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by pnelson 4y ago
This is awesome and what I initially set out to do but always found a way to talk myself out of it. I dream big. I found a project to stick to "completion" but it took me two years to build alone. I've only lost money but it&
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by pnelson 4y ago
I'm working towards building the best possible experience for hosting multiple sites on a single machine at a fixed price at https://acrobox.io . Abstracting Docker didn't make the cut for my MVP but it may be the right
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by pnelson 4y ago
That's one of many things that lead me to build https://acrobox.io . Abstracting Docker out of it for a bit more of a Heroku-like experience is on the horizon. I think it is well positioned between something like Dokku and R
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by pnelson 4y ago
Hello! I often see Ask HN threads discussing how people are deploying their apps, specifically solo founders.[^1][^2] Solutions range from Heroku to AWS to niche products or even rolling your own VPS, each with their own set of tradeoffs. I
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Show HN: I built Acrobox to help solo indie hackers ship early and often(acrobox.io)
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by pnelson 5y ago
I wrote a temporal expression package https://github.com/pnelson/te to escape cron for background workers in greenfield work. I started writing an English language expression parser for user facing work and it function
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by pnelson 5y ago
Same! I switched back to Firefox a few years ago when I discovered that logging into Gmail on Chromium (not Chrome!) crossed a hard boundary by also signing me into the browser account sync. I tested a few times to confirm before switching
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by pnelson 6y ago
My experience moving to Go from languages like Python and Ruby required a significant mind shift. I couldn't port my solution - I had to revisit the problem from the perspective of a Go programmer.
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by pnelson 7y ago
I launch my browser with profiles instead of using containers. I have three at the moment: firefox --no-remote --profile "$XDG_CACHE_HOME/firefox/home" --class="browser-home" firefox --no-remote --profile &quot
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by pnelson 13y ago
Thank you. Just this past weekend I came to the realization that, after using JavaScript on and off for over 10 years, I don't actually know JavaScript. Not even close. I'm sure I'm not alone. Anyway, I've just skimmed
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by pnelson 13y ago
This is fine for some scenarios but I've had a series of problems which drove me away from this kind of setup. Default CarrierWave (Rails gem) settings try to clean up the tmp files after file uploads. This is a good thing normally, but to
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by pnelson 14y ago
I switched from Firefox to Chrome around the same time as the author. However, I'm having the opposite experience. Chrome is great; everything is blazing fast, even with my ~25 tabs open. I tried Firefox a few weeks ago just to see if I had
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by pnelson 14y ago
I'm pretty sure you can use GitHub's Windows app for BitBucket Git repositories. I've pointed it to non-GitHub repositories at work in the past. You should look into it for your friend.
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by pnelson 14y ago
Most are minor but Atom feeds explicitly state content type. This could be a security issue with RSS since there is no reliable way to guess between plain text or escaped HTML. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(standard)#Content_model