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John Nunemaker @johnnunemaker.com · 2d

PRs created/merged across 4 repos, config changes to 3 apps, revived one getting hammered by an email, deployed a handful of times and were not even to 11am yet folks...

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John Nunemaker @johnnunemaker.com · 2d

Wired: 3 saas apps making 7, 6 and 5 figures in revenue.
Tired: 3 saas apps taking turns struggling with various traffic patterns.

Don't get me wrong, that's my fav type of work. I just like to do one thing at a time... 🥵

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John Nunemaker @johnnunemaker.com · 3d

For some reason I didn't want to switch from default screenshots on mac to clean shot. How wrong I was! I've been on clean shot for a few weeks and its totally worth it. Just give in and get a setapp subscription.

cleanshot.com/

CleanShot X for Mac

Capture your Mac’s screen like a pro.

cleanshot.com

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John Nunemaker @johnnunemaker.com · 3d

Tiny little feature I love in flipper cloud: daily activity emails. Easy to follow what others are doing like new flags and changes.

It's opt-in on your profile. I've been using it for a while and just enabled the flag for everyone.

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John Nunemaker @johnnunemaker.com · 4d

Today I moved something that was $1k/mo on heroku to railway and it seems like it won't even cost $100/mo. Now I'm starting to think about moving all my apps entirely there.

If anyone wants to talk me out of it, do it now.

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John Nunemaker @johnnunemaker.com · 4d

Moved another piece of infrastructure to @railway tonight for box out and put cloudflare in front of flipper. Always get nervous with changes like this so might as well batch them up. :)

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John Nunemaker @johnnunemaker.com · 6d

This is an oldie but a goodie: "How we designed flipper cloud to never take your app down". Love the adapter pattern. Defining an interface can be so powerful.

blog.flippercloud.io/how-we-desi...

How we designed Flipper Cloud to never take your app down

The first hesitation most people have with a cloud-based feature flag service is assuming that their feature flags checks will now require a network connection to said cloud. Many do, but ours doesn't. When I considered starting Flipper Cloud, my overriding concern was how can we ensure that we never

blog.flippercloud.io

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John Nunemaker @johnnunemaker.com · 6d

Something I've been thinking about a lot lately. What makes you different:
www.johnnunemaker.com/what-makes-...

What makes you different

Something that's been on my mind lately: Why is a customer going to choose my product? There's tens to hundreds or even thousands (looking at you CRM's) of every app for every problem. Why would someone choose mine? Price? I'm a firm believer in charging a price that works for

www.johnnunemaker.com

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John Nunemaker @johnnunemaker.com · 6d

Friday we had Karl Peterson (hotwire.com founder) at momentumsb.com/. Favorite thoughts...

* Hire fewer better more expensive people.
* How are you going to differentiate yourself.

John Nunemaker @johnnunemaker.com · 9d

A problem well-stated is a problem half-solved. — Charles Kettering

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John Nunemaker @johnnunemaker.com · 10d

I rearranged my CarPlay icons based on most used. And it feels great. The little things like this add up in life. Think “what is a paper cut I can remove?“ today.

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John Nunemaker @johnnunemaker.com · 12d

New patch release for httparty.
github.com/jnunemaker/...

Fixes multipart files in binary mode and fields including non-ASCII characters. Yep, its that esoteric. Haha.

Let's hope this is a calm one and doesn't break everything for people.

Release 0.23.2 · jnunemaker/httparty

What's Changed Add changelog_uri metadata to gemspec by @baraidrissa in #817 Fix multipart with files in binary mode and fields including non-ASCII characters by @rdimartino in #822 New Contr...

github.com

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John Nunemaker @johnnunemaker.com · 12d

Everyone has great ideas. The difference between the people who crush it in life and those who don’t are the ones who actually decide to bring their ideas to life. - Will Guidara

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John Nunemaker @johnnunemaker.com · 15d

Respect origin ttl for origin and browser. Then don’t mess with query strings. Lastly my issue was etags. So I turned on strong etags.

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John Nunemaker @johnnunemaker.com · 15d

Getting the cache rules right for cloudflare is a dark art. Successfully got an endpoint to respect origin ttl and use etags though today. Also server stale while revalidating is neat.

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John Nunemaker @johnnunemaker.com · 16d

Glad you liked it Barry!

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John Nunemaker @johnnunemaker.com · 17d

love this quote: Curiosity is a super power.

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John Nunemaker @johnnunemaker.com · 17d

“Dance like nobody is watching. Build like everybody is waiting.” - @dharmesh on MFM

John Nunemaker @johnnunemaker.com · 18d

Hopped on a call yesterday to chat running businesses. Be glue. Measure progress. Batteries included. Reduce risk. Fractional FTW. Design products to save people time. Design your business to free your own time.

www.johnnunemaker.com/self-made-i...

Self-Made is a Myth Podcast

Podcast interview where I share my journey building lasting SaaS businesses, the power of partnerships, and why I'm obsessed with onboarding, risk reduction, and hiring ‘batteries included’ people.

www.johnnunemaker.com

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John Nunemaker @johnnunemaker.com · Sep 17

Small improvement for Fireside. You can now import chapters from text. Easy copy/paste from whatever you use to generate your chapters.

John Nunemaker @johnnunemaker.com · Sep 15

Yep, that’s why I needed it. Stuff kept getting lost up there and I couldn’t find them to do the settings.

John Nunemaker @johnnunemaker.com · Sep 15

Long ago I used bartender. I remember liking it but stopped after a computer upgrade or something. I was going to download bartender again and then a friend pointed me to ice and it’s open source and free so I thought what the heck I’ll try it first.

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John Nunemaker @johnnunemaker.com · Sep 15

Started using Ice menu bar manager (mac) recently and it's great.

github.com/jordanbaird...

GitHub - jordanbaird/Ice: Powerful menu bar manager for macOS

Powerful menu bar manager for macOS. Contribute to jordanbaird/Ice development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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John Nunemaker @johnnunemaker.com · Sep 15

Fun read. How to use imap/pop3 with action mailbox via stdin:

medium.com/code-and-co...

📬 Action Mailbox + IMAP/POP3: The Guide I Wish Already Existed

🎶 Please Mr. Postman

medium.com

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John Nunemaker @johnnunemaker.com · Sep 12

Friends don't let friends waste milliseconds. Another endpoint enfastenated.

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