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Why this particular blog

Historically, my online blog writing has always been distracted/dominated by the "plumbing" and other technical writing about blogging1, rather than writing itself2. Since I'm in the process of setting up new simplified infrastructure, I'm going to try that trick again3 but this time I already have a steady stream of things to write about because they keep leaking in to the Rule 3 project, and this pile of notes will keep them out of there - this is about Personal Infrastructure4 while that one is more Pontificating About Engineering and Infrastructure (for your next startup5.)

  1. About That Blogging ↩

  2. More About That Blogging ↩

  3. Notes from the Management ↩

  4. Otherwise known as "a homelab with delusions of grandeur", in the process of turning from an OpenAFS cell with a pair of 4x2T RAID-4 HP Proliant boxes into a single ASUSstor with 6x2T RAID-6 (7.3T) as a unix filesystem. (note: upgrade completed January 2025) ↩

  5. Mekinok was a 2001 "instant infrastructure" startup; one of our lasting contributions was OpenAFS packaging in Debian to make setting up an AFS Cell (with Kerberos support) much less mysterious - which was useful to both TunePrint and MetaCarta over the next decade, and probably others. ↩

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