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sergioisidoro commented on Where are you supposed to go if you don't care about growth?   ramones.dev/posts/where-a... · Posted by u/ramon156
sergioisidoro · 10 days ago
> If rent wasn't an issue I'd be working full-time on open-source and spend my spare time cycling.

I feel like this is a really detached piece on the realities of work and capitalism. Did a decade of prosperity in software industry made people forget what work is?

In capitalism (I mean in a job) you are paid to build what others want you to build. You are selling your time and effort. Either that or you build your own thing and monetize it. If "rent wasn't an issue" most people would paint, dance make art, explore, play, create. But for most people, rent, food and healthcare are the issue...

sergioisidoro commented on Uncloud - Tool for deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s   uncloud.run/... · Posted by u/rgun
sergioisidoro · 15 days ago
This is extremely interesting to me. I've been using docker swarm, but there is this growing feeling of staleness. Dokku feels a bit too light, K8 absolutely too heavy. This proposition strikes my sweet spot - especially the part where I keep my existing docker compose declarations
sergioisidoro commented on Eating stinging nettles   rachel.blog/2018/04/29/ea... · Posted by u/rzk
sergioisidoro · a month ago
Just make sure not to pick them from fertilized ground (like garden beds) as they may have high levels of nitrites (?).

Pick them from wild areas

sergioisidoro commented on The profitable startup   linear.app/now/the-profit... · Posted by u/doppp
sergioisidoro · 2 months ago
> investors are quite interested in profitable companies that also grow fast.

I'm gonna dispute this. We're currently profitable, and to do so our growth is just "good" (80-100% yoy). We're also raising a smaller amount because we want to return to profitable as soon as possible, and repeat the cycle. Being profitable hasn't been a big selling point in our discussions.

Either our growth is not high enough, or our round is not big enough, as they are so used to seeing ridiculously inflated projections from the last decade.

Furthermore being profitable also removes a lot of leverage from investors. That might make them shy away from a discussion because they know they can't twist out arm as easily.

I agree tho, I wouldn't want to build our company any other way than being profitable. Just saying that being profitable is not something investors seem to like as much as we thought.

sergioisidoro commented on Migrating from AWS to Hetzner   digitalsociety.coop/posts... · Posted by u/pingoo101010
dotancohen · 2 months ago

  > It was a wake up moment for me about keeping billing in shape
It should be a wake up moment about keeping backups as well.

sergioisidoro · 2 months ago
Yep. And importantly - backups on different cloud providers, with different payment methods.
sergioisidoro commented on Migrating from AWS to Hetzner   digitalsociety.coop/posts... · Posted by u/pingoo101010
roflmaostc · 2 months ago
Sorry to hear that.

But if you do not pay and you do not check your e-mails, it's basically your fault. Who is using SMS these days even?

sergioisidoro · 2 months ago
Yes, absolutely my fault. But these problems happen. Credit cards expire, people change companies or go on leaves, off boarding processes are not always perfect, spam filters exist.

Add to that the declining experience of email with so much marketing and trash landing in the inbox (and sometimes Gmail categorizing important emails as "Updates")

That's why grace periods for these situations are important.

Who uses SMS? This might be a cultural difference, but in Europe they are still used a lot. And would you be ok if your utility company cut your electricity bill just with an email warning? Or being asked to appear to court by email?

sergioisidoro commented on Migrating from AWS to Hetzner   digitalsociety.coop/posts... · Posted by u/pingoo101010
sergioisidoro · 2 months ago
I really liked Hetzner but I got burned by one issue. I had some personal projects running there and the payment method failed. Automated email communications also failed among so much spam and email notifications I receive, and when I noticed the problem they had wiped all my data without possibility of recovery.

It was a wake up moment for me about keeping billing in shape, but also made me understand that a cloud provider is as good as their support and communications when things go south. Like an automated SMS would be great before you destroy my entire work. But because they are so cheap, they probably can't do that for every 100$/month account.

I've had similar issues with AWS, but they will have much friendlier grace periods.

sergioisidoro commented on Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole   bytemash.net/posts/i-went... · Posted by u/jcusch
sergioisidoro · 4 months ago
I really like electric approach and it has been on my radar for a long time, because it just leaves the writing complexity to you and the API.

Most of the solutions with 2 way sync I see work great in simple rest and hobby "Todo app" projects. Start adding permissions and evolving business logic, migrations, growing product and such, and I can't see how they can hold up for very long.

Electric gives you the sync for reads with their "views", but all writes still happen normally through your existing api / rest / rpc. That also makes it a really nice tool to adopt in existing projects.

sergioisidoro commented on Consider Knitting   journal.stuffwithstuff.co... · Posted by u/ingve
sergioisidoro · 7 months ago
The thing knitting taught me is that you can have something beautiful and useful even tho literally every part of the piece is a single point of failure.

No redundancy, no backstop. If any of the stitches gets cut, the entire piece can unravel completely.

We're so used to redundancy, but sometimes you just need to get things done, and it's ok if it's all a deck of cards.

sergioisidoro commented on What is HDR, anyway?   lux.camera/what-is-hdr/... · Posted by u/_kush
sergioisidoro · 7 months ago
Just one other thing. In Analog you also have compensating developers, which will exhaust faster in darker areas (or lighter if you think in negative), and allow for lighter areas more time to develop and show, and hence some more control of the range. Same but to less degree with stand development which uses very low dilutions of the developer, and no agitation. So dodging and burning is not the only way to achieve higher dynamic range in analog photos.

About HDR on phones, I think they are the blight of photography. No more shadows and highlights. I find they are good at capturing family moments, but not as a creative tool.

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