I'm about to go hard in the paint. Watch me for the next 100 days and be amazed.
I will be building and shipping 4 products, including but not limited to:
- Complete rebuild of
@GetMakerlog
on Laravel + growing it to the next 10k users
- Building and shipping Nifty SaaS
- Using
As a FAANG hiring manager, when I see a developer resume I throw it right in the discard pile.
To me, it's a red flag, if you're so good why do you not already have a job?
PHP powers three of the top 20 websites on the internet that I know of off the top of my head. Two of them are owned by a company who created and maintains the front end library that has become so ubiquitous that you only use it because you fear not being hirable without it, and
@doertedev
the only money in php is:
1) indie hacking for low ceilings (valid strat, not a criticism)
2) helping indie devs who underestimated their ceiling migrate off of it
No it's not. Your VPS when you SSH into it will always tell you if you have updates to do and then you just run `apt update && apt upgrade` and it does all the work for you.
It's not 1995 anymore, managing a VIRTUAL private server.
Cloud providers who sell you their services
Internet $60
Github $35
Polypane sub $9
Serverless $104,000
Coffee $5
Someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. My business is dying.
Vercel shills: IT'S EXPENSIVE TO STORE THOUSANDS OF FILES ON THE CDN, THAT'S WHY VERCEL IS EXPENSIVE, DUHH!
Cloudflare: No it's not, have everything for free.
I bet this $480 app would be fine on a single VPS with like 8GB of RAM and 4 CPU's for $48/mo.
Ya'll getting absolutely bamboozled with using serverless.
Why did React become popular over Vue? I just started a new project that I'm doing in Vue and it is just so much better.
Half the stuff I'm doing I'd already have to install 36 different packages with React. Vue it just works.
"$5/mo is a lot of money to host a side project" says the person who chose to use free tier of serverless providers right before their site got DDoS'd and they got a $104k hosting bill.
🙃🙃🙃
Left PHP in 2014 to go all in on this JavaScript thing and Node.js.
Today I installed PHP on my machine and booted up my first Laravel app in a decade.
Shit is even doper today than it was back then and damn does it feel good to be back in PHP.
Unpopular opinion: React hasn’t innovated in years. Every new feature that came out in the last five or more was a solution to a problem introduced because of using React.
So freaking speechless right now. Seen many
@vercel
functions stories but first time experiencing such discrepancy vs request logs like, this is cannot be real??
Next.js on AWS architecture 🚀 ⚡
💵 Costs less than $5/month (free tier)
☁️ Fully Serverless
🔄 ISR support
🖼️ Image optimization support
How this compares to Vercel?
Full comparison in the comments👇 🧵
#buildinpublic
One of my favorite features of git. Now my
@github
profile shows I have a single contribution in 1985.
Particularly on May 25th, 1985.
Commonly referred to the day I was born.
React meta framework dev logic: Yeah sure, I may have to pay $30/mo for a pg conn pool manager, $20 for a job queue, $40/mo if I want to allow another developer to also push to my repo and trigger builds, but at least I'm not paying $10/mo for a long lived server when my app
Unpopular opinion: until Bun is 100% compatible with Node.js and passes its test suite none of the “bun is faster” arguments matter.
But the constant attacking of Yagiz and other node members really tells us what kind of person you are and that’s not a good thing.
Be better
Really disappointed in GitHub’s continuous migration from turbolinks to React.
Not only does the UI barely work anymore but the attention to detail and quality just dropped drastically.
Unpopular hot take:
If you think choosing Angular, Vue, Svelte or Solid over React is "cutting your talent pool in half" Then you're not trying to avoid shooting yourself in the foot, you're putting the gun in your mouth and pulling the trigger repeatedly.
@CodingGarden
I'd try Vue for a side project.
But for a business, using Vue instead of React means cutting the talent pool of potential hires in half.
Finding great talent is already hard. Companies can't afford to shoot themselves in the foot by choosing a less-widely-used tech stack.
The discourse on the opposite side of self-hosting/VPS is weird.
They seem to think if you avoid cloud platforms and just use a VPS, that for some reason you're going to be in the server 24/7 "diverting their attention from product work"
Bro, it's literally a set it and forget
Okay, I'm gonna plan for this later this week. What I'm thinking is I'll stream myself spinning up a droplet from
@digitalocean
, setup
@caddyserver
to reverse proxy to an app.
Maybe even go more advanced and setup sshfront to intercept git pushes of your own code to the VPS and
I hate to say this, but it's time to leave React. It has just gotten out of hand. So many gotchas, footguns and "why doesn't this thing that has worked for decades no longer work? Oh that's a dumb reason" headshakes.
@kvlly
@Zendesk
"We decline your request to cancel" hahahahaha banks will gladly disregard such a decline and block them from charging you anyway.
If they want to take it to court by the sounds of it, they goof'd and your contract is void and they have no grounds.
🔥 Hot Take: The
@vuejs
&
@nuxt_js
ecosystem's code quality is a hinder to their success.
It's so pleasant and just works, nobody complains about it on here, so it's not being constantly talked about.
@TheJackForge
It’s a Bézier curve.
Newbie: “I’ll use VSCode because it works and I don’t have to mess with it”
to
Advanced: “VSCode is for newbs, I’ll use vim and higher customization editors!”
to
Pro: “I’ll use VSCode because it works and I don’t have to mess with it”
@_skris
It's been a while since I had to manage infra at high scale, but put in perspective I was running 400,000 DAU through a PHP app with no caching and direct calls to MySQL through `mysql_query` functions in 2006 on a $80/mo 6 vCPU, 12GB RAM dedi without breaking a sweat.
This is absolutely insane... If you would have told me in 2005 or any decade surrounding that year "Your hosting would cost less if you stopped generating files on your server so often" you would get absolutely laughed at.
We've fallen hard. Time to step back.
@jamespotterdev
@vercel
To clarify:
◆ 92%+ of customers saw lower or flat bills
◆ The goal here is twofold: decrease functions & bandwidth costs and give you more ways to optimize
◆ In your case it went up. We cover 100% of the new costs for 3 months & share optimization docs in that email
For most
I've been a React developer since 2015 and I don't think I've gotten as excited about it as I have been the past week of using
@htmx_org
.
I have a form submit handled and swapped out with 3 simple directives on my form component vs what I can only imagine being about 60 lines of
I'm gonna be real with ya'll... Laravel is just it.
Like, I love Rails, Django, Phoenix, all these other batteries included frameworks that allow you to ship, but like... Laravel is different.
Every aspect of anything I want to build Laravel has a best in class, first party
$2.3M raised for a utility library that returns an error or result instead of throwing the error.
And I had a VC tell me building a scalable cloud hosting platform was a “hello world app for a technical founder”
Crazy how polar opposites they can be.
The serverless people talking shit about the people wanting to learn how to manage a VPS themselves cracks me up, like bro why you shit talking the people who learn the skill that you rely on someone else doing?
Imagine not knowing how to cook and then shit talking chefs and
@_skris
It's been a while since I had to manage infra at high scale, but put in perspective I was running 400,000 DAU through a PHP app with no caching and direct calls to MySQL through `mysql_query` functions in 2006 on a $80/mo 6 vCPU, 12GB RAM dedi without breaking a sweat.
Unpopular opinion: The fact that 's Campfire launch had very minimal amount of sales (I heard something like only 800 sales?) is proof that the self-hosted niche is very small and concentrated.
I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of people who bought
Angular first released: October 2010.
React first released: May 2013.
Vue first released: February 2014.
Svelte first released: Circa November 2016.
Can we please stop with the "new JS framework every week" argument. It's played out and hasn't been accurate in at least 3 years.
It's absolutely insanely criminal for
@filamentphp
to be free.
Remove the rest of the Laravel ecosystem, this alone should be reason enough to use Laravel.
You are literally making the wrong choices by avoiding Laravel for JavaScript ecosystem.
I'm an idiot for fighting it so
@TheJackForge
100 of them are built on React and do nothing but handle routing and render React on the server, 26 them get abandoned 5 minutes before they release the first alpha.
The other two are Vue and Astro.
Unpopular opinion: React hasn’t innovated in years. Every new feature that came out in the last five or more was a solution to a problem introduced because of using React.
Anyone looking for a
@nodejs
,
@reactjs
and
@GraphQL
developer? I'm available for work. Contract & full time open. Remote only.
Please retweet to help.
@jayharr_is
@CodingGarden
React leads you to think you need to hire React specialists, when in reality any decent dev can pick up Vue in a matter of days.
Proud son moment - one of my mom's papers on AI in mammography is now going viral after being published back in '21 with
@MIT
🤩 What the post doesn't mention is that she & her team have made HUGE advances since then and are now bringing it to market with
This is my
@tailwindcss
sucks jar. Every time a whiny developer writes a long winded blog post about why they don’t like tailwind I put money in it. At the end of the year I use it to support tailwind team either donating or buying their products.
Keep writing, nerds.
Today, I would like to introduce the world to what I am pouring my heart and soul into. This is 5+ years of thoughts and desires coming together into an actual product.
I am going up against Heroku.
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@primcloudhq
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Today I gave my notice at my current employers that I am moving onto a new company. Nothing against them, very hard thing for me to do. Just an offer I couldn’t refuse.
I’m on the hunt to find a frontend engineer who can replace me, so if React/Redux is your thing, DM me.
@webdevcody
Yes base it off email. If you give me multiple ways to sign in, I should be able to create a single account that connects all those ways to sign in. Otherwise you're gonna have a bunch of issues.
React developers cannot comprehend that not a line of JavaScript was written to make this happen, and the "backend" code is 11 total lines, including validation.
I felt bad for misunderstanding Kelsey and going at him like I did earlier, so I DM'd him. His response was so insanely accepting and loving. He didn't even have to acknowledge me. Thanks for being cool, Kelsey.
Building a SaaS boilerplate/starter kit built on
@adonisframework
,
@tailwindcss
,
@htmx_org
and
@Alpine_JS
.
Of course it's 100% free and open source.
What are some of the features you'd like to see in a solid full stack SaaS boilerplate?
@AdamRackis
I have never done that, and got scolded by many for it. Both people who apply and people who interview, like my guy you realize I am not thankful for you giving me an interview, I was interviewing you too.
This is a business relationship, you did me no favors.
I don't think enough people appreciate the genius behind
@LaravelLivewire
and how it's implemented.
It's comparable to React/Vue but with backend rendering so instead of having to store everything in the client, it's just HTML over the Wire.
It's as if HTMX and React/Vue had a