My December Adventure took a complete backseat on day 18 as I continued setting up my new home infrastructure—the continued decay of GitHub and other cloud-based services makes this a priority.

While it took much of the day, I managed to install Ubuntu server, set up 12TB of ZFS RAIDz1 storage, install Syncthing, and kick-off an initial sync. With that done, I’m in a good position to slowly tick away at the remaining tasks, and explore the additional services I can run. (I’m keen to look at self-hosted SCM and CI in the future, but that’s definitely one for another day.)

I hope to return to adventuring on day 19, but I’d certainly like to find some time to write more about my various efforts to move away from Big Tech—I’m pretty pleased with the workflows I’ve established over the last few years and I’d love to share some of that1.

  1. The list of December Adventure ideas includes, ‘write up my read later strategy’, which is peripherally related, so there’s still a chance I’ll do a little of that this month. ↩