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This is awesome and what I initially set out to do but always found a way to talk myself out of it. I dream big. I found a project to stick to "completion" but it took me two years…

I'm working towards building the best possible experience for hosting multiple sites on a single machine at a fixed price at https://acrobox.io . Abstracting Docker didn't make the…

That's one of many things that lead me to build https://acrobox.io . Abstracting Docker out of it for a bit more of a Heroku-like experience is on the horizon. I think it is well p…

Hello! I often see Ask HN threads discussing how people are deploying their apps, specifically solo founders.[^1][^2] Solutions range from Heroku to AWS to niche products or even r…

I wrote a temporal expression package https://github.com/pnelson/te to escape cron for background workers in greenfield work. I started writing an English language expression parse…

Same! I switched back to Firefox a few years ago when I discovered that logging into Gmail on Chromium (not Chrome!) crossed a hard boundary by also signing me into the browser acc…

My experience moving to Go from languages like Python and Ruby required a significant mind shift. I couldn't port my solution - I had to revisit the problem from the perspective of…

I launch my browser with profiles instead of using containers. I have three at the moment: firefox --no-remote --profile "$XDG_CACHE_HOME/firefox/home" --class="browser-home" firef…

Thank you. Just this past weekend I came to the realization that, after using JavaScript on and off for over 10 years, I don't actually know JavaScript. Not even close. I'm sure I'…

This is fine for some scenarios but I've had a series of problems which drove me away from this kind of setup. Default CarrierWave (Rails gem) settings try to clean up the tmp file…

I switched from Firefox to Chrome around the same time as the author. However, I'm having the opposite experience. Chrome is great; everything is blazing fast, even with my ~25 tab…

I'm pretty sure you can use GitHub's Windows app for BitBucket Git repositories. I've pointed it to non-GitHub repositories at work in the past. You should look into it for your fr…

Most are minor but Atom feeds explicitly state content type. This could be a security issue with RSS since there is no reliable way to guess between plain text or escaped HTML. htt…