Gerard Fajardo

[Gerard Fajardo @gthedevv]

@Andersonmancini @Lunakepio @fwa This is amazing work! 🤩 And I like how the added sounds bring out those PS2 GT vibes! Those were good times 😌

Any tips for someone who wants to start learning threejs?

[Gerard Fajardo @gthedevv]

Thrilled to share that my team won 1st place at my first-ever company hackathon with our AI-powered support chatbot! Can't wait for the next one! 🥇🤖 #Hackathon #AI

https://t.co/nW8PFYVwiZ

[Gerard Fajardo @gthedevv]

Just finished learning how to build my first Astro blog! Check it out at https://t.co/sZ1JiQUXSW
via @astrodotbuild

[Ben Davis @davis7]

The @PlanetScale situation is really kinda a bummer for me

I do not have the experience or expertise to comment on the business reasons/industry side of things, just how it feels from a user perspective

Killing the free tier really puts it in a tough spot for me. I see Theo talk a lot about the idea of young devs who care a lot becoming advocates for software and bringing them to their orgs, and I literally did that with PlanetScale

There are at least (probably more at this point) 3 products, in production from the agency I worked at last year because I came in and wanted to use it, and it went really really well. All of those are paying, so the ROI for my free DB is at least 3 scaling real customers which to me feels really bad to effectively cut that off.

Another big reason I'm bummed is that I genuinely think planetscale is the best database out there and I really want to recommend it to people, but $40 is a lot.

The data branching, rollbacks, serverless driver, scale, unbelievable UI, schema recommendations, monitoring, and more are the best I have ever used, and it sucks that a ton of devs who would have seen and fallen in love with all that stuff, now are not going to.

For my more serious funded project (insiderviz) we're probably just gonna pay the $40 and move on, its whatever we can afford it, but for my new projects, my videos? Idk man its a tough sell at this point.

Planetscale will always have a special place in my heart, when I posted my first videos a year and a half ago having zero clue what I was doing on the worst mic in history, I talked about why I liked it, and the CEO saw it and sent me some of their swag

As dumb as it might sound that really did mean a lot, and I am sad that its gonna be a lot harder for me to advocate for the tech and to have to look for alternatives for myself for all the random crap I love building, because $40 is just too much for that kind of thing.

I hope this works out in the end, I really do want them to succeed, not just because I like the company but because I want to see the things they are pioneering (1st class serverless support, branching, and rollbacks) become more widely adopted.

I recently tried out supabase branching and it was a huge W which is great to see. Hopefully this shows up in more places...