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by 1dom 9mo ago
John, your post opens saying it's addressing the point: “the NAT-by-default of IPv4 effectively means that I get the benefit of a default-deny security strategy.” Your title is "IPv6 is not insecure because it lacks NAT" I&#x
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by 1dom 9mo ago
The difference is context: that link is a service saying they're having to make some changes, because of AI crawlers. The context here is it's a HN post about someone being excited about AI bringing them back to coding, in respons
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by 1dom 9mo ago
This is such a... unique angle. Of all the things to get angry at AI for, web crawlers and the impact on cloudflare outages are the ones that really grinds your gears?
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by 1dom 9mo ago
> This is such a weird take - why do you have to personally use something for that to be useful? > Working to make your home more efficient is not going to suddenly make anyone retire early. That’s the stupidest take I have heard. I d
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by 1dom 9mo ago
I lived the original post and left working in tech a years ago for essentially the reasons in the post. I agree the article stops short of offering solutions, but you also acknowledge there's a legitimate problem but then don't en
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by 1dom 9mo ago
I agree with you, but I'm completely aware that the point you're making is the same point that's causing the problem. "Stuck in a rut" is a matter of perspective. A good marketer can make even the most established b
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by 1dom 9mo ago
> I haven't kept up but it would be nice if there were more options between a no-maintenance static site hosting, and a high-maintenance dynamic site. This is essentially my position in fewer and less argumentative words, including
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by 1dom 9mo ago
This is all entirely fair, thank you, I understand, I didn't mean to misrepresent. > However, since I maintain my personal website as a hobby, I need to make the tradeoffs that feel right to me. I realise this is not a very satisfyi
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by 1dom 9mo ago
I agree, nothing is perfect, there's a time and place for everything - I just think the coverage and advocacy of SSGs is disproportionate to the number of places where they improve things. I'm going to summarise the discussions I&
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by 1dom 9mo ago
My point the entire time has been that an SSG is not good for sites that want interactivity. I agree with you, lots of blogs/sites do fine with just tag/category. Those sites don't have interactivity and so you could SSG them
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by 1dom 9mo ago
Jeff, you said in another thread that you don't get DDoS protection from the SSG side on Jeffgeerling, but from the cloudflare side. My whole point is that SSGs impact interactive site functionality because of how they work (basically
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by 1dom 9mo ago
Thanks for the considered response, I do really appreciate your time responding, I'm hyper aware my position feels controversial and at odds with people like you and Jeff for whom I have immense respect for. Your post boils down to &qu
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by 1dom 9mo ago
I also don't like the idea of depending on globe-spanning mega-CDNs and don't use cloudflare for my own self hosting for the reason. I feel we're philosophically aligned here. I feel you're missing my point which was &q
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by 1dom 9mo ago
I'm sorry, I find your post insulting. I wasn't engaging in bad faith discourse intentionally, but your assumption that I am - ironically - doesn't feel like appropriate etiquette here either. Despite that, I'll try answ
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by 1dom 9mo ago
I was thinking of this blog post when I wrote that: https://idiallo.com/blog/surviving-the-hug-of-death
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by 1dom 9mo ago
This is just server side search with more steps, since the index needs to be selectively split and returned, and then search results page generated from the index. Sorry, I don't mean to come across as disagreeable. You're right,
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by 1dom 9mo ago
Thanks for the response, I appreciate it. If anyone's wrong here, I'd much rather it was me, if not just because that would mean we've not wasted millions of hours as a society chasing the SSG dragon! :') I totally see w
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by 1dom 9mo ago
"Markdown-to-templated-HTML" is only 1 part of a website. SSGs force people into particular ways of doing all the other parts of a website by depending on external stuff. This is often contrary to long term reliability, but nobody
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by 1dom 9mo ago
> Isn't part of the appeal of SSGs that all you have is a bunch of html/css/js that you can drop on any server anywhere (even a solar-powered RPi can serve a lot of requests[1])? This is the part I'm struggling with.
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by 1dom 10mo ago
If you want interactivity, we agree, you have to either run a server, or you have to use a 3rd party. It's easier for a server to render markdown than it is for an SSG site to do server stuff. Your suggestion for comments is to run a s
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by 1dom 10mo ago
I'm on your side. Nobody can point to a reason why it's a good idea for a site with any interactivity now. All the supporters here are all the same: "I had to do a whole bunch of mental gymnastics and compromises to get <b
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by 1dom 10mo ago
Nice! So you weren't forced to rewrite a comments solution when you shifted to an SSG, you just coincidentally had to do them at the same time? It looks like you did exactly what Jeff did: got fed up with big excessive server sides and
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by 1dom 10mo ago
We've gone from SSGs for ease, speed and reduced resources, to talking about implementing search with multiple megabyte client side indexes and hundereds of thousands of prerendered search result pages. When does this become 1 step for
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by 1dom 10mo ago
I think you're the tiny minority of people who have a bright future ahead with SSGs. Anyone who wants/needs interactivity is digging themselves into a hole.
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by 1dom 10mo ago
How did you get to that position? Did you have to create the server side components to solve the SSG comments problem...?
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by 1dom 10mo ago
Pretty much every single option there involved letting a 3rd party collect and own the comments. If you're fine for 3rd parties to own all your comments and content, why even take on the extra effort of hosting or managing or building
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by 1dom 10mo ago
Not if you're already running servers and server applications. If you already have patterns for running and deploying server software, an SSG requires an extra preprocessing step to generate the HTML for the server. If you don't u
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by 1dom 10mo ago
Yes, SSG pipeline + 1 or 2 small self-hosted OSS tools is way simpler than Drupal. But all you've done in bought on all the pain and compromise of having to think from an SSG perspective, and that created problems which you've alr
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by 1dom 10mo ago
> Until you have enough visitors or evil AI bots scraping your site so that it crashes, or if you're using an auto-scaling provider, costs you real money. There's been multiple blog posts on HN from people who've received
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by 1dom 10mo ago
I think this is silly, and it's a hill I'm willing to die on. I wrote this in a comment yesterday, and Jeff has fully confirmed/vindicated this in his post: SSGs are good for static sites with no interactivity or feedback. If

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