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The story of MMM — Russia’s biggest pyramid scheme that fooled millions 🧵

@thepatwalls After trying out several options, I decided to run a simple @Hetzner_Online server and use @appliku to handle the deploys. Works really well! Currently I use it with @recipeering & @cachehorse.

Heroku has been DOWN for like 12 hours this is insanity. As someone who couldn't care less about devops, is there a better alternative? The best thing about Heroku is how easy and well documented it is to do things with the infrastructure. If I were to migrate, I'd like to do it in less than a day. What's the alternative?

When you design a feature without talking to any users first

@Shpigford Ursula Le Giun’s “The Dispossessed”.

Need fiction book recommendations. Big fan of AG Riddle, Hugh Howey, Blake Crouch, Michael Crichton, and Matthew Mather (have read all of their books). Generally post-apocalyptic and/or sci-fi. Aliens bore me.

@bradhussey 39. Made and sold @iconhorse, working on bkkrentmap.com and @recipeering. Honestly it’s not the age that changes stuff but the time one has given changes in family. Kids, older relatives, etc.

Creators aged 35+, where you at? Share your stuff with me 👇

@yolaplace @PierreDeWulf Is saying “you lack qualification for this job” mean?

@PierreDeWulf Despite his execution (which was poor). You said something mean, so he said something mean. As a leader it’s nearly impossible to get any feedback. You just got some. Take the learning opportunity to grow your leadership skills. This tweet is not it though.

Some people are crazy. Interviewed a guy for head of web scraping. Told him that he's falling a bit short in anti-scraping knowledge for the "head of" position. Tells me "I don't have to prove anything to anyone regarding knowledge" then hangs up. 2 days later, sends this to everyone at ScrapingBee:

I studied this painting at uni. Guernica is a town in Basque region in Spain. During the Spanish Civil War, the artist Salvador Dali read S. African war correspondent George Steer’s account of the bombing of Guernica by Nazi German air force. This painting is the horror of war.

@irfansenercom Is it really worth the trouble? I mean who actually fully believes these data aggregators anyway? My advice would be just to leave it alone. You could of course publicly call them out but again, is it worth the trouble?

There's a website showing my name with incorrect data about my apps (revenue, downloads) I asked them nicely to remove it, but the owner emailed me back like this. What would you do if you were me?

@pencil_gang @KostjaPalovic @dhh Great. And I hope you continue to like it. To each their own.

@mtimofiiv @KostjaPalovic @dhh i for one love the ecosystem, i don't know what they're talking about

The @dhh was right. I swear I will find time to get rid of nextjs. And typescript. 2 hours to solve the task at hand. 1 more hour to fight linters and nextjs complexity THAT BRINGS ZERO VALUE AT ALL.

@ericlbarnes @photomatt He said in an interview with @ThePrimeagen that the number was flexible - he was happy if they donated via developer hours instead of paying (or a mix of those like 3-5 or 1-7 etc). I am not saying he’s right - just clarifying what he said.

Seems only fair that @photomatt and WordPress dot com give 8% of revenue back to PHP the core language itself since they wouldn't exist without it. Or maybe I'm looking at this wrong? 👀

ChatGPTing your way thru the first project and calling yourself "Self-taught" is wrong. You didn't teach yourself anything. You just made a mess.

Pro packing tip: if you like boxing and need to bring a microphone for your work, you can pack the mic snugly into the boxing glove 😂

@JamesIvings This, 100%. I'm very happy some people manage to grow their business beyond $100 MRR in a year. What's wrong with being happy for the more modest wins? Why shame them or call them a failure?

Making $100/mo FROM SOMETHING YOU BUILT FROM NOTHING is a huge achievement and you should feel good about it! 🎉 Maybe it won't be a million dollar product, but that first $100 can still be life changing ♥️

How to set up a #newsletter, the @peachscore way: 1. Go to websites of businesses 2. Harvest their email addresses 3. Add them to subscribers list 4. #Spam them with your worthless newsletters! It's that easy.

If you need to grab a favicon from a website for your indie project, you should check out @iconhorse by @mtimofiiv. Its super easy to use and gets the job done. Many thanks to @mtimofiiv, really good product! icon.horse

@ZeviReinitz @KostjaPalovic Thanks! Appreciate you looking into it and correcting. Good luck with the product! 🚀

@mtimofiiv @KostjaPalovic That was our mistake. And it was corrected as soon as it came to our attention. Happy to continue the conversation directly if you have any further concerns. 🙂

Thanks for making the world a slightly more annoying place by sending me unsolicited spam to my git commit email, @get_livecycle (@Yaara_Livecycle)! Great way to promote yourself into spam lists. #spammer

@ZeviReinitz @KostjaPalovic I replied to a comment on your @ThePracticalDev blog. Does that mean I consented to be harvested into an email marketing funnel?

@ZeviReinitz @KostjaPalovic I went back through my inbox. There is in there, 2 other emails from you. I haven’t replied to a single one. Maybe the first email can be considered a “cold lead” however it contained a tracking pixel, was HTML & had an unsub link suggesting this is a marketing funnel.