Hachyderm's Kris Nova on running a Mastodon Server - Hanselminutes Podcast 872

Scott talks with Kris Nova who has been building and scaling Hachyderm, a Mastodon instance that began in her basement and is now moving into the cloud. Nova shares her extensive knowledge on the technical challenges and solutions involved in creating and maintaining Hachyderm, as well as her insights on the importance of building and maintaining a welcoming and inclusive online community.

[Comradin]

Rest in peace, Kris. May there be mountains, dogs, code and awesome programming languages, wonderful humans, lovely servers and all the technologies you loved so much where you have gone now. For that everything will be prepared for us, when we follow you. See you in the next live so you can sign your books for me again.

[sharkmisdeed]

2 of my idols. I love both Scott and Kris. It's very insightful to listen to them both

[wgeorgecook]

The crossover I never knew I needed! Thanks for sharing Kris 😊

[CezarLamann]

I didn't know Kris, now I'll check her book out :).

Thank you Scott for bringing such enlightening guests to your podcast

[idog]

got chills at 17:17 discussing managing mountain climbing risks. rip 🙏

[halfey]

This has been very useful. I'm setting up my own Mastodon instance and hopefully I can get it online sometime next year. I'll be honest, I'm still very new to all this stuff and am learning as much as I can from all the resources I can find.

[KenRossPhotography]

Great episode - it's been a while since I've thought about the Fidonet node I ran on an SCO Xenix system "back in the day" 😀

[JeffBarron]

Wow dude, you were a developer hero of mine back in 1999!!!! now im getting back into coding its cool to see you are still around... look forward to seing what you have been up to.

[YumanoidPontifex]

when she says she built that server rack almost as a way to keep her sanity in her day job - i can very much relate to that.

[MikuDigitalk]

Seeking Joy through technology is great therapy.

[pabloide]

Amazing interview!! I like her live streams on Twitch and although I don't know anything about Rust it is fascinating to see other people code

[TomNook.]

Just heard the news, RIP Kris. She has done so much for the tech community

[MasonWiseman]

Thanks for sharing such an awesome conversation. As a long-term dev, the philosophical takes were especially good to hear. Psychological safety is a phrase I'm gonna add to my toolkit and try to practice more going forward.

[JeffBarron]

Sorry for you Loss friends :( rest in peace Kris :(

[chstappert]

Thanks for this great episode! Have to buy a book I think. ;-)

[michaelwplde]

Digiboards now that's a memory WOW... before there were NIC extenders, there were rs232, gpib, etc, digiboards...

[randyii]

I would love to learn more and actually do stuff like this. Where do I start?

[corewarrior]

Technology was definitely more fun 30 years ago Scott. I'm sad for the younger technologists because they have no idea whose shoulders they are standing on. Nice video!

[alecclews]

I miss spinning disks. It was a useful debugging tool

[mando]

RIP but I am little bit mad Kris about mountains. Fucking mountains they are really good, she once showed their mountain path on the twitch stream. I wish she can come back