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I've given up the idea of connecting to mini over screensharing and connected a couple of displays to it, happily.
https://crt.sh/?q=facebook.com
On a side note, the amount of phishing sites using letsencrypt and having a domain similar to facebook.com is quite appalling.
All of the static hosts providing free SSL: vercel, netlify, render, firebase hosting, github pages, heroku etc. ...
It does work on modern browsers and devices but goes terribly broken on a lot of old devices.
Using nlite with xp sp3 to make 256mb sd ram usable with out needing to reinstall the os every few weeks was the challenge.
Also, trying out Ubuntu through free Linux cd shipped from somewhere in the world was literally the most exciting experience of 8th grade.
This one, is nice! Long live LinkAce.
What next? Well I setup some handy shell functions:
1) copy the latest screenshot into webroot/screenshots/${randstr}.png and copy the url to clipboard. this replaces dropbox's cool screenshot sharing feature. love sharing screenshots with coworkers this way, the files stays with you, you can redact easily.
2) serve static files the same way, if needed too. the magic's all in the shell scripts.
3) explore new open source webapps running on local docker.
Further?
Build a sort of like a devtools backend server, and a mobile app paired to it to do all sorts of cool stuff: run crons, get notifications for events, monitor servers / ssl expiry etc.
Limit's your imagination. But, security is also very important.
Looks to me hours of work and learning got abstracted as under the hood "magic".
It's like saying: Oh, so I've been weight training for the last 17 years and I should tell you Olympic silver is not too hard, see?
Am I right in my thinking? or is learning to be this proficient with the framework not as time taking for a novice developer as I think it to be?
Then you start thinking about building stuff right from the beginning which is basically intelligence you've gathered.
It takes finesse to craft things quickly but with quality.
Bias to do stuff quickly is very hard to let go off. Doing things in an organised way has its value. Basically if you're not going to rewrite something in the next year, do it right now. Otherwise you're just borrowing time from future.
Short term hacks vs long term meaning.
Couldn't get it to work in the end.
Made me realise how peaceful macOS with brew really is.
Even getting zsh to work with hyper properly was super painful. If you ask me Linux on windows is not usable yet.
Checkback in an year?
[1] - http://strapdownjs.com/
S3, Drive, Dropbox, Spaces, B2, Box, several Object Storage solutions. Some cases storage was cheap, but the transfer was costly. Everything seemed costly for the simple use case of providing an end user 10GB monthly upload + ~50GB bandwidth at low cost.
A vps with additional storage seemed to be the ~better~ most feasible solution to me.
This sounds like a terrific thing to host on a vps.
would have have been cool.
also, interesting discussion from wayback: