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Show HN: Bike route planner that follows almost only official bike trails
Original EnglishI'm paying for $1 and $5 subscriptions (ko-fi) for things I like and use.
Volt: A Ruby web framework where your Ruby runs on both server and client
Original EnglishIn Rails, I use Pusher, a paid for service because it's just easy to use and iterate.
Ask HN: How to manage phones and PCs for elderly parents?
Original EnglishWe switched my grandmother-in-law over to Linux last year and the amount of support calls I've had to do has dropped to 0.
Ask HN: How can I do something meaningful?
Original EnglishI've worked primarily with human rights focused non-profit organizations for the last 15 years or so.
Running Costs of a SaaS app
Original EnglishWhy ProfitWell is free is actually a longer story, but the short answer is we discovered we could monetize more effectively (and efficiently) by giving …
The Mid-Career Crisis of the Perl Programmer
Original EnglishAgain about 5 years ago I started my own software company.
AWS Lambda function URLs: Built-in HTTPS endpoints
Original EnglishI found it to be much faster cold start times (about 100ms for me) and much faster runtime (< 10ms) than Node.
Dear startups: I hate subscription services (2021)
Original EnglishAs long as the device keeps working with the last firmware, then that's basically what I paid for, anyway.
Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow
Original EnglishI could pay all of our bills including our spending money with just my income and all I would need to make is $140K. …