Nik Spyratos
@nikspyratos
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Agreed.
Personally I see life tasks as a bit of a copout just for keeping streaks going anyway.
You mean for hosting the backend?
Any VPS of any kind can do that, yeah.
If you're looking for something super simplistic, maybe PocketBase would be an even easier step than Supabase: pocketbase.io/
Agree with Martijn - R2 is good and cheap for this right now.
As for Supabase, I mean yeah any backend will work if you want to split the downloads.
Any hetzner VPS will do?
You mean for hosting the backend?
Any VPS of any kind can do that, yeah.
If you're looking for something super simplistic, maybe PocketBase would be an even easier step than Supabase: pocketbase.io/
I actively avoid ever needing to use it
If I need to handle the kind of scale it handles, I should ideally be earning enough to pay a devops person to take that pain away because I just find it soul draining to use almost any infra tool
I've tried to find a "must have" use case for dot files. Beyond a few personalised handy aliases, I'm really not convinced they're necessary for the average developer.
They'll reduce setup time if you move between machines often sure, but it won't stop you from the endless tweaking, configuration and debugging that developers are prone to do :)
I'm so sorry. I don't know why I read LottieFiles 🤣🤣🤣.
Answering your real question:
I have dot files for my neovim configuration, polybar, bspwm and a lot of other programs. That help me to keep the same configuration between computers and restore my configuration when I reinstall.
I use stow to install those files. www.gnu.org/software/stow/man…
You can search for some videos about stow but it is simple, just create a folder path with your real configuration inside a folder.
I have a repository called .dotfiles in home (~) and I just have to run: stow -v tmux and this will create a symlink to the files/folder inside the folder called tmux.
Sadly I can't share my personal configuration since I have private keys there. But there are a few youtubers with their dotfiles on github that you can check
No real comment on the idea itself, but will comment on the site itself.
I'm on a decently specced laptop (32GB RAM, 5GHz CPU), and this website is performing horribly. Scroll feels janky, things run at low fps and generally doesn't feel very snappy. Not great for something that seemingly has no animated/media heavy parts?
I looked at the tab in my about:processes on firefox and it's using between 300 and 500 MB of RAM. There is absolutely no functionality on this site that needs that many resources. Flutter is hindering you here. It's useful if you're converting a mobile app to web, but for this website it's making for a terrible experience. You'd be better served by a web-first tool.
What's the risk either way?
In other words, do you even need other people to tell you yes or no to this, or could you just do it in a day, put a sales page up, and validate the idea directly already? What do you lose other than a bit of time?
Lose time of another project. But you right. I do that. Thanks. 👍
Thanks for the insightful reply as always Cat! Will reply on points individually.
Agreed, I've also made better connections directly and through events I host myself in the tech community.
In the current tech downmarket those sorts of boards have been less active, but yeah, I have heavy presence on a local Slack tech community and have built a network there. So the job board is useful, when people eventually get back to posting relevant freelance gigs. Great idea on being sneaky with looking at competitors!
100%. Ironically despite moving outside of Cape Town, I spend more time in industry events in CPT than ever before. I also host a niche tech community meetup. Maybe the calm town vibes are giving me more rest and energy to go out! So I have been wondering if just going full tilt and attending more of those events (and hosting more with the community) makes more sense than this sort of accidental split strategy I've had.
The main drawback I think is that networking like that will anchor me more to my locale - as someone with longer term plans of emigrating and travelling, I'm not 100% sure if that's a smart move. But then again that's also why I'm on WIP too - wanting to build my own SaaS for that independent income so I can do what I want globally anyway :)
Agree on setting boundaries - think this is also part of my problem. I have a bit of an addictive personality, so I tend to make a habit of checking Twitter and LinkedIn too often.
Thanks for reminding me of your Substack, need to go subscribe. Glad to hear it's not just me feeling this way though!
I'm a bit saturated on communities and groups for a while though thanks 😅 Though will go lurk on Superpath a bit
It sounds like you really have this well thought out and planned already.
Personally my only concern here would be trying to grow two new brands in English at the same time between all the other ongoing projects.
One reason that build in public is generally one way to grow a maker brand, is that it's hard to constantly come up with content while you're also actually doing the making part. So, perhaps stick with Maker Ibon being like your daily log of whatever you're working on. That gives you one clear thing to talk about on that side, and you would always have something to post since you're always going to be working on something.
Hi @nikspyratos, you are right.
The main differences could be the "livestreaming" that it's just me creating, sharing, and talking (even now, I'm live on Twitch reading and answering this in my Twitch Channel (Ibon Maker) » twitch.tv/ibonazkoitia)
In that channel, as I would be doing all the maker part, there would be a lot of content because of the development of the projects (PROlinks, WPFast, TDEV, etc.)
For the Trinchera DEV project, it would be just a website with the courses with a yearly membership of just 99 €/year. No thinking on doing a blog, YT channel in English, or other kind of content. It will be just a repository and will be shared in the Twitch Streams. Also, those courses would be uploaded to Udemy.
Taking that in account, the plan is to create content in Spanish for the YT channels of PROductivity and Trinchera WP. And, create livestreaming in English in my Twitch Account.
As I do courses in Spanish for Trinchera WP, I also create them in English for Trinchera DEV.
Thank you very much for your answer!