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There’s also the article “Consider SQLite”: https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/consider-sqlite The above article was what convinced me to use SQLite in my new business. 5 years later,…

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I needed something like this once but I forget why. Now I would probably just use val.town to build it instead of spinning up my own go server.

I mean yeah, but we never start from nothing of course! Totally agree. But our experience should always be the ground truth we test against and if the science disagrees then we sho…

> I want to believe stuff like this, but the whole field is so mired in quackery and jingo it's hard to believe any of it. Haha yes I just saw a youtube video last night of a perso…

Reading your question, I think Svelte or SvelteKit is probably a good option like you said. It's basically just JS/HTML/CSS as normal but if you want interactive UI stuff it's very…

I don't know if the intention of the article was to stoke worry but actually embrace as opportunity! Users being able to make their own software for their own needs is a worthy and…

Really heartening to see commenters in this thread concerned about plastic pollution! I have also tried to stopped buying clothes with plastic (polyester). Probably not our biggest…

Glad to see other comments bringing this to light. As Saul Griffith likes to point out, physics indicates that stuffing CO2 back into the ground is not an easy or cost-effective jo…

I don't! I take the moment of downtime. It's usually instant — only as long as it takes to stop and restart the server. Occasionally a DB migration will take longer — the longest I…

I've been using SQLite/Litestream for https://extensionpay.com for about 3 years now! Serves about 120m requests per month (most of those are cached and don't hit the db), but it's…

Since the page didn't seem to link to it, here's a really great article about using SQLite in production for moderately-sized web apps: https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/consider-sql…

I use Litestream for my production web app and stream to Backblaze B2. It's S3 compatible and literally free!

Came here to recommend doing good deeds for others. I find when I'm doing things for the benefit others I feel a lot better (as long as I'm resourced enough to do it). A therapist …

> What I don't like about stock is that you end up throwing out food. I have the perfect solution for this. Keep a container in the freezer. Whenever you have an extra unusable veg…

About a month ago I made a chrome extension that adds a "sometime this week" todo list at the bottom of google calendar (a feature I copied from Hey calendar). Any items that don't…

This is one of the best resources I know for how to come up with good business ideas (which is probably one of the hardest parts if you've never done it before): https://www.indieh…

I started the career transition away from tech to therapy: http://glench.com/WhyIQuitTechAndBecameATherapist/

I have been really impressed with SvelteKit in my production SaaS for about a year now! You can make any type of static/dynamic/combination site, the dev experience is really good,…

> what are the heuristics I can use to understand that this is the right time for me to start a business that does not create huge opportunity costs and is not an impulse that is t…

I made a couple browser extensions that make over $500/month each. The key seems to be naming your extension after high-volume search terms and getting good reviews on the chrome s…