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Three Years as a One-Man Startup
Original EnglishOn year 7, I made a single switch and within 1 year earned 3x the previous years revenue.
Tauri 1.0 – Electron Alternative Powered by Rust
Original EnglishI picked up Rust because of it, and was easier than I thought (I've read lots of "Rust is hard" articles).
Spotify moves its back end to Google Cloud
Original EnglishI'm unsure if we ever attempted to negotiate a SLA, but we paid for premium support just like you (despite having a dedicated, and great, …
Postal: Open source mail delivery platform, alternative to Mailgun or Sendgrid
Original EnglishGiven this, and my volumes of mail were increasing (once you go over 100k emails/mo SendGrid's pricing goes up a lot), I setup my own …
Good riddance, PayPal
Original Englishthe outgoing payments as I have paid them myself, but they continue to persist with the idea that I owe them money. …
Ask HN: How do I switch from being a passive consumer to an active producer?
Original EnglishBut then I failed many times in achieved my creative goals.
Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server
Original EnglishCosts me a bit each year but I've felt it worth it.
Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
Original Englishbecause it also inexplicably doesn't have spring-loaded folders in Win10 and no reliable third party app copies that functionality properly either. …
What software engineers can learn from the rapid collapse of Fast
Original EnglishThe workstations were powerful, but we shaved costs by buying "gamer rigs" instead of the more expensive "engineer workstations".