Source: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/markrussinovich_i-had-the-thrill-of-a-lifetime-hosting-dinner-activity-7341857033932914691-f5Kw

“I had the thrill of a lifetime, hosting dinner for Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds and David Cutler. Linus had never met Bill, and Dave had never met Linus. No major kernel decisions were made, but maybe next dinner 😉” – Mark Russinovich

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Cutler
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Russinovich

Not without a major breakthrough in knowledge representation.

LLMs aren’t it.

Fine, we get it. We’re old. Way to rub it in.

Whippersnappers today.

When approaching a light or stop sign, smoothly press down the clutch and break pedal together. If it’s a red light where you might be for a while, pop the gear into neutral and let go of the clutch.

I was taught (rightfully or not) that holding down the clutch too long can damage it.

Invite a judgemental friend or relative over for dinner. Best way to force you to clean and declutter your space.

I’ve had good luck with Jekyll, saving the source on github, and setting it up so pushing to main auto-deploys to a Cloudflare site. Using Markdown and for larger media, uploading to S3.

Much easier to set up and maintain than github pages. Since it’s static output, pretty snappy. Also includes RSS feeds and permanent URLs.

Have also set up several Wordpress sites. Slower, but if you want wysiwyg editing, user comments, or there are several contributors, would work better.

Have also heard good things about ghost, but haven’t actually deployed one yet.

3rd grade. Teacher sent me and my best friend to the office with a note for being too disruptive (we were snickering a lot). I was used to getting into trouble, but he was petrified and shaking. I felt bad for him, so I told him I would take care of it.

I tossed the note over the wall, then we went off and played in the yard for the rest of the morning.

In the afternoon, there was school assembly. The two of us were called out by name and were told our parents would be called to come collect us. My mother showed up and couldn’t stop laughing at the silliness of it all.

My friend, he never talked to me again.

May want to consider going the DIY route: https://plushthis.com/blogs/how-to/how-to-make-weighted-stuffed-animals

My kids had a lot of fun with stuffed bears and dogs from Ikea. On several occasions, I had to re-stuff them (to comedic swole effect) with fill from craft stores. Pretty easy.

I love that so many people know how to do this.

It’s the felt, iron-on letterform of Cooper Black (for copyright reasons, sometimes called Black Cooper).

Been around since the last century.

You’re overpaying 😁

Cloudflare static web hosting, including TLS/SSL, DDOS protection, WAF, and AI scraper protection, are all free: https://softwareonbudget.com/blog/how-to-host-static-website-for-free-with-cloudflare-pages/

And if you connect it to github repo, it auto-updates on push to main.

No connection. Just a happy user and a fan.

Saw a posting this past week on SSD drive failures. They’re blaming a lot of it on ‘over-logging’ – too much writing trivial, unnecessary data to logs. I imagine it gets worse when realtime data like OpenTelemetry get involved.

Until I saw that, never thought there was such a thing as ‘too much logging.’ Wonder if there are any ways around it, other than putting logs on spinny disks.

Avatar, Korra, Firefly.

Have used Jekyll, Hugo, and Docusaurus to generate static sites, and Wordpress and Ghost for blogs.

A few things to think about:

• Where do you plan to host and how much is the monthly budget?
• How much traffic do you expect to get?
• Will the content be static or updated often (i.e. landing page site vs. blog).
• Will more than one person be updating the site?
• How technical is the person/people updating the site? Are they OK with using terminal and command-lines, or GUI and point and click.
• Will there be ‘member-only’ features, i.e. things that require users creating an account and logging in?
• Will you need to offer a way for people to get in touch? Like, contact pages, email, etc.
• Will there be a need for public to post and answer questions (i.e. a forum).
• Will you need future support for things like newsletters, shopping carts, etc.

If one-person, technical, static, I’d go with Jekyll and Github pages, or Jekyll/Hugo/Docusaurus on Cloudflare pages. They all have templates. But you need to know how to setup github repos and tools. Cost is $0 to operate, other than annual fee for custom DNS domain name.

If more than one person, non-technical, or dynamic, then hosted Wordpress or Ghost. Budget for DNS name and ~20-50 dollars or euros/month (plus or minus, depending on features and traffic). There are free versions of these, but they slap ads all over them.

You can self-host all these, but it’s much easier to have someone else deal with traffic spikes.

If you need community forums or a way for users to communicate with each other, then none of the above.

Or you could do it inside out… get married then get a fruit tree, so they HAVE to stick around just to get to try the fruit. Trick is keeping it going for a few decades. That’s where fruit-tree LADDERING comes in. Plant a new one every few years. Wait till fruit. Rinse, repeat.

Planted a small orange tree in the yard. Dug a big hole. Mixed topsoil and citrus fertilizer. Expect to see first fruit in 3-4 years.

Mother’s Day gift for my wife.

You can search around for “Bluetooth speaker call recorder.” They pair with any device over Bluetooth and act as both passthru as well as recorder. There also used to be ones that worked as wired headsets. No apps needed.

However, be aware you need to be in a location that allows two-party consent-free recording.

Let’s circle back.