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tj holowaychuk is someone i will like to meet one day. when i discovered him in 2013/4, he was active in the nodejs community and was the creator of the express framework, the koa framework, and a host of javascript modules in use by tons of software developers today.
a few years later, he decided to take a step back from active open source development and started an uptime monitoring startup called apex.
earlier today, a friend reached out to ask what was wrong with my media server. before i could respond, they confirmed it was back up. i noted that i didn’t receive any downtime notification and remarked that this was a case for me to extend my homelab to the cloud - maybe a small digital ocean droplet, and use that to monitor my home network’s reachability from the outside world.
then i remembered apex. i visited the domain and saw that the website was unavailable. this led me to...