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esheron Front end took 20 years to return to PHP

Nice. For the records, there are some PHP based systems doing static file (in general, some generated, some rendered): Kirby CMS, Statamic, Jigsaw, Grav …

esheron Chuck Norris has died

Chuck Norris counted to infinity. Twice.

esheron The 49MB web page

Was about to add this too!

esheron MacBook Neo

I see a lot of young people on that page.

esheron An Update on Heroku

The original Heroku often gets praised here. Rightfully so. It inspired many. We started our PHP PaaS [0] 13 years, ago. Most of the others from that area are long gone. PagodaBox, CloudControl, PhpFog …

[0] https://www.fortrabbit.com

esheron Opening the AWS European Sovereign Cloud

Commission launches market investigations on cloud computing services under the Digital Markets Act https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_...

> Two market investigations will assess whether Amazon and Microsoft should be designated as gatekeepers for their cloud computing services, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, under the DMA, in other words whether they act as important gateways between businesses and consumers, despite not meeting the DMA gatekeeper thresholds for size, user number and market position.

esheron Opening the AWS European Sovereign Cloud

> AWS European Sovereign Cloud is located in the state of Brandenburg, Germany, and is generally available today.

Appears to be in Massen: https://www.lr-online.de/lausitz/finsterwalde/investition-in...

esheron Opening the AWS European Sovereign Cloud

Dear smart people on HN, what do you make of this? I understand most of you are US based. Is that Amazon getting ready for serious trade war, US/EU?

esheron Security issues with electronic invoices

Another project by Hanno Böck: https://youtube.com/@decarbonizeeverything?si=q6yczy30SZx_sA...

esheron Garfield's proof of the Pythagorean Theorem

Same!

esheron Grokipedia

And to compare: https://grokipedia.com/page/Elon_Musk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk

esheron Pixnapping Attack

I was looking for a nice browser game, just judging by the name.

esheron Why is everything so scalable?

I can relate - running a small hosting business. People come up with too complex solutions. They solve problems that they'd wish to have. For instance: HA setups are complex. If not done correctly, like in most cases, people don't gain the additional '9' from the SLA.

esheron Notion 3.0

An Obsidian vault can be a Git repo. Obsidian recently launched data tables. Consider plugin security (supply chain attacks).

esheron This website has no class

My sympathies! I developed a small CSS frameworks many moons ago [1]. It provided basic styling for elements directly and used the cascading part of CSS a lot. I see the benefits of utility classes and how it fits to web components.

[1] - https://medium.com/teutonic-css/retiring-my-own-little-css-f...

esheron Native ACME support comes to Nginx

Will that make local development setup easier? Like creating some certs on the fly?

esheron The Joy of Mixing Custom Elements, Web Components, and Markdown

I use https://github.com/nuxt-modules/mdc with a Nuxt Content project. Also looked at https://markdoc.dev

esheron Yamale – A Schema and Validator for YAML

Found this when I wondered if there is some structural key/value validation beyond simple syntax checks for YML and maybe JSON files. For XML that's built in.

esheron Jules, our asynchronous coding agent

Watch YouTube while AI is coding for you.

esheron The HTML Hobbyist (2022)

Resonates with me. I think I am a wheel re-inventors too. I also like amateur, dilettante and the spinning globe here: https://lilly.art/

esheron Stop selling “unlimited”, when you mean “until we change our minds”

"forever free" is another one.

esheron Ploi Cloud

I observe PHP hosting services (building our own). ploi.io is a well known 'VPS management software'. Now ploi.cloud looks promising.

esheron NuxtLabs is joining Vercel

Some more details by Daniel Roe: https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt/discussions/32559

As also seen here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44500544

esheron The Future of Nuxt

Happy Nuxt user. Congrats to the team. I am concerned about how software frameworks are getting integrated into hosting platforms these days (I run a small hosting service). Blogged about it here: https://blog.fortrabbit.com/web-hosting-and-open-source

esheron Nnenn Lego Artist (Flickr)

Friend of mine is Leogo artist and showed me the work of legendary Lego artist Nnenn. I wonder if there are people around here who know more.

It's also reminder that Flickr once was a great social photo platform.

esheron The Offline Club

Original poster here. I have no affiliation to it. Just found it, guessed it will spark some interest here, which it did. I thought about going to one event in Berlin, but it's in a hipster area.

esheron Is Lovable getting monetization wrong?

Good product placement of Lago :)

esheron Cabbit

Still does not beat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_of_Caerbannog

esheron European Cloud, Global Reach

Happy to see UpCloud on HN. We are trying to consider them for a long time, just haven't found the time. https://blog.fortrabbit.com/infra-research-2024

There is also https://european-alternatives.eu/

esheron So you want to build your own data center

I can relate.

We provide a small PaaS-like hosting service, kinda similar to Railway (but more niche). We have recently re-elaborated our choice for AWS (since $$$) as infra provider, but will now stick to it [1].

We started with colocation 20 years ago. For a tiny provider it was quite a hustle (but also an experience). We just had too many single point of failures and we found ourselves dealing with physical servers way too often. We also struggled to fade out and replace hardware.

Without reading all the comments thoroughly: For me, being on infra that runs on green energy is important. I think it's also a trend with customers, there even service for this [2]. I don't see it mentioned here.

[1] https://blog.fortrabbit.com/infra-research-2024 [2] https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/