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How to find a remote job when you're an iOS/Android developer from Europe

Getting a new remote job in tech is tough. Especially when you don't live in the United States. There are a lot of companies that are not willing to hire candidates from Europe. When you apply for a job, you need to make sure, that the company is OK hiring

How I failed 5 side projects in 6 years, earning $0

This is a story about me dreaming of building an online project that generates revenue, seeking financial independence and creative freedom. After five years and no success, it's still a dream. Let me tell you more about my failed projects. Planetoid (2015-2016) It's all started with a game. Who doesn't

Monetizing side projects as an EU citizen. Accepting payments without worrying about taxes.

You got a new idea for your side project. You spend few weeks on the implementation working in your free time after work. Right now you want to integrate a payment system but you realize about this mysterious topic: taxes. You start reading about it and you find out about

Schedule background jobs in Rails with Integromat

The most common tool for background jobs in Ruby on Rails is Sidekiq. Unfortunately, it's not standalone and it has Redis as a dependency. In this post, I will present an alternative approach for scheduling tasks in Rails. Oh come on! What's the problem with Sidekiq? It's well tested and

How to store credentials and secrets in Ruby on Rails 6

Ruby on Rails has a support for storing credentials and secrets with rails credentials:edit * Rails 5.1 introduced secrets https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/28038 * Rails 5.2 replaced secrets with credentials https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/30067 * Rails 6. added support for multi environment credentials https: