Well I discussed this with the Author briefly and that's a huge undertaking and he is working on it but the results especially desired results will take time.

Yea as the author of the article that's what I'm wondering too this is scheduled to be "released" in a couple of days. I basically figured I wouldn't need to do much more than not link it anywhere on my website or sitemap.

haha looks like I might have to straight up make non public posts unavailable for viewing in the future.

Author of the article here again.

Since I've seen multiple people complain about this I've dropped adsense completely as they were pretty invasive with tracking and the amount of ads.

I'm currently testing carbon ads and then I'll do a split test with ethicalads.io

So far both of them only display a singular small banner and it's better targeted towards devs.

Oooh that's a good one, saved for later!

That is precisely what prompted me to write this article, it was an update to a piece of software I require to use for work that suddenly just stopped working properly.

That's actually a point I wish I touched upon more in the article, how SaaS and the ability to patch software issues later down the line made sloppy coding a norm, because you can always just push a patch and expect your users to update to resolve their issues.

Whereas back in the ol' days (promise I'm not that old) a bug in your software would essentially mean severely dissatisfied costumers that may not purchase the next version from you

Harsh but fair, I strongly encourage you to keep your shields up and or adblocker turned on.

Sorry you couldn't enjoy the article though.

Author of the article and owner of the site here.

Google changes the amount and placement of the ads depending what "ad market" you are from so US and other similar countries might experience more ad placements than lower ad market countries.

I tried spinning it down to basically minimal ads in adsense settings and it's still quite a lot.

I strongly encourage the use of adblockers or pi-hole even on my site and see no problem with using them on my site.

The income from adsense just about covers the hosting bills in a year so far, I'm currently exploring alternative methods of monetization that would provide more value to the readers.

> hosting costs

Your using page says you use astro, so I assume you have a static site. Isn't any of the free hosts (GitHub, cloudflare) sufficient for that?

Do you really wish to go into stuff that has very little to do with the article itself?

I'll gladly provide an answer but I don't think it's constructive.

I host the site on vercel with astro, I'm on the pro plan which usually costs me somewhere around 20€ per month +/- 5-10€ depending on my monthly traffic.

add to that the minuscule cost of my domain and other stuff I'm paying about 250-300€ per year

My adsense avg per day is just about 1.20€ roughly.

So at best I break even, at worst I lose a bit of money.

I still maintain my position that everyone is welcome and should use adblock or brave or pi-hole on my site if they so wish I won't mind.

But I do like the fact that I don't have to foot the bill :)

Basically if I had to lose money to write I'd probs stop writing if I'm honest.

good catch, appreciate it!

it was indeed a mistake on my part, line-height got applied to code blocks as well as the paragraphs

I fixed it now so that codeblocks do not have a very loose line height.

Thanks for fixing the issue, appreciated.

Some of it is the fault of AI and the belief that software is super easy to create now and maintenance won't be an issue in the future, mainly by folks who have very little to no experience with writing software but attempt it via the many ways you can do it with AI these days.

Then there's the shiny object syndrome of humanity in general even if we just look at websites they went through so many different cycles, plain html, flash, everything built with bootstrap.css, then came the frameworks, then back to SSR/SSG, etc... etc..

Both of those are just symptoms of a larger disease , namely lack of enthusiasm in general has fallen, a lot of it has to do with how demanding day to day software jobs have gotten, or how financially unstable the younger generations feel so they rarely set aside any time for creative endeavors and passion projects

Yes! I could not agree more with this sentiment.

We over-analyse, over discuss, over plan and over optimize before we even write the first import or include.

Some of my best ideas came to me as I was busy programming away at my vision. There's almost a zen like state there