could this be useful for embedding info in server generated web pages that are then picked up by a JavaScript. e.g. a tom-select country picker that gets its data from an embedded RX structure?

yes, this would work very well for any case where you have embedded databases of unstructured data that you want to query in a website or edge server

That post reads like fully LLM-generated. It's basically boasting a list of numbers that are supposed to sound impressive. If there's a coherent story, it's well hidden.

Open systems provide plenty of opportunity for smaller businesses to provide innovative and convenient services. What kind of innovation and experimentation other then getting more ads in are the gatekeepers that we have today interested in doing as long as there's no competition?

What happened to tarsnap? Anybody using it?

It's still there; and yes, people are using it.

Call for proposals

Took me quite some time to figure it out. Short explanation in the post would be great.

Seems like a good idea. There are similar projects for Rails and React though, so I’m not sure what’s different here.

Similar project in Friesach in South of Austria (near Italy and Slovenia): https://burgbau.at/burgbaufrie/?page_id=3192

Die whole city (or village) is a lot into medieval stuff, so it's a really great surrounding.

I've found https://dokku.com to be a great (self-hosted) alternative to heroku. For hobby and small company size a cheap root server will do great. I've been running one at Hetzner for ~5EUR/month for more than a year now and had a very smooth experience.

There is also https://caprover.com, which seems to be more advanced and supports compose and docker swarm.

Is this manly for businesses or would I also benefit from it in a private (family, alone) setting?

Our focus has been business so far, but I use it for my personal home network. I would like to explore other uses.

An option that I like to use is Middleman (or any other static site generator) for creating the pages and Netlify for hosting, all for free even with your own domain and HTTPS.

You have nice static HTML pages with a CDN, super fast, and there's even a CMS option with NetlifyCMS, which works by creating git commits for you and then automatically pushes the new static version on Netlify. The basics in Netlify are free and there are nice add-ons where some are also free (e.g. forms).

Check out the template list here: https://templates.netlify.com

I think Netlify has an amazing product and have been looking into using Gatsby for some projects. Thanks for linking those templates!