overshard · HackerTrans

4 miesiące temudiscuss

I've taken to hosting everything critical like this myself on a single system with Docker Compose with regular off premises backups and a restore process that I know works because I test it every 6 months. I can swap from local hosting to a VPS in 30 mins if I need to. It seems like the majority of large services like GitHub have had increasingly annoying downtime while I try to get work done. If you know what you're doing it's a false premise that you'll just have more issues with self hosting. If you don't know what you are doing it's becoming an increasingly good time to learn. I've had 4 years of continuous uptime on my services at this point. I still push to third parties like GitHub as yet another backup and see the occasional 500 and my workflow keeps chugging along. I've gotten old and grumpy and rather just do it myself.

overshard

2 lata temudiscuss

Fun fidget utility! I find myself just mindlessly clicking stuff sometimes while I think and this gives me a little bit more to do.

overshard

2 lata temudiscuss

Location: North Carolina

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Django, Flask, JavaScript, React, Redux, Node.js, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, AWS, Docker, Git, HTML, CSS, SASS

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Email: [email protected]

I'm a full-stack developer who has been the team lead on numerous successful projects with over 15 years of experience in Web Development. I have a strong background in Python and JavaScript, and I have experience with a wide range of technologies.

overshard

4 lata temudiscuss

I used to use Ubuntu for everything and was very happy in the massive Ubuntu ecosystem with a .deb for everything till I was forced to use Snap a few releases ago for installing even some basic utils I used on a daily basis. I then had Snap constantly hang on installs and just break for no apparent reason and waste my time debugging it. It didn't "just work" anymore.

Swapped to Arch and haven't looked back yet, Arch took me a lot more work to get set up but once it was it's been pretty invisible, which is how I like my OS to be.

I'd probably happily swap back to Ubuntu if I read somewhere that Snap was removed entirely/canceled or something.

overshard

4 lata temudiscuss

Good luck on your link shortener project! I made an open source link shortener many years ago and eventually threw in the towel and quit. The problem domain for link shorteners is one of anti-spam and abuse. Charging for it makes complete sense to try and weed this out but having any amount of "free" I found to be a hotbed of reports thrown against my hosting provider and registrar for supporting spam. I found myself getting quickly blacklisted everywhere since spammers love to use new shorteners for bypassing their own blacklists.

I've not looked into the problem again in 10+ years since. If I did I would 100% skip the free plan.

overshard

4 lata temudiscuss

I use this API in a few places such as a custom New Tab extension I made for myself on Chromium based browsers:

https://github.com/overshard/newtab/blob/master/newtab.js#L1...

Haven't had any issues with it!

overshard

4 lata temudiscuss

Choose what fits your field. If you're doing ML you probably want Python. If you're doing web you probably want JavaScript. If you want fast native apps then Go, Rust, C++, C, and the rest based on what libraries you think you'll need and what you enjoy the structure of most.

I personally have had a career in Python for over 10 years at this point. What made me choose Python as my go to language was my friends and peers making fun of me using PHP for server side web development. Ruby and Python (Rails and Django) were the cool kids. So peer pressure could also help you with your decision as it did mine!

At this point in my career I care less about my language and more about what libraries are available as those determine how fast I can have an MVP. I'd determine what you are trying to build and come up with a list of requirements and see what libraries are already available for you to build off of.

Open source pet projects are a great starting point for learning. Come up with an idea, even if it's been done before, and build it.

overshard

4 lata temudiscuss

And this is when comments in code are important! Any random numbers without a source are immediate suspect to me, especially in something that needs to be secure. It will save your coworkers and peers time trying to figure out why it's there.

overshard

4 lata temudiscuss

My only issue with this is that I can go to my password manager and I have like 10 different Microsoft accounts over the years, some of which seem to be merged, some of which are not, some are from Microsoft acquired entities like Skype and all of them confuse me.

I seem to be able to use some of them to login to the same merged account and others don't work anymore at all.

Microsoft's entire auth ecosystem since Live has been a confusing mess for me especially when they acquire someone and start bringing them into the fold.

I tend to just avoid it, I'm not deep into the Microsoft ecosystem and rather not have the headache at this point.

overshard

5 lat temudiscuss

Oh man, I always find it funny in a slightly schadenfreude sort of way when someone swaps to a new platform, goes to talk about how great that new platform is, and then the platform can't handle basic load.

That being said I do use Jamstack quite extensively, it can trivially handle huge loads due to it being mostly just static files that can be served through CDNs. This seems like it has nothing to do with Jamstack but it's still funny.