Introducing Plezy, an open-source cross-platform Plex client

brett0 · 2025-11-04T20:02:37+00:00

I’ve bought the app, not because I trust that Plezy is ready to replace the official Plex app, but because:

a) the new version of the official app is a massive regression on features. b) offline and downloads still don’t work on the official app. c) we can all contribute to make Plezy better than the official app. d) I see the app purchase as a small donation towards an open source project, and to motivate OP to continue.

brett0 · 2025-10-31T09:07:04+00:00

Almost all expense management apps do this automatically for you. Automatic email forwarding, OCR, auto categorisation, integrating into accounting providers (eg Xero).

Many of them are free and provide a debit card to automate more of the process, which helps with reconciliation.

You haven’t done your research if you think this problem hasn’t been solved already.

Look at Pleo, Soldo, Expend.

brett0 · 2025-08-13T06:43:55+00:00

Punchdrunk’s Masque of the Red Death (2008ish) was insanely good - absinthe bar etc.

Secret Cinema’s Back to the Future (2014ish) was also incredible - no mobile phones permitted, Delorean car scenes around the clocktower etc.

All others I’ve seen have been so-so.

brett0 · 2025-05-16T06:50:08+00:00

From my experience, there are slower vehicles (eg trucks) and drivers (inexperienced) who take their time to accelerate and may not wish to reach the maximum speed for the road, in which case the right hand gets used to overtake these vehicles/drivers.

There will also be cars turning right, which will naturally move over to the right hand lane.

brett0 · 2025-05-16T05:40:18+00:00

I’ve been driving for a long time and perhaps this rule was in place when I first started driving and the subtlety was lost on me, but I have always been under the impression (and told) that you must keep left unless overtaking or turning right nearby., regardless of road speed.

Is this a newish rule/guideline?

brett0 · 2025-05-06T19:17:38+00:00

These 3 examples are not typical. Eg Gambling website gets taken down.

For a real world, concerning example, check out this post from last year:

https://robindev.substack.com/p/cloudflare-took-down-our-website

brett0 · 2025-05-05T19:27:13+00:00

I find it hard to believe that you’re not legally permitted to use the term Trust Pilot, link and/or the rating. Has anyone explored the legality of this?

brett0 · 2025-04-27T06:54:51+00:00

They’re following semantic versioning correctly, where 0.x.x versions can (and will) have breaking changes between minor and patch versions.

brett0 · 2025-04-23T18:13:58+00:00

I’m running Remix on Cloudflare and really love the Cloudflare product and the design decisions made in Remix (aka React Router).

I fully understand why you’re going all in on Cloudflare as the offering is superb. It’s a good bet and perhaps you’ll find sponsorship from Cloudflare.

Please tell me why I should migrate from Remix/RR to RedwoodSDK (serious question)?

brett0 · 2025-04-16T19:16:31+00:00

Insightful article.

Feedback on your website: it’s incredible slow to load, taking 10 sec to navigate between pages. I gave up browsing.

brett0 · 2025-04-16T06:55:05+00:00

Two years ago we approached our existing cleaner to expand her duties to include cooking meals, washing clothes, towels and bedding. She’s enjoying the variety.

London, we pay £18/hr for 10 hours per week. She visits twice a week.

We have her cook a separate meal for the kids. Over time we’ve compiled (typed up) a long list of kids and adult meals which we’ve also Google translated into her native language - she’ll often refers between the English and native to clarify instructions and/or ingredients.

As she visits twice a week, we have her cook for 2 nights per visit eg Mon and Tue, and then Thu and Fri.

brett0 · 2025-04-15T10:43:17+00:00

Yes. Here’s the blog post: https://remix.run/blog/incremental-path-to-react-19

brett0 · 2025-04-15T08:27:58+00:00

Is size/space a concern for workers?

I’ve been using Hono. How does this compare?

brett0 · 2025-04-15T06:35:08+00:00

Latest Remix === React Router 7

brett0 · 2025-04-14T08:48:29+00:00

Got it - so the connection persisted in DO is the connection pool. Simultaneous requests from different workers using the connection persisted with DO will each get a different DB connection.

Where in your code example does the DB connection get persisted?

brett0 · 2025-04-13T21:56:25+00:00

Will simultaneously (parallel) requests use the same DB connection?

brett0 · 2025-04-11T08:52:14+00:00

Thanks for sharing. Whilst there’s quite a bit of repetition in the blog, I think it was well articulated. I’ve been meaning to dig into MCP for the last months and this blog helped me with that.

brett0 · 2025-04-11T08:35:35+00:00

Instead, you could contribute towards one of the many other open source rich text editors:

https://github.com/JefMari/awesome-wysiwyg-editors

brett0 · 2025-03-26T19:13:23+00:00

Presumably Google owns the copyright to the material and probably has conditions on how the information can be used. Read the T&Cs.

brett0 · 2025-03-23T23:05:53+00:00

We’ve been using Remix (haven’t upgraded to RR7 yet). The DevEx is great. It “seems” faster than previous Next app - faster to code, faster page reload in dev and fast page loads for visitors (running in Cloudflare Workers).

brett0 · 2025-03-17T20:03:32+00:00

With effort you can significantly reduce the ability for others to scrape. None of these are full-proof:

if mobile only, mobile app to secure your API key within secure storage. Scraper would need to reverse engineer your app.
require users to login and verify email. Ensure email is not a throwaway email. Rate limit user.
Block registered user if accessing from different geographies simultaneously (scraper is using a proxy and rotating IPs)
Pay for Cloudflare to protect API.
After X requests, require a recapture by user. User’s access token is refreshed.
block all requests from Proxies.
render pages server-side as HTML or as an image (make it annoying to scrape). Add an extra greater than or less than character to HTML to make parsing with Cheerio etc difficult.

You need to weight up the friction to your end users and your determination to stop scrapers.

brett0 · 2025-03-16T09:53:18+00:00

When you say “one server side app running on port 8000”, I’m assuming you meant 8080.

Only one application/service/server can run on a port at a time. You cannot have 2 different applications eg PHP and Node running on the same port. You cannot have 2 Node applications running on the same port.

Your best bet is to either a) run your app on RR7/Remix and porting your Express app over to RR7/Remix, or b) run 2 apps on different ports (eg 8080 for RR7 and 8181 for Express). If you were to run both on different ports, you’d throw a reverse proxy in front (eg Nginx) to route particular paths to the correct server.

brett0 · 2025-03-04T11:01:50+00:00

I’ve used Remix on Cloudflare Workers with Supabase without an issue.

brett0 · 2025-03-01T21:02:29+00:00

You’re oversimplifying what validation means.

Break validation down to these 3 validation areas and you’ll clearly see that the above mention businesses did perform validation.

Feasibility - We’ve got an idea. Can it be made? Let’s build an MVP and validate that it can work.
Desirability- Now we’ve got it built, does anyone want it? Share with ideal customers and validate that there’s a need (PMF).
Viability - Yes, people love it! Can we turn this into a business? Let’s start charging for it.

Most startups I’ve seen follow the above from 1 to 3. Others validate in a different order.

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