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So I have been a Rubyist for most of my professional life and I was looking to build a static JSON hosting service when I explored Crystal and Amber and within two days of picking it up, had deployed it to production.

Let's see if Hacker News traffic can bring the $5/mo server down.


I wonder how much of this is already supported by framework (specifically thinking about Rails). Things like ETag caching and Options requests look like they should be handled for you.


Is it going to be like GitLab?


You can compare it with that. It's just built up entirely transparent and open and backed by a non-profit organization.


I've recently (since about 5 months) started learning Piano (or rather, keyboard) and I've looked forward to playing it everyday. It's relaxing and helps me reduce the stress. Plus, it helps me get out of my comfort zone and give me wonderful new perspective on things.

And for the past 2 months, I am also taking tennis lessons, and they've had unexpected positive influences on my life. I am waking early everyday to play, I've improved my stamina, and I get a solid sleep at the end of the day because physical activity tires out over the day and you easily sleep.

10/10 would recommend hobbies to all.


Are you taking piano lessons?

I'm trying to learn guitar and although I mostly enjoy it, I can't say I look forward to my 30 minutes of practice each day (although once I'm going I usually go long).


Yes, I am. But from a Youtube channel called "Hoffman Academy". It's aimed at kids below 15, but I like it.


1. Pinboard charges money for their product and eventually buys former free-product competitor Delicious.

2. Smugmug charges money for their product and eventually buys free-product competitor Flickr.

Charging customers for your service really does help you win in the long run.

Edit: Taken from this tweet - https://twitter.com/zachleat/status/987523973612298240


I’ve paid for a Flickr Pro account for several years, it wasn’t a free-product to begin with.


The problem that I see here is that development.kitchen needs quality traffic to provide that feedback, which sounds like the most difficult part of running this service.


You can maybe add a glitch repo to make it easier to get started.


Thanks! I looked at Glitch but didn't quite get how I can make a shareable sample.


It needs to provide you with just enough productivity to help you work for 2 extra hours, and it'll have paid for itself. $80 is peanuts for this.


I don't live in the United States so my purchasing power from two hours of work is exponentially smaller, but I get your point. Truth is, I don't really use Sublime (or any other text editor) that often anymore, because I'm working with Java and using IntelliJ IDEA for that. If I used Sublime Text professionally, I (or my employer) would have bought the licence in a heartbeat.


Does every developer earns $80 for two hours? No.


Does anyone have experience with https://preactjs.com/? Is it really the same (component wise)?


Yeah, I recently replaced React with Preact in compat mode, without problems.


Is that where Ruby took it from?


No, they both got it from Common Lisp (ca 1984)


Is that a Common Lisp thing or something that predates the ANSI standard? SBCL doesn't like that syntax:

  * 10_000
  
  debugger invoked on a UNBOUND-VARIABLE: The variable |10_000| is unbound.
According to the Common Lisp HyperSpec, "_" is an alphabetic constituent character:

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/02_ad....

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/02_adb...


Rather, perhaps, Ada 83.


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