gitignore.io

Looks very similar to Toptal gitignore.io[1][2] [1]: https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/ [2]: https://github.com/toptal/gitignore.io

Looking at https://gitignore.io - there is plenty of empty space and nothing, even subtle and small like "I would appreciate donations" with link/button. I also see nothing in https://github.com/toptal/gitignore.io and GitHub sponsoring seems to be not enabled. (just mentioning in case you would make it more clear that you would be happy about donations)

I totally agree with this and this is actually something that my Engineer Brain and Product Brain are constantly in conflict about. I ran gitignore.io for 6 years and it was not "hard" to run. It was two commands on a web server. The problem was when I was on vacation or at work and AWS/Heroku crashed and I got flooded with GitHub issues/Tweets telling me the service as down[1][2]. All of a sudden, I have to go take a look. Martin Fowler said something in a talk a few years ago[3] and I think it speaks to this exact mindset. This post is lacking any economic reasons for people to run their own mail server — tell me why me running my own mail server saves me time and/or money. As another tangent, I'm actually looking at running my own mail server. For me, it's privacy which coincidentally is not even mentioned once in the article. [1] -

Ah yeah. I'm going to write a blog post on this in a few weeks, but basically I'm running tests using `wrk`. Here are the results I just got with a test (this is actually a bit abnormal), but note the requests per second, latency, and the transfer speed per second. wrk -t12 -c400 -d10s https://gitignoreio-stage-swift.herokuapp.com Running 10s test @ https://gitignoreio-stage-swift.herokuapp.com 12 threads and 400 connections Thread Stats Avg Stdev Max +/- Stdev Latency 265.88ms 78.37ms 1.29s 84.87% Req/Sec 119.55 39.81 254.00 67.32% 14230 requests in 10.09s, 79.67MB read Requests/sec: 1410.00 Transfer/sec: 7.89MB wrk -t12 -c400 -d10s https://gitignoreio-stage-node.herokuapp.com Running 10s test @ https://gitignoreio-stage-node.herokuapp.com 12 threads and

I'm literally in the process of switching to zshell over the next few weeks. Since it's more than a 1-liner, could I just add that to the Advanced CLI instructions[1] section and credit you? [1] - https://github.com/joeblau/gitignore.io/wiki/Advanced-Comman...

I'm using Cloudflare + Heroku to host https://www.gitignore.io [0], but I'm not using a LetsEncrypt certificate. I'm just using Cloudflare's Universal SSL[1] certificate. So far everything with Cloudflare has been amazing; they even prevented a 99 million+ request DDOS attack on my site a few years ago. [0] - https://github.com/joeblau/gitignore.io/wiki/System-Architec... [1] - https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-universal-ssl/

I have a little over 1000 stars (1044 at time of post) and have made $10 in Bitcoin (Which is worth less than $10 now). That being said, my project is extremely-side-projecty[1]. Others have discussed busies models, so it should be a simple calculation of how much you can charge for a model vs how much it will cost you to run your business and if you can live with the reminder after taxes etc... then I would say do it. [1] - https://github.com/joeblau/gitignore.io

I write a blog[1] and I try to add good documentation to my open source project[2], but I recognize that I'm in the minority. One benefit I get from writing, even though I don't get a lot of readers, is thought refinement. I usually send my blog posts to friends and family for help on word choice and better delivery. Even though Steve Jobs said people don't read, I think reading and writing are critical because you don't always have a camera or a microphone to get your message across. [1] - https://blog.joeblau.com/ [2] - https://github.com/joeblau/gitignore.io

One thing I've found is that there is a lot of independence on GitHub. My immediate assumption if I see a project public project on GitHub is that the owner is saying "I'm ready and willing to accept help." The challenge of not knowing where to start is something different. A lot of projects can be complicated (D3.js comes to mind). If you don't have a really good grasp on a few very key disciplines in math then honestly, before you contribute to D3, you should brush up on that. The system is self regulating in a sense where you have to know enough about the subject to contribute. Maybe, there should be a section that people add to their README.md that explain what you need to know before you start digging into a project along with a project goal. I know that for my project[1], I want to create an authoritative .gitignore database, b

I started watching the Github repo [1], I love your website! 1: https://github.com/joeblau/gitignore.io