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Would be nice if their Turnstile could be turned off on their login page when something like this happens, so we can attempt to route traffic away from Cloudflare during the outage. Or at least have a simple app where this can be modified from.

it is our job to give back

I've struggled with the same thoughts above, and giving back is helpful. I've tried to document it (https://www.codekindly.org/) with these principles of giving back by coding kindly:

Be Kind to the Earth: reduce code waste, utilize green infra

Be Kind to Community: donate code, give to charity

Be Kind to Users: protect privacy, provide joyful experiences

Be Kind to Yourself: physical + mental health, cultivate relationships

It's a shift in mindset to find fulfillment in your current job

This is wonderful. I've actually been wishing I could create music like this for some time. I have some guitar background, but zero DAW experience. I just downloaded FL Studio last week and have been playing around with it. What would you suggest I do in order to learn how to make music like you?

I get that you're trying to do an unselfish thing here, but I worry that it's going to harm your family more than you expect. Once your kids are 'raised' they're still going to want you to be around as a solid support, even in your 'unproductive' years. I'm 35 right now, and if my parents (~65) ever did this to me 'for my benefit' I'd be so mad at them.

You are important your entire life.

Good on you. It's tough to find companies with strong morals, you did the right thing.

I might postpone switching to the tab with the single purpose, so it loads all the content in the background and the page is completely ready for me to scroll.

You've been trained to expect pages to load slowly. If pages weren't slow to begin with then this behavior would not be necessary.

under UK consumer rights laws, faulty goods must be repaired or replaced up to 6 years after purchase

Dang that's awesome, I need to move to the UK! No guarantee like that in the US

Thanks again for the great script - I particularly love how it's not dependent on any framework so can work everywhere. And the perf improvement numbers don't lie. Awesome.

Errors are opportunities

I love this. I've found that my most engaged users are the ones that report errors, churn less, etc.

How come no one monitors their speed as much as they should?

SpeedCurve and Calibre are great options listed in that article. Also suggest MachMetrics https://www.machmetrics.com/

MachMetrics - it's basically a private WebPageTest instance on better hardware, which runs your tests recurring, with nice graphs to show trends. https://www.machmetrics.com

Investing in bitcoin is almost as safe as betting all your chips black on roulette

Bounce rate is pretty similar (actually better), 55% organic, 50% from reddit.

That's a great point, completely agree

Here's the monthly report that has my detailed numbers, if you're curious: http://www.sideprojectprofit.com/july-2014-profit-report/

150k wow! Maybe the subreddit subscribers perform differently, or I wasn't on the front for that long. It did have over 1800 votes though

Crap, thanks for letting me know!

Why keep throwing $10/year down the drain? I know it's not much, but it's still a waste.

I'd love that - are you volunteering? ;-)

Oh man, I love how now that I've decided to kill it I'm urged to bring it back. I proves how much I suck at marketing that the most press I get about it is about it retiring. Shoot me a PM on how to contact you and I'll let you know if I open source it.

Hmmm...do people actually buy websites that have $0 revenue on flippa?

Haha, I'm trying to be funny, guess it didn't work! :)

I pulled a quote from the article, didn't mean to mislead - sorry!

I could open source it - but honestly, if only 3 people are using it right now, do you think it'll have enough traction for any dev to maintain it?

Haha, I completely agree with you - which is why it's so silly I'm feeling like I'm letting people down - it's just 3 people. I need to get over it and move on.

DISCLAIMER: I am not a tax professional and am not giving out legal advice. What follows is my personal experience, and I am not suggesting you follow exactly. Let it only serve as an example, as you should always consult a professional yourself.