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I switched jobs and working as an elixir dev now. I love elixir don't get me wrong, but some of the documentation especially some of the more advanced features in ecto are very confusing.

It doesn't help you can define your ecto instructions in multiple flavors too (inline vs piping)

You can't mix inline with pipe operators without creating an additiona variable too hold the original query.

If we want to make it less niche, there's definitely good working points there. Once people understand how to hit a database from elixir it magically clicks and the other stuff is more trivial.

I recently bought the Pastebot, it's one of those tools once you try it and make it fit in your workflow you never want to go back.

It's something like 12$ one time purchase which is great and a huge productivity booster!

Yes I know you guys are using Stripe that's why its so odd that it doesn't work. I pay perfectly fine with Stripe on other platforms thats the odd part.

I understand that multiple layers can screw over the payment flow, but I'm a technical user and for someone who's non technical they will just leave the product all together because they are unable to pay the subscription like it should.

I love the product and I want to pay, it's just a very frustrating experience if it doesn't work.

The bank is telling me its not on their end. 1Password is telling me its not on their end. Stripe is not gonna release any info to me related to my payment on 1password and I need to go through 1password support to get to that information.

The card I'm using is a company card and I only have 1 Visa Business Card which is a typical situation for businesses in Belgium.

I'm not gonna get another card for the sake of having a subscription on 1password. I'm more then happy to purchase the gift cards through shopify if that solves my issue thought.

Hi Erik!

I'm trying again to contact support and get this finished. In the meantime I could try using a giftcard purchase since this uses shopify I heard?

My question here is if I purchase 100$ gift card and apply it to my account I'll be able to purchase my subscription for the first year, but what about the next year? Does the remaining credit get transferred to the next year? By that I mean is it reduced from total new amount if I change my payment method to creditcard next year?

Kind regards

I've looked at bitwarden which is completely open source and is self-hosted. I tried it, but I'd rather pay a "premium" for someone that gets paid to upkeep the application to the newest standards.

Bitwarden sometimes has troubles with filling in forms properly which 1password more often does the correct thing saving me seconds / minutes every day.

Do you have an idea how the gift cards work? Is it like credit that's stored on your purchase?

Because I hate to buy a gift card for 100$ and needing to do it again because I'm just not reached the next amount due to pricing schemes

Care to explain this a bit more?

Having decent password hygiene, password rotation, secure password generation and all of that available via browser, apps and commandline IS a no brainer to me.

From a security standpoint you could say they are storing and keeping your passwords all in 1 bucket, while that is true it is encrypted and can be changed / tracked way easier then you would be able to without it.

What's the alternative? Keeping those passwords in your brain and create variants on that password? Sticky notes with passwords?

What about a NEED to share passwords with team members securely? Do you send them over slack / imessage / whatsapp?

Next to that it also functions as a database of accounts where you can see where you have an account with a password that has potentially be leaked and for "known" big providers they forward you to the change password screen in an instant.

To me having a proper password management tool that warns you if any of your passwords get leaked is really worth the price they are asking. Without it a lot of best practices often get lost due to time constraints.

I've built a CRM (https://www.bizzey.com) for myself to automate my accounting / business administration. I was freelancing on the side and noticed that many of the business solutions where either crazy expensive for a single person business or looked like they were made in the 80's.

It has since exploded into fully fledged CRM with all kinds of features you can choose from. I originally built it for myself to keep track of everything expenses, recurring invoices, ... At some point a freelancer saw me working in it and asked what I was using.

Told him what I was working on and he became my first customer, since then it has spread through word of mouth.

I use github copilot on a daily basis and it improves my time from thinking to code.

Often I have times where I'm think about a specific piece of code that I need and I have it partially in my head and github copilot "just completes" it. I press tab and that's it.

I'm not talking about writing entire functions where you have to mentally strain yourself to understand what it wrote.

But I've never seen any autocompleter do it so good then github copilot. Even for documentation purposes like JSdoc and related commenting system it's amazing.

It's a tool I pay for now since it's proven to be a tool that increases my productivity.

Is it gonna replace us? I hope not, but it does look promising as one of those tools people will talk about in the future.