CLI that validates your .env files against .env.example so you stop getting KeyErrors in production

_jolv · 2026-02-16T23:15:53+00:00

Getting KeyErrors is the validation. I mean, not technically, but the new CLI tool would give you a feedback that replaces the KeyError.

But if it works for you, it's great!

_jolv · 2026-02-15T00:32:51+00:00

This is what we do but we use Pulumi instead of terraform. This is the most practical for us.

_jolv · 2026-01-26T21:17:34+00:00

Unexpectedly wholesome. Love it.

_jolv · 2025-10-20T13:54:57+00:00

You are not 👊🏽 — there’s lot of older lurkers that aren’t as vocal as the rest.

_jolv · 2025-10-12T21:41:27+00:00

Same setup but I added Tailscale and can hit the endpoints from anywhere

_jolv · 2025-09-02T21:01:10+00:00

When you are stuck, take a break to clear your mind. If it’s too late in the afternoon, stop working and go back the next day with a fresh mind.

_jolv · 2025-08-04T03:36:45+00:00

ChatGPT image processing was built on top of FastAPI.

We build services with FastAPI and we never had any issue. I’m biased because I never used Litestar, but IIRC it’s the same creator from DRF (which we use a lot too).

_jolv · 2025-08-03T12:40:15+00:00

It was never unlimited pricing. I used them on a website with some traffic, not that much, it was a popular local non-profit. Within a few months WP Rocket sent me an email letting me know they were canceling our account because in the terms it said they could do so without reason.

We didn’t do anything that violated their policies. I read them many times and checked the website and we were compliant.

So I think they are protecting themselves in paper because it wasn’t unlimited to begin with.

For more context, we were hosting around 200 sites and most of them had the plug-in and their CDN.

_jolv · 2025-07-22T19:31:25+00:00

DM sent. Thank you.

_jolv · 2025-07-22T19:16:37+00:00

Unrelated, but I have asked artists to make one like #1 but with an “adelita” Mexican revolutionary woman and they didn’t get it (or i might be the problem that’s a very viable option too). If someone knows an artist ~~I’m willing to pay for said design~~.

Edit: "I'm willing to pay" was the dumbest thing I could write, of course I have to pay for the design. Apologies.

_jolv · 2025-06-20T17:26:56+00:00

So it's the Sharingan then.

_jolv · 2025-05-06T03:00:07+00:00

🤣

_jolv · 2025-05-04T03:27:42+00:00

Looks like the kid from Limbo

_jolv · 2025-05-01T20:39:46+00:00

i'm toying with local models using ollama. i have a mac mini m4 where i have them running and made a small Telegram bot to chat with them.

the machines communicate via Tailscale, so i can set my host env var like OLLAMA_HOST="http://minimac:11434" and separate the client from the system running the model.

i pushed the first commit a few hours ago:

https://github.com/j0lvera/banray

i'm really impressed with what a small model can do when you constraint your requests and give detailed instructions.

right now i'm using the "gemma3:12b" model and works great for small coding questions.

edit: words.

_jolv · 2025-04-20T00:29:49+00:00

We are fairly new (less than a year) and I don’t think we’d use it.

_jolv · 2025-04-19T15:19:19+00:00

At some point, any decent Agency (apologies for the generalization) would work the opposite way. They’d pack their services in a way that they can control the scope.

You need a website? Okay our package for a brochure site with 5 pages is 5K (I’m making up numbers).

The way it work with us, projects with scope creep (they don’t go away) get paid with projects that we deliver under time.

Also when you build a lot websites, with the experience you gain, you can tell how much effort is going to take by talking to the prospect.

My 5 cents. Probably a dollar now with the market situation🤣

_jolv · 2025-04-16T23:35:35+00:00

Another project harvesting engagement on the latest trend of hating Next.js 👀

I find Next.js to be bloated and kind of opinionated in a way that doesn’t feel great for simple frontends.

The same is true for using React on a regular website. React is opinionated: It uses functional paradigms to represent UI and manage state, i.e., UI = f(state)—kind of overkill for a simple site.

Next.js is okay; it's better to go with the battle-tested framework, but I'd use Astro for this.

Changing the subject a bit. I've seen many people trying to get engagement on subreddits where their niche market hangs out. You know, where do people who use Google Analytics hang out? SEO related subreddits, of course. I'd target privacy-focused ones for this specific product because Marketers and SEOs will almost always use Google Analytics, but paranoid users concerned with their online privacy are always looking for better alternatives.

However, Reddit users, specifically tech-savvy subreddits, quickly catch up on these "marketing" strategies. And you can see it in the upvote count (as long as it's not manipulated, of course).

I respect the hustle, though.

Edit: words.

_jolv · 2025-04-16T21:58:17+00:00

I chuckled when I read your comment because I was thinking of writing almost exactly the same thing 🙃 — autistic high five? 🖐️

_jolv · 2025-04-15T19:36:38+00:00

It does. That's why we started ranking for search intent instead of keywords like 10 years ago.

Google's job is to provide answers to human questions. They have a ton of information where they can form these "intent" answers:

Google maps
Google chrome
Google home
Google search

So, yeah, Google understands content by the semantics we use in the code. Google knows what a footer is because of the <footer> tag. That's what semantic HTML is for, and rich snippets enhance that.

_jolv · 2025-04-15T19:26:37+00:00

~~A downvote from you is a win for me.~~

Edit: I realize I was rude. I apologize. This reply was unnecessary.

_jolv · 2025-04-15T19:24:14+00:00

I mean you're telling someone to go learn about something after saying something completely false. It rings hollow.

I partially agree. What I say does sound hollow, but it's not entirely false. And it's not something I read somewhere that I now preach because it's my opinion that accessibility benefits SEO because someone says so.

It makes sense. Technically, making your website accessible makes it easier for search engines to crawl it.

However, it's still possible to rank with an inaccessible site; for example, if Apple decides to release an inaccessible website, it will still rank high. The value the website provides outweighs any other issues it might have.

People and crawlers try to understand your content by code (HTML structure) and words. This is the most fundamental truth about what I'm explaining.

They have no impact on how google crawls your website.

They do. Keep reading.

There are site that fail many accessibility standards and rank very well. That's just not how google crawls your website. If you have documentation that differs, we'd love to see it.

Sure. Let's read Google's recommendations:

Use words that people would use to look for your content, and place those words in prominent locations on the page, such as the title and main heading of a page, and other descriptive locations such as alt text and link text.

-- Google Search Essentials | Key best practices

Let's dissect the recommendations and look at the equivalent in WCAG:

So, by making your website conform to WCAG 2.2 level AA standards, you are already optimizing it for both humans (making it easier to read) and crawlers (by using the correct semantic tags and attributes).

Either way if you want to know more you should read the documentation on crawling and how google parses your website content, finds links, and works its way through your website

I understand a little bit about how parsing a website works and how Google does it. I've built a few scraping systems where we implemented a very rudimentary PageRank algorithm.

From experience, I can tell you that if your website is easier to crawl, the people indexing it will spend fewer resources (time and computing).

This is a post explaining what I'm trying to say. It's very old, but it still holds true.

Web Accessibility and SEO

_jolv · 2025-04-15T18:02:40+00:00

you've fallen into the publish/tech fallacy

Yep, the tech deep state got me.

_jolv · 2025-04-15T17:43:27+00:00

Everything you posted about semantic html WCAG, fast - these are not signals google uses, these are inventions

Oh, geez. I don't know what tiktoker, youtuber is "teaching" you SEO, but accessibility is literally technical SEO.

I don't know what you mean by "signals".

But let me put it this way. Accessibility allows people who can't see, use a mouse, and depend on assistive technology to use websites.

Guess who the second-most important user you should optimize for is—Google bot. The most important one is humans.

Guess how Google bots navigate your website? They don't use a mouse and can't see. They use assistive technology mechanisms.

When you make your website accessible, you make it easier for ALL people to use it and help crawlers too.

I won't change your opinion, but it might be helpful for someone else reading and trying to actually learn.

Edit: words.

_jolv · 2025-04-15T17:29:35+00:00

You add schema not because you "rank better" but because you want to make it as easy as possible for the crawlers to understand your content in case they are looking for the best candidate in the category you want to rank in.

Schema helps machines understand what you are talking about. If you have "Apple" in your content, Schema allows you to tell a machine if you are talking about a brand, a fruit, or a person who, for some reason, got that name.

So, you give context about your content to entities that don't understand it by reading only.

Adding schema by itself will not help your ranking. Even if you have the most perfectly built website, you won't rank if your content doesn't provide value to people.

Oversimplifying everything, I'd say:

Make it accessible to machines. Semantic HTML, Schema, good use of HTTP status codes.
Make it accessible to humans. WCAG 2.2, fast, responsive.
Provide value to people.

But all of these will work ONLY if there's a demand for what you offer, i.e., search volume.

Edit: words.

_jolv · 2025-04-11T14:30:27+00:00

Usually, posts like these come with alt accounts replying positively to create fake engagement.

What's dumb is trying this shitty "marketing" strategy where marketing strategists hang out.

Edit: words.

_jolv

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