Ooof. Occasionally you read something that hits different in the feelings, and this article was one for me. The regret at all the lost time and opportunity for all concerned. The might-have-beens. Sometimes, the shackles placed on us by our society, our family and ourselves are unbreakable.
There's something maliciously satisfying about seeing your own self-hosted stuff working while things behind Cloudflare or AWS are broken. Sure, they have like four more nines that me, but right now I'm sitting pretty.
My (s)crappy personal site was up during the AWS outage, Azure outage and now Cloud flare outage. And I have it for 2 months only! Maybe I can add a tracker somewhere, might be fun.
Uptime Kuma already has some automatically generated badges[1], but not for specific events. Your could manually built your own custom ones based on the same framework[2] though.
How do you deal with DNS? I'm hosting something on a Raspberry Pi at home, and I had recently moved the DNS to Cloudflare. It's quite funny seeing my small personal website being down, although quite satisfying seeing both the browser and host with a green tick while Cloudflare is down.
DNS is actually one of the easiest services to self-host, and it's fairly tolerant of downtime due to caching. If you want redundancy/geographical distribution, Hurricane Electric has a free secondary/slave DNS service [0] where they'll automatically mirror your primary/master DNS server.
I don't have experience with a dynDNS setup like you describe, hosting from (probably) home. But my domains are on a VPS (and a few other places here and there) and DNS is done via my domain reseller's DNS settings pages.
Never had an issue hosting my stuff, but as said - don't yet have experience hoting something from home with a more dynamic DNS setup.
This is a real problem for some some “old-school enterprise” companies that use Oracle, SAP, etc. along with the new AWS/CF based services. They are all waiting around for new apps to come back up while their Oracle suite/SAP are still functioning. There is a lesson here for some of these new companies selling to old-school companies.
I was just able to save a proxied site. Then the dashboard went down again. I didn't even know it was still on. It's really not doing anything for performance because the traffic is quite low.
An awful lot of commenters are convinced that it's AI-generated, despite explicit statements to the contrary. Maybe they're wrong, maybe they're right, but none of them currently have any proof stronger than vibes. It's like everyone has gaslit themselves into thinking that humans can't write well-structured neutral-tone docs any more.
This is not written in a neutral-tone at all! There is a lot of bland marketing speech that feels completely out of place. This is not how you write good technical literature.
Many people have already shown the hallucinated apis that is much stronger evidence than your "vibes".
I suppose the author may have deliberately added the "No AI assistance" notice - making sure all the hallucinated bugs are found via outraged developers raising tickets. Without that people may not even have bothered.
It's almost as though the LLMs were trained on all the writing conventions which are used by humans and are parroting those, instead of generating novel outputs themselves.
They haven’t picked up any one human writing style, they’ve converged on a weird amalgamation of expressions and styles that taken together don’t resemble any real humans writing and begin to feel quite unnatural.
I really, really wish that Youtube would start tagging this category of video to increase the visibility to end users. My feeling is that the main reason this content might be "winning" in the market is the sheer volume.
Notwithstanding that the sentiment of the article speaks to me somewhat, I think that it's overly reductive and lacks nuance. Sometimes collaboration can be bad - when you get bike-shedding, when there's no clear decision-maker, etc. Sometimes it can be good - when skills and expertise are complementary, it can be a force multiplier.
The value of collaboration, just like most other things, depends on implementation and circumstance.
Profoundly misguided take. "These bureaucrats" are subject matter experts regarding the topics about which they have input. It's fine for people to do their own research about what car to drive. Which compounds they might consume to affect health issues? Not so much.
Looking back at my time at university, I have to admit that I mainly attended group study sessions in order to spend more time with the attractive singles in our course. This had the accidental benefit of forcing me to study and discuss the material more (which led to better understanding) so that I could help coach others. That in turn led to 1) a reasonable side-hustle in tutoring and 2) dating and marrying my wife.
> This had the accidental benefit of forcing me to study and discuss the material more (which led to better understanding) so that I could help coach others.
The few times when someone tried to explain things to me live, lead to my brain just kinda blanking because of the time pressure and whatnot and it wasn't very useful for me.
Instead, if I wanted to learn something properly, I'd have to just dig into the material myself and iterate on it. Consulting others worked better over text, in a group chat or forum or whatever.
I could only discuss a topic when I already had good grasp of it and felt confident about it. At that point it was more for the benefit of others, outside of finding niche cases that I didn't run into myself.
Same here. People trying to share information I have no interest in? Impossible to learn. My brain finding some interesting topic? Impossible to avoid ingesting all the knowledge about it.
Makes the first ~18 years of your life kind of difficult, as school basically is mostly the first part with not so much the second, but once you complete school or drop out to start working, being able to do the second part seems like a godsend compared to your peers.
this is disturbingly similar to the comment just above it :-). Congratulations..
If you by accident demonstrate desirable attributes or qualities while being observed by another sex, you run the risk of attracting them :-)
(apologies in advance to those who wish to attract the same sex; I assume it works there too).
