omg I need to update the DNS address of my resume website (it went up from $2/year to $32/year) and I literally can not figure out what is hosting it? I thought it was GitLab Pages but it’s not. it’s definitely something else. I set this up almost exactly 365 days ago and I have no idea what 2024 kas did

how do server people remember this stuff? do they just take really detailed notes?

I should never be required to touch servers or even acknowledge their existence. I should live in an ideal world where I write code to solve interesting problems in exchange for money and somebody else figures out how to machete their way through the vine-choked hosting jungles so that my code can run on something

@kasdeya lol thermia reverse engineers its own stuff way too often

it has a discord bot that’s online and running… somewhere? some VPS or a hosted kubernetes stack somewhere

maybe as a container, maybe as just a systemd service

it literally doesn’t know

@thermia omg I’m really glad I’m not alone. I’ve been thinking about including details about {what’s hosting this repo, and how is it configured} inside of my resume repo, but I’m not sure if that’s a good idea. it might be a security problem? although my resume is just a static site so I guess I can’t see a way that someone could exploit that information anyway

@kasdeya usually we forget, we're just pretty good at figuring out where it is again from having to track down legacy systems at work

@thermia @kasdeya the only reason we remember where our discord bots are running is because every time the power goes out for a bit we remember "oh yeah i should move that to the server with a UPS"

(and then we naturally forget to do it)

@kasdeya yeahh, thermia keeps most of the actual documentation in an obsidian vault