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by brendaningram 5y ago
It's Go on the backend, Postgres DB, Go HTML templates, a bit of jQuery but otherwise everything uses pure JS. It was (and is intended to be) deployed to AWS, and uses SES for notifications and S3 for client storage (e.g. uploading pro
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by brendaningram 5y ago
Sure thing. Feel free to get in touch and we can chat :)
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by brendaningram 5y ago
I agree. I'm happy to open source it, and will likely end up doing so.
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by brendaningram 5y ago
Good advice, thanks :)
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by brendaningram 5y ago
That is definitely an option, and I am completely happy to do that.
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Thoughts on selling source code (Shopify and Quickbooks style web app)
6 points by brendaningram 5y ago|10 comments
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by brendaningram 8y ago
One of the most significant ones is with constant network dropouts. I'm not talking about Wifi or some weird and wonderful adapter either. Wired ethernet on an Intel i219 - constant dropouts and when you're browsing (e.g. with Fir
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by brendaningram 8y ago
Debian Stretch (see my separate post here for more info)
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by brendaningram 8y ago
Unfortunately, I think Canonical has lost their focus on the desktop user. Every version of Ubuntu since 16.04 has had major issues for me. I have given every one of them a chance to redeem themselves, right up to today trying 18.10. Still
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by brendaningram 9y ago
I suspect that part of the reason that "as traffic rises, the quality of journalism is dropping" is because the types of articles that increase "engagement" appeal to the type of person who doesn't value quality lit
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by brendaningram 9y ago
Thanks for taking the time to do those comparisons. Very interesting. I was always too afraid of using a "terminal text editor", but the last 12 months or so I have made the effort to learn, and it's been quite enjoyable. Hav
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by brendaningram 9y ago
I've been using Debian Stretch (which was previously Debian Testing) for the last 2 years. I didn't ever have a single problem. But as the months passed I kept getting miffed about old packages. Yes, there are backports etc, but i
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by brendaningram 9y ago
I haven't had a single issue with Firefox (54) out of the box. I know that some add-ons can break the multi-process windows feature, but out of the box has been fine, both with clean VirtualBox installs and bare-metal desktop installs.
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by brendaningram 9y ago
You can use the "Dash to Panel" extension in Gnome to provide a Windows 7 like bottom panel. I discovered it recently, and it has made my Gnome experience 1000x better.
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by brendaningram 9y ago
Thanks for your considered thoughts.
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Why is the font so large on my site?(brendaningram.com)
6 points by brendaningram 9y ago|2 comments
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by brendaningram 9y ago
Firstly, what I use and where I'm coming from: I've distro hopped in VirtualBox (so I can experiment) for more than 5 years, trying out every distro I can find. I currently run Debian with i3 natively / on the host machine. I
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Ask HN: Location of article, geographically separated particles maintaining bond
1 points by brendaningram 9y ago|0 comments
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by brendaningram 9y ago
I think that most people would answer your question by saying "because I need Mac app XYZ and Linux doesn't have a nice equivalent yet". I used to have a MacbookPro. I'm now 100% Linux (Debian). In my particular case, th
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by brendaningram 9y ago
All true. We're all free to install any DE environment we want. But defaults are definitely useful to the entry level Linux users. I would love to see the day when the first (and easiest) choice for Joe Dad and Mary Mum setting up a co
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by brendaningram 9y ago
I agree completely that experimentation needs to occur. I definitely don't begrudge them for making the decision to implement Unity. My initial thoughts were more hypothetical - and I definitely wouldn't suggest that Gnome is the
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by brendaningram 9y ago
I'm sure they lost a lot of fans with Unity. They lost even more with the Amazon search debacle. But it's almost certain that they won just as many with both of those changes. I don't really like or dislike Unity. I've u
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by brendaningram 9y ago
Well said, they need to do things smarter. But I guess that's what they are doing with this decision. They've determined that Unity has failed as a commercial endeavour, and now they're moving to something different. It just
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by brendaningram 9y ago
I like that quote: competition is good, but replication is a waste. One of the comments below says that Unity was a necessary experiment, and it could have resulted in something amazing. That's very true, and the world has some amazing
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by brendaningram 9y ago
True, Gnome has had huge development carried out over the last few years. Red Hat / Fedora have been great in terms of contributing to the FOSS community.
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by brendaningram 9y ago
Disclaimer: I don't use Gnome or Unity, I'm an i3 guy. I understand that choice in the Linux world is very important, but I also think that choice (taken to extremes) can be crippling. My opinion is that we have too many desktop e
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Vim keyboard shortcuts for writers(brendaningram.com)
1 points by brendaningram 9y ago|0 comments
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How to create a distraction free USB writing environment on Debian Linux(brendaningram.com)
1 points by brendaningram 9y ago|0 comments
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How to generate a sine wave in Golang(brendaningram.com)
3 points by brendaningram 11y ago|0 comments
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Web Essentials not saving CSS files(medium.com)
1 points by brendaningram 12y ago|0 comments

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