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I was wondering if I could host this blog from my apartment. The monthly hosting cost is basically nothing, but somehow it still annoyed me, and more importantly, I was curious whether I could just do it myself. I recently bought an old Dell office computer to experiment with self hosting, so this seemed like a good excuse to try. port forwarding: the classic way (I didn’t want to) The traditional approach is to forward a port from my router to the computer running the blog. I didn’t really like this idea, it means exposing something inside my home network directly to the internet, and I also didn’t feel like figuring out all the details around NAT, firewall rules, and securing it properly. ...

Finally got the time to install Linux on my new PC. Well, actually there’s not much to say, other than it works really well. I use an OS called CatchyOS with Gnome, and it just works out of the box with the Nvidia 5080. A few notes on my setup, since I didn’t want to install it on the same drive as Windows: Separate Disk I bought a WD SN8100 2TB PCIe Gen 5.0, probably the speediest disk I’ve ever tried. ...

I went to my doctor for a general checkup, he gave me a list of medicine, I bought them all and realized I need a way to organize all these pills. So I bought a pill organizer. Since I recently moved to Spain, they’re labeled as Lun, Mar.., which is the same way as we do in my country. With those labels, my head is suddenly singing. Has that ever happened to you? Well, it turned out my girlfriend and her mom have the same thing. It’s pretty crazy how we are so wired with songs in our head. ...

After basically nomading for the last couple of years and living in Thailand for the past four years, I now find myself living in Barcelona—at least for the n`ext two years—and, for some reason, I wanted to have a desktop computer. No, I didn’t build it myself; I just asked one of the shops around here that a friend recommended. What reasons can I think of? I can play games again—the last time I played seriously was in 2015, ten years ago! I miss running Linux. I’ve owned various MacBooks for the last decade and enjoyed them, but there’s something raw about using Linux directly. It weirdly resembles some kind of stability. Though I did buy an Nvidia card, which is probably going to be tricky when running Linux, but I’m up for the challenge.

I recently read the friction blog post from Arslan, and I figured I already knew of this idea from the Atomic Habits book. Here’s me trying to put that into practice. Hypothesis: If I reduce the steps to post, I will be able to write more blogs. Expected Result: 1 blog post 2 week. Here’s where I think friction is not helping me write more. When creating a new blog: Old Workflow: 7-step friction fest Go to terminal Start the server Run a command to create a new file Write -> 3 steps before I could even write???? Go back and forth between browser and editor to preview Run command/commit to add to repo Push (auto deploys) New Flow: 4-step publishing Go to a bookmarked website Click “New post” button Write -> 1 step reduce, The editor is already a preview of what I’m writing -> another step reduce Publish Reduced from 7 to 4 steps. ...