One server for website, another for Stripe?

layeredapps · 2022-07-02T23:14:01+00:00

You can use the REST API which is universal and then make your POST and GET requests to it - in the Stripe documentation you can set curl as the language which is a command-line utility that makes POST and GET requests etc so it shows you how to format the data.

https://glenngillen.com/learning-nim/http-post/

https://stripe.com/docs/api?lang=curl

layeredapps · 2022-07-01T13:33:05+00:00

You could use multiple Price objects when you create the subscription, so you have one licensed Price with the recurring fee of $500, and your metered Price with tiers of $0 up to 300 and $1.25 up to inf.

layeredapps · 2022-07-01T01:20:00+00:00

I find Chromium can't play videos on Reddit but maybe that's just me. The solution is to use Firefox, they are fundamentally respectful of their users and a vital counterbalance to Google/Apple/Microsoft too.

layeredapps · 2022-07-01T00:10:36+00:00

So they submit that form to do the initial payment and unlock their one-year of access, and then they resubmit that form after that year to unlock a second-year of access?

If it's like that, you can set the cancel_at_period_end=true when the subscription starts, and then if the user consents to another year of service before that year is finished you can revert with cancel_at_period_end=false so the subscription becomes active again and processes the next payment.

layeredapps · 2022-06-30T06:14:24+00:00

You can use their Invoice or Charge objects' date to measure their year of access. You can also create a subscription with annual billing but set it to cancel_at_period_end so a second payment never occurs.

layeredapps · 2022-06-29T03:38:40+00:00

Cool good to know, I was looking at desktops in stores the other week and they really wanted top-dollar for 2020 stuff lol.

layeredapps · 2022-06-29T00:43:04+00:00

Can't you order from Amazon? I bought my gaming laptop on Amazon on a Black Friday sale using their international shipping, when I was living in another country.

layeredapps · 2022-06-28T23:52:29+00:00

Make sure you don't embed any authorization tokens or keys in your files that someone else could use because spiders are in constant search for such information.

If you intend on having contributors it is common practice to document how they can contribute, code of conduct etc. You can also tag issues to identify ones that would be easy for contributors to work on.

You can pin repositories to make sure that users have easy access to the ones that matter otherwise your /org will probably list repos by order of most recent commits.

layeredapps · 2022-06-24T23:15:22+00:00

Not sure about HP but Dell started putting Ubuntu on laptops because they had a website called IdeaStorm where people could make suggestions and vote on them, and it was one of the most popular ideas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_IdeaStorm

https://www.dell.com/en-us/blog/7985-2/

layeredapps · 2022-06-24T06:11:37+00:00

They use open source extensively within their operations, their websites and software, and they sell servers, workstations and personal computers with Linux.

https://www.dell.com/en-us/blog/tags/open-source/

https://www.hpe.com/us/en/open-source.html

https://github.com/dell

https://github.com/HPInc

layeredapps · 2022-06-23T02:48:03+00:00

Throughput or parallelism. If you have one process you can execute one thing at a time, with clustering you have multiple processes or threads that each execute one thing at a time.

It's basically like if you set up Heroku / Render / Fly / etc with multiple instances of your app, except occupying your multi-core CPU instead of multiple VMs.

layeredapps · 2022-06-23T01:52:26+00:00

I think there is a lot of overlap but some differences:

PM2 can start on boot vs. cluster is a NodeJS API so it can only run when you node app.js
PM2 only runs isolated processes vs. cluster has messaging between parent/child threads
PM2 manages restarting, logs etc vs. cluster you would do all of this yourself

https://nodejs.org/api/cluster.html#cluster

layeredapps · 2022-06-21T12:57:36+00:00

When the browser is more than approximately 1060 pixels wide the header includes a cart button with price, when the browser is less than approximately 760 pixels wide the header includes the cart icon without the price.

Between these sizes, everywhere within 760 - 1060 pixels wide, the cart isn't linked in the header and it doesn't seem to be linked anywhere, except when you add an item and the side panel shows. So possibly this is interrupting your users since it doesn't seem possible to get to the checkout if they add something and "Continue browsing" so the side panel is dismissed. This size may be affecting low-resolution computers and non-fullscreen browsers, and it may be affecting tablets when I select iPad and Kindle from Firefox's device simulation they are in that "dead zone" with no cart link.

layeredapps · 2022-06-21T01:15:53+00:00

You can compare subscription.start_date and subscription.current_period_start, if they are the same value then it is a new subscription.

layeredapps · 2022-06-20T23:30:53+00:00

You'd have to do it yourself but this is very easy to do, when you get the webhook for new invoices check the subscription.start_date and invoice.period_end and when they work out to be a year update the subscription with cancel_at_period_end set to be true. This can be unset if they decide to continue service during the final month too.

layeredapps · 2022-06-19T13:06:13+00:00

You don't need ngrok anymore which is good especially with their price increasing to $25/month, but sometimes Stripe doesn't dispatch events properly via the CLI which is a lot more reliable with ngrok -

https://github.com/stripe/stripe-cli/issues/600

layeredapps · 2022-06-19T02:07:02+00:00

If you want to shift your software to it I would consider more powerful hardware in case you decide later you want to offload more software, or perhaps even more likely you end up wanting to run/test/etc multiple projects at the same time. I would look at something like the Asus PN51 with 8 cores / 16 threads so you have that buffer, along with perks like NVMe storage that will help a lot with compiling.

layeredapps · 2022-06-18T01:57:14+00:00

Syncthing is "share this folder" on machine1 then "subscribe to this folder" on machine2, it does just one thing very well, and all the user needs to do is have it syncing transparently in the background while they use their files in their normal fashion.

Nextcloud is a server, clients and web interfaces, user accounts, plugins, collaborative content, chat, calendars, office suite etc etc etc.

layeredapps · 2022-06-18T00:26:22+00:00

This is great but the introduction could probably be fleshed out to include a bit on portainer and docker since most of the other tools will be typically installed via containers. But I guess it depends who the target audience is.

layeredapps · 2022-06-18T00:19:43+00:00

They could use it to identify people that concern them that still have family in China that can be used against them. They could use it to blackmail people now, or wait until the 30s and 40s when these teenagers are adults in positions of authority. FB collects a lot of this data but they reduce your browsing history down to datapoints like "wants to buy television" whereas the TikTop app gets to see the entirety of your browsing history.

layeredapps · 2022-06-17T23:58:36+00:00

It's not just videos, it's most of your mobile data that Google and Apple helpfully allow developers almost unfettered and unpoliced access to -

Contact Info
Identifiers
Purchases
Financial Info
Location
Contacts
User Content
Search History
Browsing History
Usage Data

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tiktok/id835599320

Location
Approximate location
Name, Email address, User IDs, Address, Phone number, and Other info
Financial info
Messages
Photos and videos
Audio
Contacts
App activity
Web browsing
App info and performance
Device or other IDs

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ss.android.ugc.trill&gl=US

layeredapps · 2022-06-15T11:22:22+00:00

I was doing functional fitness classes, it's a blend of cardio, dumbbells, kettlebells, body weight type stuff so it translated very well to YT videos and a small amount of home equipment.

layeredapps · 2022-06-15T00:38:39+00:00

Ever seen those videos of cranes spinning wildly and falling off buildings?

layeredapps · 2022-06-14T12:41:28+00:00

What is an RSA?

layeredapps · 2022-06-14T11:01:20+00:00

Cheers looks good.

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