Free Post startup Hiring: Culture and results We just hired our first non-technical person. Her responsibility is sales. Her skill is business analysis. I've known her for a while and did wish there was a way for
Free Post My First Newsletter (remember me?) Hey. You subscribed to my blog either a few months ago or perhaps many years ago. I haven't sent out a newsletter ever. So hello again! I write irregularly. Some months there's many posts every week. Some months not a single one. That's not
Free Post A team is worth more than the sum of people Me and my partners agree that me going off and doing some startup team is not a recipe for success. One person just can't think of everything and one just needs to bounce off ideas and think of more options than the one brain
Free Post Google Analytics lies. We all know that people use ad blockers and thus you probably have more visitors than the numbers show (solution: custom fetch request or server side analytics). Well today I found out Google Analytics with all it's amazing power isn't doing much to mitigate
Free Post Bashboard flunked the PH launch Which is not a suprise. I was however pleasently surprised how many people voted for me when posting to my social groups. I mean 15 isn't much, but it's a lot more than what I was expecting :) So anyway what are the stats? So
Free Post elixir Server Sent Events with Elixir SSE is old, but not a lot of Elixir materials out there. Took me 3 days to get this working, so congrats for finding this :) This is not a tutorial,
Free Post onMount doesn't fire Sapper/Svelte I only have two pages A links to B. Both have a preload of data. So I load A, everything is nice. Click on the link to B and voila
Free Post 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
Free Post 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
Free Post 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
Free Post 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
Free Post 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
Free Post 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
Free Post 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
Free Post 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
