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joshtronic

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About joshtronic

I make things.

https://joshtronic.com

Recent public activity

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    https://joshtronic.com -- 13+ years of weekly diatribes and other noise

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    Comment #19704276

    I'm the solo founder of Holiday API - https://holidayapi.com - a DaaS platform for holiday information. The project was originally started in 2013 as an open source side project, w…

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    Profession: Senior Software Developer - full time, in office - Also a husband / father and run some revenue generating side projects [08:00ish] Wake up, piss, weigh myself, brush t…

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    Comment #13682826

    There are some weird price anomalies at other price points as well for hourly. In my previous posts Lightsail ended up being a fraction of a cent more than the others. As for the 1…

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    Comment #13682808

    yeah, I was speaking more in the context of a out of the box solution like Linode's NodeBalancer and DigitalOcean's recent offering. Nothing stopping ya from spinning up a Lightsai…

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    Comment #13682539

    was a typo ... updating shortly :)

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    Comment #13682534

    yeah, since been updated... remnant from a previous post.. i'm only human :)

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    Comment #13653091

    Appreciate the link, I have a $5 review up as well now :) Since my posts are straight benchmarks, I don't touch on the support side of things typically (mostly because I only have …

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    Comment #10996580

    Expected to see a login with Github (and/or other repo hosting services) button considering the type of user you're attempting to attract.

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    Comment #9821440

    +1 for the source code!

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    Comment #9679508

    The catch is that you'd probably need everyone to upgrade their hardware and you'd still have to maintain an installable copy for the VM users

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    Comment #9472322

    I was on cash payments since they introduced the referral program. There's an button to switch over but (like /r/thebutton) I haven't clicked it. Not entirely sure if they will for…

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    Comment #9472038

    I ended up sticking with the monetary payments on my DO referral account but I also earn credits (they don't offer cash) from Linode. With Linode, I keep a small box there with my …

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    Comment #9384277

    from http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/SCSI * Pronounced skuzzy * According to Apple Computer Corporation documentation, pronounced sexy (Only by Apple itself)

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    Comment #8918065

    Shot in the dark here, but perhaps it's the fact that consumer demand is (and has been) so high. Unsure how many orders they have backlogged at this point, but they took money for …

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    Comment #8790353

    "There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses." -- Bjarne Stroustrup

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    Comment #8720783

    the domain is worthless. if there was a business attached to this that was generating revenue, there'd be value. don't be a troll.

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    Comment #8694375

    That was fun!! https://gist.github.com/joshtronic/427d0591379dc4255673

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    Comment #8390217

    also because features are complicated -- http://css-tricks.com/features-complicated/