I'm still not dead.
Though asking for contributed articles feels sufficiently futile that I will not bother.*goes back to sleep*
View ArticleWe're using redis ...
This evening I flipped the switch such that we're now a production user of redis - the fast in-memory key-value store.The current split looks like this:MySQL for: All articles, user-data, and account...
View ArticleMore minor updates ...
I've spent an hour or two this evening updating the code behind this site, one more time.Fingers crossed all will be invisible; but certainly the deployment of the Planet Debian Administration will be...
View ArticleNew site deployed ..
There may be lingering issues, but I'll attend as and when they become apparent, or are reported.Tags: site news, yawns
View ArticleStill alive ..
Time for me to do something useful here, I guess?I could talk about puppet, cameras, pies, or cake.*ponder
View ArticleGithub is quite nice
I've been using github for a few days now, and finding it nice.I typically develop and host on my own mercurial repositories, but it is nice to share and be more visible. I love the way the initial...
View ArticleDatabase moved ...
As part of the upcoming re-deployment I've moved the database server this site uses to a new location.Fingers crossed this will be transparent.Tags: mysql, site news
View ArticleOur planet site has moved.
I'm slowly moving the hosting of this site over to BigV. This evening I've migrated the standalone site:http://planet.debian-administration.org/.I'll do a full write-up in the near future. For the...
View ArticleSite migration notes...
SO this site has now moved to Bytemark's BigV platform, and on the whole it is working properly.This is a brief list of things that I've spotted:IPv6 support has gone away, until I route a /64 to the...
View ArticleLinkedIn - Considered harmful.
Years ago I had a linkedin account. It was not so useful to me, because I could remember who I'd worked with, and I would ask for personal recommendations/feedback from friends who were local about...
View ArticleSite search reinstated
The big link, "Search", at the top of the site pages now works.Quick hack via Lucy::Simple.The Lucy::Simple module made it trivial to write a simple indexer and search script. Took me only an hour or...
View ArticleUpdating blacklists ..
When I see a number of fake users, or spam comments, from a particular IP address I usually just block it.As of today I'm now going to block the containing /24 instead.Life is too short to play...
View ArticleSo I've been writing a mail-client
Yeah, I could hardly believe it either.http://lumail.org/It is modal, it uses Lua for scripting/configuration. It is not yet complete, due to missing features. But as a read-only mail-viewer it works...
View ArticleWe have SSL
We've had a self-signed SSL certificate for some time now (four years?) but it was self-signed and thus untrusted by most browsers.Thanks to a kind donation by dkg we now have a "real" SSL certificate,...
View ArticleMy email client, lumail ..
My lua-based email client lumail continues to go well.These days I'm using it exclusively for my personal mail, and barring a few rough edges it is suitable for everyday use.Tags: lumail
View ArticleA simple forum ..
I spent a few nights last week prototyping the kind of forum I'd like to use for supporting my Lumail email client.The end result was something that was fast, clean, and reasonably well-coded. The only...
View ArticleCluster updated ..
This weekend I've upgraded the cluster behind this site to be 100% wheezy-based.No major suprises, fingers crossed nothing breaks ..
View ArticleSite reverted ..
Due to a calamity I had to revert the database behind this site a couple of days. Comments and blogs will be lost for this period.Not pleased about this at all, but I guess it's a first for the site.In...
View ArticleStarting a new job ..
On Monday (tomorrow) I'll be starting a new job, once again working from home - something I was keen to avoid.Still it won't be so bad, the only potential concern is that I'll be starting on my home...
View ArticleServer Optimization ..
Contributions and feedback welcome, on my new site:http://tweaked.io/Much like this one in nature, but much more succinct and focussed.Tags: kernel, nfs, nginx, reference, tuning. optimization
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