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This is exactly what I do -- but I have space split up by persona (Personal, work 1, work 2, Play), and then each space is managed with Moom. Love it.

I love to see Google & Vercel start sponsoring Tailwind. But the larger question is why did it take the company laying off 75% of their staff for these major tech companies to real…

Seems like this is the reply you wanted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45372303

Been using Django in production since 2008, and so happy with my choice. Absolutely amazing being able to keep the same knowledge and workflow for my whole career so far, and still…

Yep -- our story here: https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2024/07/ai-crawlers-abuse... (quoted in the OP) -- everyone I know has a similar story who is running large internet infra…

Yea we all have a lot of books to read, but trying to figure out how the group wants to learn something and discuss is hard. Especially when the goal is having some business benefi…

Love this idea! We wrote up a post about the book club we were running at our small company, and it was great for expanding people’s interest and understanding of different topics:…

I usually use :q! which seems to do the same thing

I've been working in this space for a long time, where I'm one of the co-founders of Write the Docs: https://www.writethedocs.org/ -- we focus more on software docs. The view from …

We’re talking specifically about a SaaS app in this post. I’m well aware of this working at small local levels, and even mentioned in my comment that it might work in niche environ…

This is a beautiful vision, but I think it would be hard implement in practice. I’m trying to imagine how a pitch like this might work. Do you offer the customer/members some kind …

Hey Dave, Glad you're still doing cool things :) Read the Docs is pretty much all open source, including the billing code ( https://github.com/readthedocs/readthedocs.org/blob/main…

We did get $7k out of one of the AI companies based on the massive bandwidth costs they caused us. https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2024/07/ai-crawlers-abuse...

This keeps happening -- we wrote about multiple AI bots that were hammering us over at Read the Docs for >10TB of traffic: https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2024/07/ai-crawlers-ab…

Haha. I think they are definitely relevant, and I’d call them a technology more than a tool. That is mostly just that we don’t want folks going up and doing a 30 minute demo of Sph…

This is a great post. I’ve also been having a lot of fun working with embeddings, with lots of those pages being documentation. We write up a quick post on how are using them in pr…

For those saying "just use a CDN", it's not nearly that simple. Even behind a CDN, the crawlers on our site are hitting large files that aren't frequently accessed. This leads to l…

Yea, this happened to us, and you can see the cache profile of a crawler here: https://fosstodon.org/@readthedocs/112877477202118215 A bunch of the traffic hit the origin.

If you're looking to host documentation, Read the Docs has been hosting docs for open source projects for 15 years now (I'm one of the co-founders). We put a small, ethical ad on y…