My server and site were down for about 16 hours from Tuesday evening (≈18:08) to Wednesday morning (≈10:36). This was due to a significant problem that occurred due to an upgrade to the Ceph system running Dreamcompute. Numerous people were affected, based on Twitter posts, and we still have little information about what happened.
Continue reading post "DreamCompute disruption incident"WWW posts page 16
So, this site was down for like 16 hours due to a botched update of DreamCompute by Dreamhost. Back up and running now. Will report more when I get home tonight.
A tale of bulk email system woes
This past week, my coworker and I had to deal with stressful problems with Cogneato‘s bulk email / newsletter system.
Continue reading post "A tale of bulk email system woes"My wordpress.com redirect seems to have turned itself off at some point before the year term I paid for.
Continue reading post "#2273"Symfony console: Freeing up default short options
I like Symfony’s console component, and use it for much of my command line scripting these days. One thing I dislike is that it takes use of some short option characters for itself. The built in handling of verbosity with -v
is nice and is fairly common in the CLI world, but some, like -h
and -n
, are more varied in use and would be desirable to have for various purposes in my own commands. I decided to remove these defaults in my own console app recently, and will describe how to do so.
Looks like I’ll be going to Stir Trek again this year.
Continue reading post "#2236"The WebAIM page on screen reader techniques has some subtly funny, slightly dark humor examples on the importance of commas.
Continue reading post "#2231"2784, the first HTTP port
Looking at a page discussing the code of the first web browser (WorldWideWeb), I noticed a line designating port 2784 as OLD_TCP_PORT
. After looking into it a bit more, I determined that this was the port used for the web until port 80 was officially designated in January of 1992.
Apparently, Amazon video no longer works with Firefox ESR (60.4).
Continue reading post "#2193"I think I am going to let my .us domains expire due to the lack of whois privacy.
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