Thoughts on software, photography, and slow travel.
I've been meaning to downsize my home lab for a while. This weekend I finally moved everything to a single small form-factor PC running a lightweight Linux distribution. Here are some notes on what worked, what didn't, and why I probably shouldn't have bought that rack mount case...
Took a break from the screen and spent a few days hiking in the Alps. No phone signal, no notifications. Just fresh air and a lot of walking. I took some photos, but mostly I just enjoyed the quiet. It's amazing how much you notice when you're not constantly looking at a screen.
It seems like every few months there's a new runtime that promises to be faster than Node.js. I've been playing around with a couple of them recently. While the performance gains are real in certain micro-benchmarks, I'm not entirely convinced about the ecosystem maturity yet.