ericholscher

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by ericholscher 6mo ago
This is exactly what I do -- but I have space split up by persona (Personal, work 1, work 2, Play), and then each space is managed with Moom. Love it.
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by ericholscher 9mo ago
I love to see Google & Vercel start sponsoring Tailwind. But the larger question is why did it take the company laying off 75% of their staff for these major tech companies to realize they needed to sponsor? What processes are they doin
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Doing Math with Embeddings for Privacy-First Ad Targeting(ethicalads.io)
1 points by ericholscher 11mo ago|0 comments
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by ericholscher 1y ago
Seems like this is the reply you wanted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45372303
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10 years of sustainable open source(about.readthedocs.com)
4 points by ericholscher 1y ago|0 comments
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by ericholscher 2y ago
Been using Django in production since 2008, and so happy with my choice. Absolutely amazing being able to keep the same knowledge and workflow for my whole career so far, and still have a modern, maintained piece of software as a base. The
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by ericholscher 2y ago
Yep -- our story here: https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2024/07/ai-crawlers-abuse... (quoted in the OP) -- everyone I know has a similar story who is running large internet infrastructure -- this post does
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by ericholscher 2y ago
Yea we all have a lot of books to read, but trying to figure out how the group wants to learn something and discuss is hard. Especially when the goal is having some business benefit, not just reading for fun. There’s a lot of “paper reading
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by ericholscher 2y ago
Love this idea! We wrote up a post about the book club we were running at our small company, and it was great for expanding people’s interest and understanding of different topics: https://www.ethicalads.io/blog/2022&#x
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by ericholscher 2y ago
I usually use :q! which seems to do the same thing
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by ericholscher 2y ago
I've been working in this space for a long time, where I'm one of the co-founders of Write the Docs: https://www.writethedocs.org/ -- we focus more on software docs. The view from the industry is basically that ST
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by ericholscher 2y ago
We’re talking specifically about a SaaS app in this post. I’m well aware of this working at small local levels, and even mentioned in my comment that it might work in niche environments, but I have a hard time believing it would work for
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by ericholscher 2y ago
This is a beautiful vision, but I think it would be hard implement in practice. I’m trying to imagine how a pitch like this might work. Do you offer the customer/members some kind of profit sharing? A discount on future services? Given
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by ericholscher 2y ago
Hey Dave, Glad you're still doing cool things :) Read the Docs is pretty much all open source, including the billing code ( https://github.com/readthedocs/readthedocs.org/blob/main/rea... ), but we ar
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by ericholscher 2y ago
We did get $7k out of one of the AI companies based on the massive bandwidth costs they caused us. https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2024/07/ai-crawlers-abuse...
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by ericholscher 2y ago
This keeps happening -- we wrote about multiple AI bots that were hammering us over at Read the Docs for >10TB of traffic: https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2024/07/ai-crawlers-abuse... They really are tr
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Pete Buttigieg Wants to Make America Not Suck Again? [video](youtube.com)
3 points by ericholscher 2y ago|0 comments
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by ericholscher 2y ago
Haha. I think they are definitely relevant, and I’d call them a technology more than a tool. That is mostly just that we don’t want folks going up and doing a 30 minute demo of Sphinx or something :-)
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by ericholscher 2y ago
This is a great post. I’ve also been having a lot of fun working with embeddings, with lots of those pages being documentation. We write up a quick post on how are using them in prod, if you want to go from having an embedding to actually u
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Mozilla's privacy preserving ad attribution: The future or an oxymoron?(ethicalads.io)
26 points by ericholscher 2y ago|11 comments
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Read the Docs: 10 years of sustainable open source(about.readthedocs.com)
2 points by ericholscher 2y ago|0 comments
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by ericholscher 2y ago
For those saying "just use a CDN", it's not nearly that simple. Even behind a CDN, the crawlers on our site are hitting large files that aren't frequently accessed. This leads to large cache miss rates: https:/&#x2
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by ericholscher 2y ago
Yea, this happened to us, and you can see the cache profile of a crawler here: https://fosstodon.org/@readthedocs/112877477202118215 A bunch of the traffic hit the origin.
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by ericholscher 2y ago
If you're looking to host documentation, Read the Docs has been hosting docs for open source projects for 15 years now (I'm one of the co-founders). We put a small, ethical ad on your docs pages as tradeoff, and to make it sustain
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Using embeddings in production with Postgres and Django(ethicalads.io)
3 points by ericholscher 2y ago|0 comments
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by ericholscher 2y ago
Is it fully off road and complete? Seems not like it from the map.
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Intel announces $36B Oregon investment following federal funding commitments(opb.org)
5 points by ericholscher 3y ago|0 comments
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by ericholscher 3y ago
Website is very much online. Can you share a curl or screenshot of what you see?
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by ericholscher 3y ago
Same in Portland, and when cycling. So checks out here :)
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by ericholscher 3y ago
Strongly agree here. We wrote a similar post on how we’re scaling to a pretty big size with stock Python and Django: https://www.ethicalads.io/blog/2021/07/handling-100-requests... So much of the content arou

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