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mmarian
1,459karma·1,053submissions·July 28, 2019
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Latest projects:
* AI Copilot for LibreOffice Writer: https://librethinker.com/
* A personal blog about tech and startups: https://developerwithacat.com
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I open source my failed projects at: https://github.com/mihailthebuilder
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recent activity (1,053 total)
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Not sure what firewall rules you're referring to, but I'm genuinely surprised to see DO being trusted more than Hetzner. I often see DO's ASN when looking at scrapers/hackers, so I…
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> If you are young and wanting a promising trade in tech, security would absolutely be a good choice. Shit is going to get CRAZY. I personally would still recommend software engineering. Security i…
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Getting answers to your question won't help you. If a product is obviously valuable, and there's an obvious way one could make it better, there will be plenty of alternatives out there. It&#…
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Not sure what jobs you've been applying to, but none of my interviews allowed AI use.
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Had to Google this - Amazon Luna is a cloud gaming platform.
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I don't get this either. It's so obvious that target customers will never spend hours rummaging through these platforms. Yet they keep coming up.
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Gives hiring managers an easy excuse to reject your application though, far majority are getting too many people in their pipeline. I personally think it's one convenient way of checking someone …
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I used to think that if I follow the right blog, it'll help me become better at the startup game. Then I realised it was a waste of time as the advice came from a place of great luck and survivor…
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Odd they picked China. Would've thought that's a growth area for most Western enterprises where you need to have local presence.
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Not that backend is any better - microservices everywhere, must scale to Facebook traffic even if we only have 10 customers, etc. Saying this as a backend dev
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CapRover for self hosted PaaS
Dozzle for self hosted logs
DuckDB was a life savior for some data analysis I needed to do
Rollbar for app error alerting - v generous free tier
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Have you contacted anyone who's currently an FDE? That will quickly validate your assumptions.
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Cloudflare for serverless. Or Hetzner for VPS.
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Depends where you're based. But handymen in the UK get decent money, especially once you start working with businesses.
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It did for me. I had 3 <6 month stints as the companies I joined kept going bust.
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Unlikely they'll hire people requiring visas though. Unless you're exceptional talent, of course.
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Last time I checked they don't pay well though.
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You work on things you know something about, and things that people want to talk about. And you go where people are (meetups etc). Or offer something for free and hope that people reach out to you for…
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Many success stories are real; doesn't mean they're replicable :) a lot of it is right place right time. The reality is that you'll rarely find much useful in them. It's why I gave…
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Put it behind Cloudflare and try out the various firewall rules. Wrote this blog post covering some examples of rules and trade-offs https://developerwithacat.com/blog/202603/…
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Wrote a blog post advising people not to run this sort of stuff last year: https://developerwithacat.com/blog/032025/test-containers-ba... It's just too much hassle to …
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Story of my life.
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It's hard to be good at tech and business at the same time. Not impossible, just much lower chances. Also you get more labor into the enterprise without having to pay money.