08 june 2019
timeline personal server personal
Sat Jun 8 17:02:41 EDT 2019
I started going through some things in my past, writing them down, and organizing them. I have a really hard time remembering when things happen and second guess myself a lot. I'd like something that I can keep as a standard point of reference for my life's events.
To that end, I've created a Gopher-accessible timeline 1. I was inspired by a post I read the other day on Gopher 2 so I have each event as a separate "node" and different views depending on what one wants to get info about. For instance, there's the view of my life from the perspective of trans stuff, of school, or of relationships.
Who knows if I'll keep it up. I'd like to, but we'll see.
I really want to spin up a personal server (again). I had one but that machine is starting to act up and become really unreliable, and it's looking like some of our other machines are doing the same.
One thing I have to consider is: what do I hope to get out of running my own server? Why not just host content on various pubnixes?
I think there's a couple of answers.
I want to keep my pubnix identity separate from my main one. (Follow-up: why do I want this? Because I'd like to talk about some personal things too).
I want to run custom web servers. (Why not just find ways to not need that? Like I could host services on free, accessible environments if I restrict myself a bit)
I like the idea of running my own server. (But do I? I hate when things break and offloading the sysadmin parts to other servers would be easier on me)
Hm. I was hoping that would convince me of getting my own server and it just didn't. I guess I'll keep making stuff on pubnixes, but I do need to do some degree of consolidation/interlinking between them.
I don't know if I have any updates on a personal note. I'm feeling okay today. Not great but also not terrible, I just feel kind of content.