Focus on your mental and physical health. Your relationships especially family. And work on things that challenge your mind, if nothing does currently that’s ok something will peak your interest again, no pressure, in the mean time work on being the healthiest you can physically, that has a way of making sure other things fall into place.
My app is down as well. My DNS is in Cloudflare, but currently pointed at a Heroku CNAME.... I was hoping I could point it directly to an IP if I knew the underlying AWS LB service IP, but they do not expose it.
Everytime AWS goes down I have to remind people, it always goes down. Diversify your sh*t or be exploited and unavailable. http://tuxlabs.com/?p=430 wrote about in 2016, beware of the centralization.
So AWS is having trouble again. I am a huge public cloud advocate, BUT if you don't diversify not just with other public clouds, but with on-premise as well you are asking for it.
In 2016, I wrote about this on my blog http://tuxlabs.com/?p=430 it's not just availability people should worry about.
Valid. I dreamed of where I am today. Living it doesn't feel like it was your dream, but remember how bad you wanted it when you were a teanager and appreciate where you are now and how far you have come. Great to reflect.
Gratitude, baby. Our society seems very focused on "more", but it is very good for one's mental health to remember how great what we have now is.
There are studies that show daily practices of gratitude change the brain. If you can, write down three things you are grateful for every night before bed. No matter how bad your day was, it will put you in a better head space.
Now, of course, I don't routinely follow my own advice. But when I did, it had noticeable benefits that have persisted to this day.
You know, I actually started this practice recently (more or less - trying to keep track of what has made me happy and what I'm grateful for at night. I miss nights, but I keep at it), and as I wrote that comment I had a thought. I'm not sure I would have reflected so positively or even realized that I'd accomplished a dream of mine if I hadn't been 'practising gratitude' so to speak. It seems to me like it's an important thing to do and believe in. There's so much to be glad about that I've often missed.
Granted there's plenty to be unhappy about, but that's too easy and not rewarding at all. Anyone can plainly see what's bad. But to find the good, it's sort of a treasure hunt before bed. What was awesome today? As it turns out, plenty. Maybe even more was bad, but the good parts were still good, and that's enough most days.
I've sort of been doing something similar for a few years now where, each day I will document the highlight of my days.
It's been a really interesting experience and it's useful from not just a gratitude/appreciation perspective but also it's turned into an invaluable tool for keeping track of how time passes.
You know, when you can look back over the days and see even just one thing that you did each day, they each become a little more memorable.
It can also be handy sometimes when you have a mystery receipt, and you're trying to work out what you spent $12 on 3 weeks ago, on a random weeknight. "Oh yeah, that's the day I went out for ice-cream after work because I'd had a bad day", or whatever.
No joke. As a teenager I thought of this path as a leap of ill-construed faith (I didn't share the idea with anyone), but didn't really care. I couldn't envision my life even a week in the future, let alone 10 or 15 years. It didn't seem possible that I'd even be alive still. But what the hell, it worked!
AWS in 2012, DynDNS after that, now Cloudflare...I wrote about this a few years ago, the threat of the singularity of the Internet. What was distributed will be centralized again. http://tuxlabs.com/?p=430
I think they should have led with insensitivity about it and maybe a white lie. Such as... We took our main region us-east-1 down for X hours because we wanted to remind people they need to design for failure of a region :-)
Shameless plugs (authored months ago):
http://tuxlabs.com/?p=380 - How To: Maximize Availability Effeciently Using AWS Availability Zones ( note read it, its not just about AZ's it is very clear to state multi-regions and better yet multi-cloud segway...second article)
