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mmarian
1,452karma·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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Building algorithmic trading models. Because the reflexivity of the markets.
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Second it, it's how I became a software engineer. Was recommended by a friend who also followed it and became a dev.
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How many companies that hire a lot of juniors (ie corporates) actually use Vercel? Haven't seen one so far.
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Second that. I used to follow advice on reddit a lot in the past. Needless to say, it made me fearful of doing anything.
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Thx! And how do you go about writing your email template? I used to just write the template in my web framework of choice (Astro) then build and copy everything from the dist folder, but I don't …
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Decided to build this after being dissatisfied with the UX of the other tools out there. My goal is to get this to be at the top of the Google search results for the "hex to tailwind" keywor…
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Weights and a yoga mat at home. No excuse not to have literally 15-20 mins to use them.
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I agree the data doesn't need to persist forever, but I don't want to think about backups either. Fussy, I know :)
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In case I change the schema for whatever reason.
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In case anyone else is wondering, the other commenter that had analytics issues was @mellow-lake-day
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> To me that's all the more reason to just find some drop-in feedback widget. It takes like one line of code and 5 min to set up and it's going to be like 95%+ reliable. Someone else did …
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> Just do what's easiest for you, I say this respectfully it is not worth your time agonizing over a feedback form I agree, it's not worth agonizing over the form before every single proj…
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A trustworthy choice, though I'm confused what happens after you exceed the 100 subs/month. Their pricing page seems to suggest that you pay more than $19/month since the Pro plan also …
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I prefer the 3rd option as well, and I like the idea of avoiding email sending and just storing the data on the VM, then making it available via an interface. @superkuh had a really nice idea to just …
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Just checked out your website by the way and wanted to say the comment system is really neat. Recommend everyone else to have a look.
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Cheers, what I'd probably do is the following: - use my Go/Gin server - host as a Docker container inside my Docker Swarm cluster managed by CapRover, so I don't have to pay for a new V…
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I agree, it should be something very simple. I ended up trying the database approach in my latest project, but then I started thinking about schema/migrations. I totally missed out the file optio…
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Oh that's a really neat trick, I'm guessing I could also send via JS if I set up a FormData with the same fields (probably just a generic text input that I'll just dump everything to). …
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Fair enough, thanks for the suggestion anyway.
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Oh my god that's actually brilliant!! I kept thinking about how to store the data, handle migrations, and I totally missed out that I could just write the whole damn thing to a file. Thank you!
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I agree Google Forms a familiar experience, but I'm worried that it will look amateurish. Especially if you come from a crisp landing page and you don't know/trust the website you'…
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I'm not looking for a Typeform experience I'm afraid. More something that you click on an input, type some text, then hit send. I personally think that a 5-sec-submit experience gets better …
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There's no free plan and I need to pay $59/month from the get-go. It makes no sense for my projects I'm afraid.
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I did that before and I ended up being sentenced to bombardment by spam on that address for forever.
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I agree, I even went the other way and removed the email notification and just kept an embedded SQLite database. I figured that's more reliable than hoping the emails always end up in my inbox.
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My Go script is pretty simple too, I'm more worried about the stuff around it really. How do you host your PHP script by the way? > By filtering for a few keywords, you can get of 99% of the f…