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Martin Fowler called this (anti-)pattern an "integration database" and discouraged it since at least 2004[1] [1]: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/IntegrationDatabase.html

There are machines that can fit that and more: https://yourdatafitsinram.net/ I'm not advocating that this is generally a good or bad idea, or even economical, but it's possible.

For your home network, you might like Mozilla SOPS for secrets storage. You can keep your secrets in an encrypted file and have a container that loads those secrets and puts it int…

Ugh, that this psyops sockpuppetry may have started or contributed to the maintainer's mental health issues seems like the most depressing part of all this. Maintaining OSS is hard…

NIST dropped the password change recommendation a while back [1] but it still lingers on. The staying power and long tail of this deprecated advice is unfortunate, to say the least…

https://allan.reyes.sh/ I usually have more plans to write things than actual time, but I do keep some articles/lists "evergreen" and they come up in conversations quite a bit: - h…

This is a great way to test for backwards-incompatible changes if your fleet is running canaries or instances on different versions backed by a singleton database. You apply the mi…

Have you tried Nix[1]? The learning curve was a bit steep for me, but I think I finally started "getting" it and it absolutely solves this problem for me. Now I'm at the point wher…

The secure copy and paste feature always seemed to address the wrong threat model or use case for me. Sure, it's great that it keeps things isolated and compartmentalized across VM…

Check out https://lucylabs.gatech.edu ! David Joyner started it to help foster this opportunity for students and alumni, alike.

You can do remote play on a Chromebook right now with Moonlight! Works great (for me). Some other alternatives include Parsec and Rainway, and probably a few others I'm missing.

You might enjoy: http://www.humansnotinvited.com