The site uses Next.js

Correct!

Component libraries are the major reason I’m still using React.

It would be so much nicer using something like Elixir LiveView for the kind of apps I’m developing. But having to implement so many basic components from scratch just doesn’t make sense.

I mean I can fully see the downsides of introducing big 3rd dependencies into a codebase but not using them would be (in my opinion) a huge waste of time.

Isn’t this a problem for other people (that aren’t using component libraries) as well?

How can anyone be productive with non React/Vue stacks for that reason?

I’d really wish there would be other solutions (web components) so I hadn’t rely on React.

Just keep in mind that after all the hard work you’ve done over the years, having good reviews etc. if Upwork (or whatever else platform you’re on) terminates your account—and you have no other income/client acquisition stream—you‘re screwed.

Happened to me years ago. After struggling to get clients on Upwork I finally got gigs and good reviews. Put in a lot of hard work and earned some sort of „trusted freelancer“ badge (don’t know what it was called) that helped me to promote my profile.

I was very happy… only to find out a few days later that Upwork suddenly terminated my account for a (supposed) breach of their rules. They didn’t want to tell me the actual reason but said that I have mentioned „PayPal“ in a message to my clients (and accusing me of wanting to move my clients away from Upwork).

Never did I wanted to do that. I don’t know if I ever mentioned PayPal—and if so then only to talk about payment processor integrations on clients websites.

I messaged back and forth for days with them. In the end it wasn’t worth my energy.

Just be careful and get control of your income streams and diversify as much as possible.

For sure. I think gig apps are good for meeting clients but it’s good business to have them contact you/your business directly in the future

Volumes.

This works, however, only if you know beforehand which files you’re going to update frequently.

I've received the message an hour ago.

I could be wrong but the experience you're describing sounds like lucid dreaming.

No, it's different. I'm an experienced lucid dreamer. I'm also an experienced practitioner of shamanic drumming and the associated waking dream states. It's not the same as that, either.

I discovered Fastmail a few years ago and couldn't be happier. Migrating from Gmail was easy via the import option built into Fastmail.

I'm using a custom domain and pay $5/month for my account.

https://www.fastmail.com/

I’m also a happy Fastmail customer, but I don’t think $5/mo for 10 accounts is gonna fly for this?

$500/mo < $720/mo… but not near enough cheaper for kids email IMO

10 accounts sounds like there are actually lots of aliases, which would be free.

Regardless, I’m a happy Fastmail user as well, just to add another anecdote.

Yes, Fastmail accounts correspond to the number of users you have. Each user can set up a virtually unlimited number of aliases.

I have also been a happy Fastmail user. Reliable and easy to configure.

$5/mo for 10 accounts is $50/mo in total. I don't know where you got the $500/mo from.

And that is a very reasonable price for a core service like email and not selling you data

You’re absolutely right; I feel exceptionally dumb! Don’t get the downvotes?

I will also second Fastmail as a Google alternative. Does what I need well.

I have encountered a couple minor bugs with the calendar but nothing I would classify as a show-stopper.

First, once in a while when you load the calendar page an event doesn't show up. Refeshing fixes it. Never had issues with events not showing up on mobile, though.

Second, I sync external calendars and sometimes events show up as also being on the external calendar. Weird, but easy enough to ignore.

I personally found that events showing up on the external calendar was much worse than just weird. Every job interview cycle I've gone through using Fastmail has had its own new issue.

After constantly switching schemes I "finally" settled on using nightfly.

https://github.com/bluz71/vim-nightfly-guicolors

why? Asking for a friend

I prefer dark color schemes. And nightfly has just the right amount of contrast in my opinion which dark schemes often seem to lack.

It's Firebase.

https://github.com/HackerNews/API

That’s just the API. I no longer work on HN, but as of 2016 it was still flat files (s-exprs) on a ZFS dataset.

Related thread discussing the study: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30019841