[WHAT IT'S LIKE] Starting a tech company

in beyondbitcoin •  8 years ago  (edited)

So as many of you know I've been working on some awesome perversions of the steemit.com codebase. I'd like to call my gentle reader's attentions to some of the other things transpiring in the background:

What I'm trying to say is: It ain't easy.... It can be done, but boy oh boy, it ain't easy.... I find that it's all about keeping a state of Zen, really. Well, that and shooting from the gut/hip: Most people wouldn't have "made a fool of themselves" shouting as I did. But then, most people would have needed to relocate that very day, because they didn't want to make a fool of themselves, and most people wouldn't have a working workstation right now.

So, once again, I'm grateful that I'm not most people.

The moral of the story:

  • Stick with it
  • eyes on the prize
  • .....and get pissed in the right way at the right times.
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Do you suppose maybe we're making this more complicated than it needs to be? It seems that code is getting more and more complicated and doing things less and less efficiently. I'm guilty too. My personal site doesn't really need Angular and Bootstrap, but I did it anyway. How do you pick the language and frameworks for your projects?

I totally feel like things are getting more complicated. So many different frameworks, etc. Oh and then you find good stuff that no one really supports anymore... It can be quite disappointing at times.

So,

Yes, I hate FE, says the guy learning react.

Really, I do. But.... I think I have to learn it.

What's FE? I usually try to go at things as raw as possible if it's a simple things. jQuery doesn't seem to change as much as React or Angular does. I know it's a bit raw but it seems much more mature technology to build off of at this point

You're not wrong.

FE=front end

Oh. Front end haha. Why didn't i think that. I been playing around with Electron lately. Basically Node.js for desktop apps. Pretty cool. Hoping to have somthing released using it by the end of the week Steem related.

In this case, probably not. The stack was chosen for me by the fine folks at Steemit:

  • C++ Blockchain Daemon (steemd)
  • React / Koa front end
  • Mysql database for......? (seriously does anyone know what mysql does in steemit.com ?)

In other cases, maybe.
....but only maybe:

We're never building our own personal sites. We're building things that need to run well at scale, and things get a lot more complicated there. I may or may not be making things more complicated by not being in the US. I really haven't been able to suss that one out yet though, and from every indication I have, It's about even.

What sort of an infrastructure do you use for build/test/release? I find that this is crucial, and I'm happy to lend a hand or just compare notes if you want. [email protected] on google hangouts.

I was wondering if they stored the keys in server, but they don't as far as I can tell. Local storage it seems, I deleted the KOA cookies and still were logged in.

So I'm curious what MySQL and KOA Sessions are being used for too.

only add simplicity