静态网站悖论
个人网站的两种不同实现方式:一种是复杂的内容管理系统(CMS),另一种是简单的静态 HTML 文件。文章指出,尽管大多数普通用户倾向于使用复杂的解决方案(如 WordPress),但实际上,只有少数专业软件工程师能够选择更简单的静态网站。
via HackerNews 2024 10 09
前两天刚好听朋友说 square space 已经涨到了近乎搞笑的 $25 月费,做不用来盈利的个人博客实在难以 justify。这篇文章中吐槽得很在点子上:
normal users are stuck with a bunch of greedy clowns that make them pay for every little thing, all while wasting ungodly amounts of computational power to render what could have been a static website in 99% of cases.
普通用户被困在了一群屁大点功能都要收费的贪婪小丑手里,与此同时浪费着人神共愤额度的算力来渲染 99% 的情况下都可以作为静态的网站。
当然原文中说的“只有少数专业软件工程师才能选择更简单的静态网站”略微夸张并不认同,因为静态站至少是比 self-host 的动态 CMS 少太多维护了。我的 backlog 里也一直躺了篇安利新手用静态站并拉踩 WP 的文,不过网上这种文已经有无数了也还是拦不住前赴后继往各种 CMS 的坑里冲的新手,觉得写了又有什么意义呢就还搁着没写。(当然迟早会像以前反复造的无数轮子一样被废话欲战胜的 but not today)
#indieblog#newletter
🌎 Solar-powered desalination is emerging as a sustainable solution for water scarcity. By using sunlight to power reverse osmosis systems, this technology can turn seawater into drinkable fresh water without relying on fossil fuels. Pilot plants in places like Morocco and Australia now supply thousands of people daily with clean water from the sea. ✨
#technology⚡#ecology⚡#desalination
👉subscribe Interesting Planet
👉more Channels
Trump’s 48-Hour Ultimatum: Lights Out or Strait Open
Trump just turned a regional energy war into an explicit threat to “obliterate” Iran’s power plants, the grid that keeps tens of millions of civilians alive, unless Tehran fully reopens the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours. Iran’s answer wasn’t to blink; it was to fire.
Missiles struck Dimona and nearby Arad, injuring more than 10 people and landing just eight miles from Israel’s main nuclear complex, while commanders in Tehran warned that any attack on their energy system would be met with strikes on desalination plants and other critical water and power infrastructure used by Israel, the U.S. and Gulf partners.
Four weeks and thousands of U.S.–Israeli strikes into this war, Iran’s arsenal is battered but still firing daily salvos at Israel and enforcing a de facto embargo on Western shipping through Hormuz. Trump’s own messaging is all over the map: public statements rejecting a cease-fire and sending more troops and ships, alongside talk of “winding down” operations; a warning to Israel days ago not to hit Iranian energy, followed by his own threat to do exactly that.
Israeli commanders are telling the public they are only “midway” through the war and should expect fighting through Passover, while in Lebanon the campaign against Hezbollah has displaced more than a million people and stepped-up house demolitions increasingly resemble the early architecture of a de facto occupation zone.
The casualty numbers show where this is heading: well over 1,300 civilians killed in Iran, more than 1,000 in Lebanon, at least 15 people dead in Iran’s attacks on Israel and 13 U.S. service members killed — with both sides now openly placing each other’s electricity and water systems on the target list.
Trump’s 48‑hour countdown doesn’t look like a plan to calmly reopen a shipping lane; it looks like the next step toward turning the entire region’s civilian infrastructure into a legitimate battlefield — and locking the U.S. into an attrition war it still can’t explain how to end.
#IranWar#Trump#Hormuz#Israel#Dimona#energy#powerGrid#desalination#Lebanon#Hezbollah#MiddleEast
📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events
🇺🇸
Oil at Monday’s Open: Trading a 48‑Hour Threat Clock
Oil just stopped pretending this is about “volatility” and started trading directly on Trump’s ego and Iran’s survival instinct. At Friday’s close, Brent was at 112.19 dollars — a near four‑year high — before the president slapped a 48‑hour ultimatum on Tehran: fully reopen Hormuz “without threat” or watch the U.S. “obliterate” your power plants.
Just the day before he was musing about “winding down” the war; now markets get a countdown clock to see whether he takes out the grid that keeps 100‑plus Iranian gas power stations feeding cities and industry.
Tehran’s answer is simple: hit our power, and we hit yours — or at least the stuff that keeps your friends’ cities habitable. Iran is openly threatening U.S.‑linked energy and desalination plants across the Gulf, after already striking ports and refineries in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, the UAE and Qatar; four days of global supply — roughly 440 million barrels — have already vanished during 22 days of quasi‑closure in Hormuz.
Analysts aren’t talking about price “noise” anymore: one calls Trump’s move a “48‑hour ticking time bomb of elevated uncertainty”; another says the real story isn’t Iran caving but “scorched earth for Gulf infrastructure.”
The real nightmare isn’t just crude; it’s water. Iran has so far held back from hitting the big desalination plants in Saudi Arabia and the UAE — the ones that keep entire Gulf metros alive — but Western risk assessments are stark: sustained attacks could leave some cities unlivable in weeks, triggering mass evacuations and cascading power failures.
Fatih Birol at the IEA says fixing Middle East Gulf supply could take up to six months even without that scenario. Meanwhile the Trump team is floating plans to blockade or occupy Iran’s Kharg Island to “force open” Hormuz, as if physically sitting on another country’s export terminal has no blowback risk in a region already pricing 112‑dollar Brent, double‑digit weekly gains in crude and the widest WTI–Brent spread in 11 years.
So Monday’s trade isn’t about “whether oil ticks up”; it’s about whether the White House walks back its own threat, or lets the deadline run and turns a shipping crisis into a test of who’s willing to bomb water plants first.
Traders will tell you this is uncertainty; civilians in the Gulf might call it something else: a market run by men who treat your tap, your light switch and your plane ticket as expendable props in a pricing experiment.
#oil#IranWar#Trump#Hormuz#energy#desalination#Gulf#markets#inflation#recession#securityTheater
📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events
🇺🇸