Aw sucks you'll have to spend your time on web infra, but bodes very welll for the long-term quality of the course. Delighted to hear about all that content in the backlog!
Did anyone else notice that "6th" is an understatement? Two of those listed are VCs and tech-adjacent, and one is a VC/AI hype Substack, so the best I can count, in terms of software education, you're sitting at number three at least.
thanks! no surprises! if you want something done well, you have to do it yourself! we love you for keeping the bar off the floor (sadly only physics prevent other vendors from dropping the bar every lower) wishing you much luck on the roll out.
A very good feature would be to be able to get suggestions before asking a question like on stackoverflow with a reference to Q&A videos. I'm always hesitating to ask things because of that. Or an table of contents for q&a videos.
Substack has all the potential to be a great platform for courses, but yeah... it seems they don't care about that. The videos are especially unstable. And you can't even import a `.md` =\
Still, I don't think many of us care that much -- the course is amazing! I am still early on, but learning so much!
Casey. Could you get in contact with DHH or someone from his company for consulting about stable service providers you can hook up to for caching and serving blog and video content?
I'd imagine the subscription and account payment information would be better offloading to some hardened, 3rd party service.
Substack doesn't actually handle subscriptions and accounts either (thankfully). That is done by Stripe, and that won't be changing - all of the billing stuff will stay with them, and will not be migrated anywhere, since any new things we roll out and can use the same Stripe backend that Substack is using right now.
Wait are we going to get a Handmade Web series๐?
Somebody really ought to make it but leave poor Casey alone ๐
StarCode Galaxy here we come!
Thank you Casey for all the great stuff ๐ค
Aw sucks you'll have to spend your time on web infra, but bodes very welll for the long-term quality of the course. Delighted to hear about all that content in the backlog!
Any plans on Open-Sourcing or at least laying out whatever platform you end up building?
No, it would just be an internal thing.
- Casey
Did anyone else notice that "6th" is an understatement? Two of those listed are VCs and tech-adjacent, and one is a VC/AI hype Substack, so the best I can count, in terms of software education, you're sitting at number three at least.
thanks! no surprises! if you want something done well, you have to do it yourself! we love you for keeping the bar off the floor (sadly only physics prevent other vendors from dropping the bar every lower) wishing you much luck on the roll out.
A very good feature would be to be able to get suggestions before asking a question like on stackoverflow with a reference to Q&A videos. I'm always hesitating to ask things because of that. Or an table of contents for q&a videos.
As an (ex-)web dev, I appreciate your sacrifice, Casey. ๐ซก
This is excellent news. Excited for this change!
Itโs been a long time since Iโve used it and I donโt know their features but might be worth taking a look at https://www.floatplane.com
Substack has all the potential to be a great platform for courses, but yeah... it seems they don't care about that. The videos are especially unstable. And you can't even import a `.md` =\
Still, I don't think many of us care that much -- the course is amazing! I am still early on, but learning so much!
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Casey. Could you get in contact with DHH or someone from his company for consulting about stable service providers you can hook up to for caching and serving blog and video content?
I'd imagine the subscription and account payment information would be better offloading to some hardened, 3rd party service.
Substack doesn't actually handle subscriptions and accounts either (thankfully). That is done by Stripe, and that won't be changing - all of the billing stuff will stay with them, and will not be migrated anywhere, since any new things we roll out and can use the same Stripe backend that Substack is using right now.
- Casey