FROM BUILDERS, FOR DOERSVOL. 03 / QUALITY-FIRST DISCOVERY

Their experience.
Your next move.✳

Discover hard-earned lessons, useful tools, and business ideas
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Real experiences, useful perspectives, and things you wish you’d known.

Tool picks

Why Haskell Is Worth Learning

Original English

our startup and I've learned more than I learned in the last 5 years. …

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A Rant about Front-end Development

Original English

We started out with just plain CSS, using BEM and CUBE to structure it and manage complexity.

Tool picks

Win32 and .NET desktop apps can now be published in the Windows Store

Original English

Since I switched to open platforms microsoft has really improved but pardon me if I stick with my open tool stack for the foreseeable future …

Tool picks

Show HN: Linen.team – A lightweight, thread-first Slack alternative

Original English

We also spent quite a bit of time optimizing the performance and query so that it is much faster than the previous version of Linen.

Business ideas

Thoughts on PostgreSQL in 2024

Original English

We deployed a major new system for ticket scanning in February last year.

Business ideas

Ledger, a powerful CLI accounting tool

Original English

We switched to Ledger-CLI simply because it was the only Free Software accounting tool that had the flexibility to handle the complex area of non-profit …

Tool picks

Now Hiring: Not You

Original English

There is a redundantly reliable and scalable software and server farm architecture with a Web server, a Web session state server (instead of Redis, I …

Tool picks

Is Berlin the new home for tech start-up business? [video]

Original English

There are a quite a few startup jobs, but they are low end, low paying.

Hard lessons

Perl Startups: Lacuna Expanse

Original English

We failed in other ways (UX, marketing and sales mainly) but the underlying system was quite impressive.

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