Ryan McCuaig

Ok now to talk about something (anything!) other than the technical underpinnings here.

Once I finish the nginx config, I'm shipping, in preference to faffing with the CSS on and off for the next six months.

Alright, might have all this working in the data centre now.

Growing as a person and deciding that it's not worth hours to figure out how to make all this run on an instance with 512mb of RAM.

The HTTP server that allows write is not accessible at all outside of my tailnet. This greatly simplifies the problem of securing an API endpoint that allows me and only me to post. So I made up an iOS shortcut that can take any selected text, wrap it up in JSON, and do an HTTP post to the write-side server. I can just use something like the stock Notes app as my editing interface.

When you're, uh, "thrifty" and feel uncomfortable spending more than $4/month on VPSes, you develop certain skills re: running low-memory JVMs.

OK now I’m trying it while I’m out walking the dog, from my phone, and using dictation.

I’m fascinated that people can feel motivated to do complex things in iOS Shortcuts.

I’m at the midpoint of a yak shave. I needed docker and it turns out I installed and didn’t use it 7 (!) years ago on this VPS, but upgrading meant jumping from Ubuntu 18 to 24.

Now I’m checking if I can post while my laptop is closed.

I can't decide if 1,755 days of uptime on one of my servers is something I should be proud or ashamed of.

Just completed my fiftieth platelet and blood plasma donation. I'm told the total volume over all donations would fill a five gallon bucket.