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Maker of Keepthescore here. You are correct. How did you know?

Maker of Keepthescore here. Sure!

Sure. But this would be a zombie business

To add my subjective opinion:

I came back to frontend development after a break of 10 years. Back then there was jQuery, CSS and HTML.

I found that the complexity of the tooling had increased 20-fold. All these build and task runners that were cool for a year and then a new one came along.

Those were the costs, but what was the upside? It seems that you can do maybe 10%-20% "more" than back then. It seems to me that this is a very very steep price to pay.

March 2020: Finding the body of my mother in the basement. She had died suddenly and unexpectedly that morning. The neighbours were alarmed because they couldn't reach her. I went to investigate. She was 74, so she didn't go too early and had a good death.

I realised that my life will be over relatively soon too. I decided to make it count (in little ways). Quit my job. Became a freelancer. Made a big effort to cut bullshit from my life. To give less fucks about irrelevant stuff. To be happier in simple and sustainable ways.

My favourite quote: "We all have 2 lives, the second begins when we realise we have only 1".

Never really engaged with Wolfram, But had a positive opinion of him.

Having read this, I say wow! This article is grandiose, far too long, turgid and full of claims that sound frankly unhinged.

Does anyone take this stuff seriously?

I learned Flask using this tutorial for a toy project. 4 years later that project has become my main source of income.

Flask is fantastic and I would recommend it to anyone starting out developing webapps.

I firmly hope that javascript has peaked. The complexity of the tooling has increased by a factor of 10 in the last 10 years with subjectively very little to show for it.

Anyone starting out with backend webdev should learn Python Flask. There is no gentler and more thorough way of learning web fundamentals, whilst still being productive from day 1.

To continue this metaphor: If I was hiring a skipper to sail my family over the Atlantic, I would absolutely hire the "lame" 40 year old and not the hip 20 year old

I know. But I'd rather shoot myself in the foot than use AMP.

Yeah, looks like they removed it.

This is fantastic. I added this example to the post. Thanks!

Amazing!

Big difference

Thanks. I think it is.

Yikes, should I have shown more discretion in naming the competitor?

I only switched Google Analytics off last week! I had it on for the whole time before and it made no difference.

Well, it's all speculation in the end, because Google is silent about it.

BUT: the costs of running and maintaining Google Analytics must be significant. There must be some strategic reason for Google to continue to do so (look at the way they deal with products that are not working for them, remember Google Reader?).

So what is that strategic reason?

Disqus has just been switched off!

Update: I just did!

Correct . I will move to https://talk.hyvor.com soon.

Touche. You are absolutely right. I will remove these too, but haven't gotten round it to it yet.

Congrats to the Pitch Team. Looks like a beautiful product.

I wonder if it’s really 10 times better than Google Slides, because that’s what it’s competing against. 2x or 3x better is not enough.

Yeah, I agree I'm being slightly flippant.

But it's just a side-project and I will continue late night coding with a glass of wine. I find it hugely enjoyable.

I would have a different mind-set if I was writing software for power stations as a professional.

I have no employees. I only have myself to blame

Thanks

It may sound hard to believe, but I've haven't needed to do a DB migration so far! Maybe I've just been lucky.

Had I been burned by a DB migration, this article would have been different

Thanks. It's on my todo list ;-)

I'v added this paragraph to the article:

the servers are oversized for the load we're currently seeing. The reason for that is that we tried to solve a production issue by increasing the server specs. It didn't solve the problem, and now we can't down-size the servers without re-provisioning them ️.

Well spotted. I just actually looked at my bills because of this comment. Turns out that I resized my droplets in mid-august so this month's bill will reflect the full/true cost.

I'm going to edit the article.