I’ve been exploring more of the outdoors lately and wanted a place to share pictures with friends and family, so I’ve brought my personal site back online.
We’re running on DigitalOcean. I didn’t explore which cloud providers are trending these days for personal use, but DO has been a pleasure to use in the past - the pre-built droplets are great for experimenting, and most importantly I like the name. May switch to running my own server at home but for now the cloud makes more sense.
This blog is powered by Hexo. I uploaded a few photos from recent hikes to PhotoPrism. The user experience has been smooth thus far but the app doesn’t seem geared toward creating a mostly-public gallery, so for now I’m just trying it out.
This post is being written from a new MacBook Pro 14” I purchased over the weekend. 16GB memory, 1TB storage, “Space Grey.”
I predict in the near future we won’t see a distinction between “memory” and “storage” when buying a system. I can understand a buyer’s confusion, and given the evolving performance of modern storage devices, the line is blurring. I don’t think about the L2 cache size of the M2 Pro when making a purchase, and don’t expect a consumer to consider the differences between 16 and 32 GB of “memory” and 1TB of persistent “storage.”
Perhaps a decade from now, “memory” will be a cloud resource and you’ll pay for what you use. I’m reminded of the AWS re:Invent 2019 Deep dive into the Nitro system. For a period of time, local storage (spinning disks) was actually slower than network-attached storage (SSDs, 10-gigabit network).
Cloud gaming is one example and last time I installed an aircraft-sized GPU into my PC, I couldn’t help but think of how the landscape will look in a few years.