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Pete Keen, Software Developer and Consultant, ex-Stripe

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: [email protected] Blog: http://www.petekeen.com Resume: http://www.petekeen.com/resume

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Comment · 7 days ago
Have you written or posted publicly about your agent environment? It sounds really interesting.
Comment · 22 days ago
It definitely can. By default it ships with the normal Tailscale DERP map but it also ships with a default-off DERP server. You can turn that on and set your DERP map to only include that one server (or you can fan out a couple if you want). At that point you're not using Tailscale assets at all.
Comment · 24 days ago
"Do this not that" lists are always contextual and situational. Some of this makes sense in the context of a professional or business site, but make sure your goals align before taking the advice.

If you're writing on your personal blog then take all of this with the size of salt crystal you feel it deserves. Personally, that's about the size of an Acme safe hanging over a cliff waiting for an unsuspecting listicle writer^h^hcoyote.

Comment · 24 days ago
IMO the value is in the thinking. Other people reading my non-professional writing sometimes the goal but most of the time it's a bonus.
Comment · 24 days ago
There aren't any restrictions anymore on who you can invite to your team. I added a passkey admin account and added other users via email invites. The account owner is still my GitHub account but I pretty much don't use it day to day.
Comment · 24 days ago
Real talk I have a M-x unfuck-this-buffer. All it does is toggle the Unicode input mode that I sometimes accidentally trigger but have never figured out how.
Comment · 1 month ago
Eh, sorta. Fifty years ago was 1976 (I know, right?!). The 747 debuted in 1970 with high bypass engines. The A320 came out in 1988 with fly-by-wire and all Airbus aircraft since have been the same.

The biggest change from then to now is probably the amount of solid state electronics onboard. That's ridden roughly the same curve as other industrial and commercial applications.

Comment · 1 month ago
What are you using for automations? I've been running HA for a long time but I keep trying to explore different options.
Comment · 1 month ago
Yes, and the attached Schedule C will have the EIN at the top.
Comment · 1 month ago
Sure. If you absolutely need one of those services then you do the thing. Most of the time there are alternatives, IME.

Example, since you edited to add examples: I have several business bank accounts and far too many Stripe accounts all registered as sole prop. I haven't had to take a loan but I do have a sole prop credit card. My understanding is that even with an LLC a bank is going to require a personal guarantee for a loan.

Comment · 1 month ago
Sure. If you find yourself needing ARIN services and that's what they need to move forward then that's what you have to do. All I'm saying is that it's not a thing to set up preemptively.
Comment · 1 month ago
> or EIN

Anyone can get an EIN for their sole proprietorship business (just one, though) and use it on tax forms.

Comment · 1 month ago
Nobody said consumer fintech? You can just operate as a business. "Sole proprietor" is a real thing that almost every service knows how to deal with, and if one can't there's a competitor willing to right next door.
Comment · 1 month ago
I feel like a lot of people (not holman) are looking for permission, as if having an LLC is a marker that says "I am a serious business doing serious business things." You don't need permission. You can just do things.

A formal business structure is good (but not required!) if you have employees and/or business partners, or if your attorney tells you you need one. IME as a solo entrepreneur an LLC (or two, in my case) just invited more paperwork into my life.

You know what actually functionally limits liability as a solo business? Good contracts backed up with business insurance.

Comment · 1 month ago
He owns RailsWorld.

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