Alcha

14 karma · joined April 21, 2017

I like making and fixing things that usually involve a keyboard and/or a mouse.

I go by 4lch4 or Alcha (Al-kuh) on most, if not all, platforms.

Alcha··on Ask HN: Where do you host images for your blog or landing pages?

I use [DigitalOcean Spaces](https://www.digitalocean.com/products/spaces) with a custom domain fronting the assets. It's fairly cheap and easy to use.

Alcha··on NPM package event-source-polyfill compromised by political activists

I feel like this question has good intentions but comes across wrong. It's virtually impossible to audit literally every nested dependency.

Alcha··on Goddamn AWS seems to be down again 4th time this month alone

I'm not familiar with their draconian IP assignment, do you have any references I can read on this? Genuinely curious.

Alcha··on Goddamn AWS seems to be down again 4th time this month alone

The company I work for switched from Azure to GCP at the start of the year and personally I don't agree with this statement. Azure was a royal pain in the ass compared to GCP, which I find to be rather smooth and responsive.

Maybe you're going off of past experiences and it's since gotten better?

Alcha··on Ichi.city

I'm getting the same response no matter what ip range I connect from. Tried a few different ones via VPN and keep getting a refused to connect.

Alcha··on MethOps, Marrying Methodology and IT-Operations. – Qualicen

This is largely why I felt the need to share it. I've never posted to HackerNews but I didn't see this one anywhere on here and had to share.