Running Linux on your own machine can serve as cognitive-behavioral therapy to cure server-phobia. Making it possible to evaluate cloud/PaaS with rational analysis rather than succumb to the fear, uncertainty, and doubt the merchants of complexity so eagerly try to cultivate.

The full keynote is available here:

or even play around with a $3/month digital ocean droplet have learned so much: dns/ssl/self hosting services

Unpopular opinion: bro went to a conference where the best devs of the world come and shares about indiehackers issues..

I never suspected so many people are afraid of Linux as they use MacOS I never liked Mac as dev platform as there are so many non-native things like Docker Except for some missing apps, overall dev experience on Linux is mostly better

Using Linux locally is like lifting the curtain—once you understand how it all works, you’re empowered to approach cloud solutions with clarity instead of fear.

look if you want to be in the business of building infra, good for you i ran linux servers between 2000 and 2012 and I am never going back doing that. too stressful. i rather build products using (reliable) infrastructure

I have been using Ubuntu as my desktop daily driver since 2004. I stopped using dual boot 5 years later.

To be fair: I had a server once and the mail server got hacked for whatever reason. Hetzner couldn’t help and the IP was blacklisted. The only chance was to re-install the server. Now imagine this happens with client data on production 🥶🙈 There’s a reason why there are server admins ^^

I think there's a minimum level of Unix expertise one needs before proceeding down this path. While I've been successful with step-by-step copy/paste guides, I once tried to make a minor tweek to the pf firewall based on some Googling, and you can imagine the result. 😊

That's exactly the value! Running Linux will endow you with that expertise. Which will then yield years of benefits from understanding the operating system that runs the web.