something_random_tho

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Hi friends, I'm back, this time jotting down some notes around my go-to way to provision VMs using Ansible. This post assumes Debian (Nix may be a future post).

Of course there's many ways to provision a server, and this is just one of them. I hope some of these notes are helpful!

If you have any other ways you prefer to set up a server, that would be cool to share!

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21065836

Hi friends, as promised, I'm back with my second post. I'll be hanging around in the comments for any questions!

In this post, I take a look at a typical deployment process, how long each part of it takes, and then I present a simple alternative that I use which is much faster and perfect for hobbit software.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21065836

Hi friends, as promised, I'm back with my second post. I'll be hanging around in the comments for any questions!

In this post, I take a look at a typical deployment process, how long each part of it takes, and then I present a simple alternative that I use which is much faster and perfect for hobbit software.

[–] something_random_tho@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

Hi friend, this was just meant to be an introduction, as I get started blogging and sharing back some knowledge and lessons I learned along the way. I've never written a blog before (or much of anything!), and I'm sorry you didn't find value in this.

I wasn't intending to boast, but I can see how it came across. I just meant to say, "companies are trying to tell you that you need 'XYZ' to scale," and at least at the size of business I ran, you didn't need any fancy tech at all -- we could have made do with a dead-simple setup: a single server running Go and SQLite. It's something I wish I had known when I started.

I'll take your feedback to heart and try to produce larger, more substantial posts to follow. Thanks for commenting.

[–] something_random_tho@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Is it too late for, “I use nix btw”? I use it at home and for development.

I planned to focus this blog series on ol’ faithful (Debian), but I could definitely see writing articles on how to use Nix and OpenBSD if people find it helpful.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21023181

Sharing some lessons I learned from 10 years/millions of users in production. I’ll be in the comments if anyone has any questions!

I hope this series will be useful to the self-hosted and small web crowds—tips for tools to pick and the basics of server management.

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You're overcomplicating production (paravoce.bearblog.dev)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21023181

Sharing some lessons I learned from 10 years/millions of users in production. I’ll be in the comments if anyone has any questions!

I hope some of the lessons in this series help people learn to adopt Linux directly into their stack as a simple tool that can be managed easily on a server.

Sounds like something a Scorpio would say...

🌎👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

[–] something_random_tho@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Don't forget Tubular on Android

[–] something_random_tho@lemmy.world 87 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Since when is Deepfake Musk a bigger scammer than real Musk? The man's been selling "full self-driving" upgrades to Teslas for years, and they're no closer to "full self-driving" now than they were at the start. Surely real Musk has scammed far more people.

[–] something_random_tho@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ya, that's a fantastic detail, since Martha was Clark Kent's Earth-mom.

I read this in Aziz's voice from Parks and Rec.

Parks and Rec characters saying "Treat yo self"

[–] something_random_tho@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What a wonderful phrase.

[–] something_random_tho@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Then they make you use them for DNS. May or may not be a big deal, but the reason it's at cost is to act as a loss leader to get you exposed to and buying their other products.

[–] something_random_tho@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Warning, do NOT connect Vizio to the internet. They were busted for sending images of all content you watched to their servers, so they could profile you and sell that data. Who knows what else they'll get up to in a secret update down the road.

[–] something_random_tho@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That's a real Karen thing to say.

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