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Re: Archive your old projects

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Post by zlg_codes »

atum47 wrote: post #39

I once created a simple counter [1]. I used it to remind me of eating every two hours. I thought to myself "it's a good counter, I'll show it to people" then posted it on HN. People were like "that is just a counter, why are you showing us that?" So i kind of stop sharing everything, haha. But my GitHub used to be a replica of my projects folder, i would upload everything. I don't do that as much now a days. 1 - http…

I relate to people not giving a shit about one's creations. It has caused me to reconsider the self-hosting and blogging that I do.

I decided to give my website one year of an honest chance. I'll install basic analytics so I can see what, if anything people are interested in, and if I'm not satisfied or have a hint as to what about me or my stuff that people like, I'm out.

There's a point where sharing is painful due to the way prior things shared have been interpreted. There's no therapy or fix for that. People either care about you and your stuff, or they don't.

I've learned people just don't give a shit, even those allegedly close to me.

Re: Archive your old projects

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Post by cloths »

dwaltrip wrote: post #41
hypertexthero wrote: post #12

Create a folder on your computer or get a sturdy box made of good cardboard with a lid. Name the folder “Process”. Write the word “Process” on the box. While working, occasionally take photos or screenshots of what you are doing showing your workspace, the computer desktop, the desk with pencils and papers and cables everywhere, the wall or piece of string with notes. Show the messy process of creating something. Typ…

What have you found to be most valuable / meaningful years later?

Yeah I also want to know this, I used to write diaries for years and cherish it, thought I would look back my life or extract something meaningful out of it, turns out I very rarely look at it.

Same goes to old project archives, emails, I have both HDD and S3 Glacier for them, but so far I have never looked at them at all, for 10 years, And I doubt I will look at them in another 10 years.

I am beginning to thinking Letting past go and You aren't gonna need it philosophy towards such things

Re: Archive your old projects

#53

Post by cloths »

atum47 wrote: post #39

I once created a simple counter [1]. I used it to remind me of eating every two hours. I thought to myself "it's a good counter, I'll show it to people" then posted it on HN. People were like "that is just a counter, why are you showing us that?" So i kind of stop sharing everything, haha. But my GitHub used to be a replica of my projects folder, i would upload everything. I don't do that as much now a days. 1 - http…

> So i kind of stop sharing everything, haha. I'd like to encourage you as well as myself, don't let reality beat you :)

Re: Archive your old projects

#54

Post by ryl00 »

cloths wrote: post #52
dwaltrip wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What have you found to be most valuable / meaningful years later?

Yeah I also want to know this, I used to write diaries for years and cherish it, thought I would look back my life or extract something meaningful out of it, turns out I very rarely look at it. Same goes to old project archives, emails, I have both HDD and S3 Glacier for them, but so far I have never looked at them at all, for 10 years, And I doubt I will look at them in another 10 years. I am beginning to thinking L…

I'm 52 years old, and I have diaries stretching back to 1980 (when I was all of 9 years old!). Over the years I gradually worked on transcribing them from handwriting to comupter text, and that's made them much more accessible in the present day. E.g., when my father passed away in 2020, it was so easy to just search for "Dad" and revisit long-ago snippets from the past. (And to sadly realize that I'd taken his presence for granted over the years.)

I still regret my roughly ten-year diary hiatus from 1985-1995, losing the bulk of my formative high school/college years in the process. Because as I've grown older, and those memories become more and more distant, I've lost a lot of the day-to-day detail, trivial though it may have been, of my past.

Re: Archive your old projects

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Post by Pannoniae »

zlg_codes wrote: post #51
atum47 wrote: post #39

I once created a simple counter [1]. I used it to remind me of eating every two hours. I thought to myself "it's a good counter, I'll show it to people" then posted it on HN. People were like "that is just a counter, why are you showing us that?" So i kind of stop sharing everything, haha. But my GitHub used to be a replica of my projects folder, i would upload everything. I don't do that as much now a days. 1 - http…

I relate to people not giving a shit about one's creations. It has caused me to reconsider the self-hosting and blogging that I do. I decided to give my website one year of an honest chance. I'll install basic analytics so I can see what, if anything people are interested in, and if I'm not satisfied or have a hint as to what about me or my stuff that people like, I'm out. There's a point where sharing is painful due…

hey, I (would like to) care about you!

Re: Archive your old projects

#56

Post by jamesfinlayson »

raybb wrote: post #6

If not putting them online publicly how do you store / organize them? I just recently bought a NAS for 20 euros and have been thinking about setting it up but am skeptical of relying on it for anything too important. But then again don't feel I can really trust anything too important to be in google drive either. I also even have a hetzner nextcloud instance that I use for most low/medium importance stuff but I've fo…

Not the best system but I back everything up to two separate hard-drives (code goes in GitHub as well). I've been trying to get everything off Google Drive after the stories of a file with just the character 1 set off piracy filters earlier this year (or maybe late last year).

Re: Archive your old projects

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Post by samsquire »

If you've got some nodejs, Javascript, Ruby or Python projects and you want to keep them around for posterity then I recommend thinking how you can package them up so they can be safely archived. You could use docker or a virtual machine image.

In my editor project ( screencast https://github.com/samsquire/live-interface/blob/master/scre... )

and in its various components written in Nodejs, Ruby (sourceclassifier) and Python (dot renderer) and they're all in disrepair because I failed to pin dependencies.

Also recommend taking lots of screenshots.

Re: Archive your old projects

#58

Post by crucialfelix »

ryl00 wrote: post #54
cloths wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I also want to know this, I used to write diaries for years and cherish it, thought I would look back my life or extract something meaningful out of it, turns out I very rarely look at it. Same goes to old project archives, emails, I have both HDD and S3 Glacier for them, but so far I have never looked at them at all, for 10 years, And I doubt I will look at them in another 10 years. I am beginning to thinking L…

I'm 52 years old, and I have diaries stretching back to 1980 (when I was all of 9 years old!). Over the years I gradually worked on transcribing them from handwriting to comupter text, and that's made them much more accessible in the present day. E.g., when my father passed away in 2020, it was so easy to just search for "Dad" and revisit long-ago snippets from the past. (And to sadly realize that I'd taken his prese…

I've been planning to scan my old journals. Waiting for OCR to comprehend my messy writing. Now I think I will read them out loud, record it, speech to text.

Re: Archive your old projects

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Post by crucialfelix »

hypertexthero wrote: post #12

Create a folder on your computer or get a sturdy box made of good cardboard with a lid. Name the folder “Process”. Write the word “Process” on the box. While working, occasionally take photos or screenshots of what you are doing showing your workspace, the computer desktop, the desk with pencils and papers and cables everywhere, the wall or piece of string with notes. Show the messy process of creating something. Typ…

We should all realize that AI systems will be able to read and learn from journals and logs.

It could help me to get guidance on current projects (learn from past mistakes and ineffective work patterns).

It could help others when there are many archives like this, to learn from others success and failures.

We all become training data for the future

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