bodantogat

I feel the pain — it’s very difficult to detect many of the less ethical scrapers. They use residential IP pools, rotate IPs, and provide valid user agents.

Some of the bots I see use residential proxies, rotate IP address, countries, as well as fire-up a real browser.

Not really surprised. I spend a ridiculous amount on time banning bots every week.

Oh and also listening to an audiobook - Mythos by Stephen Fry. Liking it so far.

I get that! I usually don’t feel that end-of-story sadness strongly enough to make me reread. For me, jumping into a new world is just too exciting, so the “leaving one behind” feeling doesn’t stick around too long.

I mostly read science fiction and fantasy, and I’ve just started Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It follows a scientist sentenced to a prison camp on a planet teeming with bizarre lifeforms. So far, it hasn’t drawn me in the way Children of Time did, though I’m only about a quarter of the way through.

For me, rereading just feels like missing out on the excitement of finding something new. A fresh story, a different perspective, an author I haven’t met yet. So I usually skip rereads and pick up something new instead.

Reading has a higher barrier to entry than most media. Doesn’t matter if you’re a man or a woman—it takes time, focus, and mental energy. And unlike scrolling or streaming, books aren’t always cheap. A new paperback can be $18–$30, and that adds up fast. It’s just harder to get started.

I had the opposite experience with cloud run. Mysterious scale outs/restarts - I had to buy a paid subscription to cloud support to get answers and found none. Moved to self managed VMs. Maybe things have changed now.

Cool. I haven't had time to go through all the examples but I plan to. This will be useful (I recently moved away from ElasticSearch and embedded Lucene in a SpringBoot app directly)

I completely agree. The joy of reading comes from discovering stories that you truly connect with—not from checking off titles on a set list. While some reading lists can be helpful for inspiration, I find the “100 books you must read” type a bit off-putting. They can unintentionally suggest there’s only one right way to be a “good reader,” which just isn’t true.

Is there an API or downloadable catalog of the titles? Happy to feature them on meetnewbooks.com so more readers can find them.

This happened to a team I know. They built a flashy SPA dashboard because it was easy to copy-paste from templates. It worked great—until a real-world requirement, like a data grid, came along.

Incredibly useful, especially with React, where the Context API, state lifting, and prop drilling often feel clunky. That said, it can lead to messy code if not carefully managed.

I’m curious too. I self host on a server, no issues so far.