RB
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My dependencies for ALL my sites are quite low. I noticed the less APIs I depend on, the less amount of things break: - Vanilla PHP + jQuery Everything is vanilla PHP and jQuery and vanilla CSS etc - Self-hosted DBs All my databases are SQLite - Stripe Accepting payments - ScrapingBee Screenshots for social media images, and some data scraping for Nomads - Cloudflare Lots of stuff but mostly A LOT of image resizing - FAL .ai My GPU for AI training and inference - Digital Ocean and Linode Servers - OpenAI API All automation for robots runs on OpenAI's API - X API Finds remote jobs for Remote OK and reports of lost luggage for Luggage Losers - Featurebase .app My ideasandbugs(dot)com that I use for ideas, bug reports and support






This is an amazing number to watch in the next few years. Individual income taxes are about 1/2 of the govt revenue. For February, the US govt collected $120 billion from individual income taxes. They had to spend $76 billion in February to pay interest on the nation debt. We are not that far off from a day when 100% of individual income taxes are going to be required to pay for interest on the debt.
















