@jensimmons professional web developer for 19 years.

I run a small personal website that gained some praise for being helpful (Unicode explainer). 2 years ago I loved working on it, experimenting with cutting edge web tech.

Today this joy is completely gone. The site goes regularly down because AI scrapers hammer it (yes, even behind CF). Trying out new stuff and upgrading current things are mostly a debugging nightmare.

The trust into and stability of the platform are vanishing rapidly.