Setting up a new VPS

There is a lot to learn from doing something from the first time.

I got a good deal on a server for Black Friday, but had been putting off actually doing anything with it.

Most of my development work is ai-assisted these days (whose isn’t?), but I decided to start this long-delayed task in a decidedly old-fashioned way: by googling “Set up new root server.” After all, this is a universal task for anyone building web-connected applications (even personal ones) that don’t run on a hyperscaler. So there must be an abundance of learning resources… right? Maybe even a WikiHow article?

Google Slides is secretly a great minimal SVG diagramming tool

For basic illustrations and diagrams, it’s not missing much.

Check out this diagram I made, which lives on SignalWire’s AI Platform overview doc: