Hello! I'm still working on Neocities (was in the middle of working on it just now) and I still love working on it. I work on it year round but do most of the h

Hello! I'm still working on Neocities (was in the middle of working on it just now) and I still love working on it. I work on it year round but do most of the huge changes in big pushes (scheduled conveniently between summer and winter, or as the outdoor adventure weirdos like to call it "the shoulder seasons"). I've got a few posts on the TODO list, including a 10 year recap with my thoughts on this blog post and the modern web, and an infra talk (I've promised HN I would show how we did our Anycast CDN with our own IP addresses, sorry for the delay). I'll try not to go to long here, suffice to say I'm a little surprised with my own writings. I did see some existential problems for the internet in terms of culture, but I also felt like a lot of my premonitions were wishful thinking directed towards making the project successful. So it's even been a real shocker for me to see social media (especially Twitter) take a massive nosedive into the dirt over the last few years (which I'm still sad about, I loved old Twitter), and we've seen a quite substantial increase in new sites and traffic in tandem, which has required a lot of thoughtful (and occasionally rash) upgrades to infrastructure. Things overall are going well and I expect that we'll have another solid year here and won't be running into any sustainability issues. I wanted to thank the HN community once again for your support all these years. HN was our "angel investor", because we received over $20k in donations after we announced on HN, and that was the funding required to get things booted up and running. Without that initial donation push, I'm not sure the platform would have been as successful as it has been. We remain to this day a self-sustaining platform with no needed investment, thanks to Neocities supporters. And FWIW, I still find the HN community to be the most thoughtful and interesting conversations on the web right now, even when I don't necessarily agree with everyone (or I say something stupid and get deservedly knocked down for it). Thanks for that, too, y'all are amazing and I hope you have a solid 2024.