Roman Imankulov

@philkellr Considered rsync.net?

I wanna backup my database data (500MB) I run on Hetzner and wanna have it somewhere secure Any suggestions? Backblaze?

@theroborourke I guess, to take full advantage of it, you need to live in Poland, right? Or you’ll eventually pay the rest as the income tax of your country of residence.

Just ran my first invoice through my new Polish business. $8,000 collected at 12% tax... $960 to the government. $7,040 left over for me... FULLY in my own personal name. Okay, it is not Dubai but this is really big jump from what I was paying in my Irish business over the last few years. It means I can have a $100k month and keep $88k of it. Again all tax cleared and free to use as I want. Pretty safe to say it is time to ramp up the Polish business.

@dqmonn It feels a lot like Toptal. There's a matcher that reaches out to talent, filters the results, and gets back to you with a few options.

@robwalling A rewrite is often disguised as "let's replace this foundational part of the system (ORM, framework, you name it) with an equivalent," leading to similar consequences.

Developers and agencies: please stop telling founders to rewrite their entire code base because you don’t want to take the time and mental energy to understand it. I get it. It’s hard to understand a system you didn’t build from scratch. But rewriting the entire thing is rarely the best option. I just had my third call this year with a founder who’s been told they need to stand still for 9 months while their new agency rewrites their SaaS application, currently doing $xx,xxx in revenue. 🤦🏻🤦🏻

@divine_economy Isn't that the same strategy Stripe used to become wildly successful?

if you want to know why crypto has no mass adoption, maybe it’s because: — every chain is targeted towards devs — every conference is targeted towards devs — every social product is targeted towards devs — every conversation, app, marketing campaign is targeted towards devs i love devs. i work with devs all day. i argued in the proto-app thesis that the unlock of crypto is to enable protocols for devs to build on. i’m targeting devs every day. but it’s insane to mistake devs for end users rather than builders who also need to attract users—in our endless ponzi of builders building for builders. if we want adoption, we need to actually target people who are at the center of culture: artists, fashion kids, creators. mass adoption means actually caring about the masses.

@dqmonn When I worked at a hosting company, we had a highly successful referral program. Web studios would bring their clients to our hosting and receive a share of what the customers paid.

Promised a quick and dirty solution. Delivered on dirty. Failed on quick.

My customers asked for a faster horse. Instead, I created them a GPT interface app.

Monday procrastination trick — when creating @NotionHQ page, spend more time choosing emoji than writing content

If it hurts, do it more often. How we introduced feature flags at @BuildingRadar and what have we learned so far. Special thanks to @DevCycleHQ, the feature management provider of our choice. roman.pt/posts/feature-…

That fear of a connection timeout on the last step of a purchase while the browser is still loading the page.

Following the most exciting opportunity works well if you are an expert in a regular environment. Otherwise, you enthusiastically follow a random choice. Thinking aloud why HELL YEAH strategy may not be the best move and what to do about it. roman.pt/posts/say-mayb…

@brennakL My solution

I unsubscribe from literally everything yet somehow it just doesn't stop. How do you make it stop.

@rochacbruno Beautiful. Also, I like their "why?" part that concisely outlines alternatives and the tech stack behind the tool.

@amix3k Just a few days ago, we discussed with Evert if GPT-3 could help answer support questions and found that it probably can't because its answers to Todoist-specific questions are plain wrong. With pre-training, this can be a whole new story.

@amix3k Oh, nice! I always thought of GPT-3 as a black box whose output depends only on the prompt.

The most surprising thing about LLMs like GPT-3 is their effortless use. For most applications, it requires you to do a request or library call. It's probably some of the most accessible technology in the last decade.

@zeeg Really happy to see this improvement! I've yet to see a non-playground Sentry installation not cluttered with timeout or connection errors that team can't resolve but afraid to ignore. Among these, auto-ignoring is probably the biggest change, and I welcome it.

We're going to make a big change to issues in Sentry to help you prioritize (and mostly ignore) errors. Would love to hear your feedback! github.com/getsentry/sent…

I wrote about my most popular posts of 2022. As I expected, "Don't Let Dicts Spoil Your Code," featured on Hacker News, was the top post. Surprisingly, my random notes on SQLAlchemy and Alembic came in second place. Check it out: roman.pt/posts/most-pop…

Just wrote a new blog post about my challenges of staying awake and sociable late at night. I wonder if it's just me, or you can relate. roman.pt/posts/survivin…

@isss111 Feels tasty! Inspired by this example, I tested it with my down-to-earth variant with a minimal "here's what I have in the fridge, what can I cook" set of options. Surprisingly good results for a random collection of boring ingredients.

I'm now using #ChatGPT to create meal plans!