alexellisuk (u/alexellisuk)

alexellisuk commented on I Bought an N100 Mini PC, Then Another blog.alexellis.io/n100-mi... · Posted by u/alexellisuk

N100 and friends is a good NAS+youtube machine. Some mini PCs allow multiple NVMe drives. For a few more bucks you can get entry-level (but much more powerful) Ryzen CPU in a similar small box

alexellisuk · 3 days ago

A number of people reached out about the Beelink SER4-7 - which are about double the cost of a bare N100. Nice machines and I may have considered them if they'd been more popular at the time.

Certainly, if the main use-case is fastest speed in a straight line - get something with a Ryzen like the Acemagic I mentioned at the end with Geekbench scores.

alexellisuk commented on I Bought an N100 Mini PC, Then Another blog.alexellis.io/n100-mi... · Posted by u/alexellisuk

skylurk · 3 days ago

> Someone on Hacker News or Reddit is shouting: "Just use the cloud? Nobody is capable of maintaining a Linux server."

I like to host stuff from my house, and take a sick pleasure in not caring when my self-hosted personal projects fall offline. This is the luxury of personal projects.

For something other people are paying for, I (too) would rather not have to think about tripped breakers or ISP maintenance knocking out the service.

alexellisuk · 3 days ago

Then read the next bit :)

> Now, if something is public facing and making revenue (or risks revenue/reputation by going down), I will absolutely run that on a popular cloud VM, or on Hetzner's bare-metal offering split up into various microVMs. If possible, I'll run it on a CDN - like my blog, a homepage, or a documentation site.

alexellisuk commented on The 90s Unix Utility That Fell Out of Favour blog.alexellis.io/the-90s... · Posted by u/alexellisuk

WorldMaker · 10 days ago

I've known people who auto-populated their .plan with their recent tweets or Mastodon toots, and a special few that set it up so that updating their .plan auto-tweeted/tooted those thoughts.

alexellisuk · 10 days ago

I like that idea. Not dissimilar to the way GitHub now supports a "personal README" - I've seen it populated with generated graphics/charts/links etc.

alexellisuk commented on The 90s Unix Utility That Fell Out of Favour blog.alexellis.io/the-90s... · Posted by u/alexellisuk

nunez · 11 days ago

I was bored on a flight with crap Internet and, like everyone else on that flight, entertained myself by reading random manpages on my Mac. I think I read the one for finger, and I think it's still from BSD4.4, as its last updated date is from 1993!

In other news, I was born too young to use finger, but I definitely used Hyper terminal on Windows which had a chat like console app that worked with it. (I think it's called CHAT.EXE; I wonder if Windows still includes it in their production images.)

I also still use w to see who's logged into stuff (useless on containers...but sometimes useful!) and the type command to print out definitions of functions from the absolute disaster that are my dotfiles (someday I'll clean them up!)

alexellisuk · 10 days ago

Author of the post here. The man pages on my Mac are also a hobby/pastime. It's funny the things you can learn from them.

Not to mention - vimtutor that's built in for extended periods of being offline like on a flight.

alexellisuk commented on The 90s Unix Utility That Fell Out of Favour blog.alexellis.io/the-90s... · Posted by u/alexellisuk

anthk · 11 days ago

      finger sdf.org

      finger london@graph.no

alexellisuk · 10 days ago

Nice.. like a kind of "teletext". The first finger didn't work.

alexellisuk commented on The 90s Unix Utility That Fell Out of Favour blog.alexellis.io/the-90s... · Posted by u/alexellisuk

kazinator · 11 days ago

I think they mean, the 80s utility that fell out of favor through the 90s.

Those of us who were alive across both those times, 80s and 90s are not just interchangeable symbols denoting "before my time".

alexellisuk · 10 days ago

True - mistakenly wrote 90s as that's when I used it in my youth :)

alexellisuk commented on Show HN: Kubetail – Real-time log search for Kubernetes github.com/kubetail-org/k... · Posted by u/andres

glitchcrab · 4 months ago

My personal preference for log tailing is Stern. It doesn't have a web UI but then I've never felt like I needed one.

https://github.com/stern/stern

alexellisuk · 4 months ago

I was about to comment about Stern. It's an established well known OSS project - I wonder if the author knew about it, and if so.. what was his inspiration for creating an almost identical clone, albeit with a UI on top?