Also Adaptable.io and Render.

Adaptable.io has a free tier that includes managed serverless Postgres (or MongoDB).

Adaptable.io has a free tier and includes a database (Postgres or MongoDB).

Take a look at Adaptable.io. The free tier includes your database and supports MongoDB directly, so it's great for MERN apps.

Thanks! I'll check it out :)

If you're looking at alternatives, you might check out Adaptable.io. There's a free tier that includes the database.

Adaptable.io just launched managed Postgres, included in the free tier

Adaptable.io is definitely trying to make a better developer experience for startups and other devs. I think it's easier than Heroku.

Good to see a bit of pressure on some of the entry points that allow spoofed numbers into the phone network.

They are a great tool. We know a roofer that's using them to easily inspect and do initial quotes for roof repairs & replacements now...safer, easier, faster. Great idea.

It would be really nice to get a blanket permission for all drone activities under 50 feet AGL.

As someone who loves to use them to shoot video instead of using a ladder (for shots 15-20 feet in the air), the insane panic around their use at all has been massively inconvenient: it is illegal to fly one 20 feet off the ground in a national park as a platform for video/stills. This seems crazy to me.

Nothing that low/close poses any threat to anyone.

Building strong trust is IMHO much harder remotely. That affects both manager/employee trust and trust among employees remote from each other. And without strong bonds of trust, certain things get much harder, such as negative feedback, even when delivered constructively.

Note that I'm not saying you can't build strong trust, just that it's harder. You have to devote considerably more thought and intentional time to it. I say intentional time because when you're local to someone, you naturally build trust with them in every small interaction. In a remote setting, you need to create time and space for those interactions deliberately.

Thanks. Are there any specific steps you take to build trust with remote employees?

I don't think there's any one (or 10) things that magically make it happen, but all of these help:

- Meet in person as much as possible, especially by bringing remote folks together for an extended (multi-day) trip. That encourages more informal in-person interaction. Plan specifically for non-scheduled time, non-working meals, etc.

- Have a regular one-on-one meeting with your reports, preferably weekly. Set up the structure to always have a planned topic portion and some small talk about life. Sometimes that'll be boring or painful, especially for techies. But the space it provides is extremely important.

- Communicate

- Communicate

- Communicate

- Seriously, the one thing that erodes trust more than any other is when people feel out of the loop or not consulted when others were. Document hallway conversations for remote folks. This is hard.

Oh, and GitLab has put some AWESOME resources online about being a fully remote company. I've spent hours reading their employee handbook. Here's a place to get started: https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/

thanks