juliancox's comments

I'm pleased to say that my problem has been promptly resolved now as well.

I can also confirm the support seems to be terrible at the moment, which is disappointing as in general I think cloudflare is a great service and I've had good experiences with most of the features (though the docs often leave a bit to be desired) and have been a user since cloudflare's early beta days.

We're on a pro plan and have had an outstanding support ticket since March 22nd. With the last cloudflare response being 19 days ago.

I can't seem to get cloudflare to talk directly to backblaze (it's a domain mapping issue) and playing the middle-man in a back and forth between cloudflare and backblaze support seems to be recipe for not getting things resolved promptly.

I know it's covid times and organizations may be short staffed but compare this to cloud66 support who implemented a whole code update to support a special edge case for a non-paying customer within 48 hours. That makes an almost 2 month old unresolved ticket seem a bit tired.

@jgrahamc I'll email you ticket details in case you'd like to take a look.

Pinkbike, core77, newatlas. I also subscribe to email newsletters ruby weekly, Postgres weekly, frontend focus and tldr. Important stuff seems to find me. There are some awesome podcasts out there too. Check out ‘13 minutes to the moon’

Plus 1 for Svelte - feels as transformative as when jquery first came out (yes I'm that old). Been using postgraphile on postgres as a backend lately, but I don't think anyone would describe sql as fun. Powerful maybe but definitely not fun.

Hi Azaan, Congratulations on launching. It's a great looking site. Good luck with it.

On the about page (and maybe others) there are multiple ’ and – characters eg: child’s. It looks like these should be apostrophes and dashes. The often happens if you copy and paste from a word doc which uses the curly (high ascii) versions of apostrophes and mdashes. You can use &quote; and — to replace these.

Battery powered burshless sliding compound mitre saw (mine is an AEG). So fantastic to have a great quality tool that can do precise cuts every time. I'd also say a nail gun (I just don't own one myself yet). If you have ever nailed above your head or at an angle into a block you are holding you'll understand why a nail gun is a game changer.

Pricing page: "Motion costs a lot less than not having the your goals achieved." Change to: "Motion costs a lot less than not achieving your goals."

I can’t agree with this more. I’m a 52 year old coder with older eyes and light mode with decent background lighting works much better for me than any other option.

I’m also old enough to recognise the current fashion trend for dark mode is exactly that - a current fashion trend. They come and go all the time in every area and can be ignored if they don’t work for you.

If you’re more productive in light mode stick with it, stop worrying, and ignore the sheep who say dark mode is better. You can churn out code while they fiddle with their IDE settings to optimise the latest productivity hack.

Flowshare looks great. Having private spaces or ability to export to PDF is crucial for business use. Also there should be a way to quickly and easily blur out private info such as credentials. Good luck with it. I'm keen to see it develop.

Based on that and your pricing page you need roughly 50 paying business customers to get to break even. Make that your goal for the next three months. Focus completely on that (no comfort zone adding just one more feature) actually get out market and sell. If you can't add the 50 customers in three months then pull the pin. If you do at least you're at break even and you can coast for a while deciding what to do next.

I'm ignoring for the moment that there is a cost to servicing each customer - you might need to factor that in to you breakeven calcs.

Exercise! It's been repeatedly shown to be a huge contributor to mental health (as well as physical). Take a walk in a park, ride a bike, go jogging or have a swim. All are cheap to do. Start slow if you're not fit, but make time for it every day (at least half an hour). It's more important than almost anything else you might want to do more. And definitely get help for your suicidal thoughts.

TinyPNG and JPG. https://tinypng.com/ Very reliable and makes me happy - thanks Panda.

Create an API we can tap into and allow inclusion of other more local review sites relevant to us eg: https://www.zomato.com

Then our site, www.eftplus.co.nz has customers that would be willing to pay for it as an add-on.

I ride to and from work and at lunchtimes every work day. I probably do at least 30km a day with 500m climbing. Here's how...

Block out 2 hours of your calendar at lunchtime every day. That's a non-negotiable slot for your exercise. Do something you love (for me its mountain biking) that makes it easy to motivate yourself to get out (having a group of similar minded friends helps too).

Work to 6pm - there's an extra hour that takes you back up to 8. For me after that is home and family time. If I need another hour I can work 9 to 10 or 10 to 11 when the others are in bed. It's a good quiet time to get a lot done without interruptions.

But here's the thing, I don't often need that extra hour because, having got out and cleared my head at lunchtime my afternoon is so much more productive that if I was stuck in the office all day.

Being a kiwi I can't really answer your question, but coincidentally there was a report on national radio here this morning about how people were traveling here on student visas to study, staying on with a job after graduation and getting residency that way. That maybe something worth looking and a good opportuninity to address the lack of college education at the same time. You'd need some reasonable savings to afford the education and living costs for up to 3 years.

Also check out http://pocketsmith.com/ it has forecasting to tell you what you'll have in future months.

bomb fertilizer 9/11

As a Kiwi it saddens me that the US and (and to some extent) NZ are descending into the style of government they proclaim to defend the world from.

If they are going to spy on their own citizens, why not protest by giving them something to spy on and hopefully increase their work load to something unmanageable.

I propose peppering every phone call, email comment etc with some choice trigger words of the day Al Queda.

Perhaps some hacker could come up with a plugin to do it automatically for us?

C4 semtex

Take a look at Vend: http://www.vendhq.com/

They are a cloud-hosted, browser-based POS system with full offline service. And they've just announced series B funding so others also believe there is a market there.

Hey great question which is coming up with some interesting answers.

I too do a bit of beekeeping but mountain biking is my main passion.

@RiderOfGiraffes nails it when he says you need to get into that zenish state. It happens when what you are doing requires total commitment and concentration. Riding a log 1m off the ground or going into a big jump does that for me. And afterwards I always feel refreshed and ready to get back into it (usually with a raft of solutions that wouldn't have come to me otherwise).

It doesn't need adrenalin though. I can't get into running because it gives me too much time to think, but try orienteering, which gives you something to think about.

And if you're trying to get into the zone of not thinking doing whatever it is your doing and you're on your own I always find an ipod on reasonably loud volume helps silence the other noises in your mind.