A guide to building your own sovereign cloud, from top to bottom. Everything you could self-manage is probably in here. Amazing content.
https://wiki.futo.org/wiki/Introduction_to_a_Self_Managed_Life:_a_13_hour_%26_28_minute_presentation_by_FUTO_software
A long-form post about focussing on the simplest system you can get away with right now. I like the idea but I bet it takes quite some discipline to not accidentally over or under-do the thing you are looking to ship.
“We can do this the quick way and pay later, or the thorough way and pay now.” This seems to be a fundamental dichotomy in software development, between ‘perfectionism’ and ‘pragmatism’, but I do not think it has to be a trade-off at all.
The article describes two distinct cultures that exist for software development. The forest and the desert.
There is a path from the desert to the forest, a series of small, safe steps a community can take to terraform the landscape. No developer can do it alone, and no amount of technology will get us there, but it is possible.
Beth Andres-Beck https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/forest-and-desert