HAMY LABS POD

Jan 26 2025 29 ep. 16 mins 3
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Building Simple Scalable Systems for Software Projects, Businesses, and general Creation Cycles.

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How do you know it's time to quit your job?

Jan 26 2025 18 mins  
In this video we explore some questions to ask yourself to help determine if it's time to quit and some opportunities to explore before you do so. Original blog post with all links: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2025-01_how-to-know-its-time-to-quit CTA: Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making - https://amzn.to/4fT1iXI Chapters 01:05 - How to know when to quit (according to

TTL Calculator - Convert DNS TTL seconds to human-readable time (built with Datastar)

Jan 23 2025 7 mins  
In this video we talk about my newest app - TTL Calculator - what it does, why I built it, and how I built it. Original blog post with all links: https://hamy.xyz/blog/ttl-calculator CTA: TTL Calculator - https://ttlcalculator.com/ Chapters 00:40 - Why I built it 01:50 - How I built it 04:10 - Building with Datastar 06:25 - The future of CloudSeed Links: - One Million Checkboxes -

The Best Laptop Size to Maximize Productivity for Software Engineers

Jan 14 2025 9 mins  
In this video we'll dive into the best laptop size for productivity for software engineers based on my 8+ years coding with laptops. Original blog post with all links: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2025-01_laptop-size-for-software-engineers Chapters 00:50 - Does the Size of your laptop matter? 01:55 - The Different Attributes of a Laptop 02:55 - Portability 04:05 - Screen Size 06:10 - What

Why I'm Shutting Down 1000 Checkboxes

Jan 07 2025 3 mins  
In this video we talk about why I'm shutting down 1000 checkboxes and the future of internet checkboxes. Original blog post with all links: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2025-01_why-im-shutting-down-1000-checkboxes CTA: One Million Checkboxes - https://onemillioncheckboxes.xyz/ Links: - One Million Checkboxes - Globally Synced Data with HTMX - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhO0s8qNGSI&am

How to find a fulfilling career - no matter what you're into

Jan 05 2025 16 mins  
In this video we talk about some strategies for finding a fulfilling career based on your own interests. Original blog post with all links: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2025-01_how-to-find-a-fulfilling-career Chapters 01:10 - What should you work on in your life? 03:30 - How can you figure out your calling? 06:30 - Does your calling need to be your job? 10:40 - How to find a fulfilling jo

The HAM Stack - A Simple Scalable Tech Stack for building modern web apps fast and cheap (2024.02.21)

Jan 03 2025 20 mins  
In this video we talk about The HAM Stack - the Simple Scalable System for building modern web apps fast and cheap Original blog post with all links: https://hamy.xyz/labs/2024-02_hamstack Chapters 00:35 - The HAM Stack 03:15 - Hypermedia 09:55 - on A Modulith Links: - Software Monoliths for Scale - https://youtu.be/lNIGgTiY7Kw?si=bktUQNyiCZRIJw30 - How HTMX allows you to build mod

My 2025 Programming Language Tier List

Jan 02 2025 26 mins  
In this video we discuss my programming language tier list going into 2025. Original blog post with all links and images: https://hamy.xyz/labs/2025-01_programming-language-tier-list Chapters 00:30 - 2025 Programming Language Tier List 03:35 - S Tier 04:25 - A: F# 07:15 - A: TypeScript 10:40 - B: JavaScript 12:40 - B: Python 17:00 - B: C# 21:00 - C: Golang 23:50 - D: Hacklang Links

What we learned running F# in production for 5 years

Dec 26 2024 12 mins  
In this video we explore lessons this developer learned from building and running a SaaS with F# over the past 5 years. Original blog post with all links: https://hamy.xyz/labs/2024-12_5-years-fsharp-in-production CTA: You can find Ian's original post here: https://ijrussell.github.io/posts/five-years-in/ Chapters 00:35 - Project Summary 01:40 - What's good about F#? 05:30 - What's

HAMY LABS - 2024 Review

Dec 24 2024 29 mins  
In this video we do a year in review of HAMY LABS from Builds to Shares to Business. Original blog post with all links and images: https://hamy.xyz/labs/2024-12_hamy-labs-2024-review Chapters 00:50 - Shares 01:20 - HAMY LABS YouTube 05:35 - HAMY GAMES 08:00 - HAMY LABS Blog 13:05 - HAMINIONS Membership 14:15 - HAMY LABS POD 17:50 - HAMY LABS Socials 20:40 - The HAMNIVERSE Newslette

How this Side Project racked up a $100k Cloud Bill on Netlify - and 5 ways to avoid the same fate (2024.03.13)

Dec 06 2024 23 mins  
In this video we'll explore how this developer's side project ended up costing him $100k in a single month including what went wrong and how you can protect your own side projects from similar DDoS scenarios. Original blog post with all links: https://hamy.xyz/labs/2024-03_avoid-side-project-financial-ruin Chapters 01:15 - The Side Project 02:10 - The $100k Cloud Bill 09:05 - How t