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How did you find the first month? I’m terrified of starting as I’ve read that the side effects can render you unable to do anything for weeks.

Do you mind me asking what you were like before?

I’ve had generalised anxiety disorder for ~12 years and have kept it manageable using some of the techniques you’ve described (breathing and meditation being the main two) however this year has brought some challenges that has really ramped it up and is now causing major issues that I’m struggling to manage.

My doctor was happy to prescribe some for me, but I’m scared as hell about starting them. Side affects aside, getting off them sounds like it can be a nightmare.

I'm in Melbourne and it all seems ok

I haven't been impacted in Australia at all, but all of my (probably US based) monitors are going off.

Yes and no. Obviously not great when everything goes down, but I find a strange sense of solace and calm when I know there’s a lot of people in the same boat and there’s little I can do but wait.

Yep. Came here when I saw two of my sites go down before I even checked Heroku or Cloudflare

> Crypto is successful at being money. If you don't believe me, then I'm happy to sell you the laptop I'm writing this on for 1,000 ETH instead of 1,000 USD.

> How about 1000 kilos of gold? Or 1000 1 Carat Diamonds? Does that make diamonds good money?

This is a good argument, but I think a better one would be that there is no way the seller is willing to sell any laptop for 1,000 ETH, given that the value of 1000 ETH as of writing is over 1.5m AUD.

If they gave me a quote for the actual value of the laptop in AUD (perhaps 1-2 ETH?) I would still say no, because the inherent volatility in even the most "stable" coins is too high. 2 ETH might be worth 3k AUD today, who knows what it will be when it arrives, let alone when I want to spend it.

Yep, still running my saas product on it, have been for over 5 years. Never had any issues really, and we deploy through a CI/CD so we don’t have GitHub connected.

Still more expensive than I’d like, and the lack of an AU option sucks, but it’s been great so far, I choose it because I didn’t want to worry about devops, and that’s pretty much been the experience.

I have had a look at render, but didn’t find it as easy as Heroku, It’s probably due to me being more familiar with Heroku.

And Australian models.

Recently got an M1 Mac, I couldn’t be happier. I use it all day every day for dev (ruby, node, react)

Everything was far easier than I expected it to be, the only issues I had was with installing python (a few cli Utils required it) but everything else has been smooth sailing and a much better experience than running things on my 2019 MBP

I’m not a huge docker user, but I run it for a few things and again, it was all smooth sailing.

Whenever I've seen the 100% refundable, it tells you later that the first night will be taken off the refund as well, even when it's just a single night stay..

Ever since CF went public, their support quality has fallen off of a cliff. It's really sad to see as they have a great service, and especially recently have built some amazing stuff. I just don't understand why humans helping humans has become so much of a thing to avoid.

Yes it's tricky, and it doesn't scale well, but that's the price you pay when working with people.

Glad that there was a good outcome, but very sad to see it took getting on Page #1 of HN to be resolved.

I love ruby, built my first business on Ruby/Rails as a Monolith and it purrs along all day, every day. Easy to use and maintain, but I'll never do it again.

Hiring is just too hard. I'm currently building my next product on Typescript. It's much easier to find talent that knows JS/TS, and having the same language across the entire stack cannot be overstated.

The lack of types is also something that I just don't want to deal with anymore.

The JS ecosystem is no where near as stable or mature as ruby's, but it still has everything I need and I have enough experience to avoid the bad parts.

I love ruby as a developer, but not as a business/product owner.

There's two words that stick out for me here. "Boring" and "Entrepreneurial"

Reg. Boring: It's all going to come down to how YOU define it. Folks on HN (and life in general) is filled with people who can get fascinated and infinitely obsessed with things that most other people would find boring, and make a lot of money doing it.

I have my own small business, and am currently building a second. I'm thoroughly enjoying the technical, product and people challenges that come with it, even though the products themselves would likely make some people eyes glaze over. I don't have a sexy funded startup, I don't post walls of inspirational text on LinkedIn or go on Podcasts. No one really knows who I am. I'd say overall I'm pretty boring, and it's bloody great.

So perhaps the takeaway there is "Make sure you don't find yourself or what you do boring".

Reg. Entrepreneurial: This is the main issue I have with what he said tbh. What does that mean, especially these days? If it means going out on your own and starting you own business, I'd never disparage anyone from giving it a go, but it's definitely not the "smart" thing to do. Statistically you're going to be happier and wealthier by just having a well paid 9-5 job.

Either way, you've got plenty of time to figure out what it all means for you. Enjoy the journey :)

We're looking at a simple Lift & Shift to AWS. We're building our next product on AWS, so makes sense to move everything there, and the agency that we have doing the 24 hours monitoring runs a bunch of rails apps on their AWS stack so they've got everything in place to do it pretty simply.

Yeah I tried that, but being a small shop, I just can't afford to match the salaries of the bigger companies, and after a year (of mostly training) they get poached by a company that can pay 20-30k more than my little bootstrapped startup can :(

If Only Ruby was actually popular outside of our own circle, I might have an easier time at hiring ruby devs :(

I'm not sad at all, it's just done on sale.

Same way we’ve done for years, via our CD (circle CI), which uses the Heroku CLI

We’ve been lucky that this entire event has, theoretically, not touched us as we never connected GitHub. That may change as more information comes to light.

We’re still strongly considering moving to AWS, and are in the process of getting quotes from vendors.

100% this. I’ve used GraphQL on two projects now, where we manage the front and back end, and it’s been an amazing experience.

A strong type system, combined with a GraphQL code generator and typescript, has been an amazing experience as both front and back end developer. Not only do I have types for the backend (for the Things like input args as well as models), I have types for the front end, as well as easy to use hooks to utilise them in React. During development, we constantly fetch the latest schema and check if anything has changed, If so the build breaks then and there, highflying which queries are no longer valid.

The development experience has been amazing, and much more productive than and REST based workflow I’ve used, purely because of the type system.

Agreed. If people think MyGov is bad, they should try using ASIC. Absolute god damn nightmare

We're also starting to look into this. We're already spending more than we need to, but depending on what this breach turns out to be, we very well may need to move to AWS to keep our enterprise customers happy.

I was wondering if that email was going to make it to HN.

This whole things has been an absolute s*tshow. Now I'm worried that there is a much bigger issue at play, and we might actually be in a bit of trouble.

I built my first business on Heroku. Started 5 years ago and still, for the most part, it's going strong.

There are some really strong downsides (especially after the last 2 weeks) but as a dev team of 1 (mostly) it's been a life saver, and that's enough to overrule all the other downsides.

Having said that, we've suffered our own issues, with cost, latency (we're in AU) and scaling being the main ones.

We're building a new product that we're betting very heavily on and it's all on AWS serverless. I wouldn't choose Heroku again.

I think it was worth it 5 years ago, but as time goes on it becomes harder to justify.

Ah, so this is why my simple github release action randomly stopped working today... awesome

I recently worked through a bout of stress induced sleep onset insomnia, which my sleep psych suspects was triggered by a series of sleep interruptions over 3 years from horrendous neighbors in the last few years (a party that started at 3 am apparently was what broke the camels back)

It took me a month of CBT to break the back of it, and everything is (mostly) back to normal now, but it just blows my mind how insensitive people are to those around them. I just don't understand it.

Same. Every time a new version gets released I feel a pang of guilt for that poor codebase, but it's been jogging along for 5-6 years with minimal updates and it works like a charm. Fairly big code base as well.

I did upgrade from react-router v1 though... declaring routes as JSON just felt a bit too gross.

I had a similar experience when I first played Bloodbourne. It was my fist FromSouls and I kept dying to this big troll dude on the first level. I got so frustrated and I quit, not understanding at all what the fuss was all about.

For some reason I come back to it 6 months later, and persevered through (not realizing that you absolutely DONT need to fight that damn thing). I kept dying until something clicked, and from then on everything become much easier and I enjoyed every minute from then on.

Same with Demons Souls, I kept dying to Armour Spider, got really angry, frustrated, then something clicked and I broke through, and the rest of the game was amazing.

Not saying this is/would be your experience, and I generally agree that the difficulty does get in the way sometimes, but maybe it's worth it to see if you can break through. I do think Elden Ring is the hardest of all the ones I've played, BUT the open world means it's as hard as you make it, if something is too hard in ER, you can just nope out of there and explore somewhere else.

You can also just play as a spell-caster and the game gets much easier.

Just beat them last night.... it was brutal.

If you explore a bit you'll find a site of grace that's directly in front of one of the gates. I also switched to frost damage and it made the fight almost trivial.

100% I could take or leave the difficulty in FromSoft games, sometimes it honestly gets in the way. What I absolutely love, and what keeps me coming back is the atmosphere and exploration.

Recently played the Demons Souls remake and the locations, enemies and atmosphere was just amazing, I couldn't wait to see what was around the corner.