The truth is, developing websites without formal education in coding is a difficult task. Beating your head against a wall is not always fun but, in the end, when you finally wind your way through the intricacies of code, finding the correct users for folders you’re in, and update outdated snippets you find yourself having won. Winning, in this sense, is exactly what you’ve done because you don’t know, at first, what a shell user is versus a root user or how they function to make things work.
I said at the start here that I am in my seventies and really have no business doing such work. The fact is, I can’t resist and if you consider the other possibilities for a person my age you see that the options are not positive. So, I keep moving, thinking, researching, and banging my head against a suitable obstacle. I smile a lot to.
I work for a few hours and if I have gained no headway begin to research through a virtual morass of outdated Q and A on Ubuntu tech sites and then, after hours of rifling through the internet, come across something that makes sense and is current enough to actually work for me. Then I give it a go and sometimes it just lights up this old office of mine like a Roman Candle. I won. I won a small and insignificant battle, true, but I know I put forth the effort and I know I learned something new and that means the world to me. It’s when you stop learning that time speeds up and takes you to a place you were trying to avoid.
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