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CNN Lite Landing Page

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CNN

CNN Lite

Text-only CNN, for mobile limited coverage

#Social Networks #Funny #Social Media Tools 39 social mentions
Fly.io Landing Page

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Fly.io

Edge computing is the new frontier.

You're not imaging things: I'm running a bit hot right now from HN load (https://s3.amazonaws.com/bradgessler/Eu1cKE24dpKjTkqNcK3qPqH3mwwXirAlOJiZXN9Sd4nSOdWtU4N6Ir3NB96h0WGkXo3NzEghEzUl8dYOOwSgFhcRQlXMuy6WfruS.png) w/ ~170ms for the 99th percentile. It doesn't help that I'm running this on Heroku, which isn't known for being super fast. I'll probably deploy this to https://fly.io/ in the future to a few different geographies around the world so that I can bring latency down for the entire planet while saving myself a boatload in hosting costs.

#Cloud Computing #Developer Tools #Cloud Hosting 435 social mentions
Skimfeed Landing Page

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Skimfeed

Your tech news dashboard

While LegibleNews does well in speed, to me, a newspaper or a news source needs to be extremely dense. I don't want to scroll forever to painfully be blasted with negative space. A single glance at the page should reveal all headlines. NYTimes and WSJ have a really good density of information. But, my favorite is this tech news site that loads fast and is super dense: https://skimfeed.com/.

#Productivity #News #Firefox Extensions 6 social mentions
Medium Landing Page
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Medium

Welcome to Medium, a place to read, write, and interact with the stories that matter most to you.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Tell me about it! "Chickenshit Minimalism - The illusion of simplicity backed by megabytes of cruft." https://medium.com/@mceglowski/chickenshit-minimalism-846fc1412524 (The article is also available on my personal site - about 18kb all in - for anybody who would like to read it not on a slow and increasingly walled garden website.).

#Blogging #Blogging Platform #CMS 2187 social mentions