DerekBickerton

I use this: https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/

Erm, there is this: https://github.com/iamcryptoki/snowden-archive/

Tumblr is not NSFW content friendly, which is a slippery slope. I don't want my edgy meme taken down or censored, I would much rather run my own server that I control and having it not subject to arbitrary value judgements about what I post.

For syntactic DOM manipulation sugar I use Cash[0]

[0] https://kenwheeler.github.io/cash/

You could be a CDN (Content Delivery Network) and act as a point-of-presence (PoP) for the country you're in. Mirror Linux distro ISOs, offer the ability for netizens to download offline versions of Wikipedia which are over ~50GB sans images.

> now I’m either rusty or my brain just doesn’t work the way it used to

Knowing LeetCode is a parlor trick. It's not that you may be 'rusty', it's that businesses like to gatekeep with parlor tricks.

There's a list of some services here besides Twilio: https://www.producthunt.com/search?q=SMS

SMS is a dated technology and I despise services that use SMS, especially for OTP / PINs used to sign in. SIM cards can be 'swapped' by bad actors all too easily. I understand you want to stop abuse, but there's other ways to do this like CAPTCHAs or putting your site on Cloudflare and filtering out rogue/malicious IPs like VPNs/Tor, or doing things like rate-limiting.

I've reached generic TLD fatigue. There's a new one each week. I regularly buy domains with OVH since they have a wide array of TLDs at a good price[0]. Over the years I let many of them expire because either 1) I let my dreams die, or 2) I couldn't afford to renew it. Mostly it's because I let my dreams die, not financial shortcomings though.

[0] https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/domains/tld/

Awesome https://who.is/whois/dat.ing

A cold start is the hardest part. It's important to discern what part of your content is noise or genuinely helpful, but if it falls on deaf ears, that gets annoying, and I know your pain. It's not enough just to 'engage' and follow interesting people, there's a whole art to Twitter that I won't discuss here, as its too lengthy (and I haven't had my coffee).

How do they get the point-of-presence VPN IPs? Does Russia go to the OpenVPN/Wireguard page of VPN services and download each country config file and build a naughty list of VPN IPs?

Separation of Concerns as a Service