bmorton

Can we please stop with the fly.io spam.

>I’ve hesitated to share this because, well, I’m fighting a debilitating feeling of failure. Fear, too.

This is gross and I don't buy the emotional play -- this whole piece is just an ad.

I stopped reading his blog when we wrote about how to get tenure and completely omitted talking about all of his wife's stay-at-home work.

It's only smellz. It's ok.

I can't think of another for-profit company that gets as much positive attention on the front page of HN as Fly.io. Either it's a really great product, or HN is turning into Reddit where "sponsored content" is carefully folded into the organic.

Perhaps a controversial opinion, but I suspect that the stereotypical podcast listener -- that is, those who spend hours listening to productivity experts bemoan some new methodology (i.e. productivity porn) rather than spend the time doing what they need to do; or those that believe memorizing factoids is the same as understanding -- think they're more clever than the average person and can somehow use their using a VPN as a status symbol.