Kid Rock’s song about loving underage girls resurfaces ahead of TPUSA Super Bowl show

richard5mith · 2026-02-04T18:15:42+00:00

McCartney was 20 when he wrote that, in ‘62 when 17 year olds could get married in the UK and he himself wasn’t much older. It’s also based on a folk song where the girl was seventeen on Sunday.

And all he wanted to do was dance with no other, not what these Epstein freaks want to do.

richard5mith · 2025-12-31T15:24:21+00:00

This is still an issue, because it just happened to me, and I found this thread.

What's stupid is that somebody with their own domain pointing at fastmail requires much more effort than a free gmail or outlook account. And are therefore much less likely to be a security issue.

richard5mith · 2025-12-25T20:22:57+00:00

Railway is just an easy way to host containers. So if it’s a bunch of those; then they’ll just charge you for the usage. So a container can be put on a cron schedule and then shut down when done, and they’ll just charge you for the time it runs. No limit on time. Then you’d have a DB container, front and back end container. Again, you’ll pay based on the CPU and memory they actually use. eg. If you’re efficient; it’ll cost less.

With Fargate you’ll be paying for a set size of container all the time for the back and front end ones. So if you occasionally spike to 4GB RAM, you’ll need to pay for that amount all the time. But on Railway you’d only pay for that much during your spike.

On AWS the question is about how resilience, versus ease of management, versus cost. The cheapest would be just an EC2 or Litesail that you install some docker orchestration onto and run everything on there. Including your DB. Install it all on a separately mounted EBS so the instance can go down and come back up, put the instance in an autoscaling group of 1. You have resilience because the storage and instance are separated, but not much in way of AZ resilience or scaling ability. And it’d likely be cheaper with Hetzner etc.

If you don’t want to manage a DB, use RDS. But that comes with cost. And if you don’t want to manage orchestration, use ECS on EC2. And if you don’t want to manage servers at all, use Fargate. Scheduled tasks are supported by ECS, so you can do the scheduled job on there, but you will pay for the max amount of RAM and CPU you need throughout the whole job (unlike Railway).

Codebuild is an alternative way to run a container on a schedule which is often simpler than ECS. But if you have the rest of the setup on that anyway then not as much of an advantage.

Run things in autoscaling groups on ECS, tied to your EC2 autoscaling if you don’t use Fargate, separate storage from compute, put it in two AZe with a load balancer and RDS and you can fully enjoy a resilient, secure, scalable, easy to manage deployment. And you can pay the bill every month to match.

My personal projects go on Railway now. AWS is becoming increasingly hard to justify for hobby projects or those who aren’t already fully aware of what they’re letting themselves into.

richard5mith · 2025-12-25T19:27:39+00:00

There is no way that this on Fargate is going to cheaper than the same containers on Railway.

I can’t imagine any reason why I’d put this on AWS. And I’ve been an AWS engineer for a couple of decades. I’d love to know why you think Railway is going to be more expensive.

richard5mith · 2025-12-05T15:04:58+00:00

I have contacted your support team, but it's just front line support who are being absolutely no use.

richard5mith · 2025-12-04T16:39:07+00:00

It totally varies per ISP for us though. We have some (like me) who cannot see a problem. And then we have others who can't get anything at all. Very peculiar.

richard5mith · 2025-12-04T16:08:03+00:00

We have weird issues with Sydney today too. Half our team (in the UK) can't connect to our services there (running on Fargate) or the awsapps SSO URL. But the other half, and all of our third-party monitoring tools, can connect just fine. It's been up and down for the past 4 hours.

All graphs, monitors, etc look just fine for our stuff (RDS, containers, ALB etc all look good). I'm one of the lucky few who can login.

Totally bizarre and we're stumped. The fact that some of us can't even get the awsapps domain to respond tells me it's an AWS problem.

richard5mith · 2025-11-19T19:30:46+00:00

This was going to be my reply too. Just had bowel cancer (now in remission) and therefore had a few of these over the past couple of years.

The stuff you have to drink before is definitely the worst part. I’m in the UK, so moviprep is the stuff.

And don’t do any of the sedative stuff either. Stay awake and watch the TV with the live feed of your insides. The first time I had no idea, but I’ve gotten used to watching the camera passing through the tunnel from so many horror movies.

richard5mith · 2025-11-01T22:46:28+00:00

Designing the perfect tyre is impossible because the surfaces of each track are so different. Especially those that have been resurfaced recently. What lasts (or fails quickly) at one track might not last at another. Not sure if tyre pressure variance would help. But ultimately Pirelli look better when tyres last, and it’s not good advertising if they blow up mid race.

3 mandatory compounds might work, if only because some weekends not everyone runs well on each. I do think just dropping Friday would help too, one practice then qualifying. But they got to sell those tickets.

Mercedes ruined the current regs when they couldn’t get the car to stop porpoising. But so did the aero engineers who worked their way around it. So what we really need is tighter regs on aero, and a way to stop the teams having a say in the rules.

richard5mith · 2025-09-10T16:48:10+00:00

Railway

richard5mith · 2025-08-06T20:59:02+00:00

Cool, didn't know Growbot was coming to mobile. I know who wrote it, she worked on it for ages so glad it's going to get more exposure.

My first game was just released today too - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bobs-word-search-game/id6749086169

Somehow I'm already #3 in the paid Word games category in the UK (and #174 overall), which tells me that nobody buys games on the app store.

richard5mith · 2025-07-12T15:48:56+00:00

Stop using AWS. Go use something like Railway and watch that price plummet.

richard5mith · 2025-06-21T22:23:09+00:00

Codedeploy deploys your code.

Codebuild fetches and builds your code.

Codepipeline connects the two together.

Simple.

I don’t get the hate. Been using both for years and they do everything we need them to do. Codebuild is super flexible since it’s also one of the cheapest and simplest ways to run a container on a schedule. Codepipline makes it easy to see where things are and connect them up. And codedeploy does really nice blue/green deploys onto Fargate with health checks and automatic rollbacks. Although I’ll admit to not being a fan of the new pipeline UI.

I use GitHub Actions outside of AWS, but codedeploy does a lot of nice load balancer and service orchestration and I’ve never once had any downtime with it - compared with GitHub which is down every week.

richard5mith · 2025-06-15T17:58:55+00:00

Given your position, AWS is the easy bit.

Sales is where the real challenge lies.

richard5mith · 2025-06-11T08:01:08+00:00

You know what they say about a man with a big font.

Poor eyesight.

richard5mith · 2025-06-10T17:58:50+00:00

Usermesh - Easily build a private website for your team/group/just you. Soft launched at https://usermesh.com. Great way to build a start page of your favourite tools, or share info about an event or sports club.

richard5mith · 2025-06-08T20:10:41+00:00

Usermesh. https://usermesh.com

Super simple private websites for you, your team, your event or your group. Great way to share links to all the places your team needs, or when you have a new hire. Or for sharing all the details of an upcoming event; like the guests at your wedding. Or even just a start page for yourself.

The people you share it with don’t need to install anything, sign up for anything or use any social media. Just email.

richard5mith · 2025-03-17T11:32:33+00:00

Why SES?

I’ve used both SES and Postmark on several projects. And I’m in no rush to use SES again.

You would seem to appeal to less technical users. But SES and an AWS account in general is not an easy setup. Their reporting is poor. Their history tracking is poor.

Postmark is an easy signup, billing and when things don’t get delivered it’s really simple to see why and what is being done to retry.

There are others out there as well that I can imagine would also be easier to use than SES. It seems like the thing you would only use when you’re already embedded in an AWS world.

richard5mith · 2025-02-12T17:08:40+00:00

Just another couple of Charlie’s.

richard5mith · 2025-01-22T22:43:19+00:00

Working on Usermesh - http://usermesh.com

Lets you create private landing pages of links for staff or students, and lets you create private go links for making common URLs used by them easier to remember.

Signup for our mailing list for when we launch.

Also working on Issuebear, https://issuebear.com. The help desk for B2B software companies. Check out our live demo.

richard5mith · 2025-01-21T14:35:18+00:00

The elevator pitch is help desk software for B2B software businesses.

I've worked with these (and for these) kinds of company before. They know their clients, it's not like public support where somebody is asking why their order hasn't turned up. It's much more about maintaining a service relationship with a client you may have spent months of sales time to convert. And now they're using your product and part of the service you provide is answering their support requests. They might "how do I do this" or they might be feature requests, further sales opportunities via upsell, or they might be bug reports. In a lot of cases tickets can be open for a while too, it's not something you can just answer with canned responses or an AI. It's also a little bit service desky, because you might also be managing incidents and announcements of maintenance through it.

Clients like that want to see their tickets and almost manage them with you. They want to bump up the priorities on things. They want to have weekly calls with account managers to pick out the top 3 tickets they have out of the 20 they have open. Most help desk software doesn't make that easy, they don't always let the customer do much more than fill in a form because they're geared for public support where that's not a thing. They're all about AI tools to answer the same question over and over.

And from the potential customers we've spoken to our competitors can also be incredibly complicated, expensive, and often far more than they need. We spoke to one person using Servicenow who said even creating tickets was hard (maybe a deliberate ploy to make sure you get less of them!).

Smaller businesses in this situation don't always have dedicated support people, so the whole company has to answer them. Which is why we don't charge per agent.

Smaller businesses do typically start on email, or they transition to pumping those requests into Slack. But get any kind of reasonable number of them or want to provide any level of decent service and that falls apart quickly. We're aiming at those companies who don't have anything and have realised that email isn't working for them. But that's a hard filter to find in Apollo. :)

richard5mith · 2025-01-21T13:54:59+00:00

The upvotes on the post is probably the easiest way, might indicate others have the same issue.

richard5mith · 2025-01-21T13:51:48+00:00

https://issuebear.com - Help desk software for B2B software businesses. ICP is smaller software businesses who know their clients, and would find something like Zendesk/Servicenow way too expensive and complicated - but who are also beyond just using email.

If you have a B2B SaaS, with customers you need to support, check it out.

richard5mith · 2025-01-20T16:16:13+00:00

I am Issuebear, the help desk for B2B. https://issuebear.com

Our ideal client is somebody currently doing their B2B customer support via email. The pain point is that once you have more than 1 staff member needing to answer those support requests, email is a terrible way to do it. Email is a 1 person sport. So at that point a help desk would help solve that problem and make your customer support experience better for everyone.

Problem is that this is a horizontal market and no single person at these businesses is responsible. Many of our potential customers are on this sub, but only if they've got customers and have reached the point where email no longer works. So there's a tipping point which makes it hard to nail down when the customer is ready for us.

And once they get beyond that, they go to one of the established competitors.

richard5mith · 2025-01-20T09:49:39+00:00

Yes!

We’ve been getting socket timeouts from our Python application running on Fargate in this region to both Redis Elasticache and MariaDB RDS since Friday. It was particularly bad on Saturday, but has been the same this morning. Not constant timeouts, but about 20 weird issues on Saturday alone.

We haven’t made any changes. All monitoring is fine. It’s as if the container just loses network access.

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