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Sasha Koss

Sasha Koss

@kossnocorp

đź‘‹ Hi, I'm Sasha, an open-source writer, indie maker, and serial strugglepreneur. Made @date_fns đť—‘ @chirrapp đť—‘ backupfire.dev
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Joined September 2017

direnv

Is the direnv used for development envrionments on laptop? or also for production environments on linux VPS servers?

Another vote for direnv 👆only in development though - on production I usually use a PaaS (Heroku, Netlify etc).

I host Ask User at Firebase. You'll be surprised but Firebase is much more than just a DB. It's all-in-one platform for web and mobile apps: hosting with CDN, serverless provider, authentication API, file storage, etc.

Primarily I host my apps at Firebase. I also use Google Cloud for some stuff like CI workers.

I thought Firebase is for Key-Value store only. Where do you host AskUser?

I host Ask User at Firebase. You'll be surprised but Firebase is much more than just a DB. It's all-in-one platform for web and mobile apps: hosting with CDN, serverless provider, authentication API, file storage, etc.

Not really. Emojis have become part of our vocabulary and no surprise that makers use them that often. It's a cheap and easy to way to make a landing look nice.

Although in the future, we probably will look back and perceive that as candy-buttons of web 2.0.

Yeah... don't take ma wrong, I like emojis, but I do feel they are being overused!

Examples?

haha now you got me! It's actually just a "feeling"... this, and I guess I was in a bad mood when I posted this little rant :O

I personally ordered those from GetTerms.io. You can see the results here:

It won't be as great as texts tailored for you by lawyers, but it's much cheaper and still better than nothing.

It depends on your stack and what kind of testing you want to have. Unit and integration tests are coupled to the language you use. For system tests (end-to-end) I would recommend Cypress.io: www.cypress.io/. It's a pleasure to use!

It depends on how interested are that 50%. If they are eager and ask you about release date then the rest 50% doesn't matter at all.

I don't do it as often as I think I should. But I believe it's a powerful tool that forces not only think in high-level about the product but also lets you review your work at the end of a cycle.

Few times I did post my monthly goals at Indie Hackers' (see that for examples how I do it):

I found it very useful as I got to think that I really want to accomplish in the upcoming month. Even though I didn't manage to fulfill everything, it got me a lot of food for thought. One aspect that I didn't like it is that month is a way too long period for rapid development and I'd like to stick to weekly goals.