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I've been working with Apple and Google Wallet passes recently and found inspecting .pkpass files a bit of a pain. I kept ending up unzipping them and digging through the contents …

It also means circle in Czech and sounds like crew. When I happened upon the word, I was very proud of myself! I'm usually not great at naming projects.

I'm 40% through getting my first 100 users for https://www.kruh.ltd . So far, I've only added a "banner" announcement on two of my products and mentioned it at the bottom of newsle…

Looking forward to trying this out. I do a lot of email testing locally for paced.email and vend.email. MailHog is 90% of the way there, but seems like it's fallen by the wayside..…

Location: UK Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Ruby on Rails, JS (Vue/React), etc Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rikkipitt/ Email: rikki at jemcode dot co d…

It has been said of me too, on a few occasions! Resting concentration face.

I'm offering 25% off all plans for https://www.paced.email and https://www.vend.email with BF2022. Not really had much success with BF/CM in the past, but alas, I'll try again this…

The way I remember Earth's approximate mass is the fact it's 10 times Avogadro's number in kg. My physics teacher always had a great way of drilling in these tidbits.

Oh. So there was a DNS issue yesterday? A custom of mine was complaining that my apps weee down and blamed CloudFlare. They didn’t inform me of this issue, I had to find out via HN…

I built https://www.quikk.co.uk which gives users a better audit trail and backup of their Xero accounting data. I’ve never really marketed it, but MRR-wise it’s doing ok. Promisin…

I built Paced Email which has team support. You can spin up any number of email addresses quite quickly. It has the added benefit of making email a little more async which helps ke…

I’m in a similar boat with two email-based SaaS products. People often ask, “what if?”. I’ve considered writing up a worst case scenario plan or migration document to help with ini…

https://www.paced.email and https://www.vend.email are two services that I developed that provide "disposable" email addresses. Paced Email is a productivity tool with the ability …

If it’s email productivity you’re after, take a look at the email service I built that batches your mail into digests: https://www.paced.email

Thanks you, nameless912. I've been leaning towards Render, so cheers for the info. Will take a look into Dukku, but feel it's probably going back a step for my purposes as it'll in…

I've got over 130 apps on Heroku for my various SaaS products and client websites etc. I feel like I'm going to experience a world of pain very soon to migrate away to another prov…

If you use Heroku with Postgres, I made a plug-in that works with Postico: https://github.com/jemcode/heroku-postico heroku postico:open --app Or production postico:open (if you us…

Several impressive gravity hills can be found inside a pub in the UK called The Crooked House. It's so wonky you can feel a little queasy if you stay in there a while! https://en.w…

I've recently discovered jemalloc, specifically when used with Heroku. "Using jemalloc instead of regular malloc helps too. The exact way to do this depends on the platform you use…

Mailgun are pretty good. I use them on a couple of email services I’ve built.

I too was wondering that as the ideal gas law states that PV = nRT. When you compress a gas it gets hotter, conversely, allowing it to decompress cools it. I assume they store the …

We used Lottie in the logo of the new Stephen Hawking site. https://www.hawking.org.uk

Begs the question, how can we find our own Marko Saric's? If you're a marketer and reading this, want to help me with paced.email? I'm in the same boat as the OP.

Yep, also known as "corner weight" w.r.t. cars. Strange how they missed it. I wonder if it's a common misconception?