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Show HN: Save Memory in Google Chrome
Original EnglishI know it has a lot of useful features, but 608Mb is a crazy amount of memory to use for a fancy text editor.
Why Learning to Code Is So Damn Hard
Original EnglishI paid for DigitalOcean, but I ran into troubles installing pip, bzzt there goes another.
Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
Original EnglishBoth my mom's blog, and the SaaS business took a long time to ramp up, but both had their tipping points after about 1.5 years.
Ask HN: What is the actual purpose of Docker?
Original EnglishIt can get hairy when you reach the image layer limit, because using up the last allowed image layer means you can't deploy to a …
Why might you run your own DNS server?
Original EnglishHigh number of slabs increases memory usage (may be it can grow over long time because of fragmentation, but I've not noticed this).
Wow, or from the When-Apple-Became-the-Borg Department
Original EnglishI used to work for, they simply made the bug report "private" so that others couldn't see it. …
Becoming a Full-Time Creator as a Software Engineer
Original EnglishSince I’ve quit my last job in 2018 I feel like I’ve tried it all when it comes to revenue sources:
Ask HN: Do you have a profitable side project? How long did it take to achieve?
Original EnglishI made a couple of thousand dollars the first few years, but basically broke even profit-wise.
Nextcloud: Open-Source Cloud Apps
Original EnglishPerformance issues don't bother me as I only host for myself but there are UI issues and bugs that get in the way of functionality.