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m3nu commented on The future is not self-hosted   drewlyton.com/story/the-f... · Posted by u/drew_lytle
MoreQARespect · 5 months ago
Self hosting reminds me of the world of smartphones just before the advent of the iPhone.

Using a phone as a mini computer was possible. Downloading and using apps happened. I even used offline maps. It was still the preserve of nerds while regular people "couldn't understand why you'd use a phone to do anything other than text and call".

SUDDENLY once it became seamless and trivial to set everything and it was all brought together on a device that was aesthetically pleasing and ergonomic demand rocketed upwards. It turns out that regular people very much wanted a mini computer in their pocket.

This all took me very much by surprise coz almost everything that was revolutionary about the iPhone... I was already doing all of that while it was announced.

I think self hosting is in a similar spot right now. The apps exist (many are extremely nice!), the software exists, but the seamless, aesthetically pleasing and ergonomic experience does not. It's a pain in the ass to set up self hosting.

m3nu · 5 months ago
I set up a service to make hosting those apps as seamless as possible while giving the user control of their data and also sharing revenue with authors to keep projects sustainable. Check it out here:

https://www.pikapods.com/

m3nu commented on “Dynamic programming” is not referring to “computer programming”   vidarholen.net/contents/b... · Posted by u/r4um
m3nu · 5 months ago
In strength training 'programming' means the details of your workout plan. Like how many sets, reps and exercises.
m3nu commented on Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024   backblaze.com/blog/backbl... · Posted by u/TangerineDream
bhouston · a year ago
Based on the data, it seems they have 4.4 petabytes of storage under management. Neat.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E4MS84SbSwWILVPAgeIi...

m3nu · a year ago
4,414,142 TB = 4.4 Exabyte
m3nu commented on Why did so many mid-century designers make children's books? (2022)   eyeondesign.aiga.org/why-... · Posted by u/apollinaire
m3nu · a year ago
Also got into making children's books with AI. Midjourney mostly. Has been fun, but my son is running out of ideas. Good thing chatgpt is fairly creative, once you give it the right persona.
m3nu commented on Show HN: Create legit-looking children's books with AI   storytreasure.ai... · Posted by u/guico
m3nu · a year ago
Came here to say this is great and already did 2 books. My son loved it.
m3nu commented on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell    · Posted by u/cvbox
guico · a year ago
Just launched Story Treasure a way to create illustrated children's books, motivated by the fact that I'm a portuguese dad raising two bilingual girls in Germany... very hard to find portuguese books around here!

https://www.storytreasure.ai/

m3nu · a year ago
German speaker in Portugal. :-)

That's awesome. Just did one.

m3nu commented on SSH Remoting   zed.dev/blog/remote-devel... · Posted by u/ingve
m3nu · a year ago
Also works well in vscode. Just wish the remote instance would keep running forever. Currently it's only a few hours it seems. Then one needs to reopen the workspace window.
m3nu commented on Ask HN: How To: Internal Documentation?    · Posted by u/albingroen
m3nu · a year ago
In Bookstack organized by department. Simple to update and put access controls on it.

As others have mentioned, this needs to be a living document and the person doing the task needs to update the docs where needed. No tool can replace this, but Bookstack at least makes it easy.

m3nu commented on Ask HN: What do you monitor on your servers?    · Posted by u/gorkemcetin
kevg123 · a year ago
> What are the key assets you monitor beyond the basics like CPU, RAM, and disk usage?

* Network is another basic that should be there

* Average disk service time

* Memory is tricky (even MemAvailable can miss important anonymous memory pageouts with a mistuned vm.swappiness), so also monitor swap page out rates

* TCP retransmits as a warning sign of network/hardware issues

* UDP & TCP connection counts by state (for TCP: established, time_wait, etc.) broken down by incoming and outgoing

* Per-CPU utilization

* Rates of operating system warnings and errors in the kernel log

* Application average/max response time

* Application throughput (both total and broken down by the error rate, e.g. HTTP response code >= 400)

* Application thread pool utilization

* Rates of application warnings and errors in the application log

* Application up/down with heartbeat

* Per-application & per-thread CPU utilization

* Periodic on-CPU sampling for a bit of time and then flame graph that

* DNS lookup response times/errors

> Do you also keep tabs on network performance, processes, services, or other metrics?

Per-process and over time, yes, which are useful for post-mortem analysis

m3nu · a year ago
Those are some great ideas for Prometheus alert rules. If they aren't already added here: https://samber.github.io/awesome-prometheus-alerts/
m3nu commented on Show HN: Flash Notes – Flashcards for Your Notes, LLM, iOS/macOS Sync   flashnotesapp.com... · Posted by u/munhitsu
m3nu · 2 years ago
Been doing the same with Anki and Obsidian. E.g. via https://github.com/ObsidianToAnki/Obsidian_to_Anki

Using it for languages and IT certs mainly. I wouldn't want to manage flash cards separately, so getting them from notes is great. Nice to see something more polished and mainstream for this workflow.

u/m3nu

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