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The shitty/distracting web run on ads, so why not making a search engine which index based on that? You would have an experience similar to what was the internet originally: no corporate shit, no infinite scroll, just independent websites made to share real informations and real knowledge, and would still leave space for subscriptions or donations! And you could still use JS and avoid just using a text browser, making the occasional order from a website or navigating the fediverse!

Not an ADblock, the issue isn't ads, the issue is how the web is TAILORED towards ads, and how that makes shitty web.

Is there any tool which does that? The goal would be blocking/avoid indexing all websites connected somehow to ads, is this even something possible? I know it would block 90% of the web, but if that 10% is freedom, I want that freedom!

If you plan to offer a service tied to a website you make for your client, what are the advantages of self hosting compared to relying on third party services?

Static sites, CMS, newsletter, emails, form handling and more..

An easy example is forms: you can either use formspree or install one of the countless foss form handlers you can find online..

In my mind it's definitely cooler to offer all the services your client needs + you can also charge for them without having to pay for 5 different plans on other platforms, just your VPS or dedicated machine, more income and less expenses. But I see it can be hard to manage outages sometimes or issues that can come with self hosting.

It's offering a service vs being just a reseller.

My experience with self hosting stuff on my own (for my own use) so far has been quite good. I don't use containerization and I carefully config everything needed the first time, then I reverse proxy through cloudflare, after that I rarely have issues and if I have I simply rely on logs.

In my mind it doesn't seem too hard to install a couple of services and make accounts for my clients + fixing something not working every now and then.

My only concern with that is if one day I will want to stop being a developer, how will I handle the quantity of people relying on my server and everything I will hold.

Interested in your thoughts and experience about self hosting vs relying on third parts!

Some services run really good behind a reverse proxy on 443, but some others can really become an hassle.. And sometimes just opening other ports would be easier than to try configuring everything to work through 443.

An example that comes to my mind is SSH, yeah you can use SSLH to forward requests coming from 443 to 22, but it's so much easier to just leave 22 open..

Now, for SSH, if you have certificate authentication or a strong password, I think you can feel quite safe, but what about other random ports? What risks I'm exposing my server to if I open some of them when needed for a service? Is the effort of trying to pass everything through 443/80 worth it?

TypeScript does not throw an error at compile time for accessing an out-of-bounds index. Instead, it assumes that the value could be one of the types defined in the array (in this case, 1 or 2) or undefined.

TypeScript automatically infers the type of a value accessed from an array, even if that access is out of bounds. It assumes that the value could be one of the defined types or undefined, which can lead to confusion if you expect stricter enforcement of valid indices.

I just spent the last 2 hours trying to understand why I was getting a valid type from something that shouldn't have been valid.

I think that the hate that JavaScript receives is well deserved, at least coming from Rust this is an absolute nightmare.

After a while since I left JS, I decided to learn Typescript, React and to give it a go again.. It's all fun, until you have to hunt down bugs..

I'm working with an headless CMS, so you have like 4 layers of stuff: JS, TS, React, CMS.

My opinion is that debugging works for SIMPLE stuff, like if I have a static website generator, debugging and hunting the errors by hand to find what's wrong it's okay. But when you have to do really complex stuff, interact with APIs, working with promises, async requests and all, I do think that hunting bugs like that is the recipe for a disaster.

My project runs into a bug: I get 27 different errors messages from different tools, some of them are easy to misunderstand and not really pointing out the right problem. And I don't want to imagine what's like working with a big fullstack app where you have to manage backend as well, not just its APIs..

Once things starts to get complex the language MUST have a good compiler, MUST have a very good package manager, an included linter which is the SAME one for everyone, and API/libraries documentation tool which looks everywhere the same, and most importantly a carefully crafted error handling system. Once a language is very complex it needs to goes straight to the point and tells you where the issue is, what you are doing wrong, and it's okay to have layers but you cannot use 5 different error detection mechanisms for one project.

Consider I only know apis are structured data that can be called or modified from within a program, and have no real further knowledge in real use cases nor in networking.

Where should I start from? Should I study backend?

I prefer docs rather than videos.

Hi, I'm a 26yo male. 2025 probably have been one of the worst year of my life, I broke up with someone I loved a lot (after 6 months of relationship), I left my old therapist because he wasn't helping me anymore to seek help from another one that is just unavailable and dishorganized, I might be losing my job (because of my mental health and instability of myself and the job itself), last week I almost killed myself with xanax, lexotan, ketamine and alcohol. I blacked out 2 days. I'm heavily addicted to porn and couldn't quit after 10 years of attempts.

My therapist told me I might be having PTSD from childhood trauma, my mother was suicidal for a period of time and almost killed me one time by trying to threw me off of a cliff.

I have to take a decision before next week if keeping this job or to leave, which I cannot do for sure because I'm too fucked up and dissociated. In the peaks of my dissociation I struggle talking as well.

My new therapist was unavailable last week when I said I was suicidal, and wasn't available after my attempt, she just asked "how are you now?" From WhatsApp. This was my first attempt and it came after 5 fucking years of therapy and spent on my mental health which at this point I think was useless.

My last breakup lit the fire up, and it slowly and painfully destroyed everything around and inside me, but I'm not even disappointed at the breakup itself, I'm disappointed at the fact that I took it as the end of the world and have to start everything all fucking over again every single time, from the abyss of suicidal depression and addiction. I'm disappointed at myself mostly because I'm the way I am and I cannot bear anything without destroying my life and the life of others.

I feel consumed in the depth of my bones, fragile, needing some real rest from myself and the world.. I think there's a point if bipolar people spend a lot of time in bed, they are exhausted, I know that feeling, it's just their body trying to compensate, a biological response to their tiredness.

My only hope at this point resides into psychedelics because that's the only thing that actually did something for me, and I think I'm planning to take some LSD and face all of this once and for all. I would like to do this with a therapist, but it's hard to find one that does this and even harder after changing 2 of them already. But as I'm scared to do this alone and having a guide would be far more effective, I will try harder.. It's just that this whole situation feels unbearable and I don't really know where I'm going.

Today I also had the desire to take benzos like last week, but I knew it would end up in another SA.

I don't even know what I need.. To get out of the chaos? But chaos feels like home.. I would just want to sleep for 3 weeks..

Xanax was something like 2mg, lexotan 2.5 mg i suppose, and a glass of strong wine.. I am feeling really relaxed, like nothing matters and sleepy, but am I really in danger?

It's hard to walk straight and I kinda am forgetting what I am doing along the way.. Yesterday evening I also took another 2mg of xanax and then smoke DMT which did nothing except make me more aware of the mess I was living in.

I don't think I care if I die but I just don't want to suffer

Update 1: added another 15 drops of lexotan, it's kinda getting hard keeping count, it is 2.5mg/ml, how many drops is an ml? Should I really care? How does respiratory arrest feels like? Will I suffer? Or just fall asleep? I suppose benzos will at least ease out the pain.

Update 2: woke up a couple of hors later, taking more lexotan and see if I can lead myself to tomorrow's

I need to create a website that holds some events data as well as other content, it will also maybe need to grab some data from APIs.

Since I'm skilled with Hugo (static site generator) I thought I could use that but it's turning out it's a total mess actually.

In Hugo I can have contacts (like events organizers) as taxonomy, but that is a different format (yaml) than CSV or vcard, and it's also static, meaning that if I edit a contact it will only change in Hugo. So I found myself having to manage contacts in 4 different places, in 4 different ways: Hugo yaml, Thunderbird, google contacts, CSV (from earlier days)... And I will add mailchimp once I'll also add a newsletter. This ensures my contacts are kinda becoming a mess.

Same goes with events, it's okay if I generate events in Hugo, but if I grab events from APIs and then the API content changes I will have to modify it on Hugo as well.

Everything it's turning out to be a total mess essentially and I think I tried to use something simple to build something quite complex, I realized the complexity later.

Now ideally I would like to be able to have my contacts, my newsletter, my content in one single place ato have everything nicely synced and not having to deal with 30 different lists or formats.

What should I do?

I know about the jamstack and headless CMS like ghosts and I was wondering if they could be a good solution, or if I should opt for a full CMS. Obvious solution would be WordPress but I wouldn't really want to mess with all the plugins.

Also I spent quite a but of time in building my templates for the Hugo website and throwing everything away would feel awful, if there's a way to reuse them (?).

I know some JavaScript basics but I would avoid it if possible.

Hi! I've been working with Hugo for a while and I also created a free MIT licensed theme with it!. I love the flexibility and the ease of use.

But I'll have to wok on a bit more complicated project than a simple showcase website/blog. The content to be published on it is not a lot, but it would be definitely better if I could:

• Get/Post some content with API to avoid posting multiple times the same articles on different platforms, getting modifications as well.
• Send posts digests via email / Download PDF post digests.
• Post on social medias (?)
• Parse some content from CSV files / I don't know anything about databases.

Now I know that I can do something like this with a little systemd service I might write on my own and something like Zapier + RSS feed + Mailchimp. Also I could leverage Hugo modules and the .GetRemote / transform.unmarshal command, to get content from remote sources.

Now I'm not really a lot more than an amateur developer, I was thinking a headless CMS could pheraps do this stuff and more in a better way (?). I'm not a webdev and I know only really really basic JavaScript, I can use Bootstrap for frontend confidently and add SCSS to it. I know a bit of Rust too.

Would it be worth to take the time learning how headless CMS's work? I don't really want to go back managing Wordpress plugins, updates ecc.

Do you think I'm going out of a static site generator purpose with this kind of project?