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Kenton Varda @kentonvarda.com · 14/10/2025

Those benchmarks from @t3.gg revealed some interesting issues in Workers. Happy to say it's all fixed now, save for some lingering next.js-specific stuff we're continuing to work on. Thanks for the reproducible test cases, @t3.gg. Excessive details in blog post: blog.cloudflare.com/unpacking-cl...

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Max Rozen @rozenmd.com · 14/10/2025

as a bigCorp engineer I love k8s, but we have a dedicated team running it for my solo efforts I prefer giving a dockerfile to a platform like render or heroku and letting them deal with config

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Max Rozen @rozenmd.com · 14/10/2025

i just asked claude to build an equalizer in c++ for my Tangara and it two shot it (hit a bootloop that took some debugging) my queer ipod now has MEGABASS 😌

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Jason Lengstorf @jason.energy · 27/06/2025

3. your career is a pie-eating contest where the prize for winning is more pie the things people see you do are the things they'll ask you to do. if you want to get asked to do certain types of work, make sure people see you doing that type of work

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Max Rozen @rozenmd.com · 19/06/2025

that's the same setup I ended up with hah

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Max Rozen @rozenmd.com · 12/06/2025

oh it's client side rendered, the timings above are just for loading graphql data

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Max Rozen @rozenmd.com · 11/06/2025

they're both in us-east-1, should be 20ish ms at most

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Max Rozen @rozenmd.com · 11/06/2025

Next step: move the dashboard over to the existing public REST API. Historically it's been hard to dogfood the public REST API since the whole dash uses GraphQL, so looking forward to that changing.

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Max Rozen @rozenmd.com · 11/06/2025

I've managed to speed it up by ~80% with one simple trick: stop relying on GraphQL. Instead of fetching data resolver-by-resolver, now I fetch all of the data in one chonker of an SQL query.

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Max Rozen @rozenmd.com · 11/06/2025

So this screen in @onlineornot.com has always been slower than I wanted - around 2.3s(!) to load 10 rows of data from the GraphQL endpoint. It was the first screen I ever built (4+ yrs ago), and I leaned heavily into GraphQL resolvers because I assumed it'd be fast.

onlineornot's dashboard showing uptime checks

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Max Rozen @rozenmd.com · 04/06/2025

realised i was missing a pretty important empty state in @onlineornot.com today: when you search for something and there are no results

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Michele Hansen @mjwhansen.com · 22/05/2025

fyi founder friends — new scam to watch out for

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Max Rozen @rozenmd.com · 14/05/2025

Goodbye TopBarNav, hello SidebarNav

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Max Rozen @rozenmd.com · 12/05/2025

I just use Trello and the check list feature

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Max Rozen @rozenmd.com · 11/05/2025

yep - own hardware, own time, own IP

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Max Rozen @rozenmd.com · 11/05/2025

well shit #2 for maxrozen.com/on-four-year...

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Rand Fishkin @randfish.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

"Bragging about your business using AI is like bragging about using spellcheck." - @amandanat.bsky.social

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Marques Brownlee @mkbhd.com · 05/05/2025

Probably my favorite YouTube video of all time. 90 seconds of inspiration to last a lifetime youtu.be/E1oZhEIrer4?...

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Nobody Tells This To Beginners

YouTube video by Saar

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Max Rozen @rozenmd.com · 05/05/2025

every week when you've convinced yourself you just need to build one more feature and it'll fix the plateau just one more feature bro it'll be so good bro

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Max Rozen @rozenmd.com · 02/05/2025

this happens literally every time for me, the worst

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Max Rozen @rozenmd.com · 01/05/2025

TIL there are SaaS vendors that raise their prices automatically year over year for existing customers surely that increases churn?!

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Rand Fishkin @randfish.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Quite an excellent piece. Max and I don't agree on everything (some of our lessons learned contradict each other), but I love having my thinking challenged, and I'm probably wrong on some of these!

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Max Rozen @rozenmd.com · 19/04/2025

Numbers-wise there wasn't much uplift tbh, just the response from folks I chatted to after they signed up was surprising

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Max Rozen @rozenmd.com · 15/04/2025

you look like you'd be very good at "logistics"

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Max Rozen @rozenmd.com · 14/04/2025

oh I meant in terms of how many people drink it flavour-wise its incomparable

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Max Rozen @rozenmd.com · 14/04/2025

we drink it in France, probably more like VB/XXXX status

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Max Rozen @rozenmd.com · 09/04/2025

Always fun to get emails like these from @onlineornot.com customers

An email from an OnlineOrNot customer saying: Yay! I’m excited. I had a call with our datadog rep today; told them their stuff is way too expensive and that I’m moving our uptime checks elsewhere.

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Max Rozen @rozenmd.com · 08/04/2025

offtopic but for FAQ #1 on the pricing page, give a rough figure of engineering hours for small/medium/large tasks i.e, saved a week of engineering time moving to Express v5 saved days of engineering time upgrading to React v19, etc

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Max Rozen @rozenmd.com · 07/04/2025

I've learned Russian and German over the years, German was a bit easier than French Currently relearning "formal" French for an exam

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Max Rozen @rozenmd.com · 07/04/2025

learning French be like

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Max Rozen @rozenmd.com · 04/04/2025

I prefer to email these days, or schedule outside of work hours yeah

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Max Rozen @rozenmd.com · 04/04/2025

I wrote an article about the lessons learned from running OnlineOrNot for the past four years: maxrozen.com/on-four-year...

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Four years of running a SaaS in a competitive market - Max Rozen

Looking back on the last four years, what worked, what didn't.

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Max Rozen @rozenmd.com · 03/04/2025

when buying, it's nice to know historically whether the bar has incidents or whether they're lying day to day I just want to know current status but I also built this particular status page using @onlineornot.com - it automatically monitors the page and reports downtime

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Max Rozen @rozenmd.com · 03/04/2025

I wish all websites were as easy to monitor as StackOverflow

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Max Rozen @rozenmd.com · 01/04/2025

just one more ui fixup bro trust me bro it'll be so good when its done bro

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Max Rozen @rozenmd.com · 31/03/2025

crazy how effective positioning is "uptime monitoring for your software team" - weak, tired - been there, done that "get alerts when your team vibe-codes your product offline" - wired, locked-in - been looking for this for weeks, sign me up fam

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Max Rozen @rozenmd.com · 29/03/2025

going to make it possible to pause uptime checks on a schedule

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Max Rozen @rozenmd.com · 28/03/2025

the children yearn for client-side rendered web apps

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Max Rozen @rozenmd.com · 27/03/2025

ah i just assumed no one here followed f1 it's going to be so good in Japan

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Max Rozen @rozenmd.com · 27/03/2025

metal filters are pretty good too

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Max Rozen @rozenmd.com · 27/03/2025

bsky.app/profile/roze...

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Max Rozen @rozenmd.com · 27/03/2025

Extra Focus: The Quick Start Guide to Adult ADHD I've already used quite a few of the suggested strategies to run a business/get pretty far in my career, so I guess they're legit

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Max Rozen @rozenmd.com · 27/03/2025

Reading this book on strategies for ADHD brain and realising that I already do like half of them what a strange coincidence

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Max Rozen @rozenmd.com · 22/03/2025

on Android it seems fine, but I refuse to use their app

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