ifore

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by ifore 4y ago
Who are the “gatekeepers” stopping you from running a webserver with whatever “content” you want?
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by ifore 4y ago
Sure you can front static assets with the free Cloudflare tier... [a] which is fine if you're happy with the inflexibility that free Cloudflare offers. And you live in a country where the free tier doesn't have horrible routing (e
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by ifore 5y ago
Out of the box you get EU or US hosting. You can do others (eg West Coast US, Japan, Australia -- it's all just AWS regions under the hood) but to do that you have to be in a 'private space' which is effectively a dedicated c
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by ifore 5y ago
nginx buildpack + python buildpack == nginx to serve static content and gunicorn for the python backend. Of course you now have to know how to set up an nginx config file so it does take away somewhat from the "just works" simplic
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by ifore 5y ago
It seems that it was somewhat inevitable given the US vs Australian distinction on whether to protect Creativity vs Effort (years ago I investigated this rabbit hole when I had a client who wanted to set up a White Pages clone site by buyin
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by ifore 6y ago
- until a few months ago no way to sync an environment with a lockfile (remove packages that shouldn't be there) - no way to check if the lock file is up to date with the toml file - no way to install packages from source if the versio
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by ifore 6y ago
If it wasn't so opinionated it might have been more successful. Just one example: you want your virtualenvs to be created in ~/.virtualenvs so that pipenv is a drop-in replacement for virtualenvwrapper+pip? Tough luck for you, Ken
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by ifore 9y ago
I would have thought that would have been a lot of context switching with graphics driver calls (Or maybe they already do as much as possible in userspace and then batch kernel calls?)