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/One/ of the volunteer things I continue to do is to run a server that hosts the e-mail and web presences of some old friends (and some of their contacts).
After many years of living off free/cheap hosting provided by friends of friends, ex-colleagues or similar, I’ve been hosting it from home since I have a stable NBN connection. I’d tried running it off of a Raspberry Pi 4, but had to recently give in due to a few different problems (RAM being just one of them). My now-spare 6-year-old NUC is still in good nick and made the perfect replacement, even if it meant giving up on the ARM64 dream for the time being.
So with a bit more grunt available, I’ve been able to dive into a backlog task around getting a CI service going on this host alongside the Gitea server I already had running. I ended up trying Woodpecker CI and found it easy enough, given my familairity with both Buildkite from my old job, and Gitlab CI from fiddling with it on my internal server at home.
Getting Woodpecker going made for a lovely distraction on a rainy Monday afternoon, but does this mean I should turn my back on IT management and go back to a hands-on role as I begin to search for a new job? I’m not convinced, yet. I wouldn’t enjoy spending so much time on this if it was still also my day job - I’ve enjoyed it /because/ of the difference. The (fortunately) wonderful experiences I had as a manager and leader mean that I’ll be looking for the opportunity to have an impact on a wider number of people first, before I consider going hands-on again. We’re not all so lucky, and so I shouldn’t waste that chance.
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