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t0mislavon Ask HN: Who else is working on nothing?

Yeah. Very similar story on my side.

I slowed down a lot, both at my job and with side projects. And you know what, Earth is still spinning!

Kids are here now, working on myself, trying to figure out things, be happier. Etc.

t0mislavon Ask HN: What are you reading these days?

The Only Way Is West by Bradley Chermside

Book about Camino de Santiago. I like walking (and Camino is lot of walking), so this is interesting.

t0mislavon Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?

Sovietistan: A Journey Through Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan by Erika Fatland

Nice book if you find this part of world interesting.

Now started to read "The Border: A Journey Around Russia" by same author.

t0mislavon The U.S. birth rate has fallen by 20% since 2007

>12 hours/day

I can't even imagine working a minute longer than 8 hours per day, and 12+ hours is woow. Is this common in US?

I work 8 hours my whole career (IT). My wife works 6 hours per day. (central Europe)

t0mislavon Show HN: Random Aerial Airport Views

This is great! I like sites like this, and believe me, lot of people do.

I had few sites like this (site which gives you random stuff). Some of them were great success.

My latest site is this: https://randomcountrygenerator.com/

t0mislavon Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers

It was sad moment, but this week, after 15 years I have shut down and deleted my last Linode vps.

Migrated to Hetzner, I hope it will be ok.

t0mislavon What is REM sleep and why is it important?

So true. Now that they are 3yr and 6yr old. I'm still not sleeping nowhere as before, but it's getting a little bit better.

t0mislavon Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services

Do you remember good old times when almost every Linode birthday they bumped either memory x2, storage space or something else, for free?

t0mislavon Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

Well, with this AI thing going on right now. Maybe it is not bad idea to try with making up countries.

"Hey AI, generate some random country name, flag, capital city and borders. Oh yes, and few pictures of country."

t0mislavon Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

https://randomcountrygenerator.com/

Sorry HN, nothing sophisticated or fancy. Life is really busy last few years (family :), day job, building house).

Next time it will be some great tool from me, I promise. :)

t0mislavon Rimac Nevera Hits 412kph to Become World’s Fastest Production Electric Car

No. Bora is strong wind and can last for days.

t0mislavon Ask HN: What HN post made you money?

Correct. It was passive income. Once running, I didn't touched it almost at all.

t0mislavon Ask HN: What HN post made you money?

I'm using TileMill to generate tiles. I does not support webp. I exported it to png, and then with some one line script converted all png's to webp.

t0mislavon Ask HN: What HN post made you money?

It was topic about showing your side projects, or something similar.

I had small website just like [1] but with ads (I sold it later). It gave me lot of traffic, more visibility, eventually better Google rank and more money from ads.

Such small/fun sites can get you real money!

1: https://randomcountrygenerator.com/

t0mislavon Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

I had site similar to this that generated 600-700$ USD per month as passive income.

https://randomcountrygenerator.com/

I didn't touched it, sometimes for many months in a row.

t0mislavon Google rewrites many page titles

Oh, now I understand.

t0mislavon Ask HN: What are the three most expensive tools/services that you use?

1. Linode VPS 12.5$/month

2. domains around 100$ year

3. Backblaze personal backup 60$ year.

Working on 2011 Mac Mini in Macvim, cheap and works perfectly fine.

I mentioned fun part, and will skip mentioning health insurance, car etc.

t0mislavon Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

https://random.country/

It's few yeras old now, but still half baked. I will rewrite it, make better UX.

t0mislavon A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack

Just read this "Snowbound" at Outside Online. What a story!

note: it's Garmin inReach Mini, if someone is interested.

t0mislavon Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?

"The dogs bark, but the caravan goes on."

Also when I think I have problems in life, this helps a lot: "Things could be (much) worse." (I think it is from Stoicism)

t0mislavon Image Shows Chinese Submarine Entering Mysterious Cave at S. China Sea Base

Correct! I have been there.

t0mislavon Ask HN: How do you switch off from work, particularly when working from home?

I put company laptop back to backpack, then hide backpack to it's place under desk.

Also, emails on my phone is big no after working hours.

t0mislavon Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

No, never thought about it. But good point, let me check.

t0mislavon Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

Thanks, will check it.

t0mislavon Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

Well I tried with similar site year ago and Google rejected it. So I think answer is probably not possible.

t0mislavon Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

Yes, I have. 3000€ since the ads are there. Also from 6, 7 years ago, I was learning to code.

https://random.country/

t0mislavon Time is the only real currency we have

We could optimize (probably we will) lot of things like you mentioned.

But then, we will still waste 20 times more looking at stupid things on internet.