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zrail
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About zrail
Author of Mastering Modern Payments: Using Stripe with Rails https://www.masteringmodernpayments.com
Author of Handle Your Business: The Succinct Guide to Money and Business for the Self Employed https://www.petekeen.net/handle-your-business
Email: pete@petekeen.com Blog: http://www.petekeen.com Resume: http://www.petekeen.com/resume
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Comment #49191397
I dunno about "old timey", I wrote a system that does exactly this like six months ago. Granted, it's a money tracking system. It's always surprising to me how much of the real wor…
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Comment #49184908
Webhooks are a painful problem. To clarify, Stripe's events API definitely ships a cursor and polling it has been the method preferred by large consumers for a long time.
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Comment #49178018
Thanks!
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Comment #49177569
Out of curiosity, do you use the pi-xmpp[1] extension or do you have your own? [1]: https://pi.dev/packages/pi-xmpp
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Comment #49162811
Location: Michigan, US (EST) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Ruby, Rails, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Sidekiq, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Python, Go, Fintech, SFTP, C…
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Comment #49140502
I spun up a simplefin sync tool recently and they made some surprising errors with some of my accounts (incorrect sign, completely missing some transactions). Also they don't do in…
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Comment #49140453
That's not really DCA, at least how I understand it. DCA is something like "I have $520,000 in cash right now today sitting in checking, I'm going to buy $10,000 a week of VTSAX fo…
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Comment #49113029
It comes out mid-August according to https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0593467426/
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Comment #49038789
(Pedantically) Maximum prefix length of /64 is only required if you want/need SLAAC. If you're assigning static addresses or using DHCPv6 for assignment you can go as small as you …
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Comment #48973427
Having grown up in a small midwest town in an R&R desert, I think the canonical answer is a liquor license.
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Comment #48936729
> I'd expect you to want this The thing is, I don't want any of that. At least, I don't want any of it to be dynamic. For my purposes the more I can determine at deploy time and ma…
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Comment #48936535
Sure! That's the setup I was running before all of this. My problems are likely entirely my own making, tbh, as described in the article. IME K8s in general and longhorn especially…
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Comment #48936447
Hey thanks! That's my favorite recent addition. The host machines resolve a GUA from an ISP-provided prefix like normal. On top of that, I l33t'd my way to a fun ULA prefix. Each h…
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Comment #48936254
Agree! There are a ton of people out there that are happily running k8s on their homelab and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. I tried it and found it was just too much …
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Comment #48936234
I haven't, mostly for personal reasons rather than technical ones.
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Comment #48872069
Hey, author here. This is a piece about moving away from kubernetes and toward something that I can actually maintain as a solo person who has a life outside of k9s. It's not reall…
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Comment #48761903
Location: Michigan, US Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Go, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, Finance, Banking Résumé/CV: https://www.pete…
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Comment #48587189
Mold growth is a moisture problem which can either be because of condensation or because of leaks. I agree with the contractors, properly framing out and insulating the interior wo…
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Comment #48583988
"Density of cliches" is a great way of putting it. It's exhausting to write that way and unpleasant to read back in the edit process which is why that kind of thing doesn't happen …
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Comment #48583927
I think this depends on the construction of the rest of the house. A typical stack built house in the US will have extensive insulation in the exterior walls, but it's paired with …
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Comment #48462469
Does this work? https://imgbox.com/p2O8aADv
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Comment #48453110
I've thought about doing this a couple times but haven't followed through yet. What makes yours different/unique compared to, say, pi?
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Comment #48342383
Nice! I built something along these lines but far more janky. My setup is a clamp-mount mic boom arm and an L-shaped bracket, along with a mic-to-1/4" adapter. Boom clamps to the m…
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Comment #48328403
Same. The prompt was essentially, every checkbox in this PLAN.md should be task in SQLite.