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February 15, 2025For those who’re just joining us, I’ve dusted off a two-decade-old project idea and have actually started working on it. There’s a working prototype which I’m not going to link in this post, because this text will likely be around long after it’s been and gone, either shelved for another 20 years or thrown online in some kind of working form. [...]
February 9, 2025In April 2005, I registered a domain name. I had a plan, and it was an ambitious one. I had read an O’Reilly book on XML (cover-to-cover) a couple of years beforehand, and it did something to my brain and I thought I could see through time. Weblogs were ascending fast, the web was exciting, … [Read more …] [...]

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Given a lot of my servers are there to provide redundancy and convenient storage, rather than critical, I could probably run the really important stuff off a couple of laptops for a few days I reckon.

Having made some poor initial decisions about how I've structured my home network and server cluster is kinda leading me towards initiating a scorched earth policy and starting over.

Except that now my alleged home has production systems with actual users on them in it.

So maybe I need to start a whole second stack and migrate things to it.

But that'd be ridiculous.

Right?