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Totally PEBKAS!

We’ve fixed our internal issue, hopefully won’t happen again.

What I really want is a hosting provider that just puts up a blank page on an expired domains, not show a bunch of ads.

Totally was our fault not namecheap’s. What I don’t like is the parking onto a Google ads ridden page.

Yup, that’s done now. Was an oversight on our part - we screwed up :)

Totally, it wasn’t namecheaps fault, was completely ours.

But they parked it on a page that did ads to competitors, I’d like to find a provider that doesn’t do this.

A failure in the way we’re checking our Hotmeister emails. Definitely a problem internally.

We are fixing that.

The biggest issue is with expired domains they park it to a web page that advertises other people. Would like to avoid that.

To restart your heroku dynos from the CLI, do the following:

CLI command is:

`heroku restart --app <app-name>`

This does not work for private spaces, for those you need to do:

`heroku ps:stop <dyno-type> --app <app-name>`

Where <dyno-type> is probably web, worker etc.

Once down, then you do:

`heroku restart --app <app-name>`

This has gotten about 10 apps online already for us so far - we are monitoring our fleet of 100 heroku apps and moving through the rest.

This is a pain in the butt.

Looks like we are getting production sites up and running again by restarting either via the CLI or the dashboard, worth a try if you are down.

12 hours in and sites are still down, https://status.heroku.com/incidents/2822

Now a wider isssue, status.salesforce.com is also down

Doesn't look like a cloudfront issue per se, though that is the error that comes up when trying to get to the Heroku dashbaord.

Has to be pronounced gif right?

"Everything had to be invented. Everything."

I am on Google Workspace, to be honest, more than a little concerned with the legendary Google support if something goes pear shaped... but I didn't know they had a device manager, will check it out. Thanks :)

Thanks for the reply, why do you say it seem like a natural ordering for a wire protocol?

Thank you to @dang and team for keeping the balance right here, it's a thankless (usually) job but it is pulled off with aplomb and style.

ASX is the Australian Stock Exchange.

Better article at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33636607

ASX is the Australian Stock Exchange. They have just abandoned one of the world's most high profile attempts by a mainstream trading business to use the blockchain to trade shares.

Yes indeed love the sci-fi aspect :)

But these things have to be commercial to work eventually... I wonder what they are seeing as the major competitive advantage. Land, perhaps yeah, but most of the land for solar type systems tends to be out where land is cheapish, but getting that electricity via a cable from a far off location would be something saved.

My first thought on this is why not just build the solar panel on the ground, there must be some major efficiency gain from building this to offset the complexity and cost, or is the main benefit being able to point concentrated power to a different location? (such as a 1m square receiving panel on a moving ship?)

Being a techy who has become a sales person over the years and running my own companies (which is the ultimate in having to sell) I can highly recommend Closing is NOT your problem (1). It cuts through the fluff and breaks down the Sales process into identifiable steps that actually allow you to spot and FIX what is wrong in any sales cycle you are doing.

1) https://www.amazon.com/Closing-Your-Problem-Lisa-Terrenzi/dp...

Please watch this 30 second video in order to enjoy full eyesight access for 1 hour.

We've had many discussions on HN about SpinLaunch, but Brian real goes through and answers several of the questions that were left unanswered, love it.

The number one thing you can do is write up your “hat” in the organisation that you want to pass on and make it as easy as possible for someone else to occupy it.

If there are aspects of your job, like the legacy systems you are talking about, that only you know about, you need to start the process of documenting those systems so that someone else can take them over.

This isn’t just raw documentation, but you need to build the “how to” guide for them.

Focus on one system first and then present it to the CEO and tell them that you have written up this function because you want to help remove the key person risk of knowledge being only in your head. Also tell them why you are doing it (you want to grow further into the company to bigger opportunities).

As a business owner, I can tell you that this sort of initiative is greatly appreciated and valued.

Once done on a hat, get it to a more junior engineer and help them get in control of that part of the job.

Then repeat as many times as needed.

Even if you don’t find someone to take over some aspect immediately, doing this is very therapeutic anyway and also means that when the opportunity does arrive for you to hand it over, you can!

This will also declutter tour mind and help give that “fresh start” you are after as you won’t have to remember everything.

In another HN thread I found a link to https://barrowclift.me/post/fourth-annual-ios-music-player-s... - very helpful for future reference.

Thanks all for the answers!

We received an email today from Flowdock that their product is end of life, we found this announcement online which was announced on 10th of November 2021.

It blows me away that they would not try and sell a conversion to something else... how does a company just give up on this sort of recurring revenue with no attempt to capture some of it in the process?

Another chat system going down, Slack wins?

From what I can see here looks like they've also archived Hubbard's works using text and simple recording methods powered by solar and mechanical; https://www.scientology.tv/series/inside-scientology/archiva...

ok, impressed. Happily the mail gem will see that as a valid address :)

There are basically three levels of address checking:

1) You need to validate an email field for login or a website - checking for an @ mark with some text before and at least one . after the @ will do for this.

2) You need to do some sort of address validation, library regexps like this will do for 99.9...% of these.

3) You are building an email handling system which needs to actually support the RFCs, in which case regexp will not handle what you need, and you need to use a proper parser, like https://github.com/mikel/mail/tree/master/lib/mail/parsers

Ref: I am the original author of the Ruby mail gem.

We just signed up with Vanta to do our SOC2. I have to say that the process is a lot of work but can give a +1 for any other SaaS to use Vanta, they make the process simpler and lore automated helping guide you through the complexity and you have regular calls with your Vanta account rep, who actually gets on zoom calls with you every couple of weeks to make sure you get through the process, which is amazing support.

Thanks Christina and the Vanta team for making the SOC2 compliance process… digestible :)