Explanation: “serverless” hosting platforms like Vercel and Netlify offer generous free tiers, with extremely expensive overage charges for bandwidth and processor time. When a small project suddenly goes viral, bills of tens of thousands dollars per day rack up.

Well this seems like a thread to put some of those photos.

He’s handsome! I also have a Romanian street dog mutt who got returned before I adopted her. She’s a weirdo but in a great-when-you-get-to-know-her kind of way.

Pizza, why not. I’ll skip the bucket of coke though.

Bolive

Or when I turn ad block off while doing web dev testing and forget to turn it back on. The web without an blocker is so noisy

When native English speakers complain that changing pronouns is too hard 🧐

Back in the early 00’s I used to spend days making artwork like this in Maya and Photoshop. I’ve been playing with these ML image generators for a while but every now and again I step back and marvel at how advanced they’ve become recently.

Just to add some cool etymology to your reply: the word silhouette comes from a type of affordable portrait made by quickly painting or cutting out a persons profile in black paper. These, and portrait miniatures, fell quickly out of favour with the advent of photography.

The word silhouette is derived from the name of Étienne de Silhouette, a French finance minister who, in 1759, was forced by France’s credit crisis during the Seven Years’ War to impose severe economic demands upon the French people, particularly the wealthy.[3] Because of de Silhouette’s austere economies, his name became synonymous with anything done or made cheaply and so with these outline portraits.[4][5] Prior to the advent of photography, silhouette profiles cut from black card were the cheapest way of recording a person’s appearance.[6][7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silhouette

This is also an interesting article on the subject of pre-photographic portraiture: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_miniature

I built my family tree and thought - oh neat, even more ancestors to disappoint.

Already we know we must lead all roads to this place.