Not the parent, but the way in which Bitfinex paid everyone back was extremely dodgy[0]. They also decided to help themselves to 15% of everyone's BCH after the August 1 fork[1]. I don't understand why anyone would trust them.

[0]https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/bitfinex-never-repaid-their-t...

[1]https://news.bitcoin.com/bitfinex-bitcoin-cash-deposits-with...

I also used Hugo for my site - https://testloop.co.uk It's so simple.. and FAST. It's hosted on AWS S3 with CloudFront & Route53 so it's not free, but at a cost of around $1.20 per month, it's not far off.

$1.20 a month is really expensive. I have a whole virtual server for €5 a month (and there are smaller ones) that hosts 10+ sites/apps.

EDIT: I just realized that's a question I should ask: Does your price include the domain?

$1.20 a month may be expensive relative to your costs, but relative to the average programmer income and monthly bills in the United States – it's nothing. You'll spend three times that cost on a local cup of coffee every morning.

S3 static hosting is far easier to manage than a virtual server; it's a trade-off of convenience vs savings.

It didn't include the domain no.

I've used digital ocean droplets for some things for a similar $5 a month price, but it hardly seems necessary for a static site. It's much less faffery to just upload some files to S3 and click some buttons in the AWS console to configure everything.

What service do you use? 5/mo is really cheap for 10+sites/apps

Not to discourage a response with a personal anecdote, but don't miss https://github.com/joedicastro/vps-comparison and its HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14245538.

hetzner.de (the cheapest virtual server)

I'm really conscious about the resource usage of my server processes. Most sites are static websites, but I also have Gitea, Prosody and Matrix Synapse running on that box, plus some small Go webapps for my own consumption.

I agree... but, your reputation matters. In this city (Manchester), everyone talks. You won't last long as contractor if you're rubbish.

And even if you managed to get in somewhere I imagine you'd be found out and binned pretty quickly.

In London at least, my impression is the demand is so great that many places are desperate enough to hire anyone with x years of tech (usually Java) on their CV, with usually just a screening by a non technical manager. It could be this is changing though, especially with increased supply after the recent IR35 changes in the public sector. And usually, these are not the kind of places good contractors want to work anyways.

I don't think most people are suggesting that these former employees turned contractors would be rubbish. Just that they aren't willing to put up with the BS of "going the extra mile" or whatever without being paid for it.

"I am not changing any of my passwords. I think the probability that somebody saw something is so low it's not something I am concerned about"

So... just cross your fingers and hope nobody saw anything then? The way they're casually downplaying this incident is outrageous.

It works seamlessly/automatically between protonmail users and you can also send encrypted mail to non-protonmail users - they receive a link via email that they need a password to access.

You can also export your PGP public key and receive encrypted email from anyone else too.

I like Protonmail, but its a far cry away from 'real' GPG. They are just now adding SMTP. They don't allow key uploads. They don't let you send (gpg) encrypted E-Mail to non Protonmail users and there are some other problems.

I wish them a lot of luck fixing and working on this stuff.

This drives me absolutely crazy. If I'm forced towards downloading your app I'll simply go elsewhere. Its ridiculous to expect your users to download a 126MB app (Tripadvisor's current iOS app size) and grant it all sorts of permissions just so they can search for a hotel once a year.