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stephen123on A small change to improve browsers for keyboard navigation

I like leopard links for that. cmd+t type "go/" and I get all of the shortcuts I've configured.

stephen123on Using ClickHouse to scale an events engine

Its google cloud sql.

stephen123on Using ClickHouse to scale an events engine

What do you do to then query the data? I usually need indexes so queries are not slow. Perhaps I could insert into a staging table then bulk copy the data over to an indexed table, but that seems silly.

stephen123on Using ClickHouse to scale an events engine

How were they doing millions of events per minute with postgres.

I'm struggling with pg write performance ATM and want some tips.

stephen123on My notes on Gitlab's Postgres schema design (2022)

I think its because of btrees. Btrees and the pages work better if only the last page is getting lots of writes. Iuids cause lots of un ordered writes leading to page bloat.

stephen123on BirdLingo: A birdsong learning game

That was fun. I like birds but I'm no twitcher, spent a good 10min going through getting better at recognising the sounds.

It would be fun if you could pick a country the birds are from. Australian birds sound silly.

stephen123on Standard Webhooks: open-source tools and guidelines for sending webhooks

Looks great.

What are people using to store and send retries?

stephen123on Show HN: Why Google Analytics May Not Be the Best Option for Your Website (2023)

Good luck, the product looks slick.

I see you have traffic coming from indiepa.ge, so I wonder which indie hacker are you and are you on twitter. I always wont to know who's behind something, particularly if im going to install their tracking tool. ;)

stephen123on Gopher Wrangling: Effective error handling in Go

Yea, I find go's concurrency very error prone compared to something with futures.

I've even got a library for using futures in Go. https://stephenn.com/2022/05/simplifying-go-concurrency-with...

stephen123on Gopher Wrangling: Effective error handling in Go

"completely static" has a gotcha though. I was getting segfaults yesterday because libc was removed from my docker image.

I had to add `CGO_ENABLED=0`

stephen123on Gopher Wrangling: Effective error handling in Go

It seems like a waste of time to me. Wrapping errors adds context. But you can usually get enough context from stack traces.

stephen123on UseHooks – A Collection of Server Component Safe React Hooks

Nice, thank you. It was only the other day I was copy and pasting from the old site. Looking forward to installing the lib and deleting some code.

stephen123on Show HN: Upollo – Account sharing and repeat trialing detection tool

Hi, Stephen from Upollo here.

When I was running a small SaaS, I had lots of users repeating my free trial so they wouldnt have to pay. There was no easy way to stop it. So I joined Upollo to build it :)

We've just added no-code integrations with Segment and Google Tag Manager, so you can find out how much account sharing or repeated trials you have in minutes.

I would love to hear what you think

stephen123on Ask HN: Who needs beta testers?

https://upollo.ai/

Project Description: We help subscription businesses earn more by detecting and upgrading users that repeat trials or share accounts. Eg, when signing up with your work email to get another free week, or giving your password to your friend/co-worker..

What to test: Connect your app/website and see how many users are repeating trials or sharing accounts.

How to test: Sign up, follow the wizard, install our js, ios or android API in just a few lines of code.

Contact: Intercom

Love this thread btw. Thanks everyone

stephen123on AMD Announces Ryzen 7800X3D / 7900X3D / 7950X3D Pricing and Availability

Is having that much L3 cache useful for anything other than gaming?

stephen123on How to win back users who are abandoning your trial

I like manually reviewing users onboarding and reaching out to them. It doesnt scale, but its a great way to actually talk to and hear from users. Once a dialog with a is open, its amazing what issues can be uncovered and solved.

How else are people winning back users who are abandoning trials.

stephen123on Conc: Better Structured Concurrency for Go

The main difference is that reading from channels will block if its empty where Futures, return the same value.

Written more concisely.

f := New(func() Type{return t}) v := g.Get() w := g.Get()

stephen123on Conc: Better Structured Concurrency for Go

Great project. It seems like channels are just the wrong tool for a lot of concurrency problems. More powerful than needed and easy to get wrong. Lots of nice ways to make go concurrency safer.

The problem that bothers me (and isnt in Conc), is how hard it is to run different things in the background and gather the results in different ways. Particularly when you start doing those things conditionally and reusing results.

Something like go-future helps. https://github.com/stephennancekivell/go-future

stephen123on ChatGPT Is Not Working?

Works for me :)

stephen123on Should you offer a free tier, a free trial – or both?

I've seen lots of startup founders struggle with free tier vs free trial. We break it down to make sure your getting the most out of it.

stephen123on Pirate Weather: A free, open, and documented forecast API

Is it a common startup idea to open source a successful product and change the payment to be donation based?

stephen123on Making a Go program faster with a one-character change

Great post. I always feel smart when I find these kind of optimisations. Then I wonder why the compiler isnt smarter, I dont have to be.

stephen123on Ask HN: Solopreneurs, how do you maintain a professional/social network?

You might enjoy an online community like https://wannabe-entrepreneur.com

stephen123on IPv4 Address Auctions

Hi, At [Upollo](1) we do a lot for detecting dodgy signups and helping users to convert. IP lists are a part of what we use and we are planning on making our IP API's public in the near future.

We find IP lists alone dont really cut it though. Its easy for someone to just tether to their phone to signup.

If your interested we would love to chat :)

[1] https://upollo.ai

stephen123on How to convert users that continually repeat trials

Hi, yea thats exactly what we do. We find people who habitually repeat trials love the product and are just doing it because it's easy.

Give people a discount to get them onboard, once they are paying they are happy to continue.

stephen123on Programming Burnout

Funny, there's two threads for this story.

stephen123on Simplifying Go Concurrency with Futures

I've been thinking about concurrency in go code and how we can make it easier now that generics have landed.

What do you think, are you ready for safer tools?

stephen123on Show HN: Pbkit – Protobuf toolkit written in Deno/TypeScript

Nice.

We are using (https://github.com/whisklabs/grpc-ts)[whisklabs/grpc-ts]. We saved %80 of our bundle size by changing from grpc-web. Those generated proto-js files were big!

stephen123on Netflix plans to start charging for password sharing, and customers aren't happy

I see a lot of haters here, but I tip my hat to Netflix.

Imagine if you were building a service and had trouble getting customers to pay their fair share. Netflix are making it easy for people to use it the right way. Its a gentle nudge in the right direction. They arent just blocking or banning the users. Its not everyone who has to pay more, just people who are already in the wrong. And for a discount of $3, thats less than a cup of coffee!

Is it that people are worried that they will unfairly be charged more or something?

Anyway, I think this is an interesting space. I wonder how many users are account sharing this way and how many are account sharing on other services.

stephen123on Spam accounts in 2022

What process do you have to stop this spammer sighing up again. It sounds like you already have some automation, but in this case it got flagged for manual review.