Meditation on tech
Feb. 24th, 2013 09:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vlionI have something like 3 computers I use. Two OSX, one Linux (Gentoo, which is reteaching me about Linux and compile).
This is a long-term problem. How do I keep documents in sync? How do I keep documents portable from OS from OS, from computer to computer. My 'Main' computer has documents from 1996 on it; I am a data packrat. How do I manage metadata?
This is a solved problem for my *modern* source code projects. git and hg have made my life vastly easier. But this is also a problem for:
- Mail (So much mail currently locked up in Mail.app)
- General documents. I like to save to disk web sites that are particularly interesting, because the web rots.
- Web Bookmarks. I've lost about 2 sets of bookmarks in the last 6-8 years. I'd like to not do this again.
I don't really think stuffing all of this in git is appropriate, as amusing as that might be. It'd be a number of gigabytes and frankly, I don't have a secure server somewhere.
I also, with the demise of posterous, plan to migrate all of my blogging to someplace that I can trust. Dreamwidth solves the problem in part; I think Rah and Mark play square. But I try to keep `vlion` generally separate from my legal name online. I would like the freedom of speech without certain of the penalties now extant online. So I need to figure out a stable blogging platform and import my real name work there (I keep a slightly unupdated technical tumblr). Also, a twitter account, again, for technical purposes.
Who owns my content? Who controls it? I'd like to say I do, but right now, I'm pretty sure that's not true.
I'd like to make it so I control my content: that I have a git repo or whatever that drives my content and my blogging, and if I want to move servers- zoom - I set up the new repo, push, configure apache, and there we have it.
This is a long-term problem. How do I keep documents in sync? How do I keep documents portable from OS from OS, from computer to computer. My 'Main' computer has documents from 1996 on it; I am a data packrat. How do I manage metadata?
This is a solved problem for my *modern* source code projects. git and hg have made my life vastly easier. But this is also a problem for:
- Mail (So much mail currently locked up in Mail.app)
- General documents. I like to save to disk web sites that are particularly interesting, because the web rots.
- Web Bookmarks. I've lost about 2 sets of bookmarks in the last 6-8 years. I'd like to not do this again.
I don't really think stuffing all of this in git is appropriate, as amusing as that might be. It'd be a number of gigabytes and frankly, I don't have a secure server somewhere.
I also, with the demise of posterous, plan to migrate all of my blogging to someplace that I can trust. Dreamwidth solves the problem in part; I think Rah and Mark play square. But I try to keep `vlion` generally separate from my legal name online. I would like the freedom of speech without certain of the penalties now extant online. So I need to figure out a stable blogging platform and import my real name work there (I keep a slightly unupdated technical tumblr). Also, a twitter account, again, for technical purposes.
Who owns my content? Who controls it? I'd like to say I do, but right now, I'm pretty sure that's not true.
I'd like to make it so I control my content: that I have a git repo or whatever that drives my content and my blogging, and if I want to move servers- zoom - I set up the new repo, push, configure apache, and there we have it.
