mastodon 4.7.3Oh, hey. I'm sometimes Trevor.
Softer, Cheaper, Slower, Smarter
Smol dogs run my life and I'm OK with it.
Trying to leave it better than I found it.
Physically and metaphorically faint of heart.
Praise Dog.
Profile pic: old goof
Profile header: smol dog in fav blanket
Eniac was made ~80 years ago.
Research Unix was written ~50 years ago.
TCP/IP was standardized ~45 years ago.
Palm Pilot launched ~30 years ago.
iPhone was announced ~20 years ago.
We are all newbs.
I wonder how many teams are reevaluating the risk of hosting services across many small locations run by diverse companies. Hosting in one big building owned by a hypercorp headquartered in an aggressive nation seems increasingly risky.
A remarkably similar story to how I retired early: https://www.focalcurve.com/journal/the-end/
I've heard from a number of older tech folks who find the current web, controlled by Google and bloated with ridiculous tools, distasteful enough to take early retirement by living lower on the hog instead of following their original plans of saving enough to retire without worry. Whether this means anything interesting or whether it will have predictable results, I don't know.
