[–] skilled 7mo ago ↗ It went dark earlier this year and from what I gather from German media is that he had a problem and was hospitalised.The site is quite popular in Germany, last year or the year before a blog post of mine was linked from there and it had a similar pull to HN.I distinctly remember wondering how many more such sites exist that have such strong communities but you’re unlikely to find these sites in the wild.
[–] 1vuio0pswjnm7 7mo ago ↗ "Proudly made without AI, Blockchain, PHP, Java, Perl, MySQL and Postgres"He has good taste in software and has written some interesting programs of his own, including the httpd serving the blog (gatling/0.17) according the headershttps://www.fefe.dehttps://web.archive.org/web/20250917103655if_/http://www.fef... [–] 1vuio0pswjnm7 7mo ago ↗ Perhaps the blog is using the author's own database software, tinyldaphttps://www.fefe.de/tinyldap/https://web.archive.org/web/20251005120013if_/https://www.fe...Hence the comment about not using Postgres
[–] 1vuio0pswjnm7 7mo ago ↗ Perhaps the blog is using the author's own database software, tinyldaphttps://www.fefe.de/tinyldap/https://web.archive.org/web/20251005120013if_/https://www.fe...Hence the comment about not using Postgres
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 32.5 ms ] threadThe site is quite popular in Germany, last year or the year before a blog post of mine was linked from there and it had a similar pull to HN.
I distinctly remember wondering how many more such sites exist that have such strong communities but you’re unlikely to find these sites in the wild.
He has good taste in software and has written some interesting programs of his own, including the httpd serving the blog (gatling/0.17) according the headers
https://www.fefe.de
https://web.archive.org/web/20250917103655if_/http://www.fef...
https://www.fefe.de/tinyldap/
https://web.archive.org/web/20251005120013if_/https://www.fe...
Hence the comment about not using Postgres