miniblog.

My $2/month VPS has stopped and can't even boot, so I've switched provider. It seems like most server providers don't want to offer <$5 machines, and I imagine it's hard to make money at the low end. Several providers require a one-off setup fee too.

I've never seen a good design philosophy on how to sort compiler errors for the best UX. Do you order by line, or by severity? Do you put the most actionable at the end (because that's most visible when the terminal scrolls) or at the beginning?

My default assumption is that external libraries are better than what I (or an LLM) would write in a v1. The extra effort to publish a project generally signifies that the author has spent a good amount of time on the problem. I end up prompting LLMs to prefer external code.