
Ilija Studen
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Ilija Studen
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Helping others build stuff @ActiveCollab. Cleaning up corners while nobody's watching. Into #lean thinking, #agile software dev and regen. AG. Maker 🧱 Grower 🌱




Issue tracking is dead. We are building what comes next. linear.app/next







One thing VPS providers like @Hetzner_Online @digitalocean etc could improve is secure servers by default better I have to run my own custom made provisioning script on each new server to secure it well By default Ubuntu won't auto upgrade for example, this means slowly your server gets out of date and then after a few years you're hacked It's relatively easy to secure a VPS though, only key login, auto upgrades, fail2ban, only allow specific ports like HTTP 80, HTTPS 443, SSH 22 (making that port obscure is nice too) and putting Cloudflare in front with the cloud to never expose your IP


I know most ppl don't know how VPS works anymore So try this then ask Claude "install an Nginx server and uninstall Apache" Now open your IP in your browser, you will see the Nginx default page Now you can add your own index.html or index.php or ask Claude to write a Node or Python or even Rust based homepage or blog or whatever you want! VPS's come with terabytes of traffic so you'll still pay $5/mo in most cases and yes a VPS scales easily! A VPS is like your laptop but you rent it and it's in the cloud and has really good internet and runs 24/7!





Buy a .com domain name Go into debt if you have to



First time I heard this story: how @KentBeck broke Facebook when he added "civil union" and "in a domestic partnership" to the relationship status list. He used TDD, and it was a giant waste of time... Facebook worked different even then:







