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More recent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633396

cdktf is, not AWS CDK. The former allows you to use Terraform without HCL, the latter is a generator for CloudFormation.

I wanted to ask what the writing and hosting process is like for people who have a personal website and blog—do you just write markdown and then use a renderer?

Most editors have Markdown preview. There's also products like Ghost which are pretty good

Quartz might be that. https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/

There’s no build available yet but there is a doc on how to build it https://zed.dev/docs/development/windows

See also - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43368870

You’re welcome, hope you find what you’re looking for!

I’ve been using owntracks for a while now, and while it is pretty decent in terms of accuracy of data collection, it unfortunately lacks in the nice things that make Google Location History so good: automatic clustering, grouping, search, classification of trips and travel methods.

The initial setup is slightly annoying as well. Here’s a small write up from me: https://sathyasays.com/2024/07/13/self-hosting-owntracks-goo...

Nope, bluesky itself

https://chaos.social/@jonty/110307532009155432

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35820815

Looks nice. Tried to search for "Guitar" and I got a 500 Internal Server error.

Hm that makes sense.

it's not DNS - there's no mobile network at all.

From where I bought it - ie Romania.

Not sure about theft, but I bought my iPad in Romania, moved to Australia and had it replaced in US when I was traveling there because it kept crashing and Apple Support folks in Apple Store detected some stability issues. All for zero cost

I write a weekly posts of things that happened in the past week in my life, some colour commentary on random things and the old travelogue or two.

https://sathyabh.at

I also have a less updated tech blog, usually on AWS, Linux, DevOps

https://sathyasays.com

There’s a DevOps Stack Exchange as well. https://devops.stackexchange.com/

That said SE makes for a poor subReddit replacement as a subreddit usually focuses on discussion/link sharing which is not what SE wants.

Some of it is a year, some of it like Lambda invocations is perpetual.

Minor correction but that’s Nick Craver https://nickcraver.com/

Podman is supposed to be a drop-in replacement for Docker, and I’m still yet to see Podman in action at my production deploys (barring what I’ve heard once from a discord). So yes, still makes sense to learn Docker

Oh wow. I found speedhaste demo via one of the many computer magazines that started flourishing in/around 98/99. Played it quite a lot and loved it. The music, the physics, the graphics, was so good. I still remember the music & the transmission select voice when you start a race. Fantastic stuff, thank you

Edge does have grouping (might be behind edge://flags)

I've written couple of books for a publisher (Practical Docker with Python - first & second editions - published by Apress) as well a co-authored a self published book - The CDK Book.

Apress has similar royalty tiers (10 to 20% of revenue, based on books sold) and I did get decent amount of copy edit support.

With the co-authorship, despite being four of us, some things slipped through the cracks. That said, with self publishing we were able to get it corrected and shipped - we maintain/ed bug reports, feedback in GitHub issues, and even the book build process is done using GitHub actions.

As I said elsewhere, the monetary aspect usually isn't the goal, you're far likely to spend more money in working on the book than recover it but it does give a nice boost if you wish to go the consulting route in terms of establishing authority/credibility.

Rich is relative - I've written two books for a publisher and a co-authorship of a self-published book. In both cases, it was nowhere enough to recover the time spent on it. However, seeing the sales figures, seeing your work cited in publications and the reactions you get from people when they say "Oh you wrote that?" - that is another feeling by itself.

You have to remember that a lot of these books are written as groundwork for future plans - far easier to establish credentials saying "yeah I've written that book, you may have heard of it".

Yeah, I have grafana cloud monitoring my personal websites and there have been several incidents/outages from netlify over the past month. A tweet to them went unanswered as well. The downtime has been bad enough that I’m thinking of moving out for netlify and just deploy them on either GitHub pages or S3 & Cloudfront.

10:41 AM PST Between 8:59 AM and 9:32 AM PST and between 9:40 AM and 10:16 AM PST we observed Internet connectivity issues with a network provider outside of our network in the AP-SOUTH-1 Region. This impacted Internet connectivity from some customer networks to the AP-SOUTH-1 Region. Connectivity between EC2 instances and other AWS services within the Region was not impacted by this event. The issue has been resolved and we continue to work with the external provider to ensure it does not reoccur.

https://status.aws.amazon.com/#AP_block

Weirdly enough I’m a Mangalorean now in Romania :)

I moved to Bucharest from Bangalore and it was anything but easy.

https://sathyabh.at/2020/01/08/salut-bucharest/

Romania has some really regressive policies towards immigration especially for non EU countries such as your dependents not being able to come with you, having to petition to IGI for their approval for family unification (which can take anywhere from 1.5 to 3 months for them to approve even before actually applying for visa), the visa process which is a real pain as mentioned in the article thanks to some poor management of the Embassy in India. COVID made it worse and I’ve been away from wife for more than a year now.

Finding a job is also difficult due to the quotas that they have for foreign workers and that work permits are tied to specific jobs (not very different from H1-B) and that work permits /resident permits need a yearly renewal. Since I was hired as a highly qualified worker, I have it slightly better with work permit/resident permit renewal being once every two years. Permanent residence is an option after 5 years of continuous stays and you need to prove you’ve assimilated well into the society with some tests on history and culture that I’ve not yet researched into.

If you manage to have patience and endure through this though, you might enjoy it.

Bureaucracy is a nightmare but the country is amazing.

This sort of possible

AWS Budgets now allows you to configure actions — responses to cost and usage in your account or set of accounts— that will be applied automatically or via a workflow approval process once a budget target has been exceeded. There are three action types: Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies, Service Control policies (SCPs), or target running instances (EC2 or RDS). Actions can be configured for actual (after they’ve occurred) or for forecasted (before they occur) budgeted amounts.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws-cost-management/get-started...

This has been possible since long, what am I missing?

Wonder why they didn’t leverage Amazon SES? SES has API and SMTP options and have infinitely better reputation than EIPs.

https://aws.amazon.com/ses/