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Ben actually spoke at last year's CF Summit. It felt very nostalgic!

I've made a very good living with ColdFusion consistently since I picked it up in 1997. There are now several really nice MVC frameworks for ColdFusion out there. If you've not used it in decades, it has a fully script-based syntax now, and there is a strong free CF engine (Lucee).

The newest integrations with AI are definitely interesting.

I've been pleasantly surprised to see some inklings of growth in CF adoption, though I'm comfortable saying that most new code in ANY language is going to be written with AI going forward.

With the latest PHP vulnerabilities - ColdFusion is actually a selling point: "Gee, it doesn't run 60+ percent of the internet, but it's actively maintained and can be configured to be secure."

Same here in metro Atlanta. My wife has some service (intermittent texts, has internet, but can't receive incoming calls) but I have SOS mode (with same model iPhone 16 pro).

This is the first time we've had a major outage affect our VZW service, and we've been with them for over 10 years.

I shouldn't be, but I was shocked at how painful it is to lose our connection while out running errands.

Agreed, that section led me to dig into "No Bad Parts" by Richard Schwartz for more information on Internal Family Systems, which I find fascinating.

I've recently read Dr. Peter Attia's book, "Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity" and he talks about the failures of our modern medical system when it comes to preventing (or at least delaying) disease instead of treating disease once it is present.

Cancer is one of what he refers to as the "Four Horsemen" (the chronic diseases of aging - cancer, heart disease, metabolic dysfunction and metabolic syndrome, and neurodegenerative diseases).

His book focuses on a number of changes we can make to reduce our risk of these chronic diseases of aging, one of which is exercise and physical fitness.

I would highly recommend the book to anyone interested in living not only a longer life, but a more enjoyable life in old age.

I just hit MicroCenter with my daughter to build a RetroPie this weekend. They would only sell one per household per day (this was in Georgia). I would've bought a second if it were allowed.

I identify with your comment. I run a SaaS product that has been around since 1998, but it isn't even listed in Crunchbase, which this article uses as a reference for the number of SaaS products out there. Also, "Software as a Service" wasn't even a phrase when we started out... even "Application Service Provider" wasn't really prevalent at first.

I thought a balance would be great, but neither of my kids liked the balance bike we bought. They rode with training wheels for quite a while.

What got them riding without training wheels was learning to ride Razor scooters. One afternoon when I saw them both riding sweeping S curves on their scooters, I took their training wheels off. At 6 and 7 1/2 yrs, they when from total terror on their bikes to riding comfortably in a few hours. It only took a few rides with me running alongside holding on (continually holding on less each time).

It was amazing.

I have a similar domain with a 9 character URL that I have been running (wow - I had to look it up!) for 16 years for my own use and for my clients. I have some ddns clients that use it to update their DNS records when their IP changes.

I won't be advertising it here on HN any time soon, though, since it would probably fall over from the traffic. :)

My Atmos receiver required calibration of the speaker placement from multiple locations within my listening area. I'm running a 7.1.4 setup (7 surrounds, 1 subwoofer, and 4 overhead channels). I've done a lot of reading about Atmos as well; I'm fairly certain it isn't premixed channels. My ears also agree - Atmos feels incredibly immersive.

Agreed on the HN demographic. I have lived in the NYC metro area and felt the pain of expensive housing, and I would only do it again if I met your definition of rich.

In the state of Georgia, I'd definitely call someone with a $700k mortgage wealthy. I'm in an affluent suburb north of Atlanta and I'd probably be showing some bias if I didn't consider myself to be wealthy in a $400k house. If I read it correctly, the example given in the article was for a refinance for a lower rate, and while that would be nice, it's not as likely to be a necessity. I've considered a refi, but as a small business owner I'm not sure I'd qualify in the current climate (even though my software company is still making money).

TL/DR: I've been using MIAB (mailinabox) for about 6 months and am happy with it (though I do use an external spam gateway (mxguarddog).

Backstory:

I started managing my own mail servers in 1999. After 5+ years of doing that, I moved my primary business domains to google apps and was happy for many years. Last year, after several years of feeling uneasy about my business email being hosted with google (mainly for privacy concerns, but also because I was on a "legacy" free google apps account), I began looking into paid options for my company's email. After deciding that I didn't want to pay google for the service, I looked at several other options for paid services, but they were all too expensive for my budget. I then investigated rolling my own solution using Postfix (even though I remembered all the maintenance overhead and occasional headaches), as I had done that before moving to Google. While investigating all the pieces I'd need for this, such as open source webmail projects and spam filtering options, I came across Mailinabox.

I spent some time over a few months playing with it and continuing to investigate other options, but ended up going with MIAB. My two biggest concerns in running my own server were A) dealing with spam and B) deliverability.

To deal with spam, I opted to use a third party spam filtering gateway (mxguarddog). I've been pretty happy with it, but I have to say, I've never found anyone as good at filtering spam as google.

My deliverability is very good, but I have had a few cases where messages were delayed or initially bounced right after I set up the server. I have my MIAB deployed on a Digital Ocean droplet that costs me about $40 / month. I am currently running 6 domains and about 50 total accounts (with another 50 aliases). I think I could easily quadruple those numbers without overloading the server.

I hope that's helpful!