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This was exactly Mount Vernon, Washington. I was so disappointed.

Seems weird to question their statement, right? Surely they know their life.

This is not that unusual. I also have never had any of these, or any other, streaming services. It's been wonderful.

I went to a (hot!) concert last weekend, and the only "water" available at the venue was liquid death.....for $8. Absolute robbery.

It was the plainest water imaginable.

hate to be the bearer of bad news: it's too late.

There was a time around 2016-2019 where this was possible with Twilio. I went from nothing to sending real SMS messages to real numbers in under an hour.

Then it scaled, became popular, and got ruined.

Post-Covid, SMS abuse went through the roof, they locked it down with legislation and bureaucrazy, and now it's nothing but pain and suffering trying to send SMS. Twilio/Sendgrid used to be fantastic. And now it's a massive sinkhole of your time, money, and sanity. I've not used SNS before, and obviously anything AWS-related has its own unnecessary complexity. But I promise Twilio can't be much better. Feels like they re-write the entire user interface every year just for kicks and giggles. Good luck finding anything, or remember where anything is.

My first thought too! I couldn't put up with it. Left quickly.

It sounds like you're interpreting that in a way I didn't say or intend. In fact, the exact opposite. It was the culmination of my list of things I think my parents did really well.

It wasn't oppressive. It was disciplined. I learned more in 3 hours at home than I did my senior year going to public high school for 8 hours a day.

I was homeschooled and will be homeschooling our kids (first one coming early January 2027!).

Game-changers for me growing up, that I think my parents did really well: - change the curriculum to match the kid (i.e. learning styles, difficulty, pace) - use the public schools for electives, sports, drama, etc (my siblings took music classes for 1 period each day, we all did school sports still, etc) - have strict (or at least structured) time constraints on homeschooling (i.e. don't let it drag into the whole day; we had to be up, dressed, breakfasted, and ready to start at 9am, and we needed to be done by noon and didn't get lunch until our school work was done).

My guess would be via one of those white-labeled apps required to set up your home router. For example, a Comcast, Spectrum, Astound, T-Mobile, etc.

I had this problem too for all my clients e-commerce websites, then solved it 3 years ago with very little code changes.

Happy to share it with you. Using small businesses for credit card testing is one of the most evil things on the Internet, so anything to stop it is worth it.

... All of it? Does a bubble need to be confined to one vertical? It seems like The Bubble is just the sum of a bunch of other individual bubbles.

Also available natively to the OS (Windows) with PowerToys, if you want an alternative to a browser extension. One of the unsung heroes of that library.

Jury is still out on which is more trustworthy handling any personal data, Microsoft or Google. Neither.

Edit: I should have clarified that I was on a 17" desktop monitor. I just loaded it on mobile, and it's fine and dandy on mobile.

But reading small white text on black background that's 100% width is nearly impossible to read.

Wow, my browser's Reader Mode saved my bacon on this one.

Otherwise, I would have left immediately.

I'm all for speedy, simple, plaintext websites, but it is a negligible amount of work in 2026 to throw some barebones CSS in and make it approachable.

Solid. Well-stated. I'm arriving at a similar point as well.

It's true that it can easily save 1-2 hours per month, but it only seems worth it if those hours saved are spent doing something else productive/profitable.

It appears that a lot of the time saved is spent either 1) doing nothing instead, 2) waiting for the AI to finish, or 3) increasing the hours spent elsewhere down/up the chain for reviewing, fixing, auditing.

The obvious benefit of anything offering to save time is that now you have time for "higher order work", but often, we use the time saved to be lazy.

After all, that's the underlying reason we used the time-saving, corner-cutting tool in the first place.

That is a massive website, and still loads quicker/smaller than an entry level React site.

The parent comment wasn't regarding traffic loads; it was regarding latency.

On the contrary, Big tech famously has plenty of data centers on the west coast:

• Quincy, WA (Microsoft)

• The Dalles, Oregon (Google)

• Prineville, Oregon (Facebook, Apple)

• Hillsboro, Oregon (Cloudflare, others)

• Boardman, Oregon (AWS)

I think your logic makes sense, if this was both logical and about the money. But it seems to be more about greed, discontentment, and "more". There is no limit to "more".

Am I missing something? The URL doesn't load...

Is this just a guise to get people to hand over their contact information? So it can be linked and associated with a GitHub profile?

It's presented as an official Microsoft product (the link), but it's just a random public-facing form hosted on Microsoft Forms from Joe Schmoe.

Actually, literally, yes.

A letter I've needed to write for a long time, but have been putting off.

My grandpa, Dick Weisser, spent summer/fall with Dick Proenneke at Twin Lakes for many years. The other cabin, which the State Park operates, was built by my uncle and grandpa. I've got pictures still of it being built alongside Dick's.

Pretty wild. Can't imagine being out there all winter.

This is amazing to see TA on HN.

I grew up playing Total Annihilation in the 90s because my cousin worked for Cavedog and got us a CD for free. It is still one of my favorite games to this day.

So many great memories with that game, countless hours playing with my brothers, getting up early to play before school, asking my parents for extra chores to earn more computer time.

Games aren't the same anymore.

I still have the original game and expansion packs. Highly recommend playing it.

> the purpose of Excel is pretty clear cut and the scope is small.

That has to be the understatement of the century.

Can you imagine if Excel just quietly adjusted formulas in the background, and you didn't know the numbers weren't right?

Or if Excel just said, Sorry, you can't use that formula with this formula? Or with these types of numbers, or this shape of data, etc?

Save yourself time and don't bother reading this. Lots of words without saying anything.

I understand that there are UI/UX issues, and I mostly agree with all of your points. There are markdown issues, I get the redirects too, the copy/paste color scheme affects me when I paste from dark mode and then see my co-worker's screen in light mode.

I guess I was meaning less the user-facing stuff, and more the underlying architecture, the uptime, the general availability. Does the thing do what you expect it to do? Does it work? Is it on? Yes, for the most part it does what it says on the lid very well.

I wish there was enough space here to write out all the things wrong with Sendgrid. The usual stuff with dominant players in any market. Stripe. Google. Microsoft. Too big to care.

Multiple account blocks with no warning, no questions, over weekends when no one sees it. False positives triggering automated actions from their loosey string-matching for at-best guesswork bad URLs. No recourse. No communication. Dark(est) patterns to try and contact support. Or just no support. No response. Repeated global blocks for the same exact reason that was already solved.

Here's my favorite example: There is a massive service called Formaloo, which is exactly what it sounds like: a copy-cat of Google Forms, Microsoft Forms, every other generic form-builder service. One of our customers included their Formaloo link, which opens a quick "exit interview questions for graduating students from a private middle school". We send 60,000 emails per day and have a 99% reputation IN Sendgrid for 10+ years. With no warning, Sendgrid blocks our entire account because the word "formaloo" can be used for spam. So for 4 days with absolutely no communication, no response, no indication which specific email was at fault. We called, we emailed, we tried chat, we emailed more, we responded to tickets, with no response.

Guess what finally unblocked our account after 4 days of silence? We called their enterprise sales number, and it was fixed within minutes.

This is the third time we've been held hostage for multiple days with no recourse, no review, no "hey, we noticed this link, can you check on this before we block the account", or "hey, we quarantined this one email for your review while we let the other 60,000 go through, is this legit?" It goes from "everything's fine" to "we're screwed" in a heartbeat. And then we have to pay them $1000/month still! No way.

Needless to say, we are dropping Sendgrid.

I use Github extensively for my personal company, but I also use Azure DevOps (and all git-related features) extensively for a client's project. I keep seeing the Github issues being attributed to their move to Azure backend for "scale".

But we have no issues whatsoever with Azure Devops....ever. It's excellent. Seriously.

Does anyone know why the experience between Github and DevOps is so different, if they're supposed merging the two? Or at least seemingly related? Or are they not at all?

Or is it simply because Azure is "enterprise" and Microsoft cares about that more?