Dan Alloway

Building things with 🧡 in #RVA

[Brandon 🚀 Flightcontrol @flybayer]

🔥 ANNOUNCING @FLIGHTCONTROLHQ 2.0 🔥

AWS has been too intimidating and tedious, causing teams to settle for a simplistic black box PaaS or hiring devops too early. But no more! 🙅🏼

Our Developer-first AWS infrastructure enables you to use the best AWS services without manual infra work. In fact, you might even call it delightful 😍

1️⃣ Connect your GitHub & AWS accounts in 1-click
2️⃣ Zero config or customize to your heart’s content
3️⃣ Relax while we deploy to your AWS
4️⃣ Never worry about hitting the technical or cost limits of black box PaaS

Deploy every language, globally

✅ Servers, background workers, static sites, databases, redis. Coming: Lambda and more
✅ Every language and framework
✅ Use all 32 AWS regions. Multi-region deploys are in early access

A few years ago I was building an app that should have been using native AWS services. I tried, but it was too hard. So I ended up on Vercel with a Frankenstein collection of third-party services. It worked ok until I accidentally racked up a $6,000 bill 😬 That was my fault, but the rickety setup of callbacks and lambda chains made it much easier to fail.

So I thought, why can’t I have a great developer experience on my own AWS account?! Then I met @abadir_ who has been using AWS since S3 & EC2 were all they had. He had the same vision of a better cloud, so we joined forces and the rest is history!

2.0 barely scratches our vision. But it's now a mature product we're really proud of!

You can now easily deploy and manage AWS services without having to use AWS console or cli. The all-new dashboard has runtime logs, metrics, and even live AWS cost reporting!

Companies of all sizes from startups to Series H are now using us to deploy thousands of times each month.

What are people saying?

“Flightcontrol removes an extremely large portion of complexity and lowers the barrier of entry to using AWS, as a company without a devops team this is a huge win for us. Keep up the good work, I like you all!” — Dan at goHappy

“Flightcontrol offers a nice balance between batteries-included and escape hatches that I haven't seen elsewhere. Keep up the good work!” — Matt at Spring Studios

“Flightcontrol is the real deal. I think this is the future for teams that don't have the resources for an SRE team and still want to have control on their infra.” — Thomas at Unrevealed

If you are even a little bit frustrated with Vercel, Heroku, Render, Railway, Fly, or a custom AWS setup, I invite you to take Flightcontrol for a test flight!

https://t.co/292ueqcIIk

[Dan Alloway @danalloway]

@flybayer When @abadir_ starts visibly showing signs of stress and age 🙃💕

[Dan Alloway @danalloway]

@ferrannp @GoDaddy @Namecheap Same question!

[Wyatt Gordon @yitgordon]

The movement for a #CarFreeCarytown has made it into Richmond Connects—the city’s transportation planning process. If you support a pedestrian promenade in Carytown, then fill out the survey:
https://t.co/sPeo8oMcBe

[21st Century City @urbanthoughts11]

“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.”

[Dan Alloway @danalloway]

@tokentango You’re welcome!

[Zoltan Kochan @zkochan]

After almost 8 years of its existence, the @pnpmjs way of structuring node_modules is now available in @npmjs

It feels like a little victory.

Now the pnpm node_modules (and the hoisted node_modules) are available in @yarnpkg, @npmjs, and @pnpmjs

https://t.co/VTje8jtWH3

[Alexsis Rodgers @aerodgers]

Today, I am announcing my campaign for the Virginia State Senate.

My friend and our Democratic champion Jennifer McClellan is headed to Congress. She leaves big shoes - or high heels - to fill at Virginia’s Capitol, and I’m ready to jump in. https://t.co/GnvgVlQiW8

[Strong Towns @StrongTowns]

"As reported by The Globe and Mail, residents spent a total of $181 million at curbside patios within 13 weeks of summer in 2021. If those spaces had remained dedicated to parking, only $3.7 million would have been reaped during the same time period."

[Venture Richmond @VentureRVA]

The people have spoken! We crowdsourced name ideas, you voted, and the name of the new @DPW_RichmondVA bike lane sweeper is... 🥁
🎉 MF BROOM 🎉
The @CityRichmondVA will host a naming ceremony—details coming soon. Until then, enjoy your clean bike lanes! #RVASweep16

[Dan Alloway @danalloway]

@JLJLovesRVA @GRTCTransit Carytown without cars is the dream!
#freeCarytownRVA

[molly conger @socialistdogmom]

elementary school teachers died trying to put their bodies between children & a bullet but these fucking cops waited outside for backup because it might be dangerous FOR THEM.

[Dan Alloway @danalloway]

@ryanflorence 🤡or 🫥

[Jason Kamras @JasonKamras]

2 false claims made at tonight’s mtg:

1) That average teacher salary has gone down over last 4 yrs. 100% false. Since I became Supt, average teacher salary has gone from $52K to $64K.

2) That our enrollment has dropped to 19,000. 100% false. As of today, we’re at 21,934.

[Sam Balto @CoachBalto]

Cities aren’t loud, cars are loud.

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

Me: We need fewer cars, less driving & better cities.

Strawman: We could never completely ban cars.

Anecdoter: How will I get my kid to hockey or get to work from my car-dependent suburb?

Tech booster: cars will be electric in blank years anyway…

Me again: Listen carefully…

[Quickness RVA @quicknessrva]

Want to help cut down on fuel demands? Order through your local bicycle delivery service.

[Corrie Parrish @Corrie_Parrish]

Firm believer that if you're an active transportation planner, you should be a pedestrian and cyclist first.

[David Rothschild 🌻 @DavMicRot]

In February 2020, just 2 years ago, 52 of 53 Republican senators voted to allow (then) President Trump to block congressionally authorized sale of critical military supplies to the courageous President Zelensky of Ukraine, unless Ukraine manufactured anti-Democratic propaganda.