Here's the next installment of my lightning-powered geography quizzes. Pay your kids some sats for learning their states and capitals a little better.
You'll have to zoom in on mobile. This one is really just currently better on desktop. I have no intention of spending anymore time trying to fix that (unless somebody REALLY wants it and offers me ice cream or something). Some of these will just work well on mobile and some won't. Sorry.
What should I do next? I'm thinking either the continents and oceans for younger kids, Oceania for myself, post-Soviet states for folks trying to make sense of geo-political stuff, or maybe the location of ancient Mesoamerican cities for fellow nerds. idk Requests?
And if you haven't learned your African countries yet, here's the link.
Hey real devs, I'm curious if anybody can give me advice on how to setup one domain for all of these geo-quizzes, even though I've built them all as different apps. The jokers at NameCheap want $26 in a few days to renew https://thebitcointrail.space/, which I got for like $2 last year. I pay a fortune every year for my non-bitcoin business' website, but that actually generates income to justify it. I didn't realize that when you buy these ultra-cheap domains for projects that they go up in cost every year... Vercel is also banging on my door for cash because of "Edge Requests," which I know has something to do with my websites being slow that I can't figure out how to fix. Are there other services like this or do you guys just pay a bunch of services to throw up websites?
Lots of different ways, if you're using a traditional web host you can set up a sub-domain for each, for example app1.some.domain app2.some.domain - each subdomain points to a different folder... caveat is your apps need to be static files
Directives may be available rather than subdomains that achieve the same thing... a directive would be some.domain/app1 routing to a given path
If the apps are services that need to run and not just static files, or if you simply want more control vs. generic webhosting... I recommend getting a cheap VPS... Hetzner, OVH, RackNerd etc...
A VPS is just a Linux VM
With that VM up you point your domain DNS to it, either as subdomains or a a root record to its ip (each subdomain would be its own dns record... app1.some.domain whereas a root record just points *.some.domain to your VPS IP)
On the VPS you need a reverse proxy to route to the specific apps, Caddy is the easiest to work with, its directives are simple to read and it automatically handles SSL certificates (free via LetsEncrypt)
Sample Caddy File:
example.com { # App 1: Static Files # handle_path strips "/app1" so Caddy looks for "index.html" # inside "/var/www/app1/", not "/var/www/app1/app1/index.html" handle_path /app1/* { root * /var/www/app1 file_server } # App 2: Reverse Proxy # handle_path strips "/app2" before forwarding to the backend handle_path /app2/* { reverse_proxy localhost:8080 } # Optional: Fallback for the root domain "/" handle { respond "Welcome! Visit /app1 or /app2" } }PorkBun is a pretty good registrar, as cheap as anywhere and its transparent when the renewal price is higher than the registration price... its pretty common for registrations to be at a teaser rate then renewals are jacked up. They know that sticky domains will pay more to renew than for someone tinkering will pay to regsiter.
Wish I had tried RackNerd sooner. Saving a lot of money.
Yea their specials page with annual pricing can have some real bangers
For no commitment OVH is a little better, been using OVH more and more since the nvme storage can be a tiebreaker
Indeed. If you know how this stuff works and don't need to lean on support these options will save a lot.
LLM's have really made VPSs indispensable even for the infrastructure averse, I kind of want to make an AI enabled shell for connecting to VPS's for normies and installing software... but got too much shit to do already
Thank you! This is very helpful and I think it is going to save me a bundle!
that was real nice, man! I used to ACCEEEEE this shit... the dark map with the rivers specified really threw me off
Thanks! Yeah, I’m pulling straight from openstreetmap and there would be ways to highlight the borders better, but I’m trying to keep these as lightweight as possible.
Borders and rivers being different colors would help a lot.
I might actually be decent at this one but considering my citizenship I claim the right to phone a friend on a few and ask @supercyclone
I was thinking about doing Canada next. I only know where like three provinces are. I think I can point out all the major cities though and I think there are only like ten provinces total, right?
10 provinces and 3 territories. I am certain I will get all 10 and 3 however I might get tripped up on a couple of the capitals.
Oh yeah, I guess I can identify one of the territories (Yukon) as well. This begs the question though, what’s the difference between the two?
Provinces have constitutionally protected powers, while territories powers are federally delegated. There are three territories. Northwest Territories, Yukon and Nunavut (pronounced Noon a voot but most people pronounce it noon a vit and I like calling it none of it)
Havaí?
Just did the lower 48 to keep the map looking simple.
That's the only one I know! Ahaha
…until you take the quiz a few times! Haha
Let me know if you have luck with other domain name services that are cheaper. I've heard Cloudflare might be better, but I'm not sure?
NameCheap raised renewal rates on me by almost 200% on some domains that are pretty vital to me personally, but don't generate any revenue for me.
I’ve been using Yola for decades for my business, and it’s definitely not cheap, but I set it up before I was before I was thinking about this kind of stuff and it does what I need it to do as is. I’ve been buying some really cheap domains ($2 or less) through Vercel, but they’ve been pretty upfront that when it’s time to renew, things are gonna get more expensive. I imagine I’ll just drop some of these sites if people don’t seem excited about them at that point.
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