Hacker News: powerpurple

How to block IP addresses and whole countries on Cloudflare

powerpurple — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:20:23 +0000

Article URL: https://ampliflare.com/blog/one-click-ip-region-blocking

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48650775

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by powerpurple in "We built a status page service on Cloudflare"

powerpurple — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 07:46:40 +0000

One Durable Object per monitor, edge-cached public pages, and a dedicated zone for custom hostnames. Here's how Ampliflare's status pages are built.

We built a status page service on Cloudflare

powerpurple — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 07:46:40 +0000

Article URL: https://ampliflare.com/blog/status-page-cloudflare-architecture/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48595946

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

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

powerpurple — Mon, 11 May 2026 07:00:47 +0000

I recently started a project called best web extension https://bestwebextension.com/

Basically attempting to modernize a lot of browser extension which I have been using since like a decade ago. Some of them are outdated and unmaintained and some were good for the time.

The project is MIT licensed.

Show HN: Headstart – Command pallet and start page for efficient browsing

powerpurple — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:36:45 +0000

Hey, wanted to share something which has been built a million times now. I wanted it to be more dev focused so I could navigate quicker. Give it a try - I have been working on this for past 15months incrementally.

I think now it's in a state for HN folks go try.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48084345

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Safe Domain Search – Avoid frontrunning, check availability locally

powerpurple — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 18:27:09 +0000

Hey everyone, this is a small desktop app I put together to check domain availability without hitting any third-party APIs.

It runs everything locally to avoid the risk of tracking or frontrunning. Built with Go and Wails.

It’s a simple tool, but Go made it fun to build — a nice break from all the JavaScript I deal with at work.

Would appreciate any feedback or ideas to improve it.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44227558

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Dang it Built the indie app, forgot the marketing (again)

powerpurple — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 17:19:18 +0000

Article URL: https://kibibyte.in/blog/2025/04/22/dang-it-built-the-indie-app-forgot-the-marketing-again/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43764360

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Why Async Functions Don't Belong in Promise Executors

powerpurple — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 20:49:25 +0000

Article URL: https://kibibyte.in/blog/2024/08/30/why-async-functions-dont-belong-in-promise-executors/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41395116

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by powerpurple in "Cloudflare has made it too easy to access your homelab on the internet"

powerpurple — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 00:50:03 +0000

I wasn't aware of Tailscale Funnel, but I'll give it a try. It was easy to set up since I already have a lot of things on Cloudflare.

New comment by powerpurple in "Cloudflare has made it too easy to access your homelab on the internet"

powerpurple — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 00:33:43 +0000

Hey, earlier it was going into Manage and unchecking the Google Analytics. I realized that was a bad design and have it updated now. Now, you can simply reject the cookies :)

Cloudflare has made it too easy to access your homelab on the internet

powerpurple — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 19:22:10 +0000

Article URL: https://kibibyte.in/blog/2024/08/06/cloudflare-has-made-it-too-easy-to-access-your-homelab-on-the-internet/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41174287

Points: 47

# Comments: 25

Show HN: I made a Fallout inspired PIP-Boy portfolio

powerpurple — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 15:34:27 +0000

Hey, last year I started working on this high-on-the-midnight motivation and yesterday I decided to finally finish it. I hope you all like it :)

It's only opitimised for desktops

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38754125

Points: 29

# Comments: 3

New comment by powerpurple in "Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?"

powerpurple — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 18:01:17 +0000

Impactful? Not sure but I'm proud about it.

In high school I started a private torrent tracker with open source projects. At the time I was pretty new to programming and was gluing things together and slowly after years I started getting a lot of traffic. I was getting good at programming as well, forked the project multiple features addition, dedicated servers and just doing it all.

It used get a daily 1 million visits with 4-5k unique visits every day and slowly we breached the top 25 websites in our country and somewhere around under ~10k in Alexa ranking. But that's when things started getting a bit heated, I had to be more cautious about my footprint and what started something as hobby consuming a lot of my energy.

I really liked it but the fact that I couldn't talk or share about it to anyone was a bummer. I just had it, made a lot of money while I was in school blew it all up quickly but only a handful of irl people knew.

New comment by powerpurple in "Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?"

powerpurple — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 17:54:14 +0000

what a chad