Aaron Brady @insom@tiny.tilde.website

Windows giving me individual progress bars and speed indicators for multiple copy operations to the same device is totally unnecessary and I love it. Look at the little lines go! Who will win?!?

Also posted to a new Gemini capsule -- gemini://soviet.circumlunar.space/insom/2020-12-24-SSR.gmi -- and earlier in the day to `feels` and I also archived most of my ~town space, moving it off the server and starting with a fresh and clear home directory (except for the brutal Python scripts that update `modified.html` -- banged out in a single lunch break but working unmodified for 5 years 😤)

Gave the tildeverse* recently updated list its first new coat of paint since October 2015 over at https://tilde.town/~insom/modified.html

* As defined by @nossidge's users.json -- https://tilde.town/~nossidge/tildeverse/users.json

need to 'edit toot' to add "my wife" 🇰🇿

I was looking at getting a blue neon sign to go with my pink one, so I could have that cool blue-to-pink fade across my desk and my described my office aesthetic as "cyberpunk whorehouse", which is fair.

I feel like most of my posts on Mastodon are complaints or apologies about admin stuff, so to switch it up: my back is sore today and I feel like I'm super-old.

unattended-upgrades are a great way to wake up to an unread downtime alert from six hours ago #protip #linux

#looptober number 6: doesn't loop and it's nearly December edition. Third upload, because even basic mastering is beyond me and clipping. Played live on Circuit over a programmed Volca Beat ... beat.

And we're done again. Let's all agree to leave things alone for a little bit

#admin intensifies: I've got a new, less phone company, router. I'll need to take some downtime tomorrow to do the swap, including moving a fibre optic SFP into a switch and hoping for the best. I can always rollback if something goes wrong. This will hopefully be the last scheduled downtime for ttw for a bit.

@jumblesale Happy American Thanksgiving.

Aaand now a DigitalOcean droplet in Toronto is providing us with a stable IP address and fronting the whole show (and autorenewing TLS certs, hopefully).

Those of us in North America should have the best ttw experience so far. My European friends: sorry, but also the server should be broken less often so that's also nice. ❤️

We're now running out my basement. People's home feed are rebuilding on a new, empty Redis. The old one had its Sidekiq queue drained; apart from the home feed thing this should be a seamless cut over and way faster than it's been since Friday.

We are still sending HTTP from France to Canada, which is not ideal. So, I'll look at getting a VM in North America to be our proxy in order to avoid these oceanic voyages.

The power was only off for `< $ups_run_time` so it would have been fine to have moved everything yesterday after all, but now that blocker is out of the way I can move it tonight or tomorrow.

Okay, it's looking pretty good. Thanks Docker! But I am also having electricians in tomorrow so just in case they need to knock the whole panel off, I'll wait until the middle of the week to actually move ttw over. I hope y'all can put up with the sluggish speed until then -- I know it's annoying 🙏

I am also aware that Elasticsearch is mullered. That might need to be rebuilt from the ground up, and ES indexing jobs are backing up Sidekiq which is leading to memory pressure.

Who knew that keeping a Rails app running was such hard work! 😅🥵

The StatusCake monitoring for ttw was paused again -- I hate picking on software services but like ... it has _one_ job, and pausing an uptime check without notifying anyone makes it almost useless. I need an uptime monitoring service monitoring service.

Whatevs.

I'm DTA -- down to #admin -- Going to relocate our compute stuff from Paris to well .. Ottawa for now, and maybe pay for some uptime monitoring as I am currently getting what I pay for (nothing).

There might be some downtime. 🐿

We took a couple of hours downtime on tiny.tilde.website tonight because the machine was in rag order and it's easier to do some maintenance while we're totally down.

I've moved from self-hosted to PostgreSQL to Amazon RDS. This is going to cost a little more (which is fine) but also add some latency -- not sure if that will be fine or not.

If the latency is really bad, I'll move the compute from Paris to somewhere in the EST timezone. #admin