We are a very happy customer of better stack - it’s a genuinely great product that did not let us down so far and it’s way more intuitive than my previous experiences with Opsgenie (setting up escalation policies was a nightmare in opsgenie)

We also use the AI features quite a bit, but they can be easily ignored if unwanted

Big fan of the clean design and focus on keyboard shortcuts! Awesome work.

glad you like it!

I like the idea integrated Grafana support! Perhaps finally a way for us to reduce the amount of tools & infrastructure we need and unify them under one hood. Will give it a try, thanks for building this.

Thanks for the q (I work at Deepnote) - all outputs that can contain potentially malicious JS are sandboxed in iframes so they can only access their local context and can't be used e.g. for XSS attacks.

Author here, thanks for the feedback!

I fully agree - if I were to start a new project today, I would most certainly use an existing design system and tweak it.

We actually did use an existing system/framework at start called ant.design, but we slowly started replacing it. Many components had some kind of a quirk which did not let us use it the way we intended - resulting in various hacks on top of it. As I mentioned in another comment, the rest the design system "crafting" at Deepnote was mostly re-organizing elements and making sense of what we already had and unifying it. This reduced the scope of the work to be done by a lot.

So far maintaining the current design system and using it has not been a time sink, eager to see what the following months will bring.

Author here. Agreed, this is a great point. Fortunately, we did not need to craft all componnets from scratch at Deepnote (since they existed in various forms both in code and in designs), so we mostly polished the existing elements and unified them. This means the friction of hand off was significantly reduced and the engineering team was also very keen to look into it as they saw the immediate value in having a single source of truth e.g. for a Button.

Also, you mentioned the framework. We use mainly React + emotion on the frontend (along with Storybook from the article). Happy to answer any specific questions you might have - filip@<company-name>.com

thanks for this, exactly what I was looking for

I like Integromat (https://www.integromat.com), it's Zapier on steroids, hitting the sweet spot for developers. The minor downside is that it can take time to get used to the whole layout and the concept of connecting apps in their editor.

Came here to +1 Integromat. It's definitely my go to for stock-standard automation. I once had a pipeline that would take Trello tickets with movie names, search them using (I think) TMDB and apply a synopsis + posters to the Trello ticket upon ticket creation!

Zapier user here. what are the specific advantages of integromat over zapier other than less expansive?

I can only enumerate some specific use-cases I found really helpful:

- highly customizable response to a webhook request

- it has great support for loops and iteration over arrays of data

- every single input field can be enhanced with custom code. e.g. an email integration will want me to fill out an input field for the email subject. I want to capitalize the first letter of every word in the subject, so I can easily split the subject line, map over every word and capitalize it.

- I know you have mentioned this in the comment, but it's MUCH cheaper. You also get all features out of the box, unlike Zapier.

Yea, Integromat makes so much more sense to me compared to Zapier and it's also less expensive.

I work at https://www.deepnote.com/, we are trying to tackle some of the pains mentioned in the article (setup, collaboration, IDE features like auto-complete or linting).

We are still early access, but if you are interested in an invite just let me know. My email is filip at deepnote dot com.

Deepnote seems quite interesting, but as a cheapskate grad student, I'm compelled to ask.

If this information isn't private, what sort of business model do you use? I take it you'll have a SaaS subscription model? I see it's free to use now, but how does your company plan to make money (especially taking into account the cost of the cloud hosting Deepnote requires)?

Hey, thanks for the question.

Our goal right now is to build the most amazing data science notebook. We need a lot of feedback to get there, that's why we are keeping it free. But since the servers also cost us something, we haven't opened up Deepnote to the public just yet.

Once in GA, we know we can support students on a free tier almost indefinitely (it doesn't really cost that much) while offering more advanced features on a subscription model for teams and enterprises.

If someone is interested in the previous years of Advent of Code they are available as notebooks in Peter Norvig's pytudes repository: https://github.com/norvig/pytudes

Thank you very much for this!

I was aware of Norvig's 2016 AoC solutions, but I thought he never did any of the newer editions. I know what I'll be reading today :)