If you're a developer, you might start by using a static site generator and GitHub Pages. Stick to Markdown and start collecting and writing stuff. Sooner or later you'll get comments and regular readers. Then you might start to add editing or simply give other people access to GitHub. The editing experience of Markdown files in GitHub is not too bad and you get started in no time.
From my experience it's more often not the tools but the content.
For comments you could use https://giscus.app which integrates very nicely with GitHub.
Doing so you have *no* setup costs.
I'm aware that this is not exactly *self hosted* -- but it has the advantage that you have no upfront cost. And most of the static site generators are just that, you could host the output on any 5$ web server.
We use KC with PostgreSQL as backend data store. Backup is done by backing up the PostgreSQL database.
If you actually want to transport configuration across environments (DEV, QA, PROD), then you want to export realms and have it load by KC on startup or import it using the UI.
I‘m turning 50 this week. I wish I’d noticed sooner that life is always „now“, not some distant future. All that productivity talk is good, but don’t forget about yourself now.
Well, that really seems to be a very hard problem to me.
Tables for instance get quite complex pretty fast -- joined cells, text alignment, etc.
As for a format which -- not plain text, though -- that handles this is rich text. It's been around for quite some time.
IMHO the problem is in the difference between presentation and data. One group of consumers want the "data" and parse it, the other group of consumers want to basically have it "look the same in this app as in the other app, and don't make my think."
Tables can be arbitrarily complex, just like html, so yes a line has to be drawn somewhere. Spreadsheets and slide presentations can be copy-pasted as file attachments. That's fine.
You can't have a table look the same in every app, nor is that desirable (you'd have to embed fonts and re-create postscript). What you can have is the ability to copy-paste a table (or a bulleted list) back and forth between apps without mangling the state in the process. Rich Text intertwines semantics and style and it's not a good solution.
Most of the time you don't need the layout precision of postscript. There is a huge difference between not having any kind of tables or semantic context for text and having some that cover the 95% of daily use.
Right now -- OK-ish. Had a good day. Buried myself in work, feeling "productive". Making, producing things. That's what I came for, that's what I long time ago
called my "hobby". Making. Tinkering. Doing.
Most of the time nowadays I feel overwhelmed, insufficient, unable. Fighting windmills. Meetings. Pointless meetings. Again, again and again. The same stories. The same questions, the same -- wrong -- conclusions. Me, predicting the -- to me -- obvious outcome.
Communicating to other humans sometimes feels so hard.
Most of the stuff I do is completely bogus and pointless. We're -- I'm in -- consulting
hell in the enterprise world. Company too small to get at least "rich". Time-thief
customers, can't fire them -- they pay employees. Can't fire them -- that would be the downward spiral again (been there, done that).
Thought about quitting -- my "job", I'm a founder-owner CTO, 46 years -- but imposter
syndrome struck hard. Reading job postings, compared skills to things I did. I've been
developing software for over 20 years now -- but can I compete? Daily HN does not help.
Change-it, leave-it or like-it -- chose to choose "change-it". Again picking fights, hopefully the right ones.
Trying to stick to principles I've seemingly forgotten -- and fight for them. Changing,
trying to morph my "job" such that I like it again.
But I strongly feel that I'm running out of time. Brain does work differently -- slower, but deeper -- now it seems. Need to adopt, slow down. Keep thinking, not rushing.
Maybe I should get a therapist. Sometimes I feel I'm borderline on the manic-depressive spectrum. Should get that app idea going I have -- two buttons "OK" "BAD". See if I see cycles. But then again, reading other stories here I feel I'm unthankful, and I'm maybe OK off after all.
At least I have a very loving wife and two wonderful children. And -- compared to the world population -- I'm pretty sure I'm financially better off than 99% of all people.
From my experience it's more often not the tools but the content.
For comments you could use https://giscus.app which integrates very nicely with GitHub.
Doing so you have *no* setup costs.
I'm aware that this is not exactly *self hosted* -- but it has the advantage that you have no upfront cost. And most of the static site generators are just that, you could host the output on any 5$ web server.