Archives for 2024/03 (Lifestream)

Hopes and dreams

Texture

It's safe to say that The Wheel of Time TV series, streaming on Amazon Prime, has divided fans of the source material, namely Robert Jordan's enormous, sprawling, epic book series of the same name, spanning 14 door-stopping volumes published over a period of 24 years (1989-2013).

I would not call myself a great connoisseur of fantasy, but I do know something about these particular books, having been introduced to them as a teenager by a high school friend in the early nineties. I have warm memories of the series, and less warm memories of the tense, multi-year waits in between installments.

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In general, I take a dim view of graffiti. This, however, makes me smile.

Buildings like this fascinate me for reasons I can't fully articulate. I guess, to my eyes, it just feels like it has a story to tell, like a grizzled chess player in the park.

To some extent, the contrast between the IndieWeb and standard social networks mirrors the contrast between Linux and, say, Windows or MacOS. People keep asking when the former will become mainstream and it's kind of the wrong question to ask, because going mainstream was never the goal. The masses were never the target audience.

I'm kind of impressed with Github Actions. Easy to use, very composable.

So, I've ditched Netlify, opting instead for a raw nginx on a relatively modest VPS. I had heard some horror stories of people being charged thousands of dollars over a denial of service attack.

So far so good. I no longer have to worry about running out of build minutes either.