But it seems like they might've just pulled the plug for everyone. I cannot access images from a seller. They throw a 404 as well.

a bit off-topic but always great when you visit an official government website and are greeted with a Cloudflare captcha...

We are also currently inmidst a migration from NextJS to TanStack Start and it's worth for the performance and resource gains alone. NextJS' dev server takes around 3-4 GB memory after a few page click while TanStack / Vite consumes less than a GB.

This is something I noticed, originally I thought "AI" was the perfect tool for Vercel and Nextjs (current standard = future standard), but then I realized is the total opposite, their moat/stick is gone now, and Rouch that is smart I think knows this.

I switched a middle sized app to Tanstack Router + Vite while I was walking my dogs. Then 30 minuts-1 hour QA and it was done. This should have never happened before AI.

(I did switch because I was tired of the bloated network tab with 100 unnecesary RSC calls, the 5 seconds lag when clicking on an internal link, the 10 seconds "hot reload" after a change... I'm on a M4 MAX with 64GB of ram....)

Vercel's moat is DX in hosting, not NextJS. Consider, people who switch to TanStack Start still need a place to host and many would continue to choose Vercel.

Same principle applies, hosting in Railway has slightly worse UX, but with LLM's you don't need to write a single docker line anymore, so deploying on railway is way way less cumbersome than before, and you gain more control and less costs.

This moat is rapidly disappearing though. Cloudflare is catching up, most apps (including TanStack Start) can be one-click deployed without configuration now.

just wait until they block Azure as well so the official La Liga site also stops working

Hmmm. Don't they have a reporting form or something like that? Down with those filthy Azure pirates on IP 52.166.113.188.

Starting a new business I see...this actually seems like the best form of protest here so good luck to you.

Dumb question but why don’t the pirate sites all host on Azure if Cloudflare is blocked and Azure isn’t?

Besides the reasons already listed, Cloudflare is free, Azure is not. As a pirate site owner I imagine you don't want you payment information with your name associated with your pirate site. You can pay for hosting and dns with crypto.

i have no data to back this up but in the past cloudflare was much more lax with piracy sites and I can imagine that Azure is stricter with blocking them

I would imagine they do. The people running the pirate sites know what they are doing. Noone who really wants to stream pirated games is stopped. Blocking CF is performative, not effective.

Sounds like the answer here is to host alt streams on Azure.

I wondered how they actually managed to have their own business to be unencumbered by that. At a certain corporate level, you have to have some piece of tech in your portfolio that relies on cloudflare. I hope one day there companion or "2nd screen" apps stops working during a game, because using cloudflare.

i always wondered what prompts codex / claude code use but always figured they just send variables to the backend and render the whole prompt there so i never even bothered to check with a MITM proxy. turns out i should have just done that…

yea there are proxies out there for this and in AWS Bedrock this outbound logging is a feature you can enable for these and other models

Stripe is using AWS

kinda offtopic but as somehow currently outgrowing trellos capabilities, do you have any good suggestions instead of Jira?

The answer is unfortunately jira.

Gitlab has pretty good Kanban functionality. People tend to hate Jira but there aren't a lot of great alternatives

Linear

Nice idea, but I'd love a more open approach to this (or more support for OpenTofu / Terraform). This is just another vendor-locked-in way and might only work with selected platforms.

Stripe has the incentive to add platforms that use Stripe as a payment processor so they can cash on the payment fees, they don't really have any incentive to add a platform that doesn't bring money to them (except affiliates are possible with this)

Exactly. The marketing makes this look like something general for deploying cloud stacks.

But what it seems to be is just a fast way to deploy resources to platform providers that use Stripe to bill you?

Or maybe the marketing is just confusing?

I don’t think this is for me though. I’m using things like AWS, Azure, and dedicated servers from companies that lease out dedicated servers. For my company Stripe is nothing more than a payment processor.

But where is the fun with that?

Being curious is always fun right.