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> I aspire to have an interesting website like yours
let me know if you need help / inspiration!
> I came back to read them again and your website was down though
sorry about that, i was moving & my server came with me :)
light, well documented, snappy, easy to work with - i love the idea of endpoints returning pure html instead of json - it feels obvious.
i'm in my 30s & have been in tech for a decade, how long is this "phase" expected to last? ;)
> I very much doubt it’s the case that the commenters have all been forever wise
representing and sharing my internal, authentic self with the world _is wise_ imo. i think the world deserves more expressions of authenticity.
i don't stuff of my personality into a shoebox before presenting myself to the world on _my own website_. if it seems a little manic or expressive, well, that's because i am a little manic and expressive.
i recently rewrote the backend, i didn't realize there was a zoom & scroll issue. happy to fix it when i find the time.
my git repositories are all on the same server that hosts my website - git is not doing a remote fetch - it's a local fetch, which makes it basically instantaneous.
even if it were a remote fetch, i would be fine with it. 525,600 http requests per year is less wasteful than NetworkManager's heartbeat (which defaults to 1 heartbeat request per _30 seconds_ on Arch)
for some context, a stock nginx server with 8 cpus can handle ~500k+ http requests _per second_.
my website is my sacred & unique playground, not a perfectly optimized website. i write it all myself, and it evolves over time.
my style definitely strikes people the wrong way sometimes - i'm used to people being critical about it. i make some weird decisions for the sake of contorting my content into a form that i like, but i think that's what makes my content endearing. it's not like everything else out there. some rough edges, sure, but i'll get better over time as i explore my "personal form" :)
to me, a website is like a long-term art project. it should represent the author - and in my case, my site represents me, unabashedly.
i’ll make a blog post about this setup soon, it’s all still pretty in flux rn.
one thing worth mentioning is that if you’re operating in a limited bandwidth environment, goks update may be annoying/impossible to tolerate - it uploads the full resulting squashfs to the pi.
in my case, it’s about 40MB over the network per change, even if it’s just a flag adjustment. that’s just the cost of the “appliance model”
(comment x-posted from another site)
> According to the company, increasing the lifespan of a phone by two years reduces CO₂ emissions by 30%.[4]
i can't help but feel like i'm being lied to. cutting (a portion of) consumer smartphone emissions by 30% strikes me as an irrelevant drop in the bucket.
companies hyping up how moral/virtuous they are in order to _sell products_ to a compassionate corner of a market always come off as disingenuous to me.
i would rather fairphone just focused on lifespan and repairability & left the "saving the environment" spin completely alone. it's fine to target using conflict-free minerals and reduce carbon emissions - but marketing that as an advantage of buying the phone is really slimy.
as someone who had to manage a system like this, i certainly don't. it doesn't scale well, it requires way too much upfront design thought (since metrics are stored in arbitrary dirs), and it's a massive pain to install and manage. not to mention, it's barely developed anymore so much needed features (like carbon cache restarts not taking a million years bc of the slow sequential flush to disk) will probably never see the light of day.
for better or worse, the industry moved on. speaking personally, prometheus is so much better than graphite ever was, in every conceivable way.
overall i was pretty disappointed. ted's writing wasn't very good at all & his arguments did not convince me. i was surprised because of his writing seems to be universally praised in tech circles.
in my opinion it isn't worth reading. it's philosophical cosplay.
how should you actually start hiking? grab a water bottle, get outside, and hike.
here is how you should _actually_ start a go project in 2023:
$EDITOR main.go
go run .
as someone who has lost many friends and family members to suicide, articles like this feel so naive.
at their funerals, there’s always a person saying “let’s remember them how they lived, not how they suffered”
no. their suffering was a big part of their lived experience, and i will remember it forever. people who want to commit suicide do want to stop living. sometimes it’s because there is so much suffering in their life they can’t take it - sometimes it’s something else.
thousands of years ago, people knew that life _is_ suffering. it’s so disgusting to me to pretend that life and suffering aren’t intertwined.
some people can’t take it, and that’s fine. we didn’t ask to be here. but when those people go, let’s not falsify our memories of them because we don’t personally like the idea of suffering.
so infantalizing.
love that for u. where do i invest?