I think that “modern” shrink-wrapped software (Helm Charts) is like fast food. It takes only a couple of seconds to eat (deploy), but isn’t a long-term healthy thing to do.

Not all Helm Charts are like this. I’m specifically talking about any Helm Chart that’s big enough to include other Helm Charts. I’m going to pick on Wordpress as the example in this blog post.

Imagine you are working on developing a new product for your customers. Your customers have some feature requirements, so you write them down in a chart…

Normally when searching for a new home, one picks a city & budget, and then a real estate agent would find some homes for you to look at.

But what if instead, you could make a computer program do the home searching for you?

What if you could stretch out your home search across space and time? Instead of focusing on one area your real estate agent knows about for a month or so, what if you could search everywhere for many months?

Inspired by comments of a “forever desktop” here, analogous to a “forever home”, I wanted to share some thoughts on my “forever desktop”.

I’ve previously written an ode to the Palm PVG-100 as my favorite phone of all time.

It still is, but recently Google decided to end support for Android Auto for older phones (Android 8).

Android Auto is a personal requirement of mine, and I couldn’t find any way to stick to an old version.

I love watching my favorite channels on Youtube. There is such great content out there, and with Patreon, there can be niche channels that I love where the content creators can just do what they love, and I can watch! I’m happy to pay them money directly.

But I don’t really like Youtube.com (the platform) exactly. They have other priorities (ads, engagement, enshitification). In the end, I want to watch a video. What if I could just watch a video file, on my computer, that is in my house?

Ever since Microsoft acquired Github in 2018, I’ve been thinking of migrating away from Github.

It’s not about Microsoft being more or less evil than Github; it’s just the way things go sometimes where a parent company must use an acquired company for leverage.

But to where?

Where could I move my code to that also isn’t another company waiting to enshitify its service?

In the beginning was the mainframe and time-sharing systems…

I love my PVG100 Android Phone. I’m afraid that another phone like this might never exist, so I’m paying homage to it in blog post form.

Some stock photos…

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