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One more small step toward the right to software repair
Original EnglishMuch of what I've saved them over time has gone into my own bank account, and they've ended up with a pretty amazing ecosystem.
The Massachusetts Software Tax
Original EnglishToday the provincial sales tax is included (harmonized) with the federal sales tax as the HST (8% + 5% = 13%) but
Why we moved from AWS RDS to Postgres in Kubernetes
Original EnglishWe've been running our production db on it for the last 6 months or so, no outage yet.
Bootstrapping a Software Product
Original EnglishHowever, pricing and the pricing "model" have been the #1 source of missed opportunities and optimization points for us (though we have fixed a lot …
Answering your questions about Heroku routing and web performance
Original EnglishIt's this failure to continue full stewardship of our existing product that's the mistake that really hurt customers.
Storage for Photographers, Part 2
Original EnglishAnd we rarely get pushback from our customers on the 20 minute limit, probably for this reason - they're making videos their friends, families & …
Aerc – a pretty good (terminal) email client
Original EnglishBut unfortunately (on Linux at least) all the GUI IMAP clients I've tried are terrible.
Embedded Rust in Production?
Original English(i know there’s that paid for package but the license fee is mind boggling from what i remember).
I am done with the freemium business model
Original EnglishWith freemium services that succeed, the free option offers features that cover a majority of users, but are still limited based on cost to the …