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crawshaw - 2022-12-31

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Some months ago, the bill from GCE for hosting this blog jumped from nearly nothing to far too much for what it is, so I moved provider and needed to write a blog post to test it all. I could have figured out why my current provider hiked the price. Presumably I was Holding It Wrong and with just a few grip adjustments I could get the price dropped. But if someone mysteriously starts charging you more money, and there are other people who offer the same service, why would you stay? This has not been a particularly easy year, for a variety of reasons. But here I am at the end of it, and beyond a few painful mistakes that in retrospect I did not have enough information to get right, I made mostly the same decisions I would again. There were a handful of truly wonderful moments. So the plan for 2023 is the same: keep the kids intact, and make programming more fun. There is also the question of Twitter. It took me a few years to develop the skin to handle the generally unpleasant environme

crawshaw - 2022-12-31 new year, same plan 2022-12-31 Some months ago, the bill from GCE for hosting this blog jumped from nearly nothing to far too much for what it is, so I moved provider and needed to write a blog post to test it all. I could have figured out why my current provider hiked the price. Presumably I was Holding It Wrong and with just a few grip adjustments I could get the price dropped. But if someone mysteriously starts charging you more money, and there are other people who offer the same service, why would you stay? This has not been a particularly easy year, for a variety of

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