z3 VS jeffgeerling-com

I don't blog much. Maybe 1-2 articles a year if I'm lucky. A lot of my attempts end up half-finished, and never published. (I just have too many other interests and get tired in the evening.)

BUT: What really made a personal blog worth it for me was writing my own blog engine as a learning project. I hadn't done much in the Node.js stack, so I wrote my own blog engine to run in Heroku. Maybe if I have some downtime between jobs I'll do it again, too.

My blog engine isn't anything special; but it achieved my goals: To get a feel for Node.js and the general state of web development in April-May 2020: https://github.com/GWBasic/z3

I discovered EDN as a printed magazine at the university library many years ago.

These days I read it on: https://www.edn.com/

I also find Jeff Geerling's writings to be informative: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/

Honestly though I am kind of disappointed at the quality of Linux based YouTube channels. https://www.jeffgeerling.com/ is good. Mostly focused on RPi's

So a few options: * Check out r/selfhosted and see if there is anything you would find of use * First set up a k3s cluster on them, the check out r/selfhosted and put onto said less cluster * Mine a crypto currency, it won't make you any money or be in any real way useful but it's something to do 😂🤣 * Robots ... Lots of Robots 😁 * Check out www.jeffgeerling.com

Anyways, this GitHub thread has all the juicy details, but as a homelabber who has considered running more services in my homelab through my own cloud infrastructure/proxies... now I'm going to consider just using Cloudflare Tunnel instead. Ah, this is why we can't have nice things.

I am much less active these days, but fun fact: what got me from 'posts every few months' to 'posts every week' on YouTube was a series on upgrading my Drupal 7 personal site (jeffgeerling.com) to Drupal 8. And the code for my site is all open source! https://github.com/geerlingguy/jeffgeerling-com