joshcrews

Postico is my favorite desktop software of any kind

Another endorsement of Windy. In 2017 Windy knew that Hurricane Harvey was going to stall out over SE Texas days in advance.

St. Domingue (now Haiti) was France's wealthiest overseas possession in 1790. It was a human meat-grinder as slave life expectancy was low from being worked and whipped to death on the plantations. The slaves rebelled, fought the French and won. But then France was her enemy and tried to extract any remaining wealth in Haiti as "repayment" for their lost plantations. That set Haiti back really bad in development deficits that are still very present.

Some of this increase is attributable to lowering taxes brings more income out of the shadows and on to the tax return. If we lowered the marginal rate to 1% I think we’d see a lot more income appear on tax returns that is either unreported or creatively expenses at present tax rates.

+ 5,000 for Postico. Such excellent software.

Many of those un-updated Erlang projects on github are reliable, don't overlook them.

the advance of minifies and transpilers and modules doesnt seem to increase page performance. one of the effect of it being so efficient to minify and transpile is that large imports and frameworks are easier to use, and that boosts the total JS lines of code, making the JS parsing take a long time, and the page performance get "janky"

One reason for them to scale to 10x F-Large on Heroku is that their app gets super-slammed (150x more than average traffic) around college application deadlines. So they can spend most their time on cheap Heroku and just temporarily scale to super expensive Heroku for a short time.

I second "raise your rates". I'm 90% sure you are significantly undercharging because a) you live in NYC b) you are getting work for SF companies, and one that's YC c) you care a lot about a $8,000 debt.

Double your existing rate immediately and don't look back!