Infrastructure

Since the dawn of computing we’ve been handing over our data to machines we don’t control. First it was the mainframe in the basement, then the server in the data center, now the container in someone else’s cloud. The bargain has always been the same: convenience in exchange for trust. You trust that the admin won’t peek at your data. You trust that the code running is what they claim. You trust that nobody compromised the infrastructure while you weren’t looking. ...

Its been probably several months since i’ve been postponing migrating from ghost to something else. Ghost served me well but I wanted something simple, markdown based that I can move around and host easily. Ghost needs updating, database management, backups etc. Its not that hard to maintain but its more work than I want to do for a simple blog. So here it is, mostly migrated content from ghost to hugo. Likely something is broken or missing. I haven’t migrated all the posts as rewriting history is man’s favorite pastime. ...

I spend a considerable amount of my time in terminal(s) and I’ve gotten used to incorporating large language models into my workflow. But occasionally its just too annoying to switch over to a browser to ask it something. My previous solution for that was that I had a telegram bot that I’d chat with (which was convenient and faster than web) but I felt something was missing. And today with my procrastination spiking I’ve finally solved it! ...