Trust me I wish we could go back. Not just to before llms became popular but back to when it took at least a little knowledge and effort to host things online. The internet used to be so cool and full of unique stuff.

Unfortunately though I fear the toothpaste is already out of the tube with llms.

As tempting as it might be, don’t use AI in the learning stages. Spending time figuring out why your program isn’t working is what really cements that knowledge in.

Dang that is solid writing too

This dude is autoposting orange cats too

Not a hard requirement but I’d look at a hypervisor of some kind. Proxmox is pretty popular in the homelab side.

Was it a cool death though?

Personally I always get excited by process automaton. Been a minute since I’ve done any VBA but my favorite projects I used it for were probably:

1. Bulk updating CAD models and drawings as part of rebranding. (Solidworks)
2. Interacting with a 5250 emulator (AS400) to automate the data entry/extraction I was doing

Depending on age/interest there’s stuff like luanti

Favorite I’ve had was a switch just sitting on the panels of a drop ceiling. Wasn’t documented that’s where it was either. I spent an hour or so hunting around a department when somebody mentioned, “there’s that tech thing in the ceiling”.

Is self hosting an option?

Oooh thanks for the tip. Just learned about ^typocorrection that way!

Ooh thanks for this

Just like how every script with an IF statement is now AI. These words are becoming meaningless

Well now you’ve got me trying BSSG :p

Nice. Haven’t tried IpFire but gonna give it a look. Been on OpnSense for a couple years now and have been enjoying it.

Small static websites. You can get surprisingly performant and easily managed websites if you don’t actually need the overhead of common frameworks. For instance giving your kid a real domain they can update and show to their friends.

On the slightly more resource intensive side, OpnSense has been a game changer for me.