solardev

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by solardev 2y ago
Wait, I thought true random numbers were hard to generate?
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by solardev 2y ago
Cloudflare is more IaaS. Some services can be for hosting (Pages) or caching (CDN), while Workers can be used and misused for a whole bunch of use cases. Not sure what the author's rationale is here.
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by solardev 2y ago
Sometimes people use them as reverse proxies or to load stuff from cloud KV. You could probably build a web stack on it if you wanted to. But I think a static blog like this would be simple enough on Pages or behind the regular CDN.
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by solardev 2y ago
Interesting, I'd never seen a Cloudflare rate limit before. Are they dynamically handling every pageload with an uncached worker? Pages or the regular CDN wouldn't work?
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by solardev 2y ago
I think it's going to be terrible at that :( Separating SEO spam from useful products isn't a strength of LLMs. Probably a normal prompt without deep research would be better for that (but less recent), especially for topics that
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by solardev 2y ago
Well, I think that's actually the point, no? This was never a technical challenge (not for a few decades, anyway), but a question of which authority to trust. Companies rolled their own out of a commercial need. The FOSS community didn
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by solardev 2y ago
It depends a lot on the government in question too. In the US very few people would trust the government to handle something like this. The certificate authority system is run by big tech companies and nonprofits, for example, not the gover
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by solardev 2y ago
IMO those are different use cases. If that sender or Google itself were to disappear, hopefully the messages would just disappear too. It's better that they become inaccessible rather than public. Long term archival is a different use
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by solardev 2y ago
What topic or field are you researching? Is it something academic, programming related, or...? It generally helps if you ask it to focus on specific kinds sources (gov sites, academic, etc.) but it really depends on the topic. Easy for some
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by solardev 2y ago
Isn't this how banks send secure messages too? You can't send secure emails to arbitrary clients otherwise. PGP stands no chance of being adopted by regular users.
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by solardev 2y ago
They were restored and now live in a museum: https://www.fieldmuseum.org/blog/tsavo-lions
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by solardev 2y ago
Hmm, Tokamak seems abandoned (hasn't been touched in years) and skip.tools requires xCode and is Android-only =/ Thank you though.
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by solardev 2y ago
Did this topic get resurrected and then re-timestamped somehow? The timestamps say many of the comments were posted 16 hours ago, but I definitely posted these way longer ago (like 3 days ago, I think). There's also a lot more voting a
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by solardev 2y ago
You really shouldn't. Help him set up a Squarespace/Wix/Wordpress or similar that you don't have to maintain. Anything you code, manually or vibe-ly, is going to become a pile of unmaintainable garbage in a year or two a
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by solardev 2y ago
I mean, yes, that sort of setup is less fragile than someone's clobbered-together homebrewed site, but it still requires a dev to maintain. What happens to your client's site if you or they can't maintain the dev-client relat
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by solardev 2y ago
Well, Wix isn't really file-based (to the user's eye). They're probably just a bunch of entries in a database. It's more that Wix doesn't offer any sort of easy export to a standard format. Editing in Wix is kinda l
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by solardev 2y ago
Wow, thanks for saying this. I had no idea it was even usable outside the Apple ecosystem. Seems like other IDEs support it too ( https://www.swift.org/tools/ ). How would UIs work on other platforms, though?
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by solardev 2y ago
> Admittedly, the horrible load times of wordpress.com sites are causing me to look at alternatives - waiting 5 seconds for the homepage to show up is not really acceptable. It shouldn't be that slow. Did you enable Jetpack caching
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by solardev 2y ago
It's not about what I (as a web dev) need, but what works for "halp, I need a website" clients who don't know anything about tech. Hugo still implies the need for a build setup and hosting, which in turn means DNS, SSL,
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by solardev 2y ago
Thanks for sharing this! I wonder what actually caused the temporary suspension. Was some protocol not followed? Was the OP not sharing all the details? Was it a case of bad bureaucracy who only responded because of the public backlash? The
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by solardev 2y ago
Drupal's sudden popularity?
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by solardev 2y ago
If only we had real leaders...
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by solardev 2y ago
Use a cloud sync solution like 1Password or Bitwarden. That way all your 2FA is in the cloud and available on all your devices. It is less secure but way more convenient.
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by solardev 2y ago
Can you share any details with the rest of us, without any specifics, so we might be able to better understand your side of the story? Your comment was marked dead, by the way. Your account might be flagged as spam because your most recent
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by solardev 2y ago
What did you find overly complicated about Wix compared to Squarespace? (I don't have a dog in either race... started with Squarespace, but clients found Wix easier to use over time. Maybe that balance has shifted again recently?) Comp
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by solardev 2y ago
Paid Wix sites usually have their own domain and aren't on xxxx.wix.com. But they still use Wix CDNs like wixstatic.com and parastorage.com. I wonder if those are blocked too...
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by solardev 2y ago
Good point about the files. Wix is a walled garden. But cost wise, $20 a month is nothing. The first time they run into a WordPress security, theme, or extension issue, they'll spend more than a year's worth of Wix hosting to hire
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by solardev 2y ago
I frequently recommend Wix to freelance clients who just need a basic site. Once they set it up, it basically keeps going for years and years, which is not true of most other stacks, including Wordpress. It's an easy service from a sin
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by solardev 2y ago
Fair enough! I can't be of any help there then. Hope you find something!
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by solardev 2y ago
Is there a particular stack you prefer? If JS, maybe consider Astro (for simple blogs)? It has built-in MDX support and deploys in a few seconds. There's also Ghost, but it's a bit more complex. It has both a paid cloud version no

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