I always thought, I need a website. There was no time to create it between my research and other learning activities. I knew little bit of HTML, CSS and Python languages. So, this all website self-hosting came with the idea when I needed a server to store my data from my research, my dad’s accounting database, my brother’s medical notes and my girlfriend’s photos (we all have been there right).
So, this is the time of me completed 3 years of PhD, sitting in home planning to write thesis with some research undergoing. For a year or so, I am really into opensource and Linux platforms because of increase in all subscription costs and increase in paid software. I don’t like boundaries when I use a software. Some features shouldn’t be under a paywall. So, I converted. I made a pledge to use Linux as much as I can. I can’t let-go of windows because of some particular software which only run on windows x86 platform that are related to my research.
This Linux saga helped me to be a productive researcher. I started using self hosted AI’s through Ollama, and started using Arch Linux (b.t.w 😉) on my home machine. I really wanted that option to run local AI’s on my laptop to use Fabric for my research and daily reads. I could have easily SSH into my machine locally to use it. But what’s fun in that. That would be easy. I wanted to access through internet. So finally after long consideration of a day or so, I went and bought a domain on my name.
I think, this will lead to endless possibilities for me to explore more and learn complicated things. These are the things which keeps me going. Blogging is also new to me. I have never wrote a line on a personal diary. All new things…
Let’s hope this will last long.