I know it's mostly nostalgia, but this was the best time online for me. I was just a teen exploring GeoCities, tripod, and dot.tk directories. I found a lot of good friends in that time.

I miss the Glitch/GameShark crews that were around. =Bi0= was one of the best ones around.

Thanks for the insightful comment. And thanks for taking a minute to read my words. I agree with you. I can be my own harshest critic sometimes. I'll do some reflecting on this over the long holiday weekend. Happy new year!

Insightful for someone just starting to publish content! Thanks.

As an aside, personally, as a former RE for retro games, I called creating cheat codes for games "coding". I saw it as distinct from programming.

One of us! That site is dope. Super useful for creating b-roll footage for videos.

There's also https://old.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/1lof9k2/creators... to animate scenes in-game.

I'm working on building out a microservice ecosystem on OCI. I'm not formally educated so I just sort of stack things up and tear them down. I hardened my server and I am running dockerized services. I'm also running a web server that hosts the very start of my long-term personal site. It's been pretty challenging, illuminating, and down right fun. I've been putting down the controller for a terminal!

Seriously, I'm very proud of myself for the little I've accomplished so far. I don't have friends in tech so I don't get to talk about it or bounce ideas off people.

Thanks for letting me get that out!

Sounds cool, I tried kubernetes out on a few rpi4 devices as a small build farm, but that didn't quite work out, too resource hungry for the small PIs. Getting sth like that going with less RAM, infrastructure would be cool!

I want to start one myself. More of a public journal, but all the same. I keep having fits and starts and things distract me from the habit. That, and I'm never satisfied with my implementation in the end and I always want to try new or different things.

I standardized on pure HTML and CSS and wrote about why:

https://joeldare.com/why-im-writing-pure-html-and-css-in-202...

I also use pure HTML and CSS (and a touch of hand-written JavaScript)

I wish your contact details were in your profile, because I'm the kinda guy who'd annoy you till you finally give up and publish the blog ;)

I started mine a couple of weeks back and I was surprised how useful it was to write down your process, as each post gives you a clear goal and helps you consolidate whatever you are working on.

I hit the same roadblock as the above user and it never occurred to me to just cross the barrier with cash and then scale back to free. Thanks for this.

It doesn't actually charge you anything. You just have to put a card down to be considered a priority because now you potentially can spend money & therefore are more important then the other free-tier losers. /s It's still free tier & still free.

The free tier is also based on capcity usage, and not instances. If you want 3 cores on 1 machine & 1 on another, they're cool with that. I personally run Pangolin on a 1 core & self-hosted github runners on a 3 core.

If we organized a content storm campaign we could make this effort moot. Time to start building a portfolio of dummy accounts to muddy the water. Remember... TAILS and fresh IP's for each account, ideally nodes you can get back on with ease. Use a public network if possible.

Bonus: You can also use these accounts to undermine the Online Safety Act at the same time!

This is the same tool the right has used to destroy progressive democracy online. Dump tons of money into pro libertarian right wing bots and overwhelm the voices that call for money out of politics and universal heath care with screams of "libtard" and "woke".

That's jawsome. Thanks for sharing! I'm sure this isn't the only show to get this treatment.