sathyabhat

More recent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633396

cdktf is, not AWS CDK. The former allows you to use Terraform without HCL, the latter is a generator for CloudFormation.

> I wanted to ask what the writing and hosting process is like for people who have a personal website and blog—do you just write markdown and then use a renderer?

Most editors have Markdown preview. There's also products like Ghost which are pretty good

Quartz might be that. https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/

There’s no build available yet but there is a doc on how to build it https://zed.dev/docs/development/windows

Immich is pretty good for sharing photos. https://immich.app/

See also - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43368870

You’re welcome, hope you find what you’re looking for!

I’ve been using owntracks for a while now, and while it is pretty decent in terms of accuracy of data collection, it unfortunately lacks in the nice things that make Google Location History so good: automatic clustering, grouping, search, classification of trips and travel methods.

The initial setup is slightly annoying as well. Here’s a small write up from me: https://sathyasays.com/2024/07/13/self-hosting-owntracks-goo...

Nope, bluesky itself

https://chaos.social/@jonty/110307532009155432

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35820815

Looks nice. Tried to search for "Guitar" and I got a 500 Internal Server error.

Hm that makes sense.

it's not DNS - there's no mobile network at all.

From where I bought it - ie Romania.

Not sure about theft, but I bought my iPad in Romania, moved to Australia and had it replaced in US when I was traveling there because it kept crashing and Apple Support folks in Apple Store detected some stability issues. All for zero cost

I write a weekly posts of things that happened in the past week in my life, some colour commentary on random things and the old travelogue or two.

https://sathyabh.at

I also have a less updated tech blog, usually on AWS, Linux, DevOps

https://sathyasays.com

There’s a DevOps Stack Exchange as well. https://devops.stackexchange.com/

That said SE makes for a poor subReddit replacement as a subreddit usually focuses on discussion/link sharing which is not what SE wants.

Some of it is a year, some of it like Lambda invocations is perpetual.

Minor correction but that’s Nick Craver https://nickcraver.com/

Podman is supposed to be a drop-in replacement for Docker, and I’m still yet to see Podman in action at my production deploys (barring what I’ve heard once from a discord). So yes, still makes sense to learn Docker

Oh wow. I found speedhaste demo via one of the many computer magazines that started flourishing in/around 98/99. Played it quite a lot and loved it. The music, the physics, the graphics, was so good. I still remember the music & the transmission select voice when you start a race. Fantastic stuff, thank you

Edge does have grouping (might be behind edge://flags)

I've written couple of books for a publisher (Practical Docker with Python - first & second editions - published by Apress) as well a co-authored a self published book - The CDK Book.

Apress has similar royalty tiers (10 to 20% of revenue, based on books sold) and I did get decent amount of copy edit support.

With the co-authorship, despite being four of us, some things slipped through the cracks. That said, with self publishing we were able to get it corrected and shipped - we maintain/ed bug reports, feedback in GitHub issues, and even the book build process is done using GitHub actions.

As I said elsewhere, the monetary aspect usually isn't the goal, you're far likely to spend more money in working on the book than recover it but it does give a nice boost if you wish to go the consulting route in terms of establishing authority/credibility.

Rich is relative - I've written two books for a publisher and a co-authorship of a self-published book. In both cases, it was nowhere enough to recover the time spent on it. However, seeing the sales figures, seeing your work cited in publications and the reactions you get from people when they say "Oh you wrote that?" - that is another feeling by itself.

You have to remember that a lot of these books are written as groundwork for future plans - far easier to establish credentials saying "yeah I've written that book, you may have heard of it".

Yeah, I have grafana cloud monitoring my personal websites and there have been several incidents/outages from netlify over the past month. A tweet to them went unanswered as well. The downtime has been bad enough that I’m thinking of moving out for netlify and just deploy them on either GitHub pages or S3 & Cloudfront.