R.L. Dane    🍵 Aug 27, 2025

#PSA: Do less.

There's a time to strive and perform, and a time to breathe and exist.

You don't have to self-host.
You don't have to run Linux (although I highly recommend not running Windows, and to a slightly lesser degree, not running MacOS).
You don't have to code.
You don't have to know all the things your friends know and consider to be "basic."

You can just be the very best you you can be.
Start with one little thing at a time. Focus on just one new good habit per week, or per month.

Life is short, but life is also really long. There's no reason to spend it angry or frustrated with yourself.

Show threadAmin, minor deity of the legume realmAug 27, 2025

@rl_dane

Have any advice for those of us who hypothetically self-host so much they can't tell if the internet or their server is down, have run Linux-only for years, code frequently, and know nothing "basic" but everything "weird"? Asking for a friend.

Show threadPaul Wilde     Aug 27, 2025

@amin @rl_dane monitoring via gatus, uptime kuma or nagios on a separate server sending you alerts via ntfy

Of course...all self hostable.

Gatus and kuma will let you know if any of your services are down.
Of course you then run into the problem of "what monitors the monitor", so stick a minimal gatus/kuma on your main fleet that just does uptime checks on you monitoring service

Eaaaasy! 😆

Show threadR.L. Dane    🍵 

@paul @amin

I remember folks from work talking about #nagios circa 2007.

Pleasant memory, now that the entire data center I worked at, with tons of super smart people and amazing in-house-developed infrastructure application was replaced by a raft of AWS crap and the building sold. :P

P.S. Pleasant memory in particular spite of the fact that all that amazing knowledge was outsourced to oblivion, etc. ;)

Aug 27, 2025 at 9:38pmWeb