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1 year

We open sourced Corrosion, the tool we built to replace Consul. It started as gossip based service discovery. If you want to win buzzword bingo: Corrosion is built with Rust, CRDTs, and sqlite.

GitHub - superfly/corrosion: Gossip-based service discovery (and more) for large distributed...

Gossip-based service discovery (and more) for large distributed systems. - superfly/corrosion

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Why do startups write announcements like these? We went back and forth on it. There are lots of reasons, most of them dumb.

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@mrkurt

2 years

Oh no, Heroku is killing their free tier. Whatever will I do.

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@mrkurt

2 years

This is an annual reminder that vCPUs are not cores.

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@mrkurt

2 years

@natfriedman There's a world of difference between a top down deathmarch, and people pouring their energy into something because they believe. When a PM at Twitter is posting "sleep in your office" virtue signaling, it seems very deathmarch.

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@mrkurt

3 years

Hello internet! If you live in a location where dumbass founders try and exploit you with low pay, you should know that pays US market rates everywhere. And we're hiring:

Shodipo Ayomide

@developerayo

3 years

A friend just got offered $10,000/year pay from a US company because he is an Engineer based in Nigeria, and it was called location-based pay, Please as a company, don't do this; ask the right questions to the right people first.

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3 years

big win at the office today

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@mrkurt

3 years

: run apps close to your users, built by people close to your users.

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@mrkurt

8 months

Today is a day. I've needed better object storage for, like, ten years at this point. Tigris shipped it and we're baking it into apps. 🔥

Globally Distributed Object Storage with Tigris

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

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@mrkurt

1 year

Object storage backed block devices are now in preview on .

Bottomless S3-backed volumes

Fly Volumes provide persistent storage to your app by exposing a slice of a local NVMe drive. This works well in many cases, but it requires a “provision-first” approach: you need to know roughly...

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@mrkurt

3 years

98% of my git commits don't do anything except try to make CI work.

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@mrkurt

3 years

Rails: build a list of entries in a database in about 10 minutes. Phoenix + LiveView: build a list of entries in a database with live search in about 10 mins. HTML over websockets is badass.

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@mrkurt

8 months

Take my money gosh darn

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@mrkurt

10 months

Giving some FKS today. This is actually really cool. We're running nodeless K8s, each pod is a dedicated Firecracker VM. Which means you'll be able to safely run multi-tenant workloads in FKS.

Introducing Fly Kubernetes

Introducing Fly Kubernetes: If you want K8s on Fly.io, we built something for you.

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@mrkurt

2 years

LiveView is bananas. We're sending 40-70kB websockets messages and it just works.

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@mrkurt

2 years

Litestream + sqlite has been an epiphany. We're going to see just how far we can take it with @benbjohnson

I'm All-In on Server-Side SQLite

Ben Johnson has joined Fly.io

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@mrkurt

3 years

Hello. If you run an open source project and accept sponsorships, here's a suggestion: add much larger tiers. Five of five times has sponsored someone's work, they haven't been asking for enough money. 😅

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@mrkurt

3 years

IPs have gotten *even more* expensive. Amazon owns $3B+ worth of IPv4 addresses. We own less.

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@mrkurt

8 months

Got a relevant Haiku on our sign in page today.

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@mrkurt

3 years

As it turns out, is a pretty good place to run an Elixir API that sustains 21,000 requests per second. And peaks to 35,000 requests per second.

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@mrkurt

4 years

Elixir + Phoenix + LiveView is mind blowing. I managed to get @nelsonic 's excellent LiveView tutorial running in a 17 region cluster. This is a "boring" app running Elixir.

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@mrkurt

2 years

ok i'm done with ai, thanks @wgjordan

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@mrkurt

3 years

if you're not paying attention to @litestreamio and sqlite, you should be.

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@mrkurt

2 years

chef's kiss emoji

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@mrkurt

2 years

Ok this made my thursday:

I Migrated from a Postgres Cluster to Distributed SQLite with LiteFS

Why and how I migrated from distributed postgres to distributed sqlite on kentcdodds.com

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@mrkurt

7 months

Big infra, like AWS and .

Thomas Millar

@thmsmlr

7 months

The Inverse Fly-Stack Big Infra™ like wants you to rent GPUs from them. Elixir makes clustering with the cloud easy they say. ... it only costs you $1825/month Yeah? well, Elixir also makes it easy to have your cloud webapp cluster with the gaming PC

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@mrkurt

4 years

Oh my. wireguard-go is getting user space networking. So you can run it on, say, Heroku and connect to your Fly 6pn.

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@mrkurt

2 years

What you *want* is bottoms up intensity and the power structure restraining it. Not a power structure in telling people to burn harder.

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@mrkurt

2 years

This is the biggest thing we've done lately. Postgres apps running on Fly Machines. Here's the best part: there's no orchestrator, all the orchestration logic lives in flyctl.

Preview: Postgres on Machines ( Fly Apps V2 )

When is V2 expected to be prod ready (I’m thinking 7 to 9 months)? I don’t have any good estimates for you quite yet. It’s something we are pushing towards, but we still have a decent amount of...

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@mrkurt

3 years

@taylorotwell are you saying you have a ... job queue?

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@mrkurt

4 years

@d_l_mayfield The most surprising thing I've learned as an adult is: people seem to crave authoritarianism that agrees with their morals. It's bonkers.

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@mrkurt

5 years

We launched on Hacker News today! What a whirlwind.

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@mrkurt

2 years

Heroku has caused me the weirdest emotional crisis. They're getting us attention, but I f'n love Heroku. I used to just tell people to keep using it. I don't like watching them struggle. All things considered, I think I'd rather Heroku recover.

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@mrkurt

2 years

Sometimes "customer success" is getting out of the way.

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@mrkurt

1 year

GPU Machines on are badass.

Chris McCord

@chris_mccord

1 year

👀 Llama2-13b running on GPU with Elixir/Bumblee/Phoenix

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@mrkurt

8 years

It's crazy how many remote work problems gamers have a better solution for than companies / productivity tools.

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@mrkurt

6 years

@Shpigford @imathis The reaction you got is because awful companies and hiring managers have abused people by saying the same things. And finding a job sucks, so anyone who's had to look recently probably feels really raw about how bad applicant screening really is.

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@mrkurt

2 years

Serverless servers are here!

Fly Machines: an API for fast-booting VMs

Announcing Fly Machines

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@mrkurt

3 years

We're alpha testing serverless servers. Hit me up if you're interested. No I'm not joking.

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2 years

@fasterthanlime @bcjordan

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@mrkurt

3 years

Livebook is no-kidding one of the reasons we're moving from Rails to Phoenix. A run book with executable code is a dream.

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@mrkurt

11 months

I, for one, am relieve to find a serverless model that's not a complete dumpster fire.

Chris McCord

@chris_mccord

11 months

FLAME is out! 🔥 Auto scale by wrapping any app code in a function and have that block run in a temporary copy of your app. It's time to rethink Serverless. No rewrites. No bespoke runtimes. No outrageous layers of complexity. Blog + screencast 👉

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2 years

Excellent, excellent post about using md for clever disk setups.

How Discord Supercharges Network Disks for Extreme Low Latency

Learn how Discord optimizes its platform to respond to the high frequency of queries for all types of content and data as quickly as possible.

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@mrkurt

6 months

As of today, it's probably easier to consume AWS resources from than AWS infrastructure

Assuming Cloud Roles on Fly.io Machines

So you’ve got an app serving AI cat images generated from the weather forecast running as an ECS task in us-east-1 but customers in Australia and Europe have been complaining that the latency is too...

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@mrkurt

2 years

i hate postgres so much

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@mrkurt

3 years

If you cold email people, then follow up four times "checking in", you should know I hate your vibe.

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@mrkurt

2 years

In unrelated news, we shipped a preview of managed Redis. Including a small, free-to-use plan for side projects:

Preview: Managed Upstash Redis with read replica support

We just switched on Managed Upstash Redis, a private, Redis compatible database, via our partnership with the admirable team at Upstash. You can deploy Upstash Redis today in any Fly region, both as...

community.fly.io

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@mrkurt

2 years

Oh no, Heroku is killing their free tier. Whatever will I do.

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@mrkurt

3 years

We're alpha testing serverless servers. Hit me up if you're interested. No I'm not joking.

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@mrkurt

4 years

Someone in London has a fast clicky finger. LiveView is coping well with a bunch of events.

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@mrkurt

3 years

Hello world! We're hiring full stack developers from the country you're in, at US salary levels:

Fly.io Is Hiring Full-Stack Developers

We’re working on super fun problems and are looking for more people to join us. In particular: we’re looking for full-stack developers. We expect this will be a good role for early-to-mid-level...

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@mrkurt

2 years

ART.

Scale-to-Zero Minecraft server with Terraform and Fly Machines

Leverage Fly Machines and Terraform to build a scale-to-zero Minecraft Server

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@mrkurt

1 year

👀

martin_casado

@martin_casado

1 year

Wohoo, GPUs on @flydotio !!

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@mrkurt

2 years

Turned on OOM notifications, got alerted that one of our own apps is crashing. Upsell success.

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@mrkurt

2 years

as a certified hater of micro services, I'm really torn today.

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@mrkurt

3 years

Kids are mean, jeez. One of the 11 year olds (we have two) came home from school and said "I found you on Google, I listened to a podcast you were on, it was just blah blah blah blah blah".

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@mrkurt

3 years

This new @rainforestqa visual testing tool looks amazing. And it's self service. 😍

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@mrkurt

3 years

We just released a DNS based DSL for finding nearby VMs in an app. dig top2.nearest.of.chaos-postgres.internal It's silly AND useful.

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@mrkurt

2 years

We're putting way more work into than I expected. We shipped it two years ago as a fun lil hack. Then updated it earlier this year. Now it may get a bunch of new features

Turbocharge your Heroku Apps with New Turboku

We've released a new LiveView-based web launcher for migrating Heroku apps to Fly.io. Why? Read on.

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@mrkurt

2 years

We're about to crack 10,000 followers on @flydotio . I've never had access to executive level twitter before. What kind of gift bags do they give out?

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@mrkurt

2 years

what's the opposite of #hugops ? here's a company offering bad karma as a service

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@mrkurt

2 years

we sure posted our @litestreamio announcement at a good time.

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@mrkurt

3 years

This is like 130 lines of code *including markup*:

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@mrkurt

3 years

The Livebook launcher is a LiveView app. @brainlid wired it up to monitor deployment status, certificate generation, and keep the UI updated when anything changes. Long lived server state + reactive markup is amazing, even for "boring" apps.

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@mrkurt

3 years

is hiring support engineers. You might like this job if you understand the basics of full stack app development and get joy from helping people solve problems.

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@mrkurt

2 years

Who does podcasts with early career devs? I'm tired of hearing from grizzled vets.

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@mrkurt

2 years

LiteFS is a big hit in Iran.

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@mrkurt

2 years

Preview: managed Redis on , powered by @upstash :

Preview: Managed Upstash Redis with read replica support

We just switched on Managed Upstash Redis, a private, Redis compatible database, via our partnership with the admirable team at Upstash. You can deploy Upstash Redis today in any Fly region, both as...

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@mrkurt

3 years

Gosh dang I love Deno. @supabase and @Netlify made an excellent choice.

Deno

@deno_land

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We have partnered with @Netlify to build Netlify Edge Functions!

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@mrkurt

1 year

Joke's on you, my app crashes and platform makes a whole new VM for me.

Suhail

@Suhail

1 year

If you don't have a single cron job or auto restart script your app is dependent on, you shipped too late.

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@mrkurt

3 years

The new deploy command is "f up".

Fly.io

@flydotio

3 years

Your input is important to us! We heard you: `flyctl` is too long. So is `fly`. After much heated debate, we’ve decided to deprecate both in favour of `f`. Your overworked digits will thank us.

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@mrkurt

3 years

taking my whole physical body to a different address for a meeting seems barbaric.

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@mrkurt

2 years

Found some vintage content.

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@mrkurt

2 years

As it turns out, IDEs run better close to their user. Who knew?

Building an In-Browser IDE the Hard Way

How to install your own personal remote IDE on Fly.io.

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@mrkurt

2 years

SOC2 audits are a joy. #blessed

SOC2: The Screenshots Will Continue Until Security Improves

We got SOC2 certified so now you have to pay us more.

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@mrkurt

2 years

my new year's resolution is gpus.

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@mrkurt

2 years

We have been abusing LiteFS. We built gossip based service discovery (Corrosion). Our web apps need to be able to read Corrosion data, but aren't really participants. So we just sync across those VMs with LiteFS. Good stuff.

WAL Mode in LiteFS

LiteFS v0.3.0 now supports SQLite's write-ahead log journal mode.

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@mrkurt

2 years

Pretty good day for folks. Gonna bottle this and crack it open next time something goes horribly wrong.

Chris Fidao

@fideloper

2 years

🎉 I'm going to start work at @flydotio in a few weeks! 👉 I'll be a "Laravel Specialist" - helping make Fly awesome with Laravel. I've always been attracted to Fly's vibe, especially the writing. Now I get to do that too!

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@mrkurt

3 years

Guess we have to ship Fly F2 Storage soon. Freaky and Fast Object Storage.

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@mrkurt

4 years

Docker without Docker is the best way to Docker.

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@mrkurt

3 years

Meet @chris_mccord , author.

How We Got to LiveView

I'm Chris McCord. I work at Fly.io and created Phoenix, an Elixir web framework. Phoenix provides features out-of-the-box that are difficult in other languages and frameworks. This is a post about...

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@mrkurt

3 years

😱

Chris McCord

@chris_mccord

3 years

I'm thrilled to announce I've joined @flydotio ! They'll support my continued work on Phoenix while I help grow their geographic global deployments around Elixir and Phoenix. Imagine turn-key PubSub + LiveView + your greater app running on every continent. This is the future!

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@mrkurt

2 years

pretty excited right now

Jake

@JustJake

2 years

Heroku Buildpacks vs Railway Nixpacks Same codebase Let's. Fucking. GO

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@mrkurt

2 years

You know, @getsentry has had astonishingly good uptime for like 10 years now. Pretty impressive.

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@mrkurt

2 years

The @flydotio article illustrations are bonkers. Check out the drippy pipes.

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@mrkurt

3 years

Don't tell anyone, but hiring developers in Africa for US rates might be an extreme startup advantage.

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@mrkurt

7 months

Ugh I didn't even get one.

Rachel Stephens

@rstephensme

7 months

This @flydotio hoodie is legit one of the best pieces of swag I have ever brought home from a conference

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@mrkurt

3 years

So @kentcdodds tricked me into doing a live pairing session. We wanted to make a Node.js app run multiregion. It was surprisingly fun, and a good look at our UX for node apps (suboptimal, but could be great with a little elbow grease).

Deploying Node, Postgres, and Redis to multiple regions

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@mrkurt

2 years

Well it happened. I dropped Calendly in favor of @savvycal . Because: also So yeah. Good stuff.

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@mrkurt

4 years

We try really hard to simulate the actual job when we hire people. Midway through the process, people will sometimes opt out with a note like this: "I reflected on it and realized this is not what to be doing on a daily basis." Maybe we're doing ok.

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@mrkurt

2 years

I really don't like it when people assume I don't know what I'm doing. Also, I don't know what I'm doing.

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@mrkurt

8 months

Wow the @Initialized podcast editors made me sound smarter than I am in real life.

Building a Developer-Focused Public Cloud with Fly.io CEO

In this episode of "High Bit," Brett Gibson chats with Kurt Mackey, CEO of Fly.io, to break down how they challenge big cloud providers, overcome global logi...

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@mrkurt

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@alexellisuk @martin_casado Bare-metal is cheaper than EC2, just harder to manage. We pay ~$480/month for the equivalent of m6g.metal / m6g.16xlarge instances. Three year reservations on those AWS instances range from $800 to $1200/mo, depending on the region.

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@mrkurt

2 years

Starting a wall of shame for IP infringement takedown requests. First winner – Celsius.

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@mrkurt

3 years

Oh hey we might end up in someone's thesis!

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@mrkurt

3 years

Fundraising hack: create free developer hosting, let them run arbitrary VMs, get hockeystick growth. Then raise a round of funding with that graph and shut off all the crypto mining, proxies, and spam apps.

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@mrkurt

3 years

Some people start a company to justify a blogging habit. We started a company to get more wicked illustrations from Annie-who-is-no-longer-on-twitter-but-creates-excellent-art.

Fly.io

@flydotio

3 years

New Turboku. Like New Coke but actually better.

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@mrkurt

1 year

y'all should know: Fly Machines + GPUs are a _really_ interesting problem. @tqbf used Ghidra to figure out wtf at one point:

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3 years

I've never seen a startup go from heavy enterprise sales to "really nice self service tool for developers" before.

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@mrkurt

3 years

Copilot keeps trying to get me to switch to Ruby. The suggestion does what I want – but not in Elixir.

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@mrkurt

2 years

oh good now they're secure and I can use them.

Tailscale

@Tailscale

2 years

We are ridiculously passionate about security and privacy at Tailscale. We received our SOC 2 Type I report, reaffirming our commitment to security. 🔒

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@mrkurt

3 years

Look at those ping times!

Chris McCord

@chris_mccord

3 years

I just released LiveBeats – open source social music app built on Phoenix LiveView. It's deployed around the world a 14 node cluster. PubSub and Presence Just Work™ This is what the future of full stack development looks like 👇

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