why the fuck did I start self hosting bare git over ssh repos. by what mechanism did I convince myself that that was a good idea. sometimes I wish I knew less about computers so I couldn't cause so many problems for myself
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I debated buying a machine to host files / version control etc.
I am glad my wallet prevented me from going that rabbit hole, because even just doing the investigation into setting up the system and software was giving me a headache.
oh everybody knows self hosting email is a bad idea, i am inoculated against that one, the stakes are too high. but if i can’t actually ruin anything for myself there is no amount of misery i am smart enough to avoid
My Achilles Heel is git. I really, *really* hate how complicated it is. I once spent two hours trying to completely start again with a repo on a machine and ended up wiping the whole server and abandoning the old remote.
where-packaged and bird-machine look crazy cool. i'm hoping to do a phd on text search soon and have been collabing w emacs-devel on the regex engine (they're ok with rust and i'm gonna solve any packaging issues. rust regex-automata doesn't work bc we need to search the gap buffer)
bird-machine would've been cool if i had more than two days worth of attention to pay to it, and/or if the regex automata situation was further along at the time and i could've just used that as-is
if i went back in time to make only very slightly better-informed choices i’d probably use https://git.causal.agency/cgit-pink/about/ but i don’t want to put in work to switch to something else that i know i still won’t be happy with
This is exactly something I would have done a decade ago ... I think i've finally got to the point where practical productivity is more important than trying to do everything myself, or over-optimizing my dev environment ...
Yep, had the epiphany a few years ago. That sometimes $10/m and loss of some control (that I've never exercised) is worth it. Had same epiphany with my daily driver PC many years ago, it's a tool, it need to "just work", stop fiddling with it.
I wish I had read this before I spent the day trying to host a private email server on the public cloud. Apparently you need special permission to use the SMTP port.
many such cases:
1. “the mainstream options are bad”
2. “the small indie solutions are also bad”
3. “self-reliance doesn’t work either”
4. “oh no all the options are bad, i will suffer with whatever bullshit i have right now instead of actually weighing the compromises”
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I am glad my wallet prevented me from going that rabbit hole, because even just doing the investigation into setting up the system and software was giving me a headache.
https://code.boringcactus.com/
1. “the mainstream options are bad”
2. “the small indie solutions are also bad”
3. “self-reliance doesn’t work either”
4. “oh no all the options are bad, i will suffer with whatever bullshit i have right now instead of actually weighing the compromises”