I have quite a few self-hosted services, both on machines at home and on a VPS. And there are even more odds and ends I've written that do things on my home network. A one-person maintenance team runs into serious memory limitations, particularly for the services that just run fine for years at a time.

After running into the frustration of forgetting how to run Nextcloud upgrades on the command line for the nth time, I realized it was time to write a tool.

The system wayfinder is what came out of that frustration. It lets you leave notes and commands in place around your infrastructure. After dogfooding it a bit, I was delighted when it saved me a ton of trouble dealing with one of my docker containers.

I took some time to work on it proper, wrote it up, and put it on GitHub, even though it is still a pre-release. Would you use a tool like this? What else would you want in it?

Edit: adding link to GitHub https://github.com/robbieh/way

WGWATL - What Grows Well in Atlanta

Thought I would do a series of posts about what grows well for me here. Both in containers and in the yard.

Top of the list is hibiscus, which surprised me. My partner and I were given a series of them over the years, and both the hardy and tropical variety have done well.

All have been kept in containers and moved indoors for the winter. At various times that has been in a basement space or a greenhouse.

The hardy variety will die back and should be pruned to the ground to overwinter. They might survive in the ground here, but I have not personally tested that.

The tropical variety needs to be kept warmer for the winter. But ATL certainly provides warmth in the summer! They bloom like mad, and kept blooming deep into the fall in the greenhouse.

Wouldn't it be nice to have, say, a Mastodon TUI that could show images in-line? A lot of terminals are capable of that.

Here is an interesting demo showing 3d rendering in the terminal: https://github.com/MasFlam/notcurses-rend3d

Bruce Sterling writing about Cyberpunk.

The plant ID apps think it is wild ginger, but it does not look like a good match to me. There is a ton of wild ginger trying to take over my yard, and this is definitely not the same plant.

By way of one of the least cyberpunk channels, this guy has made the most cyberpunk cocktail. I think it's delicious.

The first time I saw cardoon was at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. Big, beautiful, and edible? I wanted to grow my own.

But thus far, no success. I got a single seedling up to maybe 6 inches around last year, but it was too late in the season. All the seedlings I started the spring failed to thrive and finally gave out. What's the secret to getting them going?

http://abgplanttoplate.blogspot.com/2010/06/cardoons.html

I'd like to have one for local (sub)urban gardening. Between the clay ground and the ever-present shade, it's a challenge here in Atlanta. But I don't see how to create a community for that here.