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joshguthrieon Cloudflare became my Gateway Drug for free and fast hosting

Who loves the thrill of a Vercel bill?

I wrote up my journey moving from Heroku, and friends/family "please host my website" requests to Cloudflare: first for static sites, then CRON jobs, and eventually full JS APIs.

Post isn't sponsored at all, but 1) I found CF surprisingly useful as a solo dev/founder and 2) I haven't written on my tech blog in a while, and 3) I still don't understand why people still use "serverless" that can skyrocket in price, when the same product is available for cheaper.

Obviously, there are still things Cloudflare won't solve for me, maybe it's not a right fit for everyone, so I'm curious how others are keeping their hosting costs sane, share your stories!

joshguthrieon Rails Cookies Monster: A test suit for libraries using Rails sessions

I often move small parts of my Rails app to NodeJS (like file uploads) and it's often been a pain to properly authenticate users. To that end, I built libraries for that in NodeJS and Rust, but testing them was often only on the latest Rails I was using.

To fix that, I built this project: leverage Docker to set up multiple Rails versions, and generate cookies.

Hope it helps other.

joshguthrieon Japan's Brand New Bullet Train Is Earthquake-Proof

Assaults mostly happen on crowded subway trains during rush hours.

The solution to that has been to make some cars women-only.

joshguthrieon Show HN: Ekko Now – Embed a slack-like in a few minutes on your website

This is exactly what I needed, all other solutions I've been exploring so far have either been a pain to set up or a pain to use for my users. Price seems good for what's being sold too, it's ridiculous how some competitors ask for twice that amount but cannot even do basic UX!!

joshguthrieon Jailbreaking Super Mario World to Install a Hex Editor and Mod Loader [video]

Pannenkoek2012 is both genius and crazy awesome at the same time. Its video "0.5x A Key Presses" provoked a riot in video game circles some times ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpk2tdsPh0A

joshguthrieon Rotonde: the IOT library

Why will you do this, isn’t ROS here for this purpose?!

joshguthrieon Apple at 40: The forgotten founder who gave it all away

Best HN comment ever.

joshguthrieon MacBooks are outdated, underpowered and overpriced

I've been using laptops exclusively for the last six years, I move around too much to go back to a Desktop computer.

joshguthrieon Toonz Goes Open Source

I think you meant Nihon Animator Mihon-ichi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Animator_Expo

joshguthrieon PlayStation VR Will Arrive in October for $399

The same way they cleaned up for the Blu-Ray. The latest Playstation's have become gateway drugs to Sony's technologies.

joshguthrieon Ghost in the Shell remains our most challenging film about technology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK8V9jG7Wjg

This one gives it to me every time.

joshguthrieon Ghost in the Shell remains our most challenging film about technology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

joshguthrieon Ghost in the Shell remains our most challenging film about technology

If you loved Minority Report, you may like Psycho-Pass better than GitS.

joshguthrieon Good CEOs aren't busy

Good CEOs aren't busy, they're writing Medium posts

joshguthrieon Object-Oriented Programming: A Disaster Story

What about ruby? Even classes are objects.

joshguthrieon France’s Economy Minister on French Startups

You should look up http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/07/save-secures-16-7-million-t...

300 hires in a year is no small feat, isn't it?

joshguthrieon Should you date a mathematician?

_Should you date a mathematician or not?

_Yes.

joshguthrieon Motivating Employees without Fear

"And that, kids, is how I quit my previous job."

joshguthrieon FREE PDF: Swift 2 Cheat Sheet and Quick Reference

If I'm giving out my email, this doesn't qualify as "free".

joshguthrieon Kojima Productions

PUNISHED KOJIMA

joshguthrieon How ‘South Park’ Perfectly Captures Our Era of Outrage

I believe South Park prefers to be a "middle voice" seeing both sides as completely polarized "you are with me or against me" and trying to entertain all ideas.

One perfect example for me was the episode where Kenny was left brain-dead in the hospital. Cartman wants the plug off to inherit his toys and the other kids want him to stay plugged because they think that's what their friend wanted. Cue a whole episode of "my side vs. your side" until we learn that Kenny DID want to be plugged off should something like this happen. Cartman was right for the wrong reasons and Stan & Kyle were wrong for the right reasons. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_Friends_Forever_(South_Pa...

Or the 2008 episode about the american elections where both sides are obsessing about how the other will turn America into hell by the next morning only to discover the world is still there. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/About_Last_Night..._(South_Par...

joshguthrieon A Beer Placed on the Gun of a Moving Tank Sits Without Spilling

This is either an ad or some feat of engineering we'd be delighted to see shared with us. However right now, it's the former.

joshguthrieon XKCD: Hoverboard

There's none. It'll try to load non-existing pictures.

joshguthrieon 80x40

Just like Fight Club then

joshguthrieon Interview Humiliation

Main one is that you deliver less content if you serve JSON instead of HTTP.

Pros: You don't have to rebuild a full HTML page for every new query, be it server-side of client-side, you don't have to serve assets for every request and client doesn't have to recall/reinterpret them, less content means it's served faster,...

Cons: More strain is put on the client (virtual DOM, keeping the front-end framework in memory). Though it's negligible on most clients.

joshguthrieon Shit Linus Says

>new account only made to sell a book >said book is just a LKML digest >no reflexion no discussion no ideas

Flagged.

joshguthrieon Letter of Recommendation: Bamba

Surprised no one posted this: https://xkcd.com/531/

joshguthrieon Ask HN: Should I deploy my code and lay off 80 people?

>80 analysts who review and scrub data mostly based on experience, lookups, cross comparison or simply informed guesses.

Nice to know you wrote IA. Thanks to you for emulating the complete intricacies of the human brain!

joshguthrieon Guys, here's what it's actually like to be a woman

http://www.amazon.com/I-Am-Jack-Susanne-Gervay/dp/1582462860

Poor Jack can't catch a break!

joshguthrieon An Asynchronous Shell Prompt

Today in: Problems nobody ever had.