mdw

Joined 11 years ago

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74
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45
Member since
Nov 11
https://wilko.dev
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Comment · 1 year ago
Absolutely wild, I honestly got concerned there for a moment… Wise (Transferwise) must be getting a lot of concerned emails about this…
Comment · 2 years ago
Am I the only one that got excited to see an IRC link?
Comment · 2 years ago
The animations are unfortunately broken on Mobile Safari :(
Comment · 2 years ago
Earths history has had many extraordinary climate changes, we already know of events like Permian–Triassic extinction.

I appreciate many people feel an obligation for humanity to minimise its effect on climate change, but the way I see it, change is constant. If we don’t cause an extinction event, earth will do it just fine without us.

The best result for humanity is if we get off this rock asap and improve our technology. The quicker we do this the better. If we have to ruin earth and its beautiful climate in the process, so be it.

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Isn't this free intelligence? Monitor the communications from Russian locations and around Ukraine.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
I’m a solo founder, bootstrapping a startup called zenshop. I’ve been working on zenshop since late 2019, a good portion of that full time. I have three paying customers, and I’m starting to seriously consider - am I making a mistake to continue building this? Customers of zenshop like it, I think mostly because it’s cheap to run, and easy enough to use. I have built an enormous amount of functionality (apps on mobile, desktop, Shopify integration, websocket updates, push notifications, automations, templating… the list feels nearly endless). There always feels like more to build, more features to catch up to (compared to competitors). I’m starting to feel exhausted from it (I have a high pain threshold… but it’s not limitless). Can I save it? What can I do? Everyone tells me to do more marketing, more sales, but every time I do this I’m also fighting off the feeling of all those features, bugs, all needing my time, I can never get enough time to spend on sales.
Comment · 3 years ago
I’d be careful cherry picking, similar factoids about X country could just as easily be found.
Comment · 3 years ago
I can imagine the servers running warm after all this indexing :)
Comment · 4 years ago
Very glad to see this, I’m currently building a SaaS with Rails and can totally use this for our admin panel.
Comment · 4 years ago
I started with golang as the basis for my SaaS I've been building now for 2 years, the first version that shipped (and is still in production) is based on Go.

I personally don't find the go ecosystem very good for people who want to goto market as fast as possible, the libraries are less developed and you're going to have to build your own stack.

Bud and Buffalo seem like great developments, but your comment about the Buffalo one no longer being in active development would just totally suck if you had invested your time into building your SaaS on this.

I'm now using Ruby on Rails in the next version, and I couldn't be happier - maybe it's not as fast, but it certainly helps me ship features faster to customers!

Comment · 6 years ago
I hope that Apple takes the lead here, because it would fit well with their other efforts in user privacy and security.
Comment · 6 years ago
I didn’t mean it to be about ‘hiding’ your disability. I wear glasses and I would never wear brightly coloured rims in a professional environment. By my own standards, in a work place you stand out by the merits of your work, not on what you’re wearing.

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