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@skillstopractice I've been writing about what I learn while building software since I first started to learn coding 8 years ago. A tad more than 60 posts as of now!
If you've got a personal website where you blog, share your learnings, or do other cool stuff, drop it in this thread.
It doesn't even need to be software development specific (but if it's not, mention the theme in your reply)
The open web of "people doing cool stuff" is something worth reclaiming.
People who build software often think of software as an asset or an artifact, regardless of what terms they use for it.
But that is increasingly feeling like a flawed mental model. The idea of a "program" is the actual asset, software is just a building material.
Seeing it that way isn't at all meant to minimize the value of software, in fact it opens a ton of doors and is an invitation for a deep rethink.
When have you last actively discussed or thought about the Unix philosophy?
(and by that, I'm loosely referring to anything discussed in this summary: https://cscie2x.dce.harvard.edu/hw/ch01s06.html )
This is doable, and likely on hardware costing hundreds of dollars at most.
For the better part of a year I've been tinkering with architecture based on these ideas with Raspberry Pi systems as the underlying platform, and even with the gobsmackingly inflated pricing due to shortages, the costs are low enough that it puts you in chromebook territory.
When it's just raw message processing, compute costs are cheap for non-specialized software systems.
Think of this like the cloud, but inside out.
Instead of spraying data into a million corporate databases, your data would *mostly* live on a single device within your own control, whether hosted in your own home (easy + safe to do with Tailscale so long as it's private access)... or a similar setup with one of a billion commoditized container hosts.
Only the minimum necessary messages to make things work would pass between systems outside of your control.
E2E encryption for anything private.
Morgan
Remi Mercier
Edge Case ℭɑⅈᵤˢ
Mohit Sindhwani
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