Just a service, please It starts A friend recommends it, you see a post or a video on the internet. Or worse: you suddenly have the need for something, and you start researching. At the end of the research the path is clear: you’ll self-host that service. You don’t know it yet, but that’s the first in a long series of mistakes. It is really simple: ...
I started deploying stuff even before I knew what “deploying” really meant. This is not a flex: it is an admission of guilt. I still recall the times when reading a Nginx configuration file was no different from trying to decipher some ancient forgotten language. The only thing that did not change in the last decade is how (poorly) I document what I do: well, maybe I should say that it almost did not change. Some years back I started keeping an unlimited Bash history on my machines, so sometimes a Ctrl+r is all I need to remember what I did. Still: no output, no pruning of incorrect commands, no comments. Really, what the hell was I cooking here: ...