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New comment by else42 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

else42 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:38:07 +0000

A recipe website for people who lack creativity and organization but like cooking and trying out new dishes: https://coolinary.app

New comment by else42 in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

else42 — Thu, 28 May 2026 09:40:33 +0000

> The price adjustment affects all newly ordered Cloud Servers and Dedicated Servers across all locations. However, Webhosting products, Managed Servers, servers from the Server Exchange, IPs, storage products, Load Balancers, Volumes, Snapshots, and Object Storage are not affected.

Cloudflare for SaaS: your old provider can silently keep your domain

else42 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:39:02 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.iodev.org/blog/cloudflare-saas-custom-hostname-conflict/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47896132

Points: 5

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New comment by else42 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

else42 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:02:36 +0000

https://coolinary.app, a recipe website for people who love cooking but don't know what to cook

New comment by else42 in "DIY NAS: 2026 Edition"

else42 — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 20:35:56 +0000

Wrong. I pay €0,23/kWh, so do your homework.

What exactly is failing in Germany, and why is it important in this context?

New comment by else42 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

else42 — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 21:56:01 +0000

https://tailgator.app, playing around with serverless Tailscale nodes

https://coolinary.app, simplifying cooking and recipe ideas

https://capi.tax, preparing capital gains tax reports from foreign brokers for German income tax (still closed)

New comment by else42 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

else42 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 08:33:08 +0000

1) A website to measure and detect coil whine. It's been bugging me on my new Dell screen, but Dell says "it's within specs". 2) An AI-generated artwork platform with open firmware for Eink frames. 3) Server Radar: https://radar.iodev.org

New comment by else42 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

else42 — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 06:57:28 +0000

Worked a little on Server Radar [1] again, the Hetzner Auction price tracker.

It's my fun little project to resort to. Implemented dark mode, sorting, grouping and various layout improvements. Also added a Drawer with Auction view the other week. UI is finally fun again with component libraries and LLMs.

Oh, and I added a Cloud Server Availability [2] page as I noticed people on /r/hetzner were complaining about lack of resources. Looks like their Cloud offerings are going quite well.

[1] https://radar.iodev.org/ [2] https://radar.iodev.org/cloud-status

New comment by else42 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

else42 — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 07:03:31 +0000

I am currently contributing to [1], a preconfigured *arr stack on NixOS.

I am also working on Plundrio [2], a put.io Download Client for *arr.

My other project Server Radar [3] has been neglected lately, but I wanna move to D1 completely (currently still using DuckDB on the frontend).

[1] https://nixarr.com/

[2] https://github.com/elsbrock/plundrio/

[3] https://radar.iodev.org/

New comment by else42 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)"

else42 — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 09:56:34 +0000

Started a NixOS Flake for declarative network namespace isolation for systemd services: https://github.com/elsbrock/netns-unit/

New comment by else42 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)"

else42 — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 08:37:41 +0000

Been working on a put.io download client for *arr implementing the transmission RPC interface: https://github.com/elsbrock/plundrio

New comment by else42 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2024)"

else42 — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 09:23:54 +0000

I'm still working on Server Radar, a price tracker for dedicated servers from the Hetzner Auction and recently added alerting. That included adding a backend to a previously completely static website. I decided to migrate to Cloudflare Pages (from GitHub Pages).

https://radar.iodev.org

New comment by else42 in "GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic"

else42 — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 12:35:40 +0000

How is that different to a human reading your code and building up their experience? Is reading code now also covered by a license? It does not reproduce your code 1:1.

New comment by else42 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)"

else42 — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 10:31:33 +0000

Still working on my Hetzner Auction price tracker: https://radar.iodev.org/

First time I'm building a proper website, used a lot of AI. Things that changed over last time: * Switched the charting library from D3 to Apex. D3 was too low-level for my purpose. * Reworked the design and contents of a lot of pages (with the help of AI). * Various bugfixes for the database queries. * Tried to come up with some kind of pricing signal detection, but currently not working well. * Link to the actual auction results. * Minimal E2E validation using Playwright. What a pleasure to use!

I'm planning to add alerting. Not keen on running a backend though.

New comment by else42 in "Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?"

else42 — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 08:13:37 +0000

No, I haven't figured it out yet with D3 :D

Green line: minimal price, red line, highest price (for the selected criteria). Middle one is the mean.

New comment by else42 in "Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?"

else42 — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 07:56:54 +0000

I have been working on a little price tracker for the Hetzner Dedicated Server auction (https://radar.iodev.org/). Using Sveltekit for the first time, and decided to go frontend only with duckdb-wasm.

I pull the data every hour with a GitHub action and redeploy the site nightly. The duckdb is regenerated every time and I can flexibly change its structure as required. So far I didn’t change much (eg. no normalization) since it’s not really needed. It also turns out to be surprisingly small, with compression a few megabytes. I haven’t written much SQL in some time and duckdb is very powerful.

Most of the texts are AI generated as I’m usually very bad coming up with this. I really gotta learn that one day. Webdesign is the other weakness, but with all these UI libraries these days it’s less of a problem.

I guess it’s pretty niche, but maybe interesting for some.

It’s a fun little project.

New comment by else42 in "Ask HN: Is there a new habit you cultivated recently that is really paying off?"

else42 — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 15:30:20 +0000

Watching porn has health risks?