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Software Engineer at Bloomberg. Software architecture, automation, & mentoring. Audiobooks, sci-fi, movies/TV, casual gaming, self-hosting. Opinions are my own.

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I just realized that I haven’t mentioned my most recent watch update. I got a Pebble Time ⌚️ in excellent conditions on eBay and have been enjoying it for almost a month now.

If you ever had a Pebble in the past and somehow missed they are coming back, this is the time to catch up!

#pebble

 A digital smartwatch showing the time as 8:15, date as Monday, February 9, with a weather icon indicating sunny weather and -12°C temperature.

I’ll need to catch up some time soon. Spent almost all of last week in bed due to a very bad cold 🤒.

I finally started feeling better yesterday. Today I’m back to work (from home); also lots of catch-up to do 😬🤧.

This weekend I finally spent some time getting Minecraft properly configured on our steam decks, and a small server at home.

As usual with many other experiments, you just need to be in the right mood to get everything up and running the way you like.

I’ve been using Ivory and Mona for quite some time now, switching between them from time to time.

I just discovered Mona’s auto-translate feature and WOW 🤯. I can now read posts that I would usually just skip, without having to do anything.

👍

And I am beginning to think that one of the best #selfhosting decisions this year is going to be moving to self-hosted Pangolin.

I think I already said this, but here it comes again. I have no problems or issues with running Cloudflare Tunnels, but once I got Pangolin up and running (which was also very simple btw), the configuration was way simpler and easier to understand. Heck, I even got SSH working for my Forgejo instance in breeze!

This is opening new possibilities 🤔 :cool_doge:

It is so satisfying to run your own services, especially when everything is working as it should.

One of my best decisions last year was to migrate my previous setup from installing standard packages and running repos directly on the host, to run everything using Docker containers.

Updating, backing up, fixing, migrating, etc. is SO simple!

Cannot recommend enough! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

#selfhosting

Took a bit longer than anticipated, including a trip to the grocery store to get ready for the snow storm, but all my services are back online and now behind Pangolin :)

I am going to start moving my main self-hosted domain from Cloudflare Tunnel to self-hosted Pangolin.

Wish me luck 🤞!

Ok, that wasn't that bad. Apparently Microslop was down, but who cares :troll:.

On other news, we had our team's summit yesterday to showcase our 2025 highlights and share 2026 priorities. It was nice. A bit slow at times, but overall pretty nice.

Today, working from home to get ready for The Big Snow™.

And on the self-hosting front, I was able to get Pangolin up and running without problems and I am in the process of moving away from Cloudflare Tunnels. I don't have anything against CF Tunnels, but I do love how easy (and cheap) it was to setup my own :cool_doge:.

I am (yet again 🤷‍♂️) testing dark mode on all my devices, and surprised at how tolerable it has been today. Most of my previous attempts failed just after a couple of hours.

Is this the year of dark mode for me? 🤔

A couple of days ago I got #NocoDB running on my #HomeServer and so far I’m pretty happy with it!

Among other uses I’m finding for it, it already replaced the personal CRM (Monica) I was using as all I really need are a list of contacts, notes for each contact, and a custom reminder for each of them. Most of these are done with a couple of tables and a view, and for the reminder I’m using my Node-RED instance.

Highly recommended!

#SelfHosting

I just discovered you can follow Lemmy communities without having to create an account on a Lemmy server, which kind of make sense. I have no idea if my timeline is going to get flooded with content from a couple of top communities I decided to follow, but it is a good experiment.

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@elena @jwildeboer Some time ago I read (I don’t remember where, sorry) that instead of generalizing the the current boom of tools like ChatGPT under the label “AI”, it is more accurate to use the proper term: LLM.

Artificial intelligence is not something new; it has been part of our lives for many years, even if we did not always notice it. Long before the rise of LLMs.

The current boom is LLMs; and in my opinion, they are very powerful tools. But like any tool, I believe we need to learn how to use them responsibly and with good judgment.

I respect people who choose not to use them, whether for environmental reasons or any other concern; they are entirely within their rights to opt out.

My personal stance right now is to see LLMs for what they are (tools), and to focus on helping my family and friends better understand them; not to demonize them, and also not to place them on a pedestal as if they were the solution to every problem.