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628 points kiyanwang | 1 comments | 09 Apr 25 06:02 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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notrealyme123 ◴[09 Apr 25 09:07 UTC] No.43630255[source]▶
https://web.archive.org/web/20250409082704/https://endler.de...

Otherwise rate limited

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hk__2 ◴[09 Apr 25 10:07 UTC] No.43630537[source]▶
The best programmers I know don’t use cheap hosting that rate-limit your static blog.
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__jonas ◴[09 Apr 25 11:52 UTC] No.43631104[source]▶
The irony is that Cloudflare actually offers free static hosting with unlimited traffic, this just seems to run on a Cloudflare compute service for some reason? Perhaps it’s server rendered.
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hombre_fatal ◴[09 Apr 25 12:31 UTC] No.43631332{3}[source]▶
They are using Zola (Rust SSG) but I think they're serving from Worker + KV: https://github.com/mre/endler.dev/blob/32016d0f204911bc9a8a4...

They have a history of using static hosting (GH Pages) but prob decided it wasn't necessary when they switched to CF. And whipping up your own lil scheme using compute is more fun and it let them mirror the request to their analytics service.

I don't blame them: I'm so used to infinite free tiers especially from CF that without seeing my blog saturate the worker limit, I wouldn't have considered it.

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ryandrake ◴[09 Apr 25 15:07 UTC] No.43632991{4}[source]▶
The idea that you need "workers" and compute to serve 10KB of words...
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1. hombre_fatal ◴[09 Apr 25 18:29 UTC] No.43635635{5}[source]▶
HN mindset:

- When I do something, I did it understanding that's what I had the limited time/attention for and you should give me grace, especially when I'm dicking around with my personal blog on a Saturday afternoon.

- When other people do something, they engineered what they thought was the necessary + perfect solution, and they chose that exact impl after every option was evaluated to its end, and I will criticize them accordingly.