That’s what I said. Don’t be surprised when the return over the next 10 (to 100) years isn’t anywhere near its historical return rates though.
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Have bootstrapped two separate SAAS businesses to $40K MRR and even though it gained me financial independence, I would probably not do it again.
“I doubt economic growth over the next 100 years will be as high as it was over the past 100.” is what I should have said.
We’re on par for well over 2 degrees of warming with no real solution in sight, so it remains to be seen how everything will turn out.
Investing in a low-cost and well diversified index fund used to be the way to go and is probably still your best option (at least for the majority of your savings).
I’d read the little books by John Bogle (Vanguard founder), the Simple Path To Wealth (book or blog) and maybe I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramith Sethi (book).
That said, the future isn’t as certain as it was in the last 200 years. I doubt we will see the same levels of economic growth with the various crisises intensifying over the next few decades.
A house to live in in an area that is relatively safe from natural disasters would be high on my list as well.
I mostly use aerc but recent versions of Roundcube are pretty slick as well.
Helix is another one to watch. Not quite at Neovim’s level and may need some reprogramming of the vim muscle memory but definitely promising!
So I built a generic "newsletter sign-up" plugin and then noticed that a lot of my users were using Mailchimp, so then I built one tailored for Mailchimp too.
Microacquire is considerably cheaper and I love that they have the option to just list it yourself. Thx for the suggestion!
Still going strong at €36K per month excluding VAT.
There was (and still is) a huge market where non-technical people are looking for a GUI around something a programmer would find very simple (and usually too boring to work on). More so if the tech surrounding it is not particularly sexy, as is the case for WordPress and PHP.
Ps. In case anyone is reading this, I am open to selling. I spent about 4 hours a week on it and the rest is handled by 2 freelance people costing about €1K / month each. Contact me for details if interested and willing to pay in the ballpark of €1.6M.
People kept asking for cookieless tracking but with another way of identifying returning visitors that was always worse from a privacy standpoint. Cookies can be controlled by the client, anything stored on the server can not.
Honestly, cookies are pretty nice, it’s the law around this that sucks. Tricks that attempt to bypass the laws will surely only work for a limited time, at least I hope they will…
Seeing just how slow looking up variables by their name is, I have a feeling this probably amounts to the biggest performance improvement that the bytecode + VM brings to the table (it's ~3 times faster than the AST walker at the time of writing). Especially as there do not seem to be that many cache misses (at least on my hardware) already, sub .2%.
Anyway, thank you for your $.02!
I wanted to get more experience writing Rust so I decided to build an interpreter in Rust and attempt to make it just as fast as another one I made in C. In this post I describe my journey to make it run fast. Most of it will probably be super obvious if you're experienced with Rust, but hopefully some of it is useful to more people. For example, I feel it's just too easy to call `.clone()` to store an owned value instead of storing a reference and introducing the correct lifetime constraints.
Overall it was (is!) a fun project and working in Rust has been a very nice experience. Let me know if you have any suggestions please.
Received a lot of requests for this from my existing SaaS customers then started out as a corner-only slide-in modal.
Eventually I caved and added a centered modal… It’s currently in active use on at least 30.000 websites.
I’m sorry for making browsing the web suck a little more instead of less.
It still brings in some revenue but I have been intentionally neglecting it for years now, as I personally hate those things with a vengeance. But still, I don’t pull the plug on it.
Am only a hundred pages in or so, but seeing the progress on my e-reader at only 2% makes me quite stoked for what's to come. Sadly I saw the movie (for pt. 1) first, but even so the books add a lot to what the movie attempts to portray.
While the myth that old (small) gasoline cars may emit less co2 car than a reasonably efficient EV does annoy me, the average electric bike (8W / km) is still 15 times as efficient as my electric Hyundai Ioniq (130W / km) and very usable (and most of the time just as fast) for any distances under 30km. Plus it takes up much less space and promotes cycling lanes and such, something that pays off dividends in the long run. With EV’s, it’ll just be more of the same (more car culture).
EV’s are an improvement for sure, but by far not radical enough to solve the issues we are facing.
EDIT: Never mind, was able to get behind a computer and yes, I did use Mochi before. And it does seem you support MathJax. Awesome!
- Cattle does not eat soy byproducts and soy production is definitely not driven by human consumption. Not by value, not by mass. [1]
- Bison herds did not produce as much methane as today's cattle. [2]
- Cattle does not strictly use land unsuitable for growing crops. Also, this completely ignores any other unwanted effects of having too much cattle (in one area). [3]
- Meat is not always healthier than "processed foods", whatever the latter may actually mean.
1: https://nieuwscheckers.nl/nieuwscheckers/soja-voor-veevoer-i...
2: https://mrdrscienceteacher.wordpress.com/2019/09/21/bison-vs...
3: https://www.wur.nl/upload_mm/f/8/f/86d216c6-5b3c-4058-acb3-5...
When looking for facts on any of this, try to look for scientific papers instead of videos or blogs and do look-up the individual researchers and whom they work for. There's too much at stake here for the companies trying to sow doubt, as evidenced by some of the things I read here.