I do wish that I had kept a universally readable record of more of my work over the years. I've managed to preserve a fair deal of it, but there are notable hol

I do wish that I had kept a universally readable record of more of my work over the years. I've managed to preserve a fair deal of it, but there are notable holes and a lot of it is software which isn't going to run without some tinkering, particularly the projects with significant third party dependencies. Web stuff (e.g. RoR projects) is particularly bad in this regard, often being nigh unrecoverable. The bigger thing to emphasize I think though regardless of archival method is to make sure to regularly back things up. Some of my earliest things from the 90s were on the boot drive and got wiped when the family computer needed a reformat. Later on when I had my own computer, a lot of stuff was on an external drive to make room on the boot drive, but one day the external decided to kick the bucket and everything on it went up in flames because there were no other copies. I didn't have much cash at that point since I was a high schooler but I'm sure I could've figured out something that would've preserved at least the most prized documents. These days I have everything automatically incrementally backed up with Backblaze but now that Time Machine on macOS uses APFS snapshots and is more storage efficient I also want to use my home server for backup.