Accidentally Made a Zig Dotenv Parser(dayvster.com)
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Accidentally Made a Zig Dotenv Parser
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Why do you have so many ads in this blog post?
Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I didn't complain, I'm legitimately asking. I've never seen so many ads in a personal tech blog before, it's an extremely confusing choice to me.
I believe you. But one of the reasons we have this guideline is that, most of the time, the author/publisher is not in the thread, and was not the submitter to HN, which seems to be the case here. So it amounts to "shouting into the void", as your comment will not reach the person who can respond or take action.
I get that you don't see it as "complaining" or "shouting", but it's still an off-topic tangential remark, and we want discussion to focus on the substance of the article.
It's different if the author is active in the thread; then it's fair enough to ask them about this kind of stuff, because they are able to respond and take action.
Otherwise you'd be better to contact them directly via email, Tweet, etc.
I get that you don't see it as "complaining" or "shouting", but it's still an off-topic tangential remark, and we want discussion to focus on the substance of the article.
It's different if the author is active in the thread; then it's fair enough to ask them about this kind of stuff, because they are able to respond and take action.
Otherwise you'd be better to contact them directly via email, Tweet, etc.
Yeah, I disabled brave shields and reloaded, and... Wow. Even sketchy pirate sites don't have these many ads. On a personal blog too! Not gonna read the article on principle.
Harsh but fair, I strongly encourage you to keep your shields up and or adblocker turned on.
Sorry you couldn't enjoy the article though.
Sorry you couldn't enjoy the article though.
Author of the article and owner of the site here.
Google changes the amount and placement of the ads depending what "ad market" you are from so US and other similar countries might experience more ad placements than lower ad market countries.
I tried spinning it down to basically minimal ads in adsense settings and it's still quite a lot.
I strongly encourage the use of adblockers or pi-hole even on my site and see no problem with using them on my site.
The income from adsense just about covers the hosting bills in a year so far, I'm currently exploring alternative methods of monetization that would provide more value to the readers.
Google changes the amount and placement of the ads depending what "ad market" you are from so US and other similar countries might experience more ad placements than lower ad market countries.
I tried spinning it down to basically minimal ads in adsense settings and it's still quite a lot.
I strongly encourage the use of adblockers or pi-hole even on my site and see no problem with using them on my site.
The income from adsense just about covers the hosting bills in a year so far, I'm currently exploring alternative methods of monetization that would provide more value to the readers.
> hosting costs
Your using page says you use astro, so I assume you have a static site. Isn't any of the free hosts (GitHub, cloudflare) sufficient for that?
Your using page says you use astro, so I assume you have a static site. Isn't any of the free hosts (GitHub, cloudflare) sufficient for that?
Do you really wish to go into stuff that has very little to do with the article itself?
I'll gladly provide an answer but I don't think it's constructive.
I host the site on vercel with astro, I'm on the pro plan which usually costs me somewhere around 20€ per month +/- 5-10€ depending on my monthly traffic.
add to that the minuscule cost of my domain and other stuff I'm paying about 250-300€ per year
My adsense avg per day is just about 1.20€ roughly.
So at best I break even, at worst I lose a bit of money.
I still maintain my position that everyone is welcome and should use adblock or brave or pi-hole on my site if they so wish I won't mind.
But I do like the fact that I don't have to foot the bill :)
Basically if I had to lose money to write I'd probs stop writing if I'm honest.
I'll gladly provide an answer but I don't think it's constructive.
I host the site on vercel with astro, I'm on the pro plan which usually costs me somewhere around 20€ per month +/- 5-10€ depending on my monthly traffic.
add to that the minuscule cost of my domain and other stuff I'm paying about 250-300€ per year
My adsense avg per day is just about 1.20€ roughly.
So at best I break even, at worst I lose a bit of money.
I still maintain my position that everyone is welcome and should use adblock or brave or pi-hole on my site if they so wish I won't mind.
But I do like the fact that I don't have to foot the bill :)
Basically if I had to lose money to write I'd probs stop writing if I'm honest.
Author of the article here again.
Since I've seen multiple people complain about this I've dropped adsense completely as they were pretty invasive with tracking and the amount of ads.
I'm currently testing carbon ads and then I'll do a split test with ethicalads.io
So far both of them only display a singular small banner and it's better targeted towards devs.
Since I've seen multiple people complain about this I've dropped adsense completely as they were pretty invasive with tracking and the amount of ads.
I'm currently testing carbon ads and then I'll do a split test with ethicalads.io
So far both of them only display a singular small banner and it's better targeted towards devs.