"Why are you reimplementing $feature when you can just import $library? You're reinventing the wheel!"
I think the warning against reinventing wheels—and presumably other simple machines—has blinded us to more subtle truths about when it's okay to build something that already exists, but closer to home.
Long before I knew anything about pivot charts or data science, I wondered what it would be like to use a spreadsheet in three dimensions.
I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I wrote the first version of The Homelab Almanac. I thought I was writing a little volume of tips and tricks I'd discovered in my own homelab journey. The book grew in the writing, and the result was more than I could have possibly imagined—as was its reception.
Folks routinely tell me they recommend the Almanac as the book to get started homelabbing. That's incredibly humbling, but it also fills me with a sense of obligation. I want this resource to be the best guide to this world possible. And in almost two years' time, I grew dissatisfied with the gaps I saw in the book.
Version 3.0 addresses those gaps. Let's go through it all.
It's been a year since my mother passed away. I wrote her eulogy, and I'd like to share it with you so she is remembered. Thanks for reading.
I've been fighting the initial compromise technique known as "ClickFix" for a few months now, and its success has been shocking to see.