I make workflow software replacing excel & email
Process 1 billion in sales for my enterprise customers
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🧵 How to do blue 🔵-green 🟢 deployments with Django migrations? 
Use SeparateDatabaseAndState()‼️
1. Generate migrations
2. Move all operations to the state_operations argument of SeparateDatabaseAndState() and leave database_operations empty
3. Deploy to all instances. DB structure is unchanged. Everything works with both versions of your app ✅
Because official policy or no, there was *absolutely* someone at this company who could and would have given me the credit card number I needed and made sure the invoices got handled.
You can model big companies as ongoing civil wars between "people who are incentivized to spend money" and "people who are incentivized not to spend money." The essence of enterprise sales is "find someone in group 1 and help them defeat their enemies in group 2."
So since the "open source supply chain" thing is going around again, I want to take a moment to clear up a misconception a lot of folks seem to have about the motivations of large companies.
They don't, by and large, use FOSS without paying for it because they're evil capitalists trying to keep their costs down.
They use FOSS without paying for it because individual humans are trying to avoid unpleasant social interactions.
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“Until then, I am not your supplier. So all your Software Supply Chain ideas? You are not buying from a supplier, you are a raccoon digging through dumpsters for free code. So I would advise you to put these rules in the same dumpster.” Brilliant article. https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/not-a-supplier
Asking for help and being self sufficient are not mutually exclusive
People love to help those who help themselves
Make it easy for people to want to help
Show your ambitions
Document your tries
People notice
when i first join mastodon, i know there's a way to import people i follow on twitter. but it's a one off
if someone joins mastodon after i joined, i won't get informed.
What's your solution for this?
The bad thing is abt solopreneur n remote work when you get hit by DDoS on a Sunday 1pm you have no one to rely on but yourself
The good thing is after it’s up again and secure you can watch wakanda forever on a Tuesday 1pm
as a reward for pulling a 6 hr shift on Sunday
If you download your #Twitter archive it arrives wrapped as a static HTML page, which is not very useful for doing anything with, and worse: it requires the original account to be still active to do useful things like enlarge the images since they use t.co links.
So here's a #Python script to convert a Twitter archive to #markdown or other formats: https://github.com/timhutton/twitter-archive-parser
Now you can archive your tweets in any way you want.
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