Good news: after a week on holiday my body is now waking up consistently at a reasonable time.

Bad news: that time is 0830 when I'm meant to have already left the house for work

Ah cool, nice to hear! Yeah I think sticking something serverless makes sense - I've gone for the route of deployed microservices just to give me some more experience with them. And hopefully more hosted services can be created if needbe!

It can also make some of it harder, too! My site is a static Hugo site, but for some of the IndieWeb stuff I either need to add client-side JS or write separate services that can run to ie send Webmentions. It definitely works, but is a bit more work as there's stuff that is and isn't static

I'd thoroughly recommend https://gatling.io/ as we're using it across both Java-based and non-Java-based APIs, and have found it pretty great.

I know we're not using nearly the power it affords, but it's very good!

You don't need to know that much Scala too, it has a straightforward DSL before you get there

Not sure how I'm going to cope next week without a litre of sangria and a steak a day 😅

Goodbye #tenerife from Cat and me! It's been a wonderful week

Thanks, both you and https://david.shanske.com have recommended Pushover and it seems to be OK price and rate limit wise so I think I'll look into it. It helps that I don't need to create an Android app myself to receive notifications, unlike https://pushy.me

Thanks that looks like a reasonable one. I couldn't see anything specific pricing wise for it, but the official pricing looks like I'd be in a free tier 👍🏽

Yes! I've got a list of my blogs that I follow explicitly at https://www.jvt.me/blogroll/ but also use several aggregation sites to pick up other content

What are folks using for free/low cost notifications for personal projects? I know https://indigenous.realize.be uses https://pushy.me and until now I've used https://pushbullet.com, but given https://www.jvt.me/mf2/2020/01/yelaf/ I may need to replace it with something more substantial

No worries - they're every two weeks! They're also more self-directed so being a less-experienced member there is more than ok, but depending on who's there it may be more conversations about what you're doing rather than technical help