My plush penguin turned 10 today. :-)


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  You  shouldn't  use  "Cloud Storage" as your primary data storage, for
  two reasons:

    1.  The company running that service  might  choose  to  discontinue
        that  service  at  virtually  any time -- maybe unvoluntarily by
        going bankrupt.

    2.  *You* forget about things.

  That second issue is far more interesting than the first.

  I'm currently cleaning up some old  files  on  my  webserver  and  I'm
  fixing  some old links. While doing so, I discovered files I have long
  forgotten about. Had I used cloud storage for that,  I  wouldn't  even
  REMEMBER to create backups of those files. They would have been lost.

  Among  those files, there even was a HTML templating engine written in
  PHP. I wrote that?! Apparently.


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  Oh, always put a  date  on  stuff  you  create.  Full  ISO-8601  dates
  including  the  year.  Most of the time, this is trivial because I use
  Git which stores the author and commit date automatically.  But  there
  are  some  other small things without a date and I can't tell when the
  hell I wrote that ...


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  That switch from Arch Linux to OpenBSD feels very familiar. It's  like
  when I switched from Windows to Linux on my desktop PC. I knew Windows
  quite well and everything was strange on Linux. Now, I know Arch  very
  well and OpenBSD feels strange.

  I  must  learn from this. I must keep an open mind. OpenBSD might feel
  strange *now*, but maybe it'll be a second home in no time.

  After all, it took me way too long to switch from  Windows  to  Linux,
  because  everything  was  different  and "weird". I did that switch in
  2007, ten years ago. I could have done it ten years before that.