LukeLambert

2 years agodiscuss

The big problem with statement-based replication is that many queries are non-deterministic. e.g. Inserting a row with current_timestamp or random()

LukeLambert

2 years agodiscuss

Yes, it was the Ghost URL. Thank you for correcting it! I read just about every post, so I have a lot of catching up to do.

LukeLambert

2 years agodiscuss

This is really cool and I can't wait to read all about it. Unfortunately, I've missed a month of blog posts because Cloudflare changed their blog's RSS URL without notice. If you change blogging platforms and can't implement a 301, please leave a post letting subscribers know where to find the new feed. RSS isn't dead!

LukeLambert

3 years agodiscuss

I don't think Starlink has any data caps. On average, the tests download 140 MB and upload 15 MB each run (560 MB and 60 MB daily).

LukeLambert

3 years agodiscuss

Note that the timestamps are UTC, while Texas is UTC-6:00 during Standard Time and UTC-5:00 during Daylight Saving Time. The biggest dip is during prime streaming hours.

LukeLambert

3 years agodiscuss

Yep!

  speedtest -f json -I eth0

I also test the WISP connection on eth1

LukeLambert

3 years agodiscuss

My parents in rural Northeast Texas use Starlink as their primary connection (they have a WISP as failover). Since Sept. 2022, I've been running automated speed tests four times a day (1 and 7, AM and PM). Speeds vary a lot throughout the day, but average about 100 Mbps down by 10 Mbps up.

https://gist.github.com/LukeLambert/dd722e49bc773bcb27e859d9...

LukeLambert

3 years agodiscuss

Can someone explain what it looks like from a user's perspective when an article is blocked? Is there an error message? Limited reach? Plain link instead of rich preview?

If the publishers don't want their photo, headline, and first sentence or two appearing without payment as a rich preview on Facebook, well ok. I think it's a stretch, but I can at least see their perspective. It's worth noting that publishers are already in control of that preview with Open Graph tags.

However, if they want to get paid for an unadorned <a> tag, that completely goes against the spirit of hypertext.

LukeLambert

3 years agodiscuss

I think Simon has a lot of experience solving hard problems: https://simonwillison.net/about/

LukeLambert

3 years agodiscuss

With Messages and Music in particular (and perhaps other apps), you can sign into a different Apple ID than the one used for the system-level iCloud account.

LukeLambert

3 years agodiscuss

That's likely due to the page having a canonical URL meta tag:

  <link rel="canonical" href="https://www.twintown.com/collections/acoustic-guitars"/>

LukeLambert

3 years agodiscuss

  javascript:prompt('URL',window.location.origin+window.location.pathname)

Edit: But be aware that some sites (like this one) need the parameters in the query string.

LukeLambert

4 years agodiscuss

Thank you for following up. IMHO, object-fit is not the right model for server-side image manipulation, since its behavior is only specified when both width and height are supplied. I've also never seen a real world use case for stretching, squeezing, padding, or enlarging images on the server. That should be done on the client. I mentioned some of the same issues on the Cloudflare forum when they announced an image resizing product based on object-fit.

I believe all resizing operations a user might realistically want can be achieved with three parameters: width, height, and crop. Additional x and y parameters (floats between 0.0 and 1.0) could be used for setting the focal point of the crop box.

Examples:

  source.jpg?width=400

Iff source width is greater than 400px, scale down to 400px wide.

  source.jpg?height=300

Iff source height is greater than 300px, scale down to 300px high.

  source.jpg?width=400&height=300

Iff source width is greater than 400px or source height is greater than 300px, scale down to fit within a 400px by 300px box.

  source.jpg?width=400&height=300&crop=true

Crop source to a 4x3 aspect ratio. Iff result is larger than 400px by 300px, scale down.

LukeLambert

4 years agodiscuss

In nearly two decades developing for the web, I've never found a good reason to enlarge an image server-side, so thank you for anticipating that footgun. So many of your competitors get it wrong.

However, it's unclear from the docs [0] if one of the most common use cases is supported: requesting an image at a specific aspect ratio while not exceeding a maximum size.

For instance, I want a 1600×900px hero image at the top of my blog posts, but my source image is only 1200px wide. I request:

  transform: {
    width: 1600,
    height: 900,
    resize: 'cover'
  }

Will the returned image be 675px tall, maintaining the 16×9 aspect ratio I want?

A few more notes:

The blog post states "default mode maintains aspect ratio and the resize mode is fill", but the docs say that cover is the default mode.

The docs say, "If only one [width or height] parameter is specified, the image will be resized and cropped, maintaining the aspect ratio." I believe that with only one parameter, you could either resize or crop, but not both. I hope it's resize.

For cropping modes, is it always from the center? Are there plans to support other "gravity" modes?

[0] https://supabase.com/docs/guides/storage/image-transformatio...

LukeLambert

4 years agodiscuss

  div {
    width: 640px;
    aspect-ratio: 16 / 9;
  }

LukeLambert

4 years agodiscuss

No, Argo optimizes the route of traffic from the edge (your closest Cloudflare data center) to the origin (the server hosting your website). With Pages, everything is served from the edge.

LukeLambert

4 years agodiscuss

Static sites benefit from being low-maintenance and highly-portable. You can easily switch from generous free services (Cloudflare Pages, Netlify, Vercel, Firebase, etc.) to highly-available paid services (Amazon S3, Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2, Google Cloud Storage, etc.) Keeping a VM running and updated is more work (and sometimes higher cost).

LukeLambert

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