David Rudman

Freelance Fullstack dev | Manager of one | Building in public | Koaline - A daily planner for freelance developers

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How do you guys keep shipping? After 9-5 and my other commitments I barely get 5 minutes a day in..

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Persistance is the key to success.

Thats why im posting again after two months.

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@thapaganes888 @acadictive I think this is very much the case. Take Clickup for example, its such an overkill for my usecase, that something leaner and more focused is needed.

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@dubemtheking Pretty commong experience, means you are growing!

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@dubemtheking Im on the same path, was on and of for a few months, now its starting to feel the preffered way

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I've been trying to use vim, and i started using it on and off for the past two weeks. I'm now actually getting frustrated when I have to move with the arrow keys, where there is no vim support.

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@hsprafrique Its a book called Getting things done.

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Crazy inspired after reading GTD

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@acadictive Feels like Google and their Google material design is not featured enough in the comments

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@rcmisk That is probably the correct approach, but I assume it must be pretty energy draining.

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@irbaazkadri Yep. The only thing still annoys me by vim, is that the clipboard is not "native". Or I'm missing something.

When you yank something, its not available in the system keyboard.

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@aleksanderwco Confrats, keep going!

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Any tips learning vim?

I know to just do it, but doing it while coding, im so slow, im not even coding anymore.

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Koaline is meant to be used as a fullscreen app on a second monitor, but its hard to squish the daily agenda, daily notes and the todo list in one screen.

So the question is, make it horizontally scrollable or stack it in a way that gives each less space, but is still visible? 🤔

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Anyone writing a blog for your product while you are shipping the product? Any tips for non bloggers?

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Thanks! Happy to share. It's actually not webhooks on their own, those are fine since they wake things up on demand. The issue is the job queue (pg-boss), which runs on Postgres. Im syncing task changes out to integrations like ClickUp and Linear, plus periodic syncs. That polling keeps a connection open basically 24/7, so autosuspend never kicks in so the app is always on even during quiet hours.

But other than that, Neon is awesome, and would recommend it to the people building out their projects 1000%.

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I got in a situation, where running Koaline as an only user is costing me 35$ (https://t.co/rzNurZLU3R + https://t.co/C481v0TvN6) a month.. Just because of the need for constant availabilty for webhooks.

Should I transfer to Hetzner or something similar and self host or is it not worth my time?

What is your take on this?

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@MythThrazz Yeah it is logical... But it takes a lot more time to find out posts that you can actually contribute to, since there is so much spammy posts.

Maybe thats why its easier to just post, then to actually reply to someone.

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Does one extremly interested person, who sends you videos of them using them and hitting bugs, suggesting improvements, and asking for new features count as validation?