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Re:Backups Aren't Simple on Thursday September 17, 2026 @07:55AM (#49739476)
I also recently improved my backup approach. I am using daily restic snapshots for my off-site backup and it works pretty well.

I wrote about this here [1].

[1] https://staticnotes.org/posts/cloud-backups-with-restic/

Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here? on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @12:59PM (#46619574)
https://staticnotes.org/

Feedback welcome

Nice read. I agree that for a lot of hobby use cases you can just load the embeddings from parquet and compute the similarities in-memory.

To find similarity between my blogposts [1] I wanted to experiment with a local vector database and found ChromaDB fairly easy to use (similar to SQLite just a file on your machine).

[1] https://staticnotes.org/posts/how-recommendations-work/

Re:Build a link blog like Simon Willison on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @02:04PM (#42937053)
It seems like simon started a trend :)

I implemented this feature on my blog a couple of weeks ago. I view it as the equivalent of a retweet, only that I own the content. If someone wants to subscribe, they can follow the respective rss feed. Maybe in the future I automatically push the updates to mastodon/bluesky/etc.

feed section: https://staticnotes.org/feed/

rss feed: https://staticnotes.org/feed.xml