Hits way close to home

But as the “founding engineer” from this story, I made a lot of product level calls to avoid the layering of “urgent easy features” that would cost x100 in support down the road.

I also heavily protected my team against crunch and was the only one affected on the rare occasions it was required.

Learning how to say no constructively is a core engineering skill in startups.

Haven’t used YAMS

But having read the page, I’d say it’s much more pluggable.

There are dozens of community plugins to install other docker based tools with Saltbox.

Also, it’s a rewrite of an older project and has been in development for longer than YAMS. I’ve been using it for around 8 years or so.

Just use Saltbox

https://docs.saltbox.dev/saltbox/basics/basics/

It’s exactly what you’re trying to achieve but battle tested

So, cable with extra steps?

Just think about all those administrative tasks you’ve been neglecting which are piling up. And remember, a few even require you to phone a hotline.

You’ll get back to deep cleaning in no time.

Also, have assigned/labeled boxes for everything. And a big bag for whatever doesn’t belong to any of them. It’s way easier to deal with mess if your brain doesn’t need a lot to figure out where to put said items.

I’m on Pcloud, server with rsync+rclone to move files from file system to cloud and use it as a unified file system.

The lifetime storage offer from pcloud has been worth it for me and I even upgraded it from 2 to 12 TB

And he’s not alone.

I’m on tech Twitter and trying to switch to Mastodon. Unfortunately, the latest news and top content are still on Twitter and I don’t want to be missing out on either of those.