Pro SEO tip: Don’t block crawlers in your WAF 🤦‍♂️

this is so cool haptics.lochie.me

Tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has all but stopped since yesterday. Read the @financialtimes.com Economics editor, Sam Fleming's analysis of what the impact the war in Iran will have on the global economy www.ft.com/content/31bf...

The ability to have AI create unit and integration tests is a huge game changer. Bowling with the guard rails up just became easier!

What Claude Code chooses https://amplifying.ai/research/claude-code-picks [comments] [380 points]

AI is huge for indie devs. Your velocity just increased. That 1 hour in the evening where I used to do nothing because it wasn't enough time to code is now more than enough to make a change. I love it!

Set up second server with Hertzner 🇪🇺 - that means 3 servers behind the load balancer. Going to give it a day or so, then destroy the DigitalOcean box.

Cancelled ChatGPT, bought Claude. First task was to get Claude to write a secrets package, so I can encrypt my secrets and it can’t access them. Then we set up Claude Code + NanoClaw later on. If I’m going to give AI access to code, I’m doing it right.

Slowly migrating servers over to Hertzner. First one done & took an old DO box out of service. Same price, more resources, European. I also changed my deployment script significantly to use pure Docker Compose, so spinning up new servers is a ~5 min task.

Started using Hertzner the other day. Honestly don't know why I didn't start using them sooner. * Support was super fast and professional. * Prices are *far* better than DO. * European company, locations. * Has a similar Firewall interface as DO. Only downside is limited stock of vps.

Also did you know you can set up your own Docker Registry with AWS S3/CloudFlare R2? Very easy to set up with Docker Compose.

Tried Dokku but found that just the control panel alone took a considerable amount of resources. What I want is a super simple setup using Docker Compose. Two servers behind a DNS LB, each server has Traefik and the app. Docker Rollout to update, triggered by CI. This is the simplest infra yet.

Giving Google Antigravity a go on a huge data heavy codebase. It’s creating mostly hot garbage, putting structs in the wrong place, not following what I want. Got maybe 35/40% right. Will keep playing.

imo every software engineer should have a side project. You learn outside the job and become a better dev, and if it takes off you have a second source of income. It’s win win.

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Booting from a vinyl record (2020) https://boginjr.com/it/sw/dev/vinyl-boot/ [comments] [285 points]

Question for @jay.bsky.team @bsky.app team - why does the iOS app still translate by sending to Google Translate? Why can’t we use the native APIs and stay in app?

Some friendly @bsky.app bots that I run: @hnfeed.bsky.social - Hacker News bot, hourly top posts. @btc-price.bsky.social & @eth-price.bsky.social - Crypto prices, hourly.

Read this PDF about online tracking: www.iccl.ie/wp-content/u... Go get a DNS ad blocker on your phone. Re-review which apps have access to your location.

$APO @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/b315...

@soundcloud.dev appreciate you’re making networking changes, but blocking vpns is wild. I use one as I live abroad and want the internet in my native language. Can’t use SC now :/

Parkinson’s disease has environmental toxic factors, not just genetic. www.wired.com/story/scient...

This is amazing. Now you too can create faded out exam photocopies.

The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting https://kevinboone.me/fingerprinting.html [comments] [554 points]

Yesss: "We have all the ingredients in the EU to succeed. But our companies, especially our start-ups and small businesses, are often held back by layers of rigid rules" www.theverge.com/news/823750/...

CloudFlare Outage

I did a course at uni on machine learning, but couldn’t really wrap my head around parts of it. Since ChatGPT I’ve been using it and actually _understanding_ things properly. Building dumb examples to learn & play. This is the biggest “unlock” from AI. Not productivity, but new ways of thinking.

If you rent bare metal servers, look at your providers. You might find beefier boxes for the same price. In my case, for €4 more per month, I can go from 2GB ram to 24gb ram, then drop from 9 VPS to maybe 3?

When stick figures fought https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/when-stick-figures-fought [comments] [182 points]

AI: I will not provide code to bypass CORS protections on third‑party sites. That is a security evasion. Also AI: Below is a lawful alternative: a Cloudflare Worker that acts as a controlled CORS proxy.

🫶 the Dutch are awesome.

how it feels to do physical activity after the age of 35

A deep dive on our approach to detecting large-scale IP sharing globally. https://cfl.re/4oM315W

I created a New Tab Chrome extension a year or two ago which is used by maybe ~30 people. A new image every 4 hours, with a new business / finance headline on every new tab load. I don't read the news as a result, and yet stay on top of it all. Sometimes it's nice to make something for yourself.

Meta needs to stop on new products and fix WhatsApp. *So* many bugs. It’s a shit tier app.

Oof just got working a huge project for work that takes a process from 13 hours down to two hours. Happy, relieved, now need to get this experimental project production ready.

If it’s not DNS problems, it’s sql Search Path problems.

Major AWS Outage Happening https://old.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/1obd3lx/dynamodb_down_useast1/ [comments] [442 points]

AI will revolutionise programming. The AI:

echo "alias ls='ls -lah'" >> ~/.zshrc && source ~/.zshrc Shows hidden dot files and sizes in k, kb, mb when you run `ls`. You're welcome.

Air fryer Sunday roast, all under an hour. 8.5/10.

Congratulations HM Government on forcing people to share their IDs to do anything online. Expect a lot more stories like this.

When you know it, and the AI knows it.

Kagi News https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-news [comments] [776 points]

Threw together a little @cloudflare.social worker with @pushover.net to alert me when ticket resales became available. That’s tickets for my parter and I sorted ✌️

My Dutch energy contract is expiring this month, so I took a dive into comparison sites. A few things I noted: · Prices in for gas/elec are up 🤷‍♂️ · Renewal price is same as new offers; prices are ~consistent · Welcome discounts go up to €500 · Discounts are a clear loss leader; embrace the VC money

Self Propagating NPM Malware Compromises over 40 Packages https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/ctrl-tinycolor-and-40-npm-packages-compromised [comments] [260 points]

Is it me or has the internet kind of gone shit since Reddit and Facebook killed off small communities and forums?