So I had the bright idea of running Wordpress on the same computer I use for streaming from my basement workbench. AutoSSH to a tiny remote host to forward a port. Stick AWS Cloudfront in front for SSL and caching.

And it all worked really well. That is, when I wasn't rebooting or upgrading or just generally wrecking that workbench computer by, like, you know, using it.

Turns out I'm an abysmal sysadmin.

So, I just moved typing.lmorchard.com back to a static S3 bucket that I can go back to ignoring for the next year. Still have a wordpress install, but it's on my Synology NAS accessible only from my LAN and can push up a static build whenever I remember it exists

I think I had this bright idea, because back in the day, I always had "my linux machine" on which I piled everything tinkery because hey it's a CPU and a network card and it can run all the things.

But, like, I could just use that computer for workbench streaming and looking up info and nothing else.

@ed_packet Yeah, now see that makes a lot more sense. You can get like a baker's dozen of those thing cheaper than one big server and treat the SD cards like single-purpose Nintendo carts

@ed_packet Ohh I haven't checked out tailscale before - that looks interesting

Other random thought: despite my breaking a part in one of my Switch joycons, I do have to say I'm super impressed at how repairable the console seems to be overall. And that replacement parts seem to be easily acquired.

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nintendo+Switch+Teardown/78263

@ed_packet I don't have a lot of devices in a lot of places right now, but that sounds like a neat system to start playing with