rikkipitt

It also means circle in Czech and sounds like crew. When I happened upon the word, I was very proud of myself! I'm usually not great at naming projects.

I'm 40% through getting my first 100 users for https://www.kruh.ltd. So far, I've only added a "banner" announcement on two of my products and mentioned it at the bottom of newsletters to their subscribers. It's taken a couple of months to get this far. I will probably launch in two phases of cohorts. I.e. in blocks of 50.

Looking forward to trying this out. I do a lot of email testing locally for paced.email and vend.email. MailHog is 90% of the way there, but seems like it's fallen by the wayside...

  Location:            UK
  Remote:              Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies:        Ruby on Rails, JS (Vue/React), etc
  Résumé/CV:           https://www.linkedin.com/in/rikkipitt/
  Email:               rikki at jemcode dot co dot uk

Looking for senior roles, contract or otherwise.

It has been said of me too, on a few occasions! Resting concentration face.

I'm offering 25% off all plans for https://www.paced.email and https://www.vend.email with BF2022. Not really had much success with BF/CM in the past, but alas, I'll try again this year now the products are in more solid positions.

The way I remember Earth's approximate mass is the fact it's 10 times Avogadro's number in kg.

My physics teacher always had a great way of drilling in these tidbits.

Oh. So there was a DNS issue yesterday? A custom of mine was complaining that my apps weee down and blamed CloudFlare. They didn’t inform me of this issue, I had to find out via HN/customers.

130 apps to get off Heroku is going to a massive pain to get through but it’s looking more and more likely…

I built https://www.quikk.co.uk which gives users a better audit trail and backup of their Xero accounting data. I’ve never really marketed it, but MRR-wise it’s doing ok. Promising volumes so far. I keep meaning to put effort into getting it into the hands of those who would benefit most from it but always get sidetracked with my other projects.

Throwing this out there, why not… if anyone would like to help me, let me know!

I built Paced Email which has team support. You can spin up any number of email addresses quite quickly. It has the added benefit of making email a little more async which helps keep your employees a little less distracted.

I’m in a similar boat with two email-based SaaS products. People often ask, “what if?”.

I’ve considered writing up a worst case scenario plan or migration document to help with initial concerns that these apps will just go away.

Are there any funds out there that offer their name as a form of backing to give customers increased confidence? I think a big name would help, not just the money itself.

Thoughts?

https://www.paced.email and https://www.vend.email are two services that I developed that provide "disposable" email addresses.

Paced Email is a productivity tool with the ability to add team members, rules, etc and paces your mail into regular digests.

Vend Email is similar to Firefox Relay but has the added benefit of email forwarder transferability to other users.

If it’s email productivity you’re after, take a look at the email service I built that batches your mail into digests:

https://www.paced.email

Thanks you, nameless912. I've been leaning towards Render, so cheers for the info. Will take a look into Dukku, but feel it's probably going back a step for my purposes as it'll involve managing a server (or set of servers).

I've got over 130 apps on Heroku for my various SaaS products and client websites etc. I feel like I'm going to experience a world of pain very soon to migrate away to another provider... I just took a look at fly.io and they seem too dev-opy for my tastes these days.

I opted for Heroku after going down the whole Linode route years back and have never looked back. I enjoy the simplicity of deployment and not having to worry too much about servers etc.

I recently got to play with Render and DigitalOcean's App Platform and they were okay... just not sure if they'll be suitable for Rails (Postgres/Redis etc). I want something straightforward like Heroku, but without the issues of late. Oh and the costs...

If you use Heroku with Postgres, I made a plug-in that works with Postico:

https://github.com/jemcode/heroku-postico

heroku postico:open --app <app_name>

Or

production postico:open (if you use the parity gem)

Not sure it works with v2 though…

Several impressive gravity hills can be found inside a pub in the UK called The Crooked House. It's so wonky you can feel a little queasy if you stay in there a while!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crooked_House

I've recently discovered jemalloc, specifically when used with Heroku.

"Using jemalloc instead of regular malloc helps too. The exact way to do this depends on the platform you use, but it is pretty simple on Heroku. Just set heroku-buildpack-jemalloc as the first buildpack (ahead of the heroku/ruby buildpack)."

FYI, remember to set JEMALLOC_ENABLED=true in your env to actually turn it on.

https://github.com/gaffneyc/heroku-buildpack-jemalloc

Mailgun are pretty good. I use them on a couple of email services I’ve built.

I too was wondering that as the ideal gas law states that PV = nRT. When you compress a gas it gets hotter, conversely, allowing it to decompress cools it. I assume they store the heat energy...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed-air_energy_storage

We used Lottie in the logo of the new Stephen Hawking site.

https://www.hawking.org.uk

Begs the question, how can we find our own Marko Saric's? If you're a marketer and reading this, want to help me with paced.email? I'm in the same boat as the OP.

Yep, also known as "corner weight" w.r.t. cars. Strange how they missed it. I wonder if it's a common misconception?

There are 13 variations according to the JS. Script URL posted above by jmkni.

I'm interested in the Coinbase Commerce as an option for my SaaS, sadly they don't seem to support recurring payments out of the box. Does anyone know if they might be offering this functionality in the future?

Some of the chalk drawings by Lord Rosse et al at Birr Castle in the Republic of Ireland are amazing considering they were made in the 1840’s.

https://birrcastle.com/astronomy/

https://birrcastle.com/telescope-astronomy/

I'm usually terrible at noticing typefaces (especially when developing to a design). But now this has been pointed out to me, I can't not see it. It's tricky to focus on and I can see why people are finding it troublesome...

Haha, very good.

In fact, we had some equipment similar to that on this site https://solarlight.com/product_category/products/solar-simul...

Basically a super bright light source with a similar spectral output to our sun. A roughly 1x1cm solar cell in a nitrogen filled chamber is wired up to check the output under the incident light. Very cool production process. I was extremely lucky to have had the opportunity to help with the research.

Reminds me of my masters research at university. My work was based on hybrid organic-inorganic solar devices based on boron subphthalocyanine chloride and an optimised optical spacer layer. One day, one variation of the type of cell I was producing was over double the output efficiency of what we usually expected. Was exciting until we realised the solar testing rig had been erroneously set to the equivalent output of two suns...

Apologies. The pricing is indeed $90/year or $10/month and the marketing site is wrong. However, I’m the coming weeks I’m releasing a new site/branding and more functionality which will fix this. Thanks for pointing it out!