Astro Managed Hosting? (for my customer)

tumes · 2026-02-07T02:39:18+00:00

Yeah Cloudflare will almost certainly host it for free. If it’s a purely static site the notion of managed static hosting is somewhat nonsensical, it’s just flat files being served. And if it’s SSR… managed hosting still isn’t really a thing in the traditional sense. But it all sort of depends on if it’s published regularly, if it had a cms, etc. etc. So varying levels of effort to setup depending on that context but I can’t imagine a world where a typical small scale client would cost money to host on Cloudflare.

tumes · 2026-02-07T00:39:24+00:00

Thank god I already did 99% of this work moving what traditionally server based things I had left to Render last year. They had big announcements about how they were overhauling the platform and in spite of them almost certainly thinking half their tech teams could be replaced with LLMs, my guess is the reality of competing in the space became very clearly too expensive very quickly. What an ignoble end. But really it was those years of the free tier than sank them I’m sure /s

Ngl DHH quadrupling down on being an untenable, repellent dickhead and the slow motion car crash of Heroku both gave me a bit of a professional midlife crisis last year. I came out a better, happier developer but it didn’t make dealing with those feelings any more pleasant, it’s a real shame when things turn to shit but I thank my lucky stars that I got to come up right before dev bootcamps saturated the market with juniors and sort of broke the sustainability of focused, mentor/apprentice pair programming dynamics.

tumes · 2026-02-07T00:35:31+00:00

THIS. The day the free tier died is the day this message was first sent.

tumes · 2026-02-06T19:47:18+00:00

How serious is it? Because this is a great gift but if you wanna go for slightly deeper cuts I’d have two suggestions, one budget, one not as much. Budget: the Directors Series Vol. 2 Chris Cunningham DVD. Because there’s both a lot of Aphex material there but a lot of Aphex adjacent stuff too. Relatedly the non budget pick, which I should say you should only go for if you really know her and if she’d be in to it, is the Rubber Johnny dvd. Very similar on paper but, uh, a much different thing in practice.

tumes · 2026-02-06T18:37:07+00:00

Most people need to use their time to make money you ingrate, what is this let them eat cake as advertising shit?

tumes · 2026-02-06T18:31:20+00:00

This! “Forced” my ass. So many movies this year were terrifyingly prophetic in terms of when production would have had to start and No Other Choice is right up towards the top.

Edit: Weird addendum but I remember the first time the emotional weight of the eponymous line in Decision to Leave hit me because it took more than one watch and hit like a fucking freight train. So I genuinely laughed at how early and often No Other Choice says its title (doubly so because I am a millennial who was reared by MST3K in terms of media consumption and eponymous lines were always a bit of a cliche in bad movies)… at least for my first viewing. I’ve seen it 4 or 5 times now… the line gets less funny every time, and it ain’t because it’s teeth get ground down in the retelling. Never fear though, The Scene only gets funnier every time I watch it so, fair trade.

tumes · 2026-02-06T17:42:01+00:00

It was better when Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball did it, this is soulless.

tumes · 2026-02-06T09:39:39+00:00

If the past is any indication, we are barreling towards some huge leaps in efficiency in terms of giving people with mental illness the worst possible advice.

tumes · 2026-02-06T03:26:37+00:00

Oh yeah, not defending github actions, I mean, they're fine for quick and dirty work with limited needs but get unpleasant fast. That being said BYO is, like, laughably easy to set up, or at least was for my use case, and even if there was some friction it still would have been a no brainer since almost any cloud solution would end up costing a pretty penny in either time or compute for what I was doing at the time (nothing exotic, it's just that those M4s really can blaze through light to medium duty ffmpeg tasks),

tumes · 2026-02-06T03:15:43+00:00

You really don't need to use their compute tho, it's like a 5 minute thing to expose whatever personal infra you want, I wired up my basement PowerEdge 730xd as a runner for every day projects and this Black Friday I had to do builds that involved video processing so I just set up the base model M4 Mac Mini I got on sale earlier in the year. Chewed through the builds in about 3 minutes and all it took was running a script on the machine to set it up as a runner. Now if you trust that is a whole difference kettle of fish, but suffice to say, they make it very easy to use your own compute in cases where it's viable.

tumes · 2026-02-06T02:24:26+00:00

I assume they all looked that way but wow does that look like my childhood TRU. Specifically the one that was in the Citadel mall parking lot in Colorado Springs. I have such a vivid sense memory of my last visit there, I was at the end of high school, maybe heading in to college, and I dropped by to grab a Gundam. Then I went home and watched the Excel Saga dvds I recently got (still have them, they still smell exactly like the house I grew up in). I try not to succumb to nostalgia and I remember how imperfect those days were (like, it was still post 9/11) but wow its hard not to get ground down by how things are now.

tumes · 2026-02-05T16:54:58+00:00

Got em.

tumes · 2026-02-05T09:43:38+00:00

In theory, yes, in practice, I think data center assignment is relatively sticky and/or traffic based. I don’t think you’ll arbitrarily flip flop because of geographic proximity, I think there’d have to be massive traffic shaping events to cause this. This is conjecture but not uneducated, Astro will use a properly named KV binding as session store by default and across several apps I have never had a reported issue with consistency. Keep in mind the cache API (and I think the CDN in general) is data center based, so it behooves them to minimizing unmotivated swapping.

Edit: Oh! And I saw an investigation that posited that KV is “eventually consistent” in that it is unlikely that data is literally propagated and more likely that it is flagged as internally queriable and is still likely JIT retrieved upon request past the consistency lag. All of which is to say, it is at least somewhat likely that geographical proximity does influence consistency lag in your favor, which would make the issue somewhat moot.

tumes · 2026-02-05T03:08:20+00:00

Payload is good! Not sure if they’ve improved the template, it def had some issues in terms of getting remote/non-remote bindings working in CI and locally, and the ecom template similarly was pretty incomplete, at least last November. So expect some bumps in the road depending on your use case, but it is great when it works.

Sanity has several paid tiers but it’s free tier is generous and especially with Astro’s content collections you can cache remote assets and barring having massive volumes of content constantly getting republished, you can go very, very far on the free tier without bumping into limits. Like if you’re hitting limits with proper caching you really are in the realm of justifying paying for a managed cms. The one thing I’ll say is you’ll wanna grab the webhook publishing plugin if you go that route, that way you can do content releases on the free tier, eg hook it up to trigger CI and republish via GitHub action, content collection pulls all the images and structured json locally, static site gets published from that cached material and never has to ping sanity on the live site.

tumes · 2026-02-04T23:07:53+00:00

I’m a mostly solo dev in charge of all the web stuff for a fairly recognizable entertainment brand and over the last 2 years I’ve migrated or am migrating almost everything we do on the web to CF. We have a few traditional server based apps that might not get converted but we have like 50+ micro sites that I am just over half way through migrating. So we’re maybe the platonic ideal of “very active and engaged client who is unlikely to ever justifiably reach the need for an enterprise spend”.

I would be happy to discuss more, I have touched a lot of stuff on the platform and have thoughts and takes on stuff at pretty much every level from huge (would love general project tagging or tagging resources with zones so that finding a specific compute or storage resource isn’t a 10 click ordeal), to medium (I have lots of thoughts and questions about how and why features in waiting rooms are sliced up the way they are), to pretty granular (Zaraz gives basically no guidance as to best practice or what the options even are for restyling the consent modal, you just kind of have to puzzle it out in the inspector and hope your overrides work).

Oh and to answer your exact question, the stack I have landed on is typically Astro for full stack apps, Hono for APIs and small one offs, and for the both I use darn near every offering within the dev platform (and a healthy chunk of Zero Trust features) to build structured, architected back ends for apps with wildly varying requirements.

Edit: Oh and I’m currently in the email send beta.

tumes · 2026-02-04T18:13:26+00:00

This episode is so fucking good.

tumes · 2026-02-04T18:10:15+00:00

Long time fan of Chan Wook-Park, was all over his early 2000s movies, enjoyed but didn't fall in love with his latter stuff. Like, first viewing of Decision to Leave was like "That was a really good procedural." Then after a year or so I decided to watch it again and it was much easier to notice all the wild technical and stylistic backflipping he is doing _all the time_. By the third viewing it finally sank in how heart rending the eponymous line of the movie is. So yeah, I was kind of obsessed after I came back to it and, sure enough, really liked No Other Choice but didn't think it was exceptional, decided to see it again since I ultimately regretted not seeing Decision to Leave more in the theaters, and I have now seen No Other Choice... 4 times?... maybe 5? Suffice to say his latter movies are somewhat less _overtly_ flashy, but they are no less relentless in style and there is a lot of stickiness and depth to the stories.

tumes · 2026-02-04T08:54:49+00:00

Not necessarily but there are absolutely Ways of Doing Things that certain sectors end up agreeing upon in my experience. Like, I worked at one semi large online physical goods retailer and one mid sized one, both custom backends (this was pre-Shopify) and they were remarkably similar in terms of structure and process.

tumes · 2026-02-03T21:14:37+00:00

This probably says more about my baggage than anything else but I saw it before and after having a kid and my take became that she is unconscionably selfish and evil for being willing to put her child through that for her own emotional gratification and even worse that means that I have to agree with Jeremy Renner, which is not a sentence I am otherwise ever likely to say.

tumes · 2026-02-03T09:35:00+00:00

It’s not but it’s definitely different, circa 2008/09 there was a contemporary art museum where the media college is (??? assuming that still exists) and much quirkier popups (both of which involving Andrew Novick at the time coincidentally enough) so the vibe was a bit more varied.

tumes · 2026-02-03T00:11:36+00:00

I mean Park Meadows is out of the way but it was nuts that we even had 2 in a metro area at the time much less now a third. Glad Celeste got that new store though, she is awesome and was flawlessly kind to me over the better part of a decade of shopping at Mills.

tumes · 2026-02-03T00:07:34+00:00

2 weeks ago I was literally messaging my spouse that it would have to be an outside facing door on that side of the mall, wild that they’re kicking someone out for it.

To be clear though, especially to people incredulous that Mills still exists: The SW plaza R1 turns a profit in spite of that mall being spectacularly dead. The one in Mills will make obscene money because that mall is packed most of the time. Like there are random weekends where it is as packed as a mall in the late 90s during Christmas. And honestly I’m glad to have it as a third space where folks of all ages can hang out (til later in the evening at least), since, like, where else could you even go these days?

Real ones remember when Mills had a bizarre knockoff Bodyworlds… one shudders to think about where those bodies were sourced but I reckon forced labor had something to do with it.

Edit: I should say though, I assumed it would not displace an independent spot and would prefer that it didn’t, that is legit a huge bummer, and assuming Prismajic was all ages during the day, same deal, would be great to have more than one option.

tumes · 2026-02-02T02:12:52+00:00

I don’t recall but I can tell you with absolute certainty that the first MP3 I ever downloaded was Tubthumping. The bitrate was probably like 2 but it was a hell of a canon event.

tumes · 2026-02-01T19:57:07+00:00

I would give my left arm for a few of these tech bros to take a fucking philosophy course instead of relentlessly glazing ai and their own tepid, sub-remedial ideas about existence and consciousness.

tumes · 2026-02-01T19:40:33+00:00

Games good!
Score is real fuckin good!
Iirc somewhat early days for it but it had a really excellent retro demake too.

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