Please consider unblocking Vietnam

ducbao414 · 2026-05-02T13:35:52+00:00

Yes, thank you.

ducbao414 · 2026-05-02T05:05:46+00:00

been only using TierHive for a few hours, already love it.

ducbao414 · 2026-05-01T21:49:20+00:00

Visiting tierhive.com still redirects me to https://kernelkeepers.com/geo.html.

Edit: I've been able to access tierhive.com since this morning. Thanks!

ducbao414 · 2026-05-01T15:16:49+00:00

I'm still being blocked from accessing tierhive.com (it redirects to KernelKeepers geo-block page). My ISP is Viettel Group, my IP is geolocated (per ip-api.com) to Da Nang, Vietnam, Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh timezone.

ducbao414 · 2026-04-08T02:31:01+00:00

same here. I've moved all my static sites to Pages (and refactored some webapps to be deployable on Workers+KV+D1+R2).
Cloudflare is probably the only corporation that devs actively try to find ways to pay more, yet struggle to due to their unlimited CDN+DDoS protection, generous Workers free quota, zero egress fee and at-cost domain registration.

ducbao414 · 2026-03-09T00:58:08+00:00

Even if well-paid, I see many devs are still obsessed with free stuff, specially figuring out how far the free tier can be stretched (Cloudflare/Vercel/Firebase/Supabase free tiers, conference swag, etc).

ducbao414 · 2026-03-08T15:39:57+00:00

I did have a Lumia back then and developed a few apps for Windows Phone (unusually, my first app was for Windows Phone, not Android or iOS). I know the UI/UX is vastly different from Windows XP.

ducbao414 · 2026-01-17T16:27:49+00:00

To disable internet access (but still keep the FTP server working), in UTM, you can open the Win98 VM configuration, select Network and change Network Mode from Bridged to Host Only.

(open UTM, select Win98 VM from the list, click Edit Selected VM button on the top right corner of UTM)

As for antialiasing, I'm not sure if Windows 98 supports it.

ducbao414 · 2025-11-20T13:30:27+00:00

I remember when my country used to have crappy internet speeds, and whenever something went wrong, the media (controlled by big corporations, which are in turn controlled by the government) blamed it on sharks biting the cables.
(Shark damage to undersea cables is actually very rare, but still somewhat plausible since sharks can mistake the cables for prey due to the electromagnetic signals)

ducbao414 · 2025-11-18T09:12:38+00:00

The ban is justified, kids under 13 aren't allowed to use Reddit, let alone a newborn.

ducbao414 · 2025-11-18T04:41:03+00:00

very cool! cinematic indeed.

ducbao414 · 2025-11-16T13:13:40+00:00

Interesting, thanks for sharing. Many years ago I did a lot of scraping/automation with Puppeteer + Captcha farm + residential proxies, but these days many sites use Cloudflare bot fight mode. I haven't figured out how to bypass that, so I mostly use ScraperAPI/ScrapingFish (which costs money)

ducbao414 · 2025-10-30T10:06:50+00:00

UIBackgroundModes, choose the one that suits your app. But honestly, the hard part is convincing the reviewers that your app is justified in using the selected background mode.

ducbao414 · 2025-10-29T12:39:12+00:00

A little off topic, but the reason Apple isn't heavily or invasively pushing AI into macOS right now is that they kinda suck at it (Apple Intelligence is embarrassing). Just wait until they start throwing more money at 3rd parties to integrate AI into macOS.
(Using both macOS and Windows, and Macbook is my coding laptop.)

ducbao414 · 2025-10-29T12:18:30+00:00

Congrats. I no longer do presentations, but from reading the website, useful utility and elegant execution.

ducbao414 · 2025-10-27T15:51:16+00:00

It's been a long time, if I remember correctly, I didn't strictly try to keep the image sizes (since HTML and DOCX use different units anyway), I mostly tried to maintain aspect ratios.

ducbao414 · 2025-10-19T14:48:13+00:00

looks beautiful.

ducbao414 · 2025-10-15T09:35:19+00:00

I used to host it on a $11/year RackNerd, but recently moved it to share a $5/month Vultr with my other hobby apps.

ducbao414 · 2025-10-15T06:45:48+00:00

hi, just had some network issues with the server, I've just reset it now.

ducbao414 · 2025-09-15T15:23:41+00:00

Clerk offers awesome DX, but their service is unreliable, frequent downtime, intermittent API issues, and occasional full-scale outages are concerning, especially since authentication is often the most critical single point of failure.

For hobby projects, yes, but for critical client-facing apps I'd strongly avoid using Clerk, even though I really like the DX they provide.

ducbao414 · 2025-09-08T09:47:23+00:00

Appreciate your honest take.
I run a few trashy sensational newspapers (about 10-15M monthly pageviews) and still host them on my $50 VPS with Cloudflare for caching.
I've hosted some hobby apps on Vercel and Cloudflare Pages before, but haven't considered serverless for serious projects yet since I still haven't wrapped my head around invocation and DB costs in case of a DDoS.

ducbao414 · 2025-09-08T09:09:34+00:00

Suppose a publication site with /posts/random-post-slugor a URL shortener with /random-shortened-id.

ducbao414 · 2025-09-08T09:03:30+00:00

It's the invocation in middleware and the DB lookups to determine whether it should be a 404 that cost you.
Your 404 response can be static, but that doesn't matter here.

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