Training again, Advanced Development with/on AWS. Flippin' hub is broken again so only got one screen, at least untill I've got time to reboot.

Ah, that old faviourate, turn a monolith into a bunch of microsvices

Hub wasn't broken, I forgot that I need to plug it into a USB3 socket (which was on the other side of the laptop).

Just read "The darkness behind your eyes" used to refer to the self. I love it. (From https://qntm.org/streetmentioner)

Crud . Just lost a post to overlapping buttons. time to fix that.

Big idea: Use email/IMAP as the storage backend. Gives me arbitrary metadata (headers), text file in disk storage, universal tools. I can have posts in draft, if I hook up an SMTP server as well, I can have easy bot apis.

Using mime/mulipart I can store the original post, attached images, html rendering all together.

I'll need to import current posts, but I'm going to have to do that if I want to update my on disk format.

I'm probably going to need a second copy of dovecot/whatever IMAP server, I don't want to get my actual email mixed up with this stuff (except check out namespaces maybe?)

Why aren't I more excited about this? Could be the heat (Local weather be crazy, check news archives).

(Spoiler: It's not the heat. It's the standard "This technical wizardry isn't going to make me popular/better at taking to people/any less lonely" problem)

(Y'know, depression)

anyway. bed time, g'd night.

Updated images are going to need metadata