Getting My Local 24x7 Place to Run Code
I'm taking a big step towards becoming a data jockey who isn't dependent on vendors or disrupted by changes in the industry - setting up an LXD instance on my NAS. I'm already halfway to my goal, having developed the habit of writing a daily journal in vim. Click through to read more about my journey!
Taking the Next Step to Becoming a Data Jockey: Setting Up an LXD Instance on My NAS
By Michael Levin
Monday, October 24, 2022
Okay, I want to take a step forward today. I want it to be an important one. There’s a few before/after-splits on your journey and quest to be a vendor-independent disruption-resistant data jockeying professional. There will always be data. It will always need to be jockeyed. Those who can do it without a particular proprietary-product dependency are in a strong position. I begin one’s quest by getting them far enough along to do a daily journal in vim. Developing these habits are the natural daily behaviors that will also let you code casually. It matters not that the spoken language is used in the journal and programming languages are used elsewhere, but in both cases you can slam text around with vim. That daily journal in vim is half the story, and I’ve done that first half fairly well. The second half is what I’m preparing to tackle.
We should all be able to run some code somewhere locally. It’s becoming a strange thing in the age of the cloud. Other peoples computers is a good place to do computing because you don’t have to tend to all that tedious hardware stuff, and that’s a pretty illusion. Even Github is getting in on the action with embedded little blocks of VSCode-like editors. Of course part of the illusion is that you still need pretty powerful local hardware like a laptop. And that means you have local resources that will run faster and be more responsive and private because its local. So I’m going to set up the LXD instance on my NAS. This will save me from having to deploy things to the cloud to test them, especially since the things I’m developing are more schedule-based than web-based.