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rozenmd

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About rozenmd

Hey, I'm Max.

I started OnlineOrNot in early 2021: https://onlineornot.com

There's no massive team, no investors looking for growth at any cost, just me, running a self-funded, sustainable business from France.

Open invitation to talk shop: you can always reach me at max@onlineornot.com

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I also blog about running a SaaS: https://maxrozen.com

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I'm a Software Engineer originally from Sydney, Australia with a passion for the Internet.

I've worked at Atlassian and am now at Cloudflare, building the Workers platform.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49243653

    September 26, 2025: https://blog.cloudflare.com/code-mode/

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    Comment #49183266

    I liked Kenton's take on this: https://x.com/KentonVarda/status/2084990137180590572?s=20 Text from tweet: Today we are releasing Cloudflare OS, a chatbot with connectors, just like…

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    Comment #48857779

    shops you actually want to work at don't have "mandatory conditions", they have criteria that match an ideal candidate. if you think you can do the job, track down the hiring manag…

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    Comment #48846893

    The job has never been about "writing code". You're there to solve problems for the business. I'd reach out to people you've worked with before and ask if they need help.

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    Comment #48815353

    Writing unique, useful content that only you could have written.

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    Comment #48669150

    Cloudflare free is the business model: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-commitment-to-free/

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    Comment #48657609

    Not _quite_ in this case, since the free plan improves everyone's experience: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-commitment-to-free/

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    Comment #48601189

    I used to keep all of OnlineOrNot's timeseries data entirely in a hot postgres db with the rest of the relational data. Used to take a few seconds to get a week's uptime data and d…

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    Comment #48596203

    Something doesn't add up between the pricing and the core pinning for me (or maybe I misunderstood): Say you're using a m8i.large (2 vCPUs, $0.043/hr on spot pricing). Is the artic…

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    Comment #48490377

    Surprisingly rare occurrence: https://stackoverflow.onlineornot.com/

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    Comment #48473028

    I worked on a project that used yarn from the early days all the way up to v3, it's slow as hell, but it works. They also have the supply chain protections. Eventually we snapped a…

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    Comment #48360389

    Common knowledge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock-up_period

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    Comment #48338845

    the best part is Downdetector is inaccurate as hell - if AWS is genuinely down, folks get curious and search other providers, causing Downdetector to mark them as down too

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    Comment #48247358

    Charging by the hour was one of the worst things for my career (was just starting out). Never realised at the time that I was subconsciously doing a slower job and not trying to ma…

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    Comment #48237450

    You can already ship single executables, my product's CLI is a Node single executable application

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    Comment #48237392

    I don't touch AI for writing.

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    Comment #48112384

    "Googlebook, because lets face it, your parents are only watching YouTube anyway"

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    Comment #48104939

    Do you happen to live in Perth/Australia? https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/qs4k7rpkhspd

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    Comment #47872526

    Several newer alternatives that outperform it on Node, like Hono

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    Comment #47853578

    This is incorrect. You preface with PUBLIC_ to expose them in client side code.

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    Comment #47686226

    Still OnlineOrNot ( https://onlineornot.com/ ) - I've been working on adding more and more configurability to the browser checks feature. More recently, I've made it so you can dro…

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    Comment #47410067

    A CV that tells me what you did, and what benefit it had to your employer. I'm only impressed by side projects if they had users and/or MRR - something serious that proves you work…

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    Comment #47382501

    This is the perfect use of cloudflare containers. Rare, bursty workloads that fit around regular use of Workers. I use them to generate thumbnails when uploading large photo files …

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    Comment #47362341

    that makes sense, it's not 1.0 yet