I'm going to be upfront here - I feel a bit lost these days when it comes to web technology. I don't really understand so much of it. I look at #netlify, for example, and I struggle to even understand what it is. What do they do? And people talk about things like "droplets" and "spinning up servers". I kind of know, but I'm also kind of lost. Has it always been this confusing or have web technologies just become really dominant and complex? There was a time when my major concern was making a site in a local bit of software, compressing a few images, and using FTP to upload it to a host. It feels like my brain is operating 30 years ago and can't catch up. The scary thing is that I've always tried to keep up and now find myself confused. Maybe it has all passed me by. The codemakers seem to be running stuff, and I'm just happy if I can tap out a humble #haiku at this point in life ! #web#webdev#technology
You waking up and see that somebody is trying to crash your website :) not knowing that it is built with @gohugoio and hosted on Netlify #netlify. Good luck with that 🤓
Webmentions: how I used 1990s technology to avoid writing JavaScript.
> When I started building websites over 20 years ago, I used Perl and CGI to run simple scripts, like a guestbook (I wrote my own). I prefer Ruby these days—and Perl has deprecated CGI—but could that approach still work? I thought it would be fun to try. It turns out it does work!
Anyone with experience with Netlify, I'm trying to figure out what's going on here. I got an email saying I'd used 90% of my bandwidth for my sites. After splurging $9 for analytics, I discovered that somehow a website with no single file over 16 megabytes was chewing through 20 gigabytes on a pretty normal looking day. This feels shady. Is Netlify shaking me down? Am I the victim of a botnet? I coughed up the $20 for Netlify Pro, but honestly it doesn't feel like I should need it at this point…
Trying to figure out a good setup for photos on my blog (https://jonas.brusman.se).
The current setup based on Git LFS on Netlify is cumbersome and doesn’t allow me to post new photos from my phone with something like Tina CMS.
Suggestions are welcome!
I am currently looking for a new full-time remote position!
With 11 years of experience as a back-end lead engineer (not full-stack), I am specialized in Node.js APIs and CLIs.
Most recently I have been Netlify Build's and Netlify Plugins' technical lead for 2.5 years.
I moved to Vercel this weekend for my website, and have been using #umami for analytics for a few months now. Vercel has a lot of great insights over what #Netlify had to offer.
I just used their docs to deploy my own custom #analytics on #Vercel and it is great! Now I wish I could import the historical data to my new location. Gotta build that up again.
All this to say, it's more to go into my post I've been thinking about writing: The Good Side of Analytics.
Apparently #Netlify doesn't allow underscores in domain names? As far as I'm aware, domain names are allowed to have underscores, though I'm not sure I fully grok the difference with hostnames, which apparently don't.
Is there a specific reason not to use underscores in a domain, or was the engineer just very lazy writing their domain validation regex?
Yeah I've just put an emergency captcha on my guestbook form (thanks #netlify)! If I can't style it to match my site I'll have to find another way - but seems more spammers than usual are finding it lately...
The demise of #Jamstack and #Netlify as an indie-first, "static site" hosting company feels like an end of an era. But why did it have to happen like this? Where did things go wrong? And which companies can #WebDev folks turn to for streamlined, pragmatic web hosting and architecture?
Here's my take on it, serving as a reply of sorts to @remotesynth's excellent coverage of the topic:
I’m sorry to hear the news of layoffs at #netlify. I’ll boost any looking for work posts I see from former Netlify employees. I hope everyone looking for work lands on their feet soon 🙏
Did #vercel completely remove their previous free teams setup? Was looking to onboard an organisation to it for a few very small things, but it looks like the only way to create a team is paid now, and we're simply not needing that just yet.
Actually, noticing it's not just #vercel, but also #netlify and #render, all have removed their free tier for teams and are all charging about $20/mo 🫤
I guess it was only "free" whilst the VC dollars were flowing? idk.
#Netlify's new #Drop tool allows you to create a new website using #AI and have it automatically deployed to #theCloud.
"Simply describe the website you want to build not only will #chatGPT author the markup scripts and style sheets but it will deploy it to Netlify I for you too!"
I hope #netlify starts offering a storage product like vercel does.
I’ve used up my free supabase allocation and I’m loathe to use firebase again after the google domain fiasco.
a .net friend recommended azure cosmos db, and @shoptalkshow talk up cloudflare D1 a lot so I’ll investigate those. Any other noSQL/serverless db recommendations?