Pooria JR
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Day 101/100 talking to camera for 100 seconds
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Dude asked me what programming language I use
me: Mostly ruby 🙂
him: WHAT!? 🤪🤪 People STILL use RUBY!?🤪🤪
me: Yup 😑 Lots of people do actually. Github, Shopify...
him: Really? 🤯
me: Yup 😑 Ruby on Rails.
him: Hmm..🤔
me: 😑
And that's how I avoid making friends
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It's no exaggeration to say that switching from React to Rails turned my developer career around.
As a React dev I would scramble for like 4 months to put together a shitty broken SPA. I'd get paid $8k for the trouble, less than minimum wage. I hated it, wanted to quit
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7 years ago, I was on a sleeper train to Chiang Mai, Thailand.
My family was curious.
"Hey Pooria, I saw your pictures on insta. Where are you? Did you quit your job? What are you doing?"
I liked the attention. Look at me and my adventurous life.
"Yeah I'm traveling a bunch!
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Just watched this, and man,
@dhh
is a god-damn hero.
For 20 years he has insisted on keeping rails simple enough that a total beginner can have that empowering "I can do this" moment. And simple enough that a single dev can compete against massive corporations.
This is
This was a fun discussion on the new relevance of sqlite in production for web apps,
#nobuild
, conceptual compression, and a bit of Stoicism thrown in for good measure. A pleasure chatting with
@aarondfrancis
!
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@NickADobos
I've used GPT4 for months. It's still pretty unreliable for more specific stuff IMO. I often get better answers the old way, google and stack overflow.
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Besides 37signals, is anyone using Rails fixtures successfully?
I want to like them, but I kept running into situations where I wanted to write a new test, but the existing fixtures weren't quite right for it, so I changed them, and that accidentally broke other tests, and I
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Finished up 2 weeks at
@ryanckulp
's Camp program.
Trying to capture the best ideas I got from it:
1. Creatives can be meticulously organized
For years now I’ve believed in the meme of the chaotic artist. That in order to be a prolific creative, you have to embrace messiness.
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Following
@aarondfrancis
's expansion/contraction method for preparing a screencast. Really fast way to write a course outline!
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I guess this is a good time to mention that I use SQLite on prod for all my small projects.
It costs $0/month vs. ~$15/month PER APP for managed postgres
Lets me keep my projects alive indefinitely without even thinking about cost.
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Finally done with this fancy startup animation! What do you think?
And here's an article breaking down the process with lots of pictures and videos:
#VIM
#Blender3d
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I'm finally satisfied with this small chunk of a much bigger explanation.
I hated reading documentation as a beginner. It wasn't beginner friendly, I couldn't make sense of it, and it made me feel stupid.
I'm hoping that I'm writing this in a way that makes things click in
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Shedding layers
This indie hacker identity isn't me, it's just something I've wrapped around my self.
I'll still exist without it, and since it doesn't seem to have done me much good, I'm better off shedding it like a lizard shedding old skin.
And while I'm at it, maybe I can
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To celebrate turning 31 today, I made a course! (weird)
It's about everything I learned over the last decade about how to (and how NOT to) get good at dancing 🕺
Free for my birthday weekend:
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My mom wanted to see herself in the style of her favorite artist (Gustav Klimt) so I built for her. Uses
@Astria_AI
under the hood, and works brilliantly:
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@ThePrimeagen
My personal usage has gone down probably 80% over the last few years. Partly due to just getting better, partly GPT, partly shitty google results
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POSSE app now helps you post your blog posts to relevant subreddits ✅
Do you think this would save you time and get you to share your writing in more places?
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@RandomSprint
Just read Colorado Kid, a
@StephenKing
book which
[SPOILER ALERT] is literally just an entire book setting up an increasingly twisted mystery that ends with "And no one knows the answer. Some things never get explained".
And then immediately there's an epilogue where Stephen
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So why didn't I make it?
I have a few theories, and I'm not going to sugar coat it.
Lack of effort: Indie hacking takes tons of hard work, and I was more interested in exploring new countries, chilling with friends, and meeting girls.
Impractical projects: The ideas I was
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@stephenbalaban
I find that ChatGPT often spits out code that is either just straight up buggy, or is "correct" but contains extraneous stuff that isn't necessary. As usual, a real programmer (you) still needs to vet the results.
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Screw you guys, I'm going to Asia
It started with a surprise lay off.
Everyone was shocked. I realized I could never count on a job for my financial security.
Around that time I saw an article about Pieter Levels. Some guy my age, barefoot in Bali. He was building cool
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Rails' "dead, doesn't scale" reputation is just one more part of the competitive advantage🥷
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Just throwing this out there, I'm currently looking for contract work. If you know anyone who could use a full stack web developer with Ruby on Rails experience, please let me know!🙏
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@adamdotdev
For real. I went to art school and then dropped out. In another time, that would have killed my chances of a good career, I think. Instead, just slid right into web dev thanks to endless free resources and low barriers to entry.
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Q: Why quit indie hacking instead of pushing through another year or 2?
A: I don't get optimistic about my new side projects like I used to.
At the start, I thought every app I made would get users and customers.
After failing enough times I realized that my expectations were
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Just realized github codespaces can spin up a deployed Rails app with a single click 👀
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@dhh
Today I switched over from Tmux to Zellij, finding it really good.
The resurrecting of killed sessions is ace.
The floating panes are perfect for those one-off commands that don't need a whole new tab dedicated to them.
Massive props 👏
@Zellij_dev
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@dhh
@37signals
SQLite in prod is great. I do it to get prod closer to the simplicity of local dev rails
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Letting go
What about just... giving up this indie hacker dream?
Even if I'm just a wannabe, it's comforting to hold onto the belief that surely I'll make it some day...
Without that "some day", what am I? Just another web developer? No bright future, just collecting a
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@joemasilotti
Oh man, so glad I read this. This is exactly the kind of thoughtful and practical approach I was looking for. Also you totally read my mind at these 2 points and answered the exact question I was thinking as was reading. Thanks for the quality blog post!
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E-ink + hardware + focus
I've loved working on this project, launching today!
there used to be 2 choices -- stay informed (but distracted), or ignore the world (and miss out).
introducing TRMNL: the e-ink antidote to notification chaos, keeping you up to date and focused at the same time.
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Hardly working
During those 7 years, I had unforgettable adventures, transformative relationships, personal growth, and career advancement beyond what I ever expected. I'm so glad I did it.
Yet I achieved none of my indie-hacker dreams.
It wasn't for lack of time. I had HEAPS
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@dhh
Vim has some lovely plugins for working with Rails is old but still good! And there are plenty more. I suspect a lot of older vimmers were rubyists
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New icons for 1st party plugins on
@usetrmnl
, courtesy of my new favorite icon pack
@_phosphoricons
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IT WORKS!
Message limit ✅
Rock solid video calling ✅
Mobile friendly AF ✅
Live right now:
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A week ago I unfollowed everyone who I have no personal connection to. Even if I admired them, or found their tweets useful/funny. If we hadn't met or at least exchanged a few comments/dm's, I stopped following them
Result: I'm interacting more with people who care about me (at
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Been going to the cafe with my gf before starting work
We drink capuccinos, I write in a journal, she reads a book. We randomly say lovey-dovey stuff to each other.
In that little window of time, nothing is wrong, life is perfect. I catch myself thinking, "If heaven exists,
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I always heard people talking about how amazing Vim is, but I didn't get why.
"Like big deal, you can jump around the line, delete words or whole lines. I can do that with option and command. Oh you can apply your edits to multiple places? Have you heard of multi-cursor?"
Only
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@AntoineLeBaux
@levelsio
Sure! Hosting multiple apps w/ different domains on a single VPS, the simple way:
Buy domains wherever -> use cloudflare as DNS
On cloudflare, all domains get the same A record: the IP address of the VPS
On VPS, use Caddy (easier than nginx) to receive requests for all your
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In under 2 hours, I've got a rails app with auth that can scrape a blog post and extract the contents, without any of the other stuff on the page.
I spent most of that time figuring out how to scrape a page, it's my first time.
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@dvassallo
Just read through it all. Frankly, I found it hard to understand. Struggling to understand what he means by "convex" in this case? My understanding of convex is this:
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Y'all already know I like vim, but I've been falling in love with Lazygit lately too. Combining them has made for a delightful and fast terminal workflow
@nimblegeek
It's clear to me that a fully proficient neovim user is going to be substantially more productive than a vscode user. But also clear that it takes a while to get there! I'm up for the challenge, though. You get neovim integration with git via lazygit. Integrated in lazyvim.
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This article I wrote last week just went up on the home page of hackernoon right as I opened up my mvp for beta testers 😵
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For the past 2 months I've been building an AI-assisted dopamine detox tool.
Everything works well... except the AI. It's not good enough. I'm continuing to work on it to get it up to my standards.
But rather than hold back the launch, I'm releasing it today, 100% free, as a
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My morning in the Rails rabbit hole
7am: "I wonder what Rails class turns a raw HTML request into a Ruby object?"
8am: "Why would ActionDispatch::Request call `super` if it just inherits from Object? Is this a mistake?"
9am: "You can chain included initializers with `super`
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@tylerangert
This is a good point. It's almost like you use a different part of the brain, your goals change, etc. Very qualitative differences
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Day 2 of "dev forces himself to do marketing"
I swallowed my pride.
I made a tik tok video.
I felt so awkward making it, and at the last moment, I really hesitated to publish it. Lol.
But I feel good about breaking out of my comfort zone :)
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Day 19/100 Talking to camera for 100 seconds
I wanted to be a cool kid
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@coreyhainesco
Great read! I really like the part where you included your notes "Code is text in a file", etc. This is the kind of concretization of concepts that makes this stuff click
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UTV ride with my fellow Camper
@coreyhainesco
!
He's been casually dropping excellent advice and ideas about marketing, learning a lot from him, thanks man 🙏
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32 people downloaded my course about dancing!
(10 of them are friends)
It's free (until EOD), so that means no profit.
BUT now it has a little social proof!
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How to get an 8 year old excited about programming:
Show them a Ruby script that prints their name to the console 1 million times
Blew my little sister's mind, AND she can understand the code 😅
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@flaviocopes
Plus, these modern terminals like Warp and Fig are VC funded. Like millions raised. I guess that's why they have mandatory auth - they're not just out to make a good terminal, someday, somehow, they need to extract value from you. So they'll either enshittify or shut down.
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I think there's a lack of good visual spatial learning resources around coding. It's something I've always wished for. Anyone else?
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Can't show you the whole thing, but I made something cool in threeJS today
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@ryanckulp
@jjesschan
What a coincidence, I just today decided to stop delaying the launch. Releasing it as a free self-guided version.
For the past 2 months I've been building an AI-assisted dopamine detox tool.
Everything works well... except the AI. It's not good enough. I'm continuing to work on it to get it up to my standards.
But rather than hold back the launch, I'm releasing it today, 100% free, as a
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In my visits to great cities of the world, I keep stumbling across places named in honor of Iran.
And not just some small forgotten corner.
For example, Teheran-ro in Seoul (Gangnam).
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I should probably shut up about this course before people mute me but...
I am having a massive mindset shift from releasing this thing.
Before, I thought almost all information already existed on the internet, and the best I could ever do is just package it differently,
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Submitted my first ever chrome extension for review
@aarondfrancis
I found this sentence so unsettling I got inspired to make a chrome extension for it. The more you browse, the more it creeps into your feed. After a long time, you feed looks like this:
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