joshguthrie

Who loves the thrill of a Vercel bill?

I wrote up my journey moving from Heroku, and friends/family "please host my website" requests to Cloudflare: first for static sites, then CRON jobs, and eventually full JS APIs.

Post isn't sponsored at all, but 1) I found CF surprisingly useful as a solo dev/founder and 2) I haven't written on my tech blog in a while, and 3) I still don't understand why people still use "serverless" that can skyrocket in price, when the same product is available for cheaper.

Obviously, there are still things Cloudflare won't solve for me, maybe it's not a right fit for everyone, so I'm curious how others are keeping their hosting costs sane, share your stories!

I often move small parts of my Rails app to NodeJS (like file uploads) and it's often been a pain to properly authenticate users. To that end, I built libraries for that in NodeJS and Rust, but testing them was often only on the latest Rails I was using.

To fix that, I built this project: leverage Docker to set up multiple Rails versions, and generate cookies.

Hope it helps other.

Assaults mostly happen on crowded subway trains during rush hours.

The solution to that has been to make some cars women-only.

This is exactly what I needed, all other solutions I've been exploring so far have either been a pain to set up or a pain to use for my users. Price seems good for what's being sold too, it's ridiculous how some competitors ask for twice that amount but cannot even do basic UX!!

Why will you do this, isn’t ROS here for this purpose?!

Best HN comment ever.

I've been using laptops exclusively for the last six years, I move around too much to go back to a Desktop computer.