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Intermittent hosting issues
My apologies if you’ve tried accessing the site and seen error messages, timeouts, slow responses, or other similar issues over the last week or so. My hosting provider has a rather clever setup that...
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Breaking stuff for fun and profit.
I spent a bit of the last day or two making some changes to the back-end around here, enabling SSL/TLS for the admin interface, etc. As far as I can tell, things should be good, but if you find that...
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Relicensing
Effective immediately, I’m changing the license of my content to make it even more free. Previously, content was licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United...
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On Caching
A flurry of new visitors from Tam’s (hi everyone, welcome!) got me thinking a bit about the performance of this site. Combined with not much going on with gun-related topics here in Switzerland, I...
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Whoops.
As mentioned earlier, I use Varnish to cache static pages on this site to improve performance. I use a WordPress plugin that detects when parts of the site are added or modified (e.g. a new post is...
View ArticleWell, that was fun.
My web host, who is otherwise outstanding, had some critical failure of their networking gear in the?facility where this server is hosted. As such, the site was offline for ~9 hours. Considering how...
View ArticleYet another host move, this time to self-hosted.
The web host that was hosting this site is shutting down its US hosting facility at the end of the year, so I decided to move things from that host to a system I control (a Raspberry Pi 3 by my desk at...
View ArticleRSS Feed Oops
I was recently fiddling with some options on the blog and ended up introducing an error into the RSS feed. The error was minor (a blank line on the first line of the feed) and many (but not all) RSS...
View ArticleStill Alive
I’m still here, though due to life happening, kids taking up lots of my time (and me loving every minute of it), and work being crazy busy, I haven’t had much time to post. What little free time I have...
View ArticlePro-tip: host everything yourself, and pay for it
Years ago when I started this blog, certain types of hosting were much more expensive than they are today, particularly if you wanted hosting that didn’t suck. Storing and transmitting websites that...
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