Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own
Contents 🔶 Featured on Hacker News. Read the comments After watching the two PewDiePie videos where he learned about installing Arch (something considered quite hard, even for Linux enthusiasts) and building three products (camera for the dog, weather/drinking/meditation device, and who knows what comes next) based on open-source, 3D-printed parts, I started wondering about building things yourself, self-hosting, and tech independence. Something dear to my heart for a while. If people ask me how they should start writing or how to get a job, I always say to buy a domain first. Secondly, host your own blog website if you have the technical skills (although it’s not so hard anymore). Because all of this compounds over time. Of course, you can start with a ready-made blog and a…
