And Zed has a Helix mode! I really grew dependent to Helix, but Zed is probably the editor I would use if Helix disappeared overnight

I keep getting back to www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Etern...

As a fellow dad who burned out, I can’t recommend enough to do shifts. Get ear plugs, and if it’s not your shift and your spouse doesn’t ask for help, don’t help.

Turn the marathon into a relay.

I was the happiest man in the world when we got our first child, and I got depressed and burned out when we got our second.

The first 1.5/2 years have been extremely demanding. It’s not all rosy to have children

I didn’t expect this post to make it to the front page of HN, but Helix sure is pleasant to use 🧬

Hhhghghgh I’m okay, I’m okay. Ggggh.

TIL that Micro habits can bring you down According to Emma McAdam, micro habits build up and lead to depression. But they can be unlearned to get us back a happier and more fulfilling life. Here is a list of behaviors that will reinforce dep...

And finally I summarized a short podcast episode about micro habits that lead to depression. To take with a grain of salt, but useful to bear in mind nonetheless.

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TIL that I can ask my smartphone to respect my attention If my phone is making me miserable my constantly nagging me for attention, surely the solution must be to ditch it and take a dumb phone that can only place calls and send texts?Except calls are parti...

I also configured my iPhone to get less in the way

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Social media affect me more than I thought I've struggled with focus earlier this year. I felt pulled in all directions, overwhelmed by the world, and generally miserable. I decided to abstain from using social media for a week to see if anyth...

Relatable! I documented how social media affected me more than I thought, and what I did about it, and my experience resonates with yours

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I generally look at registrar who have well documented and open APIs, supported by projects like OpenTofu annd External DNS.

Since I self host a few services it makes my life easier than having to fiddle with DNS records manually.

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I’m using Cloudflare out of convenience, but the political climate in the US makes me consider out-of-US alternatives like Infomaniak.

I know the ICANN is headquartered in the US, but that’s the most I can do.

AI?

I’m a Frenchman and I painfully understand that, but I talk to USians on a regular basis.

Since the Bush Jr era there’s a general “haha stupid Americans with their burgers guns” vibe here, completely dismissing the diversity and nuance in American population

When people call for “censorship resistance” in social networks, I’m not sure they realise how unpleasant a social network without filtering and takedowns would be

I would rather die than create an account to continue

Yes, yes! Also going to bed under a warm blanket is one of the best feelings in the world, while sticking to sweat saturated bedsheets is one of the worst.

Winter has seasonal depression, and spring has allergies. I guess that makes autumn the best season for me?

Aujourd’hui J’ai Appris!

Microsoft can't protect French data from US government access Company admits under oath that American authorities can demand European citizen information despite security promises.

“When asked directly whether he could guarantee under oath that French citizen data would never be transmitted to US authorities without explicit French authorization, [Microsoft France's director of public and legal affairs Anton] Carniaux responded: ‘No, I cannot guarantee it.’”

We need more Annas

Pretty Good Stickers Create your own awesome custom stickers! Use our editor and create any sticker you need!

I’ve been quite happy with Pretty Good Stickers, especially for small batches.

Pricing is fair, quality is good :)

www.prettygoodstickers.com

I understand the frustration, the parcel tracking system ended up rate-limiting me 😄

I’ve been happy with Scaleway in Europe, and I’m hearing that Hetzner is even cheaper (though they seem to have provisioning issues these days)

A close up picture of the JetKVM device. It looks like an Apple Watch screen slapped onto a tiny desk device. It’s sleek and polished. In the background a box reads “Next generation open source IP KVM”

I just received my @jetkvm.bsky.social!

I’m 6 years old and it is Christmas!

#selfHosting #kvm

Kubernetes is not just for Black Friday I self-host services mostly for myself. My threat model is particular: the highest threats I face are my own incompetence and hardware failures. To mitigate those risks used to rely on podman containe...

I used to think Kubernetes was complex machinery solving scalability problems I would never have. I was wrong.

Kubernetes has less moving parts than my handmade deployments and is sturdier than my hand written playbooks.

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#kubernetes #selfHosting #homelab

Astro Pride Embroidered Hoodie Layer up in this cozy, casual, black hoodie featuring a bold embroidered Astro logo in rainbow colors.

I love them! I would have gotten the Astro Pride embroidered hoodie… if it was a sweater instead 😄

Look how gorgeous it is 🤩

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A picture of me, a while man in his 30s, wearing a black cap and a black t-shirt with the Astro logo. I'm also wearing glasses. I'm smiling and my fingers points at my face. In the background there is a MacBook Pro and a stand and a large monitor with a code editor open.

Guess who got their @astro.build order in the mail today?

Top notch quality, this guy is happy!

Why is my Raspberry Pi 4 too slow as a server? I self-host services on a beefy server in a datacenter. Every night, Kopia performs a backup of my volumes and sends the result to a s3 bucket in Scaleway's Parisian datacenter. The VPS is expensive, ...

I wanted to move my services from a costly VPS to a Raspberry Pi in my living room.

But when moving the first 2.8 GB the Raspberry Pi announced a migration time in hundreds of days!

Follow me as I investigate why and if I can do anything about it.

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#raspberrypi

Deep Work reconciled me with personal growth books I'm usually not a huge fan of personal growth books. I think most books of this genre are 300 pages long when all the content would fit on 20. I read _Deep Work_ by Cal Newport, with an open but…

I didn't think I would ever find a useful personal growth book, but Deep Work was different. I expected a grind mindset book, and I've found one that makes a case for undistracted work, backed by science.

A helpful tool in my quest to reclaim focus!

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Thank you and everyone working on @astro.build, every new release brings me joy!