Ralph Waldo Emerson once said:

“the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

Breaking away from the pack is hard… There was a lot that came with your repositories’ urls starting with github.com. I use to dream of one of my projects landing on someone’s fyp and just getting a random star from someone that had the exact same problem as me and appreciated the way I approached it.

But there’s also a cost. It’s not yours. Github owns that space. If it doesn’t like your repository, it deletes it. If there is a security breach, that private repository doesn’t seem so private. If they want AI to scrape the living guts out of your code… You get the picture.

So, I’m setting sail in this canoe. I honestly forgot to bring a compass, and I’m not sure I’ll ever reach land, but it’s my canoe. The direction is mine, and the destination is also mine.

WTF is this?

This is Forgejo. A self hosted git. It’s on my server. I’m the captain.

How did I find it?

Theo on Youtube (@t3dotgg) had a video showcasing it.

What about bots?

Cloudflared the bejesus out of it.

Now what?

Projects galore. I still need to figure out how the actions works before I go full tilt. Current projects are the BalatroBench and Cowork-Db. Blog posts on them coming soon.

I like the planet!

Thanks! That’s pure css by the way! Check the dev tools…

This blog runs on the same droplet, through the same tunnel. Turtles all the way down.