DHT crawlers/indexers already exist to perform that function; they crawl and store infohashes (+ metadata when they receive it) and allow users to search that metadata to return relevant infohashes
By announcing itself, the indexer makes itself more likely to be handed out as a peer to anyone else interested in that infohash. Every connection attempt it subsequently receives is evidence of another peer announcing or joining that torrent. In effect, it "baits" peers into revealing themselves
It's an implementation of the 'Library of Babel', as described by Borges in his short story of the same name. It is a library of every possible permutation of a limited alphabet, of books 1,312,000 characters long. The FAQ page [1] and the GitHub readme [2] explain it in much more detail.
A companion tool for the space sim game Elite Dangerous — useless to anyone that doesn't play the game. I have had a couple of donations from kind users.
I have recently implemented a fairly complex workflow editor [1] at Northflank (https://northflank.com) using react-flow and elkjs. They make for a very powerful and flexible combination, great for our needs.
I agree that the Heroku developer experience has been second to none. I'm a front-end & DX engineer at Northflank and we're working hard to evolve and create a next-gen iteration of the Heroku experience anchored around 12 Factor Applications in a Kubernetes/cloud native era. We're getting very close, come and see for yourself: https://northflank.com. Some key features:
* As simple as `git push` to build & deploy services
* One-click addons for Postgres, Mongo, Redis, MySQL and more
* A generous free tier to get developers on board with minimal friction
* Great out of the box observability
* The option to set up pipelines for more complex build/preview/release workflows
The decline of Heroku is a shame, they were the first to really make cloud accessible to all.
Over at Northflank (https://northflank.com), we're trying to continue that trend and great developer experience is our main priority. We address many of the same points you mention - simply `git push` to build and deploy (using Dockerfiles or Buildpacks), instant free DNS & TLS, one-click addons (Postgres, Mongo, Redis...), environment variables inherited from databases, and much much more - all with sensible pricing.
Totally agree. Why should someone else I've never met decide what I can and can't see? Leave that decision up to the individual user, and they can tailor their own experience as they desire. Allow them to filter out particular words, phrases, other users and so on.
A while ago Facebook banned my small businesses advertising account out of the blue with no reason given, and gave no option to appeal or even find out what (if anything) I was doing wrong. This move effectively killed my business. The idea of FB caring about the 'little guys' is laughable.
