I now fall asleep every time I go to the cinema. I regularly struggle to sleep at night in my comfy bed in total silence. So why do I find sleeping in the middle of day at the loud cinema totally irresistible? It’s actually becoming annoying now. I want to actually watch the film, not sleep!
I’m 32. So hopefully death is still many decades away. But I still really need to document how I want my family to handle my digital legacy. Especially my websites. I don’t care if my personal files on my Mac disappear. But I’d like my websites to remain online for as long as possible after I die.
Right now I have three sites powered by Hugo and hosted on AWS. They should remain up for a decade or two as long as the $5/mo bill is paid. My biggest concern would be AWS introducing a new login or payment system that requires manually migrating to. A non-techy family member might struggle with that.
I also have my Micro.blog blog. As of today it doesn’t hate enough posts for me to be upset at the prospect of it disappearing. But if I did want to preserve it my main concern would be that Micro.blog could very easily be shut down. Luckily it’s all static pages and is Hugo again behind the scenes, so it shouldn’t be too tricky for a somewhat tech savvy friend/family member to get a copy of it all onto AWS.
My main concern are my Obsidian notes that get turnt into Learnt.me. In many ways that site is the most in-depth digital representation of who I am, so I’d like it to survive after I died. It’s turned into a website via Obsidian’s ‘Publish’ feature. But the site seems very JavaScript-y and not the easiest to have backups of. Luckily all the notes that the site are based on are just Markdown notes. And there’s also at least one other service that offers something like Obsidian Publish. But either way, worse case scenario all my notes could just be uploaded to an Apache web server and be browsed and viewed via the folder hierarchy. However I really like how Learnt.me looks and works. It would be a shame to lose that.
I’m not sure what the best solution is long term. I thought about having all the content hosted on NearlyFreeSpeech. It’s pay as you go, so I could deposit a bunch of money into it. But to be honest, as long as I can find a way for the AWS bill to be paid, that would be the easiest and most reliable route for long term hosting.
But either way, my digital ‘estate’ is in a much more stable long term state than it has been in the past. Sure, I have too many sites, which makes things more tricky. But at least none are powered by WordPress, which would make things very brittle and tough to keep up and running.
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Remembering Robin Williams, who left us 10 years ago today. His comedic genius and deep humanity continue to be missed.
— Ashridge
Some photos from my night of Italian food and English theatre.
“Much Ado About Nothing” at Shakespeare’s Globe.
Why do tape measures always have a very distinctive smell?
There’s a session drummer named Steve Gadd who looks awfully like George Clooney.
This ad I saw is from 2007.
The restaurant I made a reservation at lets me upload a photo of myself so they can greet me by name when I arrive. I haven’t seen anything like that before.
I’m going to give it a whirl. And if they do greet me by name this is how I’m going to feel.
Morning all ☀️ I don’t know about you lot, but my sun is gorgeous this morning.
I’ve written about how media companies keep on underestimating the value of new technologies. imlefthanded.com/2024/from…
“Air” is about the creation of Air Jordan shoes at Nike. It’s silly and corny, but very enjoyable.
Moving along at a quick, fun pace and feels a bit like an Adam McKay film at times.
This is also quite the ‘Dad film’ (another one for Matt Damon, after Ford v Ferrari).
You might have missed “Air”. But you should correct that, as it’s a great way to spend 111 minutes and very much worth a watch. It’s hard to dislike it.
Also: are you ever unsatisfied by the “where are they now” segment at the end of “based on a true story” film, when they don’t go into enough detail? Well this delivers in this department.
After “Air” you should watch:
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Find out where to stream it.
This review is also on Letterboxd.
Front and Back
KFC is the only good value fast food chain left. As long as you ignore the burgers and stick to the buckets, you can feed a family at a pretty solid price.
My fellow English autumn addicts, just how much are you loving this wonderfully rainy July?
If you want to use Dropbox but don’t want to have to pay $10/mo for 2TB you can apparently sign up through Lenovo Marketplace and get smaller plans. The only difference being you use your Lenovo ID to sign in to Dropbox (don’t use an email address you’ve already used with Dropbox).
These are the plans offered:
Happy Sunday all. The weather is fine and sunny in Hertfordshire today and I’ve been for a pre-tennis/football final walk 🥾
