The void is my friend.
Every once in a while I took a look at the various services I self-host and think to myself? Is hosting $X service by myself really worth the cost? What is the cost? Would paying someone to host said service be more cost efficient?
That got me thinking about, what are the costs of self hosting? Let’s talk about it.
Continue reading “The Real Cost of Self Hosting”Picture this, you pick up your phone and notice that the battery is at say 69% percent. Not nice. You start to get this anxiety gnawing at you. You go to your phone’s battery settings page to check what’s been using up the battery. Nothing out of the ordinary there, the usual smattering of messaging and social media apps. You sigh.
Continue reading “Battery Anxiety”For those of y’all unfamiliar with DNS, I recommend reading the rest of the series up till this point first before reading this one. Some of the concepts and terms I will be using here have been explained in those previous posts so I will not be explaining them again here.
Continue reading “Understanding DNS: Encrypted DNS”Today Jason over at kottke.org shared another thing that I’d like to talk about. It’s this blog post by Emily F. Gorcenski.
Continue reading “Screen Time”This NYT article titled “Stop, Before You Close This Tab (or Any Others) …” by Ali Jaffe Ramis was shared on kottke.org today and I want to talk about it for a bit.
Continue reading “Tabbed Out”