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Throwing in the towel on becomming a programmer
Original EnglishBut the thing to notice is that the technologies I am recommending are easier-to-use and understand and require less code than the technologies they are …
Ask HN: How do you handle customer support on your site?
Original EnglishInteresting fact: Because our median response time on Intercom is around 12 minutes we convert about 80% of all inquiries (from visitors to paid clients).
Taking e-mail back, part 4: The finale, with webmail and everything after
Original EnglishMost of the instant messaging clients over the last 20 years have given up enormous value that email brings.
Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs?
Original EnglishI built a native all-in-one AI client called BoltAI[0]
Freenode has blocked the Mibbit client permanently.
Original Englishthe software behind an irc network that's bigger than freenode (I wrote justin.tv's chat server, which has had a peak of more than 360k concurrent …
Monsti – a free and open source CMS written in Go
Original EnglishI wrote it because the last Python-CMS I used consumed some hundreds of megabytes of memory for one simple site, and I could not run …
Running a Modern Startup on PHP
Original EnglishI can hack a website together in PHP faster than any other language, but it will be exactly that, a hack.
Ask HN: Experience vs. Education?
Original Englishbut I have spent the past 5-6 years building a professional portfolio and a base of clients, including acquiring recommendations on LinkedIn -- which is …
Domain Driven Design When Surrounded by Legacy Development (2013) [pdf]
Original Englishthe database is the heart and soul of the business, and it is far easier to work at that level of abstraction rather than trying …