ericbarnes's comments

On: Laravel has raised a $57M Series A in partnership with Accel

[ericbarnes]

That was not from Laravel itself but from Caleb Porzio who created Livewire.

[TiredOfLife → ericbarnes]

I know. Bad joke. But it still is an official Livewire thing and Livewire is prominently featured on Laravel website. And conspiracy theories are an official HN thing.

On: Laravel has raised a $57M Series A in partnership with Accel

[ericbarnes]

This is for products from Laravel Inc., not the framework itself.

On: Laravel raises a $57M Series A from Accel

[ericbarnes]

As someone who has been around since the early days his vision has always been great on what works and what developers like.

On: PlanetScale performs layoff and prioritizes profitability

[ericbarnes]

"Removing sales and marketing" - That seems like an interesting decision unless those positions only existed to grow the free hobby tier.

[aCoreyJ → ericbarnes]

Yea this seems like a gift for https://neon.tech/, https://turso.tech/ and https://developers.cloudflare.com/d1/.

Planetscale is definitely popular and they get a lot of free advertisement from tech influencers (may change without the free tier) but most people I know in enterprise haven't heard of it.

[MorganGallant → aCoreyJ]

When is a gift not a gift?

[keithwhor → MorganGallant]

This is a particularly clever post.

For those that don’t have experience running companies with permissive free tiers, free tiers often act as a honeypot for a certain category of users that (1) don’t and will never pay for your product, (2) complain loudly and often and (3) eat up your support time.

This category of user is equally toxic to any competitor’s platform. The best B2B companies paywall early and set the bar high.

[spgonzalaz → ericbarnes]

I honestly missed the mention of layoffs..

On: EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals

[ericbarnes]

> "EU regulation fosters innovation, without compromising on security and privacy," Breton told Reuters.

I had to lol at that one.

[smoldesu → ericbarnes]

Without compromising any of the security or privacy Apple cares to defend. There's words to mince here, but they're not in Apple's defense.

[pb7 → ericbarnes]

What innovation?

[_gzov → pb7]

Sending an iMessage to an Android phone. Only the EU can do that.

On: ElonJet – Account Suspended

[ericbarnes]

If you own the home, then it'll be public through the county GIS. But you'd probably need to know the state/county first to find it.

On: Forge – A Django SaaS Framework

[ericbarnes]

* Forge the Laravel server management SaaS

* Forge the Django SaaS framework

I'm sure other things use the name "Forge" but just seems odd you'd purposefully use the same one. Could also make your SEO rather difficult.

[davegaeddert → ericbarnes]

I have some regrets on this. I sort of landed on the name and then learned about Laravel Forge. But went with it anyway.

On: New York Times Best Seller Business Book

[ericbarnes]

It seems like all modern business books, those released in the last few years, are nothing but a vomit of name drops of famous people and companies and how they do things. I’m sick of hearing about them. I know their stories.

On: Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk

[ericbarnes]

even if it's zero they will bring it home to parents/grandparents where it's much greater than 0.

On: In your code editor, dock your sidebar to the right

[ericbarnes]

Thanks! I just fixed that.