I’m a bootstrapped founder but hard disagree with this take.
Surely it can’t be the founder taking home a healthy salary from day 1 despite the company being far away from any revenue at all that is taking the risk in your book?
It absolutely is. The typical SV investor is risking essentially nothing - a portion of their wealth that does not make a meaningful difference for their standard of living. And they are free to do whatever they like while they wait for their investment to play out. The founder, on the other hand, is risking years of their one life (and probably their one YOUTH) - years that could have been spent in a myriad other ways.
My daily crontab at just after midnight UTC did not run yesterday. I wrote it off as a server hiccup, but now you got me thinking it might be related to leap years…
> It says it is free but where is the github page for it?
Not sure if serious, but you do realise that free is not at all about having a GitHub page?
Maxim has been working on nginx for years and just forked the project so that he can continue working on it. The license remains the same as the original nginx project and you can already download its sources here: https://freenginx.org/en/download.html
I honestly didn't see the download button. I thought the web page was broken because the design looked super ugly and not trustworthy. My first instinct was to ask for a repo here.
I never even knew this was an option, despite relying on them for well over 10 years now for well over half of my business' revenue (with 0 issues whatsoever, fwiw). Just enabled it.
Sounds like any static site generator supporting Markdown will do.
- Jekyll: the OG, but requires a ruby toolchain.
- Hugo: compiles to a single static binary, but you may have to get used to its (Go text/html) templating.
- Zola: also compiles to a single static binary, but uses Jinja-like templating.
- Gozer [^1]: my own, like Hugo, but 1000x simpler. I rolled my own because I wanted something that didn't move under me in the next 10 years and just because it was fun and easy enough to build.
I run Jekyll in its own official docker container. You just need to mount the directory with the md files and it autogenerates new htmls whenever an md is updated. No need for Ruby.
I've hosted jekyll sites for a number of years. It's simple and gets the job done. The documentation is good, there are a lot of plugins written for it, and it's pretty configurable.
This is inspiring to me, as I'm in a similar boat and while I'm pretty okay at my job in practical terms, I often feel as if I lack a certain mathematical foundation. May I ask how old you are, whether you are enrolled in a full-time course (w/ much younger other students, I suppose?) and how that has been for you?
You and me both. I'm also a polygot but I originally started on interpreted languages like PHP and Python. I then learned some C, which was quite frustrating before I learned how to reason about memory ownership and hold myself to some idioms. Oh and Valgrind.
I then rewrote a bunch of projects in Rust and while it lead to correct and working software, it didn't spark the joy that C did for me. I don't exactly know why and at times I almost feel ashamed to mention this. I do hope there's a future where there's a version of C with some more substantial changes/improvements though, perhaps taking a lesson or two from Rust or Zig (eg string type w/ length).
Yes, this, most modern languages embrace this idea of Optional. I believe OCaml might have invented it (I love OCaml too!). Odin has it I think, Rust obviously, and Swift heavily as well.
What's interesting, modern C, is promoting this move as well. Don't just return an integer, return a struct result_t with a fail bool or error bool in it, as opposed to some const char* pointing to null. Do this more and more and your C code starts becoming a lot more digestible and modern (although common sense still applies to not go overboard with these constructs in C, but you can set up a nice contract type API design within your code base).
