• HelloRoot@lemy.lol
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    12 hours ago

    Don’t do a large pile.

    When you get to it, start with the smallest possible thingy thats easy and fun and be proud of yourself for doing that.

    Don’t even think about the pile or the mere thought of it’s existence will demotivate you from ever starting.

    (ask me how I know)

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      10 hours ago

      Having spent a good amount of the last several weeks working on several self hosted things,I would have to agree. Simple projects shouldn’t take long… But some shit happens.

      When something is done and working, it is satisfying.

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        6 hours ago

        I wanted to set up a kubernetes cluster and bought 2k worth of hardware, which ended up wasting away in a box for 3 freaking years. I would occasionally get it out on a free weekend, waste 10 hours and then give up cause I had more fun things to do on a weekend. Every time I attacked the project, I had to start from scratch because of updates and me forgetting everything by then. Months passed, then years.

        Eventually I abandoned the idea of kubernetes and just set it up a single node with dokploy and the next time I felt like it I added another node in swarm mode and so on.