mathewstorm.ca
Open Source engineer, writer, operator.
Building open infrastructure in Canada. Writing about digital sovereignty, the systems we live in, and the reasons to continue building.
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- POST Lessons from 15 Hours of Downtime Both my providers went down simultaneously because they shared a datacenter one layer below the surface. Layered coupling is the hardest kind to see.
- POST I Used to Be Scared of Docker. Now I'm Scared to Live Without It. I was scared of Docker for years. Then I learned it properly and it changed everything about how I build and deploy software.
- POST Why I'm So Excited About Garage: Self-Hosted S3 Storage for My Obsidian Notes I needed S3 storage I actually owned, on Canadian hardware. Garage is the answer. Here's how I set up my first node and synced my Obsidian notes to it.
- POST Micro: The Terminal Editor Between Nano and Vim Why I switched from nano and vim to Micro for editing config files on VPSes. A terminal text editor with sane keybindings, syntax highlighting, and zero learning curve.
- POST Why I Left GitHub for Forgejo I'm building a company about Canadian digital sovereignty. The source code can't live on Microsoft servers. Here's how I set up Forgejo on a $7 Canadian VPS in 30 minutes.