Hey, I'm one of Depot's founders - we built our own custom parser for the YAML syntax that translates to Depot CI's orchestration APIs. This API will actually be a public API shortly, which will unlock some interesting use-cases (support for more syntaxes, direct programmability of the orchestrator, etc)
You all should add EC2 - extra bonus if you have some way of tracking performance in addition to errors (right now we're seeing EC2 instances in us-east-1c not transition out of Pending status).
We've been observing EC2 instances launched in us-east-1c (use1-az2) remain in Pending status for a very long time / indefinitely, starting at around 16:00 UTC.
Depot is the fastest place to build software. We accelerate builds for customers using GitHub Actions, Docker, Bazel, Gradle, and more. We're seeking our first Enterprise Support Engineer to become a customer-facing expert on build optimization.
We're looking for someone with DevOps / CI consulting experience - you'll work directly with customers as the subject-matter expert on best practices, helping migrate legacy infrastructure, and working directly with the founders on product gaps.
Bonus: experience with Docker buildx, API integrations, or previous CI consulting.
IMO if you can become a $100M household name without VC, that's absolutely the way to do it.
Even if you do take the VC path, YC for me was a massive boost in network, knowledge, and resources that I didn't have before, but it's also not the only way to acquire those things. You can even find that YC knowledge online, e.g. https://www.startupschool.org/.
That said, if anyone's even considering applying to YC, I'd recommend it, at a minimum it's a forcing function to think more deeply about your idea or business when assembling the application.
Yeah, I mean all this is very subjective. For me I don't care about terminal open speed since I keep the app always running, and my criteria for text rendering speed is it has to be fast enough to not be annoying, which is the case for me.
It's less about having lots of info and more about being able to control how it's displayed. I really only have a few things I keep around in my prompt / status bar, and they're all immediately useful to the task at hand and are reflective of the current project I'm working inside - I jump around a lot between tech stacks for personal and work environments, and being able to know where I am is important:
- what's the git status of this project
- is this a Python or Node app
- am I inside a virtualenv
- what's the Kubernetes cluster context name
- what's the currently active Kubernetes namespace
I really hate visual clutter, so the ability to move some of this stuff to a status bar rather than keeping it around on every repaint of the prompt, and be able to exactly style it as desired with CSS, is what attracted me to Hyper. This applies to the whole UI, if there's any element I don't like, I can change it.
Similar to you, I've considered switching to Alacritty, but it doesn't hit the features/customization to performance ratio for me.
This is my personal experience, but for me, considering that the terminal is so frequently used, the small improvements add up over time.
I found the font rendering more pleasant on the eyes. I'm not entirely sure why this is, and I'd be interested to see what options could be tweaked in iTerm2 to make it visually similar, but Hyper just "feels" nicer to look at for me.
Second, I've found it useful to be able to customize my terminal with web technologies. Previously I used a custom prompt with lots of different bits of context (git status, node environment, python environment, Kubernetes context, etc). With Hyper it's been fairly easy for me to create a local plugin that renders a statusbar with those bits of context. It's built with React, CSS, etc, so personally the ability to easily adjust and create is super nice.
Two things I miss from iTerm2 are infinite scrollback and the ability to search output with Command-F. I would assume there's a plugin out there to handle searching, I just haven't looked that far into it yet.
Performance of Hyper 2 was adequate enough for me to switch. I'm interested to see how Hyper 3 compares.
I'm also interested in iTerm2 3.3, which overhauls the iTerm2 UI.
tl;dr - small customizations add up. It's basically the same migration as when I moved from Sublime Text to Atom (though I use VS Code now)
In my experience, people do not always "instinctively leave certain tidbits" off of Facebook - in fact, people often feel like Facebook is in many ways a private space. Like "it's just my friends," even though the friends and friends of friends circles are massive, not to mention privacy controls that make many things public by default. Also, FB prompts for things like employment history and educational history in the same way as LinkedIn, but goes further to ask for personal info, geographic history (where all have you lived), etc.
Combine all this with the fact that there are so many FB users and many of them are children who wouldn't otherwise have a LinkedIn account (and are more comfortable with sharing personal info online).
So, while I agree that LinkedIn is in the group of data collectors, I don't think they're quite on the scale of FB.