I'm "half-half" so to speak. I work as a CTO in my day job (as an employee). Also I'm self-employed (via a company structure) to build https://persumi.com - a blogging platform, and https://rizz.farm - a lead gen platform, as well as to work on client work. https://persumi.com/u/fredwu/hire-fred :). - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

After having worked at many startups, most recently as CTO, I had finally started building my own SaaS (https://persumi.com, a blogging/audio platform and https://rizz.farm, a lead generation platform) in 2023. So for 2024 I'd love to start monetising them and turning them into real businesses. Fingers crossed. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

I think it depends. I used Petal Pro (https://petal.build/) to build Persumi (https://persumi.com) in three months and Rizz.farm (https://rizz.farm) in six weeks, both in my spare time. It would not have been possible if it wasn't for the boilerplate taking care of things like authentication and user management. With a bit of digging around, things are pretty straightforward. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

I built https://persumi.com to uplift my own blogs, and to turn text into audio (you can subscribe in your podcast app). Then, once I realised there's no good tools to promote it, I built https://rizz.farm so I can promote Persumi. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

Personally, I enjoy the human aspect, so I've been working as a CTO for a few years now. On the side I spend my spare time working on open source projects, freelance projects and most recently my own apps (persumi.com and rizz.farm) because programming is still my passion and hobby. Source: 7 months ago

Manjaro actually includes Portmaster [0] as a package [1], which is now being moved to "extra". [0] https://safing.io/portmaster [1] https://software.manjaro.org/package/portmaster-stub. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

I get it, but running an outdated OS with no patching is height risk for security, consider the tradeoff. If I'm not mistaken W7 is not supported anymore, meaning you are exposed to vulnerabilities. Consider checking online guides on how to harden W10 or consider migrating to a modern Linux distribution, that can even run some Windows programs. It is true that has reliability issues. VMs are another option and... Source: over 1 year ago

Wouldn't a software like PiHole or Safing Portmaster help in this regard than to rely on ublock origin? Source: almost 2 years ago

You could look at something like Portmaster https://safing.io/portmaster/. Source: almost 2 years ago

You can also check Portmaster that is still on Alpha, but looks promising. Source: almost 2 years ago