Ramblings

The television did not go gently into that good night. It died with a bang.

Whilst rebuilding my PC case, a friend commented: "Why bother? You could just buy something". This got me thinking, the same question applies to self-hosting my own infrastructure, writing my own CV in LaTeX, or even maintaining this website when I could simply exist on social media platforms. It isn't about the result, it's about what the process gives back.

I've been using mITX for years, and up until a couple of years ago, I stuck with some fairly small cases. However, the recent shift in GPU sizes, from being merely large to being behemoths, meant I thought I'd need to go with a larger case. I settled on my new hardware specs and found a single case on the market that the GPU would fit in: the ASUS ROG Z11. I wasn't a fan of the glass, but it seemed acceptable on paper (and in pictures), there were no reviews at the time, so I just went for it.

Early web The early web was diverse, personal and sometimes downright weird. If you wanted a website, you made it, and because of that, it reflected you. Because it wasn't just a couple of clicks, you had to think about it, take some time on it, put some effort in; it wasn't spur of the moment. There were visitor counters, guestbooks and webrings, if you wanted to find a site you were interested in you had to find directories or discover it via other similar websites that linked to it. There was no central index.

I rant about privacy quite a lot, a brief summary of my stance:

The majority of container setups need a reverse proxy to redirect incoming requests to the appropriate container. Some time ago I went with a template generator written by my friend, Dotege, this avoids having to expose the docker socket to the web and makes the choice of proxy reasonable flexible, but by default it ships with a template for Haproxy - as a very established proxy, I went with this and this served me quite well for some time.

I recently decided to rewrite my CV, at the start of this process it was still written in LaTeX but based on a popular and easy to use LaTeX CV template, Awesome-CV, when I first switched to a LaTeX CV I floundered whilst trying to write my own from scratch and didn't have the inclination to lean LaTex so went with this popular template.

As I was redoing my CV it was repeatedly suggested that I blog about it, I really dislike the idea of blogging as I'm not convinced I'm capable of writing posts that don't drone off missing the interesting aspects, but my friends were quite insistent.