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jimaekon Tell HN: docker pull fails in spain due to football cloudflare block

I've seen it but it's buggy and lacking in features. Feels like an afterthought instead of a real product

jimaekon Tell HN: docker pull fails in spain due to football cloudflare block

I wish I had as much faith in myself as you have in me :)

jimaekon Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block

Honestly I would build it if I knew how to properly market it to quickly get users.

Globalping and jsDelivr took years to gain a meaningful user base

jimaekon Tell HN: docker pull fails in spain due to football cloudflare block

Capture developers and funnel them to the Workers platform

jimaekon Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block

Off topic but I wonder when Cloudflare is going to launch their own Docker registry as a product.

jimaekon We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latency

I run about 270 servers in verified locations as part of the Globalping network https://globalping.io/users/jimaek so I had plenty of targets to test

I tested against them, as well as other infrastructure I control that is not part of the network, and compared to the ipinfo results as well

jimaekon We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latency

I talk a little about it in the article, but the main goal was to build something simple that works as proof of concept.

This brute force approach works much better than I expected as long as you have enough probes and a bit of luck.

But of course there are much better and smarter approaches to this, no doubt!

jimaekon We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latency

Yes, most likely there are multiple algorithms that could be used to get better results with fewer probes, but I'm not smart enough to do the math and implement them.

jimaekon We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latency

Atlas is great but it is focused more on academic research and professional use.

Globalping offers real-time result streaming and a simpler user experience with focus on integrations https://globalping.io/integrations

For example you can use the CLI as if you were running a traceroute locally, without even having to register.

And if you need more credits you can simply donate via GitHub Sponsors starting from $1

They are similar with an overlapping audience yet have different goals

jimaekon We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latency

I talk about it a bit in the article. The easiest solution is to use the last available hop. In most cases its close enough to properly detect the country even if the target blocks ICMP.

Email me if you would like to get some additional credits to test it out, dakulovgr gmail.

jimaekon We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latency

This is a little project exploring the feasibility of using a service such as Globalping for geo location needs.

I had fun making it but please note that the current implementation is just a demo and far from a proper production tool.

If you really want to use it then for best possible results you need at least 500 probes per phase.

It could be optimized fairly easily but not without going over the anon user limit which I tried to avoid

jimaekon AMD and Sony's PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline

Yes I played it on a 4090. The game is good but graphics are underwhelming.

To my eyes everything looked better in BF1.

Maybe it's trickery but it doesn't matter to me. BF6, new COD, and other games all look pretty bad. At least compared to what I would expect from games in 2025.

I don't see any real differences from similar games released 10 years ago.

jimaekon AMD and Sony's PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline

It's fine, but definitely a downgrade compared to previous titles like Battlefield 1. At moments it looks pretty bad.

I'm curious why graphics are stagnating and even getting worse in many cases.

jimaekon Cloudflare Is Not a CDN

Note that while the above is mostly true for free plans, it can also behave like a normal CDN on more expensive plans. The more expensive the more reliable and consistent it is.

jimaekon Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly

I don't understand why we even need such services. Why don't the browsers and maybe even the OS just not improve their included grammar checkers?

The Chrome enhanced grammar checker is still awful after decades.

Maybe the AI hype will finally fix this? I'm still surprised this wasn't the first thing they did.

jimaekon Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

An open source and easy to use globally distributed network monitoring and testing platform called Globalping https://globalping.io

Currently it's at stage of "RIPE Atlas with better UI and UX" but I plan to expand the functionality to cover a lot more use cases like ISPs,Cloud,Edge rankings and performance

jimaekon Unpkg CDN down causing dependent website outages

I invite everyone affected to consider switching to a production focused CDN https://www.jsdelivr.com/

There is also a tool to simplify migration https://www.jsdelivr.com/unpkg

jimaekon The Eval Game

Are you using a DNS ad blocker? An adblock list mistakenly added jsDelivr and later removed it. It would cause this issue

jimaekon F*** Paywalls

Is there a service like this that could work on a DNS level?

I'm using a DNS ad blocker and I could set-up overrides of certain news websites to a different hostname which in turn would redirect to the bypass URL.

It sounds doable but I haven't seen anything like that

jimaekon iSponsorBlockTV v2: SponsorBlock for TVs and game consoles

Just installed and it works amazingly well.

I have YT premium and now this removed all the annoying integrated ads as well.

jimaekon The database servers powering Let's Encrypt (2021)

Refreshing to see big projects running bare metal rather than overpaying for AWS. Especially one relying on donations and sponsors.

jimaekon EdgeNode: Deploy Serverless Containers on Edge

Looks very similar to something I built a long time ago https://appfleet.com/

The pressure from Cloudflare Workers was quite stressful and since I was bootstrapped competing was very difficult. I ended up joining them eventually https://appfleet.com/blog/appfleet-joins-cloudflare/

But good luck with EdgeNode!

jimaekon Thunderbird 115

Oh wow that's a huge difference.

The first one looks like polished quality software while the second one looks like some junky app made by a solo dev on his free time that doesn't care how it looks like

jimaekon The ARM powered ThinkPad x13s, as a developer

I can't wait for proper high end ARM laptops with Microsoft's backing and support.

I'm like the author, I consider the M MacBooks very impressive but I dislike the OS itself.

And it was very unexpected that Chrome underperform so much, without it it's a complete deal breaker for me.

jimaekon Leaflet was created 11yrs ago by Vladimir Agafonkin, a Ukrainian citizen in Kyiv

More open source projects made by Ukrainian developers https://github.com/chernivtsijs/made-in-ukraine

jimaekon Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

https://anycasted.io/

A niche product, I gather data about anycasted IP addresses and sell the database. No idea how to market it but it makes more than $500/month

jimaekon Open-Source Contributors Worth Sponsoring

GitHub Sponsors is great but there is still not enough people and companies willing to spend money to support free and open projects.

It's a lot easier to get them to give you free services worth thousands of dollars than donate 20$ per month.

Another problem is that the people building these projects are often developers who focus on the technology and completely ignore the marketing side of things. Or simply have no idea how to do marketing. Which makes it finding sponsors almost impossible.

Our project is a good example of that, I've been trying to fix the marketing issue for years and I'm still struggling https://github.com/jsDelivr

If anyone has any ideas how to make it more attractive to companies to support us please let me know, I would really appreciate it.

jimaekon Developer, you may need a co-founder in marketing

I think most technical solo founders know they need a co-founder with expertise in marketing and sales, the problem is actually finding them.

I definitely could use one but it's been impossible to find someone both serious about it and experienced at the same time. Especially if you're based in Europe.

jimaekon Designing Our Serverless Engine: From Kubernetes to Nomad, Firecracker, and Kuma

Great post and a great tech stack.

As far as I know Fly.io also went the same path of using the Nomad stack and tools.

We did something similar at appfleet.com and also decided against Kubernetes. We opted to write a lightweight manager of Firecracker VMs.

jimaekon Transfer.sh – Easy file sharing from the command line

The service itself was broken for a very long time, did it become active again?