evangineer

For future work, I would definitely consider NetBox and Collins as alternative options to GLPI.

GLPI with FusionInventory for IT Asset Management and Knowledge Base.

GitLab for repositories, adhoc documentation via gists and CI/CD.

Nagios for monitoring.

Open to trying other things out if they make sense.

I found Jan Lehnardt's vision for CouchDB very compelling. It allows CouchDB to be the feature-rich core of a large, complex ecosystem, yet retain a ruthless focus on being the best multi-master replicating database available.

The challenge seems to be in finding or creating friendship circles with similar or compatible values/outlook. In a busy fragmented society, you have to work in a deliberate and persistent way at that. I've concluded that a key thing to do is to pursue my passions and find IRL communities that share them.

Seems to me there's a deeper point being made here about deciding what one's purpose in life is and choosing to pursue it wholeheartedly.