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by technobabbler 5y ago
Vercel is similar. Somewhat better pricing, and if you use Next.js, there are "magic" features like image transformations or incremental static regeneration that are zero-conf on Vercel but require additional hacking to get workin
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I was skeptical at first, but your comment convinced me to take a look. It really is much easier and cleaner, and having it run in the cloud is amazing! Nice job!
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by technobabbler 5y ago
If you want dead-simple and dirt-cheap, NearlyFreeSpeech.net is still there. Put 25 cents in there, upload a file, done. https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ Pastebin is another option for simple text. For slightly more comple
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by technobabbler 5y ago
Almost anything any government does is extremely complicated, and yet most of the developed ones succeed in ways our fails at. Why are we unique? Countries poorer than us, less dense than us, smaller than us, still manage to provide many ba
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by technobabbler 5y ago
It's really exciting to see Cloudflare Pages keep progressing! Any plan to eventually offer drop-in support for Next.js? (Not just static builds, but the backend server/serverless functions too, like Vercel... maybe mapping certai
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by technobabbler 5y ago
For professional needs? To enhance searchability or discoverability? For archiving? They enjoy it? But they tend to come up with their own classification schemes. The idea of a interoperable semantic web wasn't a bad one, there just wa
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> how the US government can constantly solves very tricky real world problems that impact our lives What are some recent examples? Especially dealing with technology? I can think of a bunch of counter-examples where the government did no
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Yeah. Outsourced or not, I just can't remember our government having done anything well in my lifetime, except maybe winning traditional military battles against third world countries, which we also outsourced (then subsequently we los
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You're lucky. Or skilled. I have half a dozen websites that broke, with maintenance, in the same period. Often because of SSL issues configured by someone else. Plus my own screw ups. It's not impossible to do right but it's
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That's a lot of ifs and buts, just to keep up with the last decade's implementations. For a simple blog that maybe ten people a month read. Good luck keeping up on developments of the next one... Whether it's lets encrypt or
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by technobabbler 5y ago
Are you suggesting regulating IOT devices for better security? Who the heck could you trust to do that? The FCC? The Chinese government? Consumer rights in the USA is barely a thing, and there is no competent bureaucracy for this sort of au
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Sure, would be happy to chat. Still new here and not sure how private messages work. May I email the address in your profile, or? In short, in many of the small businesses I've worked for, it was trivially easy to collect analytics dat
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I dunno, I used a lot of RSS feeds and feed readers back in the day. It was a good digest mechanism before Google News and social news. Now it just seems a historical oddity. Sure, maybe podcasts use it as an underlying protocol, but users&
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I didn't mean to debate the value of Wikidata vs Wikipedia specifically, more just used them as examples of semantic data vs free-form thought. Humans don't think or produce cultural output in neat units of semantic data. That sor
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You can still use them if you want, but browsers, etc. stopped supporting them a while ago. They're just kinda irrelevant except for a tiny niche now.
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It was a lot of work for no real benefit. Nobody cared to parse that stuff or display it in a popular, customizable way, unlike RSS or Atom, both of which also died. Eventually Google's natural language-esque search just got big enough
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by technobabbler 5y ago
Sounds good, thank you!
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Do they support Google Analytics? Nothing on their website or release notes indicates this, as far as I could find.
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For those of us in smaller businesses, any chance of supporting Google Analytics as an integration? The ability to detect statistical anomalies across random pages/events would be a godsend, especially for organizations that don't
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> SSL is a solved problem since let's encrypt Only if you remember to update your cert chains, and your web servers have to keep up with TLS etc. updates too > cloudflare actually decreases performance (by adding an hop when serv
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by technobabbler 5y ago
The CAPTCHAs are a per-website setting that individual webmasters set (or, more likely, forget to set). As an end user, I agree they are annoying. These two things may or may not help (hCaptcha is the engine used by Cloudflare*): 1) You can
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by technobabbler 5y ago
I think those architectures you mentioned come from entirely different philosophies. The data center model relies on a glob of services that you manage yourself, and manage infrastructure & networking for. That's how a lot of the e
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If this works like a regular worker, the first request can then cache the response for subsequent users. Might be helpful for read-often, write-rarely use cases where the first user (per expiry period) acts as a sacrificial lamb to speed up
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by technobabbler 5y ago
Playing devil's advocate's devil's advocate: Maybe Apple is trying to cater to advanced users again? In the last decade or so, we've seen Apple flip-flop their designs and priorities between content creators and content