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moehm

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I’m just a simple man, trying to make my way in the universe.

I collect (good) Wikipedia articles and their respective discussions posted on HN:

https://www.mostdiscussed.com/

For example the most popular Wikipedia articles on HN: https://www.mostdiscussed.com/popular

And the topics HN find interesting: https://www.mostdiscussed.com/popular/topics

You can follow on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@MostDiscussed

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https://moehm.at.hn

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Oh, nice execution. I had the same idea during the pandemic. Though my aesthetics are completely different as I focused more on the discussions on HN, as they often have some golden nuggets. Yours is of course way more polished, as I basically just slapped bootstrap on my database front end.

https://www.mostdiscussed.com/

Interesting how different our "popularity score" is though: https://www.mostdiscussed.com/popular

You don't seem to group them by category, right? I found it quite interesting: https://www.mostdiscussed.com/popular/topics

Btw, your "new" tab seems to be broken, as it is showing articles from 2019.

Why Self-Host? 10 months ago

Uh, yeah, I thought about Nginx or Apache and would expect them to be more secure then your average self-written application.

Why Self-Host? 10 months ago

Yes, but the web server is just reading files from disk and not invoking an application server. So if you keep your web server up to date, you are at a much lesser risk than if you would also have to keep your application + programming environment secure.

Why Self-Host? 10 months ago

'If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.'

- Carl Sagan

They aren't going to cut the fiber cables if your Google accounts gets locked.

Since the Ninja Creami hit the market as the "Pacojet Killer", I like to make my own lemon sorbet and Sgroppinos.

But of course I swapped the vodka for Limoncello.

No, they didn't reduce production, they just stopped scaling it with the rising demand.

Chartreuse got very popular in the last few years, and the monks started to produce more, but now they are at a point where they feel they a) earn enough money for the monastery and b) they claim scaling further hurts the sustainability.

So instead of producing more, they allocate the existing stock mostly to the hospitality business instead of the private consumer.

Also please God pour out that old vermouth, get a new one and put it in your fridge.

Don't pour it out, but deglaze your pan the next time you cook.

I know people here don't like site analytics, but for this one it's pretty good.

Setup Matomo or similar analytics software, write about a bunch of topics and review after a year which topics your readers are most interested in, for which they search on your site etc.

Message the authors about this. Most website owners don't know their cms is also creating a rss/atom feed. Sometimes it took awhile, but I had moderate success with it.

Do you need HA, or do you want to minimize downtime? At work we have something like an "error budget", were we accept downtime but try to minimize it. As such we have two nodes with one floating ip and a shared disk. The switch over takes as long as stopping the database on the first node, starting up the database on the second one and switching over the ip. Stuff like kernel updates takes us <1 minute of scheduled downtime, which is good enough for us.

Here is a good talk which resonated with me from the last pgconf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rYP6xVymtI

If you want more, I think Patroni (by Zalando) is the current best option for you. Patroni handles automatic leader election if the master goes down, and it is open source. Read here more:

https://github.com/patroni/patroni