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I understand the need for hoarding tabs but it boggles my mind how people navigate tiny tabs and remember where everything is. In fact, they probably don't since I keep seeing people clicking back and forth a few times before finding the right tab.

I have been using tree style tabs on Firefox for so long, I can't function without it. I can nest tabs together and collapse them, but most importantly, I can read all the tab titles due to the vertical layout.

Why Self-Host? 10 months ago

I have been so happy moving out of Google Photos and storing everything on my NAS + cloud backup. I don't have to worry about Google re-encoding my videos and not letting me get my originals back.

A note about Google Authenticator. There are alternatives which imo are much better, like LastPast Authenticator or Authy. They work exactly the same but they can back up your codes securely. Big plus if you lose or change your phone.

I had experience with a product using an event based architecture at large scale, and to be honest, it was a pain to work with. For example, traceability, or troubleshooting in general, was very hard since events would spawn more events etc. making things much harder to track than expected.

Unless the scale is an issue, nowadays I always prefer a more state-full approach when possible.