jaboostin's comments

jaboostin | 15 days ago | on: Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026

Hindsight is 20/20 but why not dry run this change in production and monitor the logs/metrics before enabling it? Seems prudent for any new “delete something in prod” change.

jaboostin | 25 days ago | on: Soldiers will get 'freedom dollars' to spend at the US Army's new dining halls

You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.

jaboostin | 1 month ago | on: Ask HN: One IP, multiple unrealistic locations worldwide hitting my website

Are you using Cloudflare in front of your site? If so, the IP you’re seeing is Cloudflare’s and not the bot’s IP. You’d need to log and check the headers that Cloudflare sends you, i.e. x-forwarded-for and cf-connecting-ip.

As to how one IP can originating from multiple locations: anycast.

jaboostin | 2 months ago | on: Ask HN: How did you learn to code?

ZZT! It had its own in-game editor and scripting language ZZT-OOP, which blew my mind as a kid. That was the gateway drug to Flash and ActionScript, HTML, IRC bots, Minecraft mods, and more. Self teaching by building something fun and exciting always worked the best for me. Back when coding was for fun and not money :-)