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I've hosted and actively used my own email server for > 10 years and there are two things that are true at the same time: It is absolutely possible to host, use, and achieve decent…

It's interesting to contrast this announcement with a similar post from the CEO in 2022 [1]: those past layoffs had much more of a victim-of-circumstances tone as ZIRP was beginnin…

Thanks for the kind words! Especially given how ubiquitous systemd is now, skilling up on the toolbox with commands like `systemd-analyze` and `systemctl list-timers` feels super v…

Hey everyone, author here. I spotted the hn traffic a little late but I'm happy for any feedback or comments and will try and address the top-level comments as I can. (Aside: I wro…

Oh hey, I'm the author. Happy to chat about the post if anyone wants to. (Also the title here probably needs the leading "This" to make sense)

https://blog.tjll.net/

Another sort-of-recent development in the space has made self-hosting dramatically more accessible: even though hardware costs were reasonable before, they're now _very_ reasonable…

One convenience of journald is that it exposes a single place to plug in log collection for observability tooling opentelemetry-collector, promtail, and so on have native plugins f…

Hi, author here. The title is intentionally a little attention-grabbing hyperbole but I've appreciated the discussion and feedback about the post. Thanks for reading!

I loved this game growing up, I'm definitely going to give this a try. As a minor observation, I'm pretty (pleasantly) surprised that the project provides a NixOS package for the a…

https://blog.tjll.net/ The posts that made it to the top of HN (that I can recall at this moment) 35 Million Hot Dogs: Benchmarking Caddy vs. Nginx ( https://blog.tjll.net/reverse-…

Slightly off-topic, but my ChatGPT instincts always tend to fire whenever I read copy that concludes with the formula, “Ultimately…” or “Overall…”. I wonder how much (if any) of th…

It's kind of hard to fully appreciate how powerful polymode is without actually _using_ it. When you use an editor that can mostly-understand the syntax behind markup like fenced m…

That's a great plan! I'll say that self-hosting may be _the_ number one thing I'm most passionate about due to concerns similar to yours (privacy, ownership, and so on). I've self-…

> [...] am I understanding correctly that nix could be used instead of packer to generate a vm image/template for proxmox(or whatever hypervisor)? That's correct, although as you m…

It's a good question, and a very mature/well-engineered Docker dev environment probably gets you near-parity with an equivalent nix setup. That said, my reasons are: - Although not…

> I would love to see a discussion from somebody who really likes Nix on why it isn't ready for prime time yet/just play devil's advocate aloud on why it isn't the greatest thing s…

I think the nix community is doing an increasingly-better job at addressing several outstanding issues, and although the OP link resolves one of them - the getting-started experien…

In your specific case - a _channel_ versus a flake _input_ - consider how you're tracking your system configuration. If you have an /etc/nixos/configuration.nix, then your system c…

Apologies if this is only tangentially related, but it's a thought I've often had: When I went through my university degree (which, admittedly, was over a decade ago), the skills a…

Thank you, that's very kind! There's a reason I included Corey's name in my hastily cobbled-together skeleton meme [1]. Hopefully my writing achieves that level of technical approa…

Damn. This is probably worth swapping out k6 for if I manage to pull off a second set of benchmarks. Thanks for the heads-up.

This is hard because while, yes, some platform with less potential for jitter and/or noisy neighbors would help eliminate outside influence on the metrics, I think it's also valuab…

Correct. Maybe it blows my credibility out of the water and I'll be shamed for life, who knows

That's very kind of you to say, thank you!