supernihil

I am thinking a lot about whether there exists a form of algo for calculating a distance between two users without exposing either location to oneanother.

I am thinking a sort of hanshake like DH.

case: User a wants to know the geodistance to user b and vice versa

I was using publii until recently for managing my github sites but it was cumbersome to have to do all edits from a single labtop. Pagescms allows me to do online edits using a browser with github login.

Example on how it looks: Https://sekvens.buro.earth

Https://pagescms org

A thought on server based albeit decentralized (matrix, fediverse etc) versus offline first p2p based coms: This friday i had a discussion with some local hackers on an unimportant subject. However i wrote that i had started a telegram thread about the subject and got a lot of critic for using that instead of the matrix server they had setup. My argument was that since both were server based i didnt see the difference other than i didnt have established trust to neither their matrix server nor telegram so why should i choose one over the other.

It turned into a greasy mess where they were giving political arguments for choosing matrix with me insisting on working on true p2p offline first serverless (or server-optional) coms is the only route worth taking. I have searched the web for similar discussions but cant find any. My point is just that i dont see the reason for onboarding people to another server based (albeit federated) coms platform when the possibility of true p2p exists. I see a lot of people (in denmark) highlighting ownership of internet based infrastructure as a mega plus (email servers, self hosting etc done by colaboratives) but they seem to be only semi technically savy to an extent or ignorant of p2p. Its sad as i severely need aome local peers to bounce ideas on my esp32 based dialphone p2pmesh.

Anyway, just as i said, a thought and maybe you have one too

i have been asked by a small music venue to see if i could simplify their drupal install

since i dont know php, and since the website is mostly just a bunch of bloglike posts with events, i thought it would make a good candidate for a static page

THAT is until i figured out the backcatalog of posts going back to 2011 with huge image assets.

so i came up with this plan: https://github.com/sloev/research-into-serverless-git-based-cms/blob/main/README.md

which roughly is to create two repos: one repo for a single file cms in the form of a cloudflare worker that does ultra simple access control together with image upload (presigned backblaze urls) and form submit (musicevents new/updated) as json

another repo for keeping the layout plus all the music events json etc this repo can be public andwill build static html on each push

my question is : "is this gonna make the site more maintainable in the future?"

currently they have no person responsible for the website s it has to be easy to get into and maintain for an occational dev

I am wondering if anyone has experience walking away completely from software engineering.

As an example i am thinking of becoming a carpenter after 7 years of stress doing software development and infrastructure.