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  • I talked about this a bit in my post, but my issue with small step is it seems I have to maintain a web service and obtain my certs through API requests. I worry that this might be more hassle and setup than just generating the cert on a CLI for the two end points I have.

    Am I over estimating the overhead here?

  • I've created one project that no one uses. I've found a lot of friction contributing to existing projects. There has to be:

    • something to do
    • the maintainer is cool with having it done
    • the maintainer is okay not doing it themselves
    • is within my expertise or requires an acceptable amount of ramp up learning

    Then I have to make sure to learn their code of conduct and do it exactly the way they want. Do they want testing? Do they want me to update the docs? So I have to get green light from maintainer to start? Etc.

  • Stopped hopping when I realized most distros are just debian with certain things pre-installed or pre-configured. Decided to compare base distros, and settled on Gentoo for its powerful features, transparency and customizability.

  • Why not nix?

    I ask because I've been thinking of trying Guix or Nix. I lean more towards nix due to popularity but also because theoretically a language tailored for package recipes may do better than guille.

  • It looks to be similar. I'm not sure how trivial it is to add this. For nginx it's basically built in. You just give it the Lua code. It's also pretty capable. You can basically write a whole API back-end in it, which is pretty good for small APIs or functionalities, like an image resizing API.