> turned off by the constant Zig spam approach to marketing

? what? from my experience zig marketing is pretty mid. it is nowhere at the level of rust.

heck, rust evangelism strikeforce made me hate rust and all the people promote it, even for now.

Only for you use case. I use cloudflare for my dynamic ip dns, caching that long make it worthless.

Yes, of course. But you usually don't put your important webserver doing bazillions of requests per short interval on dynamic IPs. Especially if you need to avoid any downtimes.

well, there are 3 kind of usages for grok: - using grok inside X/Twitter: most people interacts with Grok this way. - using grok on its website: this is really annoying, as you get delayed by cloudflare everytime you access the site. As grok does not provide serious advantage over other services, why bother - you can also use the app, but it is not as convenient as other services.

it is understandable that grok is not popular.

> The good parts

posts before 2015~2016. that's it.

It still looks like crap though. Not very convincing, eh.

I just use svelte. It works with raw html.

I typed less using AI, so it is a net win I guess

> Anubis tries to make sure that it can use as many cores as possible in order to take advantage of your device's CPU as much as it can.

Don't do that. Also both the software and its author is now on my blacklist.

Imagine the environmental impact of POW running on everyone's browser all the time globally just to use the internet. What is the point of having these gigawatt class hyperscale datacenters if we are still going to make clients run laps for every request?

Performance is the most important feature at some level. If an unauthenticated request from the public internet ties up your web server's CPU for more than a few hundred microseconds, you are eventually going to get screwed no matter how you slice it.

> Imagine the environmental impact of POW running on everyone's browser all the time globally just to use the internet.

Systems that use more electricity for no other reason than use more electricity and raise bills should be illegal imho, as that's what Anubis does and why it blows my mind people think PoW is a good idea.

Imagine you bought a TV and there was a device in the TV that did /nothing/ but just use more electricity to persuade agaisnt people having too many TVs in their house.

The real question here is whether there's a better solution for blocking scrapers and spammers thst clearly do not care about any of these things.

Writing fast software and using authentication when anonymous requests would be too expensive are excellent solutions.

Pretending like these solutions don't exist seems to be the central prerequisite for engaging in much of the related conversation space.

> Imagine the environmental impact of POW running on everyone's browser all the time globally just to use the internet.

Yeah, I'm imagining it and my imagination tells me it's trivial, especially next to the thick layer of web framework sludge people smear over everything.

Do you have an argument that involves a number?

I will believe his rant when Fowler creates any notable software.

I'd rather convert them at build time, thank you.