Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays, Everyone!
My wife prompts students with this fun holiday writing idea:
"If you could gift the world anything, what would it be?"
I love to read responses in the comments!
As for me, I have wonderful news, my dream gift to the world will come true this year!
For the holiday season, I AM gifting to the public domain my most essential code in hopes to trigger a positive trend of doing in 2022!
"in 2022, dream & do!"
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Each project has a link to guide on how to access the source code.
In 2021, I imagined many possible paths, yet all seemed to lead to one word:
OPEN
I will continue to operate the SaaS under Remarkbox and MakePostSell trademarks & operations will fall under unturf.
I will take an additional role of BDFL in regards to:
- onboarding volunteers to maintain our common code in perpetuity
- tie breaking
It feels vulnerable to share code without team support. Think from end & this feeling will pass.
Risk:
Alice may finally read the code & find vulnerabilities, burning a hole between us crippling our communication, taking down the system.
Solution:
More environments in wild, more eyes on problems, more options communicated.
Risk:
The masses may fork & divide the perfect circle.
Solution:
We volunteer to grow & multiply our systems, not worry about forks. We avoid focus on those who ignorantly mutilate or divide, instead focus on projects and forks which sprout, multiply, & thrive!
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At a high level the unturf. stack currently consists of the following:
- HTML
- CSS
- Python
- SQLAlchemy
- Sqlite3
- Pyramid
- uWSGI
- Nginx
- Postfix
- Let's Encrypt
- Object Store (Boto3/S3 Compatible)
And of course we dogfood:
For analytics we self host our own:
If the documentation works, people should be able to use the services without understanding the fundementals of each keyword listed above.
Pull requests welcome.
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The writing of this essay has unfolded liberation in me and so, I speak words in favor of Truth, Freedom, and Love.
I AM now free to Grow, Explore, Document, and Multiply!
I love you, have a great day reader!
