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Month: December 2024

Top Business Tools for Finance Mobile Apps

Posted on December 27, 2024 by James O'Claire

Been updating AppGoblin to better represent some of the data, so I’m going to use this post today to explore the data a bit and see what we find for the most popular business tools for Financial Apps. To better understand the data, I added a breakdown of the top 5 companies for both iOS…

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ClickHouse in Less than 2GB RAM in Docker

Posted on December 20, 2024 by James O'Claire

I’ve had great success with ClickHouse on a 4GB RAM server (shared with other things, full load) but not so on my small server with only 2GB RAM and 2GB swap. I’m having some trouble lately with running ClickHouse, along with 5 or so other services like Kafka, Zookeeper, two python backends and a Node/Svelte…

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Open Source & Paid Alternatives to Firebase Dynamic Links

Posted on December 10, 2024February 5, 2025 by James O'Claire

Dynamic deep links hosted by Google Firebase are on their way out, so it’s time to look for the alternatives. I’ll cover the few open source projects I’ve seen as well as the top paid options. Open Source & Free Really, all this work just to provide a link to your app? Yeah, it’s really…

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GitHub Large File Storage (git lfs) is basically paid only

Posted on December 6, 2024December 6, 2024 by James O'Claire

2 GB Maximum file size sounds great for GitHub LFS. When I saw that I thought, perfect, it’s small but it’ll do. Time to push! “Git LFS disabled for ddxv” Wait what? Git LFS has been disabled on your personal account ddxv because you’ve exceeded your data plan by at least 150%. Please purchase additional…

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How to get Geo Location Info for IP Addresses

Posted on December 4, 2024December 4, 2024 by James O'Claire

Just want to cover the recent steps I took in learning about how to get Geo Location information for OpenAttribution. The first step I took was to look into two existing open source analytics platforms that are alternatives to Google Analytics: Umami and Matomo. Umami I love using umami.is! It’s definitely the smaller of the…

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