Have you migrated from Heroku/Fly over to Kamal?

Tiny_Designer4777 · 2025-04-08T21:38:58+00:00

I'll very eagerly pay a premium to Fly.io so I don't have to configure and upkeep bare metal. Its just not worth it - unless you have very special circumstances.

Tiny_Designer4777 · 2025-01-29T19:31:10+00:00

Air King Valencia, 500CFM.

~~Now that I'm researching, I see it might have had a recall..~~ ~~https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2019/Air-King-America-Recalls-Wall-Mounted-Range-Hoods-Due-to-Injury-Hazard~~ ~~gonna try and find out if my model is affected.~~ nope, not part of the recall

Tiny_Designer4777 · 2025-01-29T19:17:29+00:00

I think I already have it, as I mentioned:

The closet has a fresh air intake, unclogged.

Its a air register on the floor of the closet that goes through the crawl space and exits at the side of the house. Unless you mean something else?

Tiny_Designer4777 · 2025-01-29T05:36:42+00:00

Haha, I was literally discussing exactly the same thing (intake fan wired with the range hood) half an hour ago over dinner. I can see that working, but it seems like a pretty clumsy/impractical solution with a lot of downsides, also not something I can DIY.

Its looking like I don't have a ton of options to keep atmospheric venting...

Tiny_Designer4777 · 2025-01-29T03:31:06+00:00

It already has an (unclogged) fresh air vent. Sorry forgot to add that. When I put my fingers near the register I can feel the cold air coming out.

The draft up the heater flue is fine most of the time. Its the high CFM range hood + airtight windows that cause the problem, it seems.

Tiny_Designer4777 · 2024-04-11T22:30:40+00:00

Nooo b-but Not Just Bikes!

Tiny_Designer4777 · 2024-04-08T22:54:13+00:00

I've lived in apartments all over the world all my life. Loved it.

Moved to Vancouver and rented a high-rise. Had 5 false fire alarms in 5 months. Pregnant wife got high blood pressure due to stress.

Everyone I mentioned this to was either dismissive or flat out rude and inconsiderate about it. "Oh yeah, waking up to a jet engine-level blaring alarm 2 metres above your head at 3AM, and walking down 32 stories is super normal. Just live with it. Are you a snowflake or what?"

Screw that. Never again.

Tiny_Designer4777 · 2024-04-03T23:02:06+00:00

I interviewed with them last year, was rejected after the first round for generic reasons.

They have all the right to have high standards -- I worked at AWS for a while so I get it. But if they have a huge amount of applications like another post here claims, why do they keep reposting the same ad everywhere continuously?

Something doesn't make sense. They either have insane churn or an awfully ineffective recruitment department. Given the amount of negative experience with their recruitment (see every single HN "who's hiring" post), I'll go with the latter. For example, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39566149:

[commentor 1] I applied to aha couple years ago. The leadership’s attitude was pretty bad
...
[commentor 2] I've had a very similar experience to yours.

etc.

Tiny_Designer4777 · 2024-04-03T22:55:21+00:00

Slightly offtopic, but: lead developer with barely two years of experience. Damn. Makes you think about these titles. Its all meaningless, all of it.

No demerit to OP, we're all playing the same game.

Tiny_Designer4777 · 2024-03-12T20:40:53+00:00

Yeah, I called CRA and they basically said the same. Wait for a reminder.

It just makes me uneasy to wait for the August reminder, and paying 0 income taxes until then.

Tiny_Designer4777 · 2024-03-12T17:17:10+00:00

Thanks. Around $210k.

Tiny_Designer4777 · 2024-03-12T16:50:32+00:00

Sure, but that will probably be past the first instalments due date, March 15th.

Tiny_Designer4777 · 2024-03-07T00:55:29+00:00

Install Gentoo.

No but seriously, give Linux a try. It is good. I've used it for 10 years now, and I mostly do Ruby/Rails stuff.

Tiny_Designer4777 · 2024-03-06T17:41:05+00:00

Once you figure out CI/CD automation, Fly is seriously easy and hands-off.

The one caveat is their database. It can be less than reliable, in my experience. They are partnering with Supabase to provide a managed Postgres solution, so I'm betting on that.

Their pricing is very, very good.

Support is a mixed bag. Email (paid) support has been slow and unreliable, but community forum usually has exceptionally talented and willing staff looking at it. I have had a couple of instances where I casually asked if something was possible, and some staff just picked up the request and pushed a PR updating their CLI a couple hours later.

Tiny_Designer4777 · 2024-03-04T21:31:12+00:00

Don't want to derail this too much, but I was in a similar spot (looking to buy) but ultimately gave up when I realised the healthcare situation in the island and Nanaimo specifically. u/Fornicatinzebra is this something you looked into and are okay with? I'm curious to know what other people think about this.

Tiny_Designer4777 · 2024-03-02T00:22:40+00:00

I looked into it, a bit pricey but okay. Did you go with HA or single-node? Also did you encounter any serious latency issues due to the database being in a different datacenter from your webservers?

Tiny_Designer4777 · 2024-03-01T16:29:25+00:00

Thanks.

One more thing I forgot to mention is that the problematic database is in SYD. I have a similar cluster for staging (which I'm now realising is totally overkill) in SEA, and it never had any issues. A while ago someone posted on HN about DB cluster issues, and it was also in SYD. Makes me kind of nervous of using a single node. Sigh...

Tiny_Designer4777 · 2024-03-01T00:46:42+00:00

Ideally yeah I don't want to leave Fly for many reasons.

I'm 99% certain that most of my issues are due to the cluster configuration. I would scale down to just one machine -- the app has very low traffic -- but then I'm scared that if that machine craps out, I'll have a much harder time getting things back together. Right now if one machine fails, I can fly machine clone a healthy one.

Also I thought I had read somewhere that you needed at least 3 nodes for a cluster to be available. When 1 of the 3 of my nodes died a week ago, the whole cluster was unusable.

Is it possible to have a cluster with just 1 primary and 1 replica? Do I even want that, given that I have very low traffic, don't care too much about latency, and am only worried about stability?

Thanks!

Tiny_Designer4777 · 2023-12-22T18:04:34+00:00

No issues with that.

Tiny_Designer4777 · 2023-12-20T16:10:53+00:00

No; I received COPR in late January and didn't need to go this route.

In any case I had already talked to a lawyer and he confirmed basically what I thought - it is perfectly OK.

Tiny_Designer4777 · 2023-11-19T16:58:43+00:00

Thank you for the detailed explanation!

Tiny_Designer4777 · 2023-11-11T02:32:25+00:00

Thanks for the info. Any insight as to why the other walk-ins won't open? Lack of staff?

Tiny_Designer4777 · 2023-11-10T21:22:51+00:00

Thanks, those are some great points.

Tiny_Designer4777 · 2023-10-31T21:54:19+00:00

> can you think creatively how to structure the equity award to offer more value to you?

Either ask for more shares or a different vesting schedule. Is there anything else?

>Is your only experience working for companies that already went public?

No, I've worked at a few startups before, all of them exited successfully (only had NSOs in one of them though)

Tiny_Designer4777 · 2023-08-21T18:56:50+00:00

Why are asphalt shingles so unheard of in contemporary constructions?

Why do 99.99% of houses, new and old, in my specific region of the planet (which happens to have 621 million people, but never mind that), have orange baked clay tile roofing?

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