Omg, #Mistral released Mistral Medium 3.5 yesterday, and it's so good! Already fully switched to it as my main model. Some benchmarks apparently suggest it's comparable to Sonnet 4.5. Let's support #European tech! 🇫🇷🇪🇺
https://mistral.ai/news/vibe-remote-agents-mistral-medium-3-5
I recently joined Ramen Club - an online community for #startup founders, and it's already been super helpful! I feel a lot more confident in what I'm doing with RecordRanks now, and it's helped me stay on the right track. Can really recommend it for aspiring entrepreneurs!
Got my first two customers for my #sports organization and ranking software RecordRanks 🥳 Both are growing sports communities that were looking for a tool that could streamline the organization process. Exciting times!
Made a video about my year-long experience of rewriting the entire backend of RecordRanks and the lessons I learned from it:
I have taken the plunge and will spend the next few months trying to build RecordRanks into a proper service for #sports organization and rankings, and hopefully build a small #business around it. I've contemplated "doing my own thing" for a good while now, and it's finally time to give it a proper shot!
For now, I've set up a Ko-fi page for the open source project itself: https://ko-fi.com/mintydev
Made a YouTube video explaining why I switched from #MongoDB to #Postgres. I've heard plenty of criticism of it, but not much to do with actually using it. I get into that topic in this video.
Implemented #Supabase Cron with my website for automated daily backups. Aaand yet again it was super tricky, as it typically goes with #selfhosting Supabase, haha. Still worth it in the end though. I also reported a bug in their repo, so hopefully that'll be fixed and the next person trying to do it won't have such a hard time.
@sihaha you said you were interested to see my setup :)
(2/2) ...CORS, CSP, etc., getting an A score on securityheaders.com (not A+, because it can’t detect my CSP header for some reason). Caddy also makes it dead easy to configure subdomains.
Check out my setup here: https://github.com/mintydev789/cubingcontests.com
I promised I would share my final #deployment setup, so here it is. I ended up replacing #Nginx + Certbot with just Caddy. This simplifies my setup, especially SSL (Caddy does it automatically). And I did not compromise on security; even made it better than my old Nginx setup. I added all the recommended security headers like... (1/2)
Set up #Supabase Storage on my website last weekend. As it usually goes with Supabase #selfhosting, this wasn't exactly straightforward, but I'm really happy with the results. Was able to get rid of all of our "hard-coded" images in the repo in favor of keeping them in blob storage. Trying to generalize my Rubik's Cube competitions/rankings website to work for most competitive sports now, and it's looking good so far!
This week I have FINALLY finished a massive update for my website after one year of development 😱 It was mostly on-and-off, but with a few stretches of continuous hard work. This resulted in a complete rewrite of the backend (❌ Nest JS API ✅ #NextJS server functions), switching to Better Auth, replacing Mongo DB with #Supabase and more. I'm super happy with the result. I'll be sharing more insights soon, and you can read about it here:
Had a bit of a look into TanStack Start, and it really does look great! There are things I really wasn't a fan of with #NextJS like the lack of validation on server functions or lack of type safety on URL params, and TS Start totally fixes those issues and integrates nicely with TS Query and other tools. Gonna build out the website for my freelance business with it 😁
I think I have a new favorite setup for self-hosting websites. I used to configure #Nginx and Let's Encrypt (with Certbot) manually on my #Linux servers, and then I also tried out a #Docker Compose setup with an Nginx and a Certbot container. Now I have a hybrid approach: setting up Nginx as a container in my Docker Compose file and configuring SSL through my hosting provider. No more manual Nginx/Certbot configuration!
Finished migrating all the features on my website (cubingcontests.com) that I was planning to. Now I just need to deploy the new infra and we're ready for release, finally after almost one year!
I've also been thinking about offering it as a service to other niche sports organizations that have similar needs, and I might already have something lined up now 😮
I am in a deep state of flow now. Gonna finish my year-long website update this month for sure!
If we're allowing anti-EU parties in the #EuropeanParliament, maybe when the aliens come down to Earth, we should also give them a permanent seat in the UN Security Council 👍
Alright, fine, I'll just learn #Playwright. Will probably significantly reduce my headaches from testing frontend code.
I think every testing library should come with a 12 gauge shotgun, just in case you need to blow your brains out real quick.