Jilles Soeters
@Jilles
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0 times #1 New York Times bestselling author #6 all time upvotes in /r/fitness Staff Software Engineer at Udemy
Austin, Texas
Joined November 2021
Me trying to record a video where I need internet. AT&T: no you’re not.
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Alright I finally figured it out. Ghost was listening on port 2269 instead of 2268 so the proxy pass went to the wrong host. No clue why this worked in Ghost 5.
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Alright I had to add some entries to Nginx ~/.ghost/activitypub. But now I'm getting.```.[2025-08-09 14:44:14] ERROR No webhook secret found - cannot initialise.```.
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Tried to update to @TryGhost 6. Got a 502 on ERROR Could not get webhook secret for ActivityPub FetchError: invalid json response body at reason: Unexpected token '<', "<!DOCTYPE ". is not valid JSON.[2025-08-09 14:25:54] ERROR.
jilles.me
Articles written by a human. Mostly about web programming stuff.
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Installed Dokku, pushed an image. 16 cores and 64gb of memory would cost me ~$500 per month on DigitalOcean. The future is self-hosted.
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Installed Proxmox on an old computer. Connected that computer directly to my router. Created a Debian VM. Added a Cloudflare Tunnel (!).Installed nginx. So sick.
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This is exactly right. Start with a simple SQLite database if you have no users. Then once you start getting write locks, switch to MySQL or Postgres. Then once your database is struggling to keep up with demand, look at PlanetScale or RDS/Aurora. Don't start there.
It feels like we lost an entire generation. You were supposed to learn how things work and then choose a 3rd party PaaS if it supported your tradeoffs, not blindly choose PaaS because you don’t understand how anything works.
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GLM 4.5 with OpenCode is good.Horizon Beta is also good and free. But a lot of “old string must be different from new string” errors.
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Wanted to show someone literally can't open the models page. Yikes.
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I'll have to get rid of the empty bookshelf but what do we think of the lighting?
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I made a deal with my fiance. When I reach 10 000 YouTube subscribers I turn my office into a studio. I currently have 0 videos and 0 subscribers, but that will change soon 👀.
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I'm working on my first YouTube series "Dokku 101" which will hopefully solve this problem. No reason why you can't run your app with < 1m users on a $5 VPS.
An entire generation of web devs oneshotted by PaaS and doesn't know how to SSH into a server anymore.
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Half of this is solved by just thinking. The other half is solved by @PlanetScale.
Databases are simple…. You only need to:. - Use proper indexing (avoid over and under indexing). - Use proper data types. - Optimise queries. - Set up read replicas. - Manage spiky data volumes. - Handle transactions and concurrency . - Manage security and access policies. -.
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Since I am back to using NeoVim I'm always eager to share my screen during meetings to walk through code.
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