough was CKFinder, but it’s not open source and it’s tied to a Java or PHP backend as well.

pqdbr··on We have jetpacks and we do not care
I'm giving you some pointers below but the best thing is to get proper training from an instructor. Helping you choose the right equipment for you is a big part of it.

Your equipment has 3 main components: your engine (check out Vitorazzi, their "Moster 185" is definitely the most popular engine in the world), your cage (check out Parajet https://parajet.com/ - they have some cages already assembled with the Moster 185) and your wing (I fly Ozone - https://www.flyozone.com/paramotor/).

pqdbr··on We have jetpacks and we do not care
Just google for paramotor training, there are many schools in the US. I suggest get training near the place you plan to do most of your flying, because flying at the beach with constant, laminar, mid-strong winds is very different than flying at the countryside with bumpy and low-mid winds.

If in doubt, learn to fly near the beach. The views are amazing :)

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