Victor Bogo

Site Reliability Engineer at @37signals, creators of @basecamp and @Heyhey

[Victor Bogo @victorbogo]

@sneycampos @dhh We use the Yabeda gem for the Prometheus metrics generation (you can see that in the GitHub repository), Prometheus + Thanos for ingestion, storage and query and Grafana for visualization

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

INTRODUCING FIZZY

Have you noticed that every issue and idea tracking tool you loved slowly morphed into boring, sluggish, corporate bloatware?

Trello put on 40 pounds of cruft. Jira started charging by the migraine. Asana tried to become everything to everyone. GitHub Issues slipped into a steady state of decline. The whole category is a 20 car pileup of complexity.

Time to route around that mess.

Today we’re introducing Fizzy. Kanban as it should be, not as it has been.

Fizzy is a fresh take on cards and columns, with a few twists, human-nature inspired defaults, and a vibrant interface that’s the opposite of the bland and boring software the industry has been flinging at you for years.

Kanban has been around since the 1940s, and Trello brought it into the mainstream in 2011. Since then, some version of column-based kanban-style organization has found its way into any collaboration tool worth its salt.

But most have over salted the dish.

What was simple is now complicated. What was clear is now cluttered. What just worked now takes work.

Fizzy presses reset, reconsiders what really matters, and presents a refreshing way to kanban that just feels right. It’s friendly, colorful, straightforward, and fast as hell.

We still use Basecamp for our big, intensive projects, but lately we’ve been reaching for Fizzy to run the smaller ones. It’s perfect for tracking bugs, issues, and ideas, and it shines for lighter, self-contained workflows like podcasts or video production.

We didn’t expect it, but Fizzy’s so good it might even cannibalize Basecamp on the lighter side of project management. We’d be thrilled.

How much is it? It’s not much for so much.

Everyone gets 1000 cards for free. Beyond that, we’ll host your account for just $20/month for unlimited cards and unlimited users. One price for all and everything. No tiers, no “contact us.” No pricing chart at all — just a price tag, like on a pair of jeans.

And here’s a surprise... Fizzy is open source! If you’d prefer not to pay us, or you want to customize Fizzy for your own use, you can run it yourself for free forever. Have a great idea? Submit a PR to contribute to the code base and improve the product for everyone. It’s the best of all worlds. No excuses.

Every idea comes back around. It’s time for take two on kanban. Fizzy’s our hat in the ring.

Let’s make this platform insanely great, together. Come on in!

Visit https://t.co/EsRclBqc3q

[Victor Bogo @victorbogo]

#hugops GCP and Cloudflare

[DHH @dhh]

Skiff is a new, small tool for deploying static marketing sites using Kamal. Built on #NoBuild ideas, stone-age tools like Server Side Includes, and running with nginx. We use it to run https://t.co/viKQ8g6EgS and https://t.co/ztyykJieTg already. Enjoy! https://t.co/j7245IvtMF

[Victor Bogo @victorbogo]

How @37signals uses Prometheus to ingest, store, and alert based on metrics: https://t.co/mR8e1Z4ZxF

[Victor Bogo @victorbogo]

@robzolkos Makes sense. Maybe this could be configurable with options to see the screener daily, weekly, etc 🤔

[Victor Bogo @victorbogo]

After hooking all my e-mails to arrive in my personal Hey account, I noticed how I spend way more time reading and handling random stuff that comes there instead of actually writing e-mails. This was clearly highlighted by the way Hey handles new e-mails.

[Victor Bogo @victorbogo]

@caarlos0 Yes! It filters spam and also provides an option to mark e-mails as spam, as an opt-in feature: https://t.co/AZCzpuR118
It's working pretty well so far, but my transition is quite recent, and I still need some more time to have a better feeling of how precise it is

[Victor Bogo @victorbogo]

Another thing to note is that splitting the tradicional inbox into "Imbox", "The feed", and "Paper trail" increased my productivity substantially. Of course I could configure mail rules before, but I never explored this option much (not sure why, maybe too much effort required)

[Victor Bogo @victorbogo]

I also didn't configured yet this account for outbound email, and it made me figure out I almost don't need it lol

[Victor Bogo @victorbogo]

Today is my first day at 37signals, yay! Just a few hours into it, I can already benefit from the fact that almost everything is persisted as text and available for reading. I can get back in time and absorb a lot of helpful information about what is happening :D

[Victor Bogo @victorbogo]

@heyhey Anyone got any thoughts to share?

[Victor Bogo @victorbogo]

I am creating a simple tech blog to post about things I do here and there. The original idea was to evolve https://t.co/mx50o062RN (this is WIP btw) by adding a blog section, but now I am considering using @heyhey instead.

[Victor Bogo @victorbogo]

@heyhey I spent some time testing "Hey world," and the simplicity of the solution is exciting. You write the e-mail and publish it. It's done, people can sign up for updates, and that's it

[Victor Bogo @victorbogo]

My whole career has been built in the cloud (mainly AWS); I will be able to get in touch with modern technologies to do similar things on-premise and, with that, evolve the breadth of my knowledge as I learn

[Victor Bogo @victorbogo]

I am pleased to announce that starting next week, I will be part of the @37signals Ops team as an SRE to help continue the great work of @heyhey's and @basecamp's reliability!
I will be part of @mr_ndrsn's team, can't wait to start :)

[Victor Bogo @victorbogo]

This is something I have been aiming for so much time that it makes me really happy to think about how big this opportunity is for my career, quality of life, and everything else related

[Victor Bogo @victorbogo]

Working remotely means being able to watch every interesting World Cup game while doing less complicated tasks :)

[Victor Bogo @victorbogo]

I just noticed that I decided to get back to Twitter in the worst moment ever lol everything is on fire

[Victor Bogo @victorbogo]

@rcamargo Em Itapema, no canto mais próximo de Balneário! Fazia um tempo que não vinha para cá, é da hora também

[Victor Bogo @victorbogo]

This week I decided to work from a beach near my hometown, this is the view right now
Not bad