Stephen Nancekivell

🔨 Building Sold RealEmail
🏠 home reno

[Stephen Nancekivell @hi_stephen_n]

Im very excited. I've sold my saas RealEmail on @microacquire 🎉

It started as a curiosity then grew into a real project with customers worldwide.

[Stephen Nancekivell @hi_stephen_n]

@marclou Ouch, and like 1 day before your goal!

You gotta look after yourself though, health first!

I hope the strength training, and anything else (barefoot shoe?) can help you get back into without the bad kind of pain.

[Stephen Nancekivell @hi_stephen_n]

I had fun boxing in this pipe. The last eye saw from the popcorn ceiling days.

With bonus AI whale version.

[Stephen Nancekivell @hi_stephen_n]

Just added a chatbot to https://t.co/ea23nwodia 🚀

I used to think email support was enough… but LLMs are finally good enough to answer questions AND nudge people to sign up.

Excited to see how it performs.

[Stephen Nancekivell @hi_stephen_n]

When I watched RoboCop as a kid, I thought the future would be robots making us super strong and super fast.

Instead… we got AI for B2B sales. 😆

[Stephen Nancekivell @hi_stephen_n]

Its so satisfying setting up my links.

Jump anywhere instantly with quick keyboard shortcuts.

[Stephen Nancekivell @hi_stephen_n]

🎨 Still painting! Here are a few tips.

– Use a good angled brush with a short handle.
– Hook your thumb through the tin handle — easy to carry.
– Hold the brush sideways for clean cut-ins.
– Wet the brush first — keeps paint from creeping up

[Stephen Nancekivell @hi_stephen_n]

@ikoichi I feel seen!

Sometimes I call it stealth mode, to make myself feel better. But I know its a trap.

[Stephen Nancekivell @hi_stephen_n]

When building auth flows, having a quick way to delete your account is a huge dev-time saver.
Perfect for resetting test users.

And hey, your real users might like it too.

[Stephen Nancekivell @hi_stephen_n]

Image gen in slides is great.

Boardroom presentations? Way more fun now.

Vibes? Through the roof.

Corporate productivity? Questionable.

[Stephen Nancekivell @hi_stephen_n]

Crazy that twitter doesnt have a good way to test meta tags anymore.
So bannerbear made their own.

https://t.co/xYW2KJnHfz

[Stephen Nancekivell @hi_stephen_n]

Three things in life are certain: death, taxes, and your emails getting randomly blocked by Spamhaus

[Stephen Nancekivell @hi_stephen_n]

Whats up with deleting a domain from AWS. Theres like 100 things you need to do first.

[Stephen Nancekivell @hi_stephen_n]

Hosting Next.js on Firebase is great—until you use middleware and poof, CDN caching is gone.

Solution? Don’t use middleware. Just copy-paste the logic into every matching API route like it’s 2010.

[Stephen Nancekivell @hi_stephen_n]

Using ChatGPT like

[Stephen Nancekivell @hi_stephen_n]

I made some new storage for the home gym. Replaced the weight tree with a shelf.

Before and after.

Cutting the chamfers with the hand plane must be the most satisfying part.

[Stephen Nancekivell @hi_stephen_n]

Anyone going to AWS unicorn day in Melbourne?

[Stephen Nancekivell @hi_stephen_n]

Im liking using firestore for a little project.

Its got this nice security rules engine where you can define who can access what. Its expressive enough that you can model non-trivial patterns. And has a built in testing playground.
For a serverless DB its a great feature.

[Stephen Nancekivell @hi_stephen_n]

So there are two ways to host Next.Js on firebase, both of them are marked as experimental. The newest way crashes but the other way works.

It works pretty well, its just Next.js running dynamic parts on cloud run.

[Stephen Nancekivell @hi_stephen_n]

What serverless frameworks are folk liking?

I tried amplify but I'm not vibing with it. It's like it was designed to show as many AWS services as possible. Rather than just make simple apps. Simple things become hard.

[Stephen Nancekivell @hi_stephen_n]

@ruchira088 Have you used serverless?