RSVP Eleventy

RSVP instead of RIP is a joke from a podcast I like.

Because of the move, I am not using my 43" screen (!) at this moment. I simply didn't have the time yet to set it up. And apart from the worse ergonomics, I actually like working on the smaller screen size. I don't know exactly what it is, but the smaller screen feels more "private" or intimate or maybe more controlled somehow and that feels good to me.^[1]

The static site generator Eleventy is now (soon?) known as "Build Awesome" which is a terrible, terrible name and seems to suggest a bad trajectory for this project. I share much of the thoughts of Brennan Kenneth Brown on the matter:

I have a feeling the majority of the userbase would not be in support of something like this. Build Awesome looks and feels corporate, pro-capitalist, and commodifies one of the few remaining artistic hobbies that hasn't been overrun with consumerism and gear-acquisition syndrome.

I get that people have to eat (I make this argument all the time in context of "AI" coding tools), but I don't need any of the advertised features and reading through the list of stretch goals (ugh) and everything else around this makes me feel depressed. I never understood the motivation to write your own blog engine or ssg, but I might've just found a reason to do so...

I use Zola, not 11ty. However, this seems really weird. A company with plenty of resources is running a Kickstarter for a rebrand?

Or am I missing something?

Couldn't have said it better than Ben Overmyer.

Speaking of giving up on everything and rebuilding my own (owned) kingdom of crap on my own terms: I am in the middle of researching a homelab as we speak. This will be an expensive purchase (I estimate around 2k) and I will have to use some savings earmarked for other things, but I want to escape the cloud, US-controlled big tech (We have 2 Google Photos Subscriptions and 1 Apple iCloud subscription as we speak) and I would also like to downsize my VPS (which also got more expensive) in exchange for a homelab (a server you run from home). A nice discussion was had under my post about this:

Is it complete and utter madness to run everything[1], including mastodon from a homelab server? I might have to live with the occasional downtime, but maybe that could work? Any reason that's a bad idea? #homelab #selfhosting

1: Not literally everything.

• This documentation about a pretty substantial homelab setup is very insightful.
• Somebody pointed me in the direction of Pangolin, a self-hostable tunneling solution.

I also really liked this post Breaking up with Big Tech - Progress update by Andy Nicolaides.

On the reading front some unsorted notes:

• I haven't actually picked up any book in the last ~2 weeks, because I was so busy and then so burnt out in the evening. (Likely story...)
• This exchange and my general distaste for rented software these days made me seriously consider moving away from Readwise Reader. I already have FreshRSS setup, which I use(d) as the test-backend for the new-ish RSS-Reader client Current (which I mentioned the other day). There is also Wallabag for self-hosted read-it-later functionality and this has not only integration with FreshRSS but also with my Kobo (it seems)

And tomorrow Spire 2 is out. I still can't freaking believe it.

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