How to connect :observer to remote server in Elixir I don't know. In fact, every time I come back to needing this I fail again. Recently however I've found another, simpler solution: observer_cli. Seriously, it's all you really
Setup TimescaleDB on Elixir and Ecto Timescale seems pretty popular, but it's not exactly clear how to configure PostgreSQL extensions in Elixir. So here's my take. Prerequisites PostgreSQL 11TimescaleDBI've already set up my postgre tables so
TimescaleDB on DigitalOcean's PostgreSQL instance Note: If you already have a PostgreSQL database instance from Digitalocean, you don't need this tutorial. Just follow the Getting Started from the official TimescaleDB docs. No need to install
I did Sales Safari to find usecases, but found competition Here were my core assumptions when starting Bashboard, and how Sales Safari turned them around. All-in-one dashboards (like Cyfe) never have enough integrations to pull data from services. True. This
I think what Bashboard is missing is a value proposition Looking around IH there are a lot of cool products. Reading the interviews and seeing the landing pages makes it clear - the successful projects have a very clear value
Funnel chart from Mailgun to Unbounce to your app There are thousands of Dashboard apps out there, each of them with thousands of integrations, plus Zapier. Yet when I needed to See a funnel chart of users flowing from
Svelte: show Javascript in your page As with any tool that makes your life easier, The Law of Leaky Abstractions means there will always be gotchas! In Svelte if all you want to do is show
TIL PostgreSQL slow with million row aggregation (how to debug) I've refactored my stats aggregator three times now. First try was code-based transformations - 100'000 rows took longer than client browser could wait. Next I ported all the aggregations to
Lock screen config in sway You've probably already found Swaylock, but the configuration is a bit confusing. Here's my setup. All of these codes are meant to be put in ~/.config/sway/config, unless stated otherwise Idle lockTurn screen off in 9min30secLock screen in 10min (so 30sec after screen
elixir Elixir: put_in empty map/array put_in and update_in can be very useful for deeply nested values in maps, but if you're trying to add keys that don't exist yet, these commands fail. Use
It's still easier to learn coding from videos (than interactive tutorials) Image is from a learning group I hosted for a while. I've also taught in university and given trainings. About 400 people have tried to learn as my student. Many
startup No first customer yet Three things I learned this week with Bashboard. I built a prototype to have more clarity of the product for both myself and potential buyers. The frontend didn't basically get
startup My greatest startup yet (again): Bashboard If you want to go fast - you need metrics to tell you where you are. It helps you guide your focus to where it really needs to be. Imagine
I'm falling for programming - again. Once it was exiting. Something new. Software opened a whole world for me. Years after it became just a tool. It gets the job done. Today I'm getting to enjoy
My 2019: Founding a company After countless failed startups and projects I got tired of chasing "the dream". I was more okay with starting a traditional company. I had also gotten fed up with doing
life My 2019: We got married Marriage was never a thing I took very seriously or thought it was my thing. Yet the more I spent time with Māra, the more a little panic grew in
Weed I smoke it. It's fun, entertaining and makes me want to write this blog real well. Of course I'm not actually writing this well since I'm high, but at least I get some good ideas to read and laugh about in the morning. Anyway
blog One post a week in 2020 This must be my 4th attempt to blog regularly. There were a few periods of pretty good success with writing something every day, but my last attempt only concluded with
Your first Japanese lesson I'm writing a language learning program to learn Japanese. For a client. It's a really cool project since learning languages has this strange rearranging effect on the brain. And the project that teach you something about the world are always best! So here's a
4k is better than I imagined For a long time I was programming on a 1280x1024 ThinkPad laptop. Looking back that seems crazy.. totally insane.. I could see pixels. Why didn't I invest in the main tool I use to make money? Why not make myself more productive? What a
Xfce froze over. Gnome became a new favorite. I liked Gnome 3 since it launched. Yet it didn't provide a lot of customizability. Plus it was buggy and extensions lost support fast due to the changing API. A week back my "new" used laptop ThinkPad T470 started crashing with Xfce. It just
Why is growth important? Paul Graham has famously said "Startup == Growth" . But why is it so important? And by "growth" I don't mean everyone has to be Uber - score billions of investmend, scale across the world, fight governments and finally potentially go bankrupt since the only thing
Stream video to browser the easy way (static HLS files) Spent a whole day researching how video streaming works and all I needed was to play a rather large video in the browser (400mb). There are Nginx tutorials, Node.js tutorials, whole media servers and npm packages. None of them are easy solutions. But
I'm not a programmer I know how to code, but I don't go deeper than I have to. I specialize in understanding what the client needs and then fulfilling those needs. Problem arises when deep technical knowledge is necessary for a deeply technical task. I don't have it.
To post or not to post I decided to start blogging again. Just for the kick of writing - I love doing it. Yet once I've written something I'd love for people to see it. My first article I shared on HN and didn't get any votes, which was totally
