Lucian

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GitHub Actions to Cloudflare Workers Sites

GitHub Actions to Cloudflare Workers Sites

As time goes by, I’m looking for solutions that require as little maintenance as possible. One of those is deploying our client web app and our homepage directly on the CDN edge, with GitHub Actions.

Pronounceable name

Pronounceable name

This is a new feature for the monitors with names that are just unpronounceable in the English language, you can now set a pronounceable name.

Spanish Monitive homepage

Spanish Monitive homepage

To better address our customers, we now have a Spanish version of the homepage, and we’re working on translating the web app as well.

Migration Issue Fixed

There was a major issues that prevented Classic Monitive customers that created their accounts in the new platform after the launch to migrate their monitors into the new platform.

Meet the new Monitive

Meet the new Monitive

The day has come. After 10 years of running an uptime monitoring service, of which three years we spent in rewriting of the service. The new Monitive code-name “Freyja” is ready for the world to use.

Monitive `Freyja` Official Launch

Monitive `Freyja` Official Launch

Today we launched the new Monitive on Product Hunt. This is the core of an uptime monitoring service that will aim at crafting a better Internet - one site at a time.

Launching the new Monitive

Launching the new Monitive

It’s been a long journey since I decided that the current version of Monitive is just not good enough for our customers.

Migration Tool from Monitive Classic accounts

Migration Tool from Monitive Classic accounts

You can now import your old Monitive Classic monitors including availability & latency history into your account.

Articulated call alerts via Amazon Polly

Each time I got an outage alert call, I was not impressed about the syntetic voice that told me that my website was down.

Group Monitors

When grouping is enabled, monitors are sorted by groups (ungrouped first), and then alphabetical, to make it easier to skim through the list of monitors.

Mobile Progressive Web App (PWA)

Mobile Progressive Web App (PWA)

The Monitive web app is built as a Progressive Web App, meaning you can add it to your homescreen on Android and iOS and it will behave like a fullscreen native app.

Slow and steady

Slow and steady

“Remember that guy that gave up? Neither does anybody else.”

Week #20 Freyja Updates

Week #20 Freyja Updates

It’s been a while since the new Monitive codename “Freyja” was launched in private beta, and even though a lot of things have happened, development is moving forward a bit slow than I’ve hoped.

Beta Testing For Dummies

Beta Testing For Dummies

Don’t worry, this isn’t an article where someone extremely adept at software testing and well-versed in industry terms is going to talk down to you.

For the Users: Customer-Driven Development

For the Users: Customer-Driven Development

“Always design with the customer in mind,” they say.

Delivering bad news in a good way

Delivering bad news in a good way

Whenever I wake up in the morning, the first thing I do is… well… not go over last night’s notifications on my phone. This has taken a while to get used to, but I am happy I did it. And it’s been a few years now.

So much to do, so little time

So much to do, so little time

Have you had any moments lately where you felt completely overwhelmed?

Private beta released

Private beta released

The brand new Monitive platform is almost ready to be seen by the world, but just like any software development project, minor issues always surface that tend to push a release date back further and further.

Minimalism in business

Minimalism in business

Even after being in business for 9 years, I still wanted to keep everything: every email, every note, every design draft or mockup — all the small things that helped Monitive evolve into what it is today.

A quick path to success is not always the best one

A quick path to success is not always the best one

I have been seeing this motivational quote pop up on my social media feeds a lot lately: “There’s no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.” — Author unknown

The obstacle IS the way

The obstacle IS the way

It’s Monday morning, and I just arrived at the office.

Goodbye 2018, Hello 2019!

Goodbye 2018, Hello 2019!

Although I should have seen it coming, it turned out rewriting Monitive was way more complicated than I originally thought, mainly due to the fact that we took no shortcuts.

New Years resolutions, intentions, or both?

New Years resolutions, intentions, or both?

For several years now, I’ve been continuously preaching all the reasons why I prefer intentions to resolutions. They’re about the journey, not the finish line. They leave room for humanness. You are less likely to give up when you hit a roadblock.

Going serverless with AWS S3 and CloudFlare

Going serverless with AWS S3 and CloudFlare

A while back, while developing the new Monitive, we separated the application into two separate parts...