Marco Borromeo

I build stuff on the Internet
Old school sysadmin

[Marco Borromeo @borros]

built an @OpenAI Codex skill that periodically pulls unhandled @getsentry issues from my projects, attempts a fix in a branch, opens a @github PR, and if I approve the review it merges, deploys, and resolves the Sentry issue automatically. if not, i leave comments and it iterates on the fix. all while I'm eating ice cream on my couch. folks, we are so cooked

[Marco Borromeo @borros]

"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain"

[Cloudflare Developers @CloudflareDev]

Introducing the new /crawl endpoint - one API call and an entire site crawled.

No scripts. No browser management. Just the content in HTML, Markdown, or JSON.

[Marco Borromeo @borros]

@liam_at_shopify this is huge for EU-based merchants too, not just devs. super hot.

[Marco Borromeo @borros]

@dhh Southern Europe has way lower numbers than these, sadly.

[Marco Borromeo @borros]

The bot’s on just 5 Discord servers so far, meh.

Let’s see how far we can push that in a week.

[Marco Borromeo @borros]

Turns out just publishing the bot to a couple of directories didn’t bring in a single user, lol.

Well, that was kind of expected. It's fine, since it means I now have a completely greenfield project to run some marketing experiments on!

[Marco Borromeo @borros]

I was looking for a challenge to break my routine of never shipping because of perfectionism.

A few weeks ago i asked gpt-5:
"what’s something i could build and release in a weekend?"

One idea: a @discord bot that rewrites links in groups with admin's referral codes so they could make some money...

In the end it took me ~1.5 weeks to release. the last 20% really took 80%: logo, website, tos, privacy policy, and a bunch of other stuff. meh 😂

[Marco Borromeo @borros]

If you are into Shopify's app development, this is hot.

Developing Shopify apps in Ruby on Rails is now much easier than before...

[Shopify Developers @ShopifyDevs]

Polaris is now stable with one unified toolkit for apps and extensions

[Marco Borromeo @borros]

@discord Anyway i still consider this a success.
My last side project took me 2 years to launch... and it flopped hard.

A 1-week dev cycle means i can quickly see if something clicks (or dies) without wasting years at least...

[Marco Borromeo @borros]

I was looking for a challenge to break my routine of never shipping because of perfectionism.

A few weeks ago i asked gpt-5:
"what’s something i could build and release in a weekend?"

One idea: a @discord bot that rewrites links in groups with admin's referral codes so they could make some money...

In the end it took me ~1.5 weeks to release. the last 20% really took 80%: logo, website, tos, privacy policy, and a bunch of other stuff. meh 😂

[Marco Borromeo @borros]

I've had an on-and-off relationship with social platforms in general...

Not going to make any promises, but i'll just try to share a bit more of what i’m building: small wins, mistakes, and maker showcases.

More like a public dev log than anything else.
Let's see where it goes.

[Marco Borromeo @borros]

@dhh Just curious: did you ever try AWS Snowball? Always found it intriguing but never had a chance to give it a spin

[Marco Borromeo @borros]

@rameerez I don't see any problem with containerization, and there are solutions like Cloudflare that make registries essentially free for everyone https://t.co/AUZUEG3tRA

What i don't like is the pushing for "it's easy to manage servers" theory, which will drive many ppl to disaster imho

[Marco Borromeo @borros]

@dhh @threadreaderapp please unroll

[Marco Borromeo @borros]

@bytebln Quaderno has a very nice list of countries and their sales taxes requirements: https://t.co/IOpcH3Vj5r

I blocked EVERYTHING but EU(w/OSS)/US(w/thresholds) and some other minor country...

[Marco Borromeo @borros]

@bytebln i blocked all the countries where i can't sell on Stripe Radar on day one.

it's really a pita, but there are no real alternatives as MoR like Paddle or LemonSqueezy don't support a lot of legit businesses (eg: hosting companies).

[Marco Borromeo @borros]

So many discussions around Slack or Campfire… I love what 37Signals are doing with Once, but cannot forget what modern Internet at “web scale” did to IRC.

We had everything: from scalability with /link to any possible feature a chat needs.

Sad.

[Marco Borromeo @borros]

@marvr_ @johnrushx @stripe too bad they don't support a lot of business that stripe does :/

[Marco Borromeo @borros]

@dhh Thanks, especially for SolidQueue... i was really waiting for that one

[Marco Borromeo @borros]

@thekitze oof

[Marco Borromeo @borros]

@adamcollins yes. i run a 3 nodes nomad cluster on those arms with glusterfs for ha + their LB. it works like a charm, i have never been happier.