Two years back, I created a little web analytics tool for my side projects and I called Faenz. It's open source and self-hostable, available on GitHub at https://github.com/a-chris/faenz.
I've recently given it an update and came up with the idea of creating a demo version that's accessible to everyone.
How does it work?
You can add your own website, blog or e-commerce site and keep track of the visits it receives. Your website stats will be visible to others, and you'll get to check out everyone else's stats too. You won't be allowed to edit/delete a website, you should reach out to me for that.
I find it to be a fun experiment to see how people handle SEO or just to discover some cool new websites :)
Author here, I've built my blog with NextJS a few years ago but now I'm in the process of migrate to Birdgetown Ruby. I wrote a blog posts explaining the reasons behind my choose
I can confirm. Also the technology used really counts: with Javascript I got weird error and there are no standard in the ecosystem so I found my self looking on Google and SO all the time. With Ruby, on the other hand, there are better documentation, no weird errors and everything seems so smooth that I visit StackOverflow just once a month. I have been working with JS for 3 years and just 1 year with Rub
Yeah, because we spend the whole day reversing a linked list in your real-life SWE job, right?
It's ridiculous that we have to study all those algorithms that we will never use it in your life, it's just too much.
Opposite situation for me. I've been using Sourcetree for YEARS and it was a PITA, so bad, slow and counterintuitive. On the other hand Fork saved my mental health and it's by far the best git manager I've always used. This is the only software I would be happy to pay for.
I'm trying to switch from Heroku to Render but it is awfully slow compared to Heroku, my Rails project takes something like 1 minute to start after it has been shut down gratefully. Moreover, it breaks the CSS assets and uses the older assets instead of the latest ones. I do not why, it is a really small project and I have none of these issue on Heroku
I'm working on a self-hosted analytics like Plausible but that allows to use SQLite as primary database. Of course it should be used for small websites and side projects but it will have all the Plausible features.
Am I crazy?
I've built several personal projects to be honest; background jobs, tasks automation, telegram bots to find a house to rent or buy, most of them are kept provate.
The two I'm most proud of are a web analytics that, coincidentally, I've made public today after a few weeks of work:
I developed it for collect data for my personal website and it is working well so far, really happy of it.
The other one is a Google Chrome extension to manage bookmark because I think the default one is a mess and very unpratical to use. I haven't worked on it for a while:
Can anyone explain to me how these services are legal? I didn't read Instagram terms and conditions but I'm pretty sure there are tons of points against scraping, copying and distributing their data, in particular using them to make money.
The problem with SPAs is that they have been misused and overused, at least in Italy. Tons of projects built with SPA in which we have to re-implement basic browser features like the back button, just because project manager has no idea of how this technology works. I've worked on at least 4 projects which could be written in Nextjs in half of the time
I'm sorry by Europe is not USA. We have no RSU and little to zera extra compensations. Salary is just salary. Please don't undervaluate this law proposal if you don't know what you are talking about
I've recently given it an update and came up with the idea of creating a demo version that's accessible to everyone.
How does it work?
You can add your own website, blog or e-commerce site and keep track of the visits it receives. Your website stats will be visible to others, and you'll get to check out everyone else's stats too. You won't be allowed to edit/delete a website, you should reach out to me for that.
I find it to be a fun experiment to see how people handle SEO or just to discover some cool new websites :)
The demo is available here https://faenz.acmecorp.dev/