Hacker News: derekkraan

New comment by derekkraan in "Elixir Gotchas"

derekkraan — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 14:15:09 +0000

Yeah, just (learn how to) use lists and you'll be fine.

Of course if your goal is to re-implement sorting algorithms that were designed for mutable memory, you will be disappointed.

This isn't a deal-breaker. If you want a platform language, use that. But for web, you'd be hard-pressed to find something better suited than Elixir.

New comment by derekkraan in "I'm giving up on open source"

derekkraan — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 12:35:45 +0000

If anyone is reading this and considering releasing their own closed-source NPM package, I built a service to help you do that [1].

It also supports Rust, Elixir, Erlang, Ruby, and .NET.

[1] https://codecodeship.com/

New comment by derekkraan in "A battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant"

derekkraan — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 05:30:05 +0000

I wonder how much the one-time costs were for this project, compared to the cost of the batteries themselves:

- land acquisition

- earthworks

- civil construction

- grid hookup

New comment by derekkraan in "A battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant"

derekkraan — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 05:19:57 +0000

Just for fun I looked up what the plans are in the Netherlands (17 million residents), where I live. Governments all over the world are going to start installing these grid-scale batteries in the coming years, because without them we can't really transition to renewables.

Anyways, the Dutch govt has allocated 400 million EUR [1] and expects to get 160MW - 380 MW installed for this amount (so 1-2x this battery plant in Hawaii). But the national network operator is reducing connection fees and hopes to trigger 2-5GW of new battery capacity by 2030. That's quite massive.

Expect similar new installations pretty much everywhere.

[1] https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/10/09/netherlands-allocates...

New comment by derekkraan in "[dead]"

derekkraan — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 12:24:02 +0000

I interviewed Daniel Cazzulino, now well known for his new library SponsorLink. He landed in hot water with some after adding SponsorLink to his .NET library Moq.

New comment by derekkraan in "37signals Introduces "Once" - Buy software one time"

derekkraan — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 08:15:09 +0000

Is this a tacit admission that MRSK has failed?

New comment by derekkraan in "Why a browser and mail combination is worth it"

derekkraan — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 08:57:28 +0000

If you're an outlier then I am also an outlier.

To my great annoyance, the text version of many emails is broken, I see unfilled template variables all over the place.

New comment by derekkraan in "A LiveView Is a Process"

derekkraan — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 13:04:47 +0000

Yes, it does boil down to the language runtime.

But that doesn't change the fact that they don't reproduce half of what LiveView can do.

They didn't have to call themselves "LiveView for Ruby!"

I meant it more as a PSA: if you've tried any of these other projects, you still owe it to yourself to give LiveView a try!

New comment by derekkraan in "A LiveView Is a Process"

derekkraan — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 12:50:29 +0000

I'm glad someone has written about this. I actually wanted to write this very blog post, and even made a crappier version of this flow chart.

Why? Because people think they know what LiveView is, but they don't, because the pretenders out there (LiveWire, StimulusReflex and all the rest) are poor imitations.

Don't sleep on LiveView.

New comment by derekkraan in "Generating Income from Open Source"

derekkraan — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 12:31:31 +0000

There are some companies out there who want to help devs commercialize their libraries. These are the ones that I know about:

https://codecodeship.com/ (JS, Ruby, .NET, Rust, Elixir)

https://anystack.sh/ (PHP, Ruby, JS, Python)

https://www.privjs.com/ (JS)

Full disclosure: I built Code Code Ship

New comment by derekkraan in "Open Source Business Challenges and Reality"

derekkraan — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 11:37:03 +0000

This is a great read. I think we can learn as much (or more) from the failures as we can from the successes [1].

Developer tooling is also just a very difficult business to be in [2].

[1] https://codecodeship.com/blog/2023-04-19-parker-selbert

[2] https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/economics-developer-tool...

New comment by derekkraan in "[dead]"

derekkraan — Mon, 15 May 2023 12:17:47 +0000

I interviewed Joris Schellekens on his journey with Borb, including how he got from 500 to 2000+ stars on GitHub seemingly overnight, and what his plans are for getting to financial sustainability.

Mike Perham, Creator of Sidekiq: From Employment to Independence

derekkraan — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 08:02:05 +0000

Article URL: https://codecodeship.com/blog/2023-04-14-mike-perham

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35566768

Points: 201

# Comments: 113

Bruno Lowagie on commercializing his FOSS library, iText

derekkraan — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 08:28:24 +0000

Article URL: https://codecodeship.com/blog/2023-04-07-bruno-lowagie

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35479510

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Library Authors Can’t Live on Coffee and Goodwill

derekkraan — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 12:31:32 +0000

Article URL: https://codecodeship.com/blog/2023-03-15-library-authors-can-t-live-on-coffee-and-goodwill

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35167253

Points: 1

# Comments: 0