On Saturday 8 July 2023, user accounts started disappearing from the Vivaldi Social Mastodon instance. What was going on, how did this happen, and what were the consequences?
Updating the Vivaldi Themes website
About a month ago, we started working on this little project, and as you can see, we launched the new UI today.
Gmail has a spam problem
Or rather, the rest of us have a Gmail spam problem…
Apostrophes and being wrong
The problem with being opinionated about something is that it can be much harder to admit that you’re wrong.
The impact of music
I added the original Atoms music to the Atoms-www game. It’s so much better now!
What is truth?
Today a MariaDB database index corruption left me questioning reality itself.
A noisy check: part two
The check was noisy, but it was producing useful graphs, and though I could have disabled the alerts, they were a handy reminder that “you should really look into fixing that when you get the chance”. And so they stayed… for 3 months.
A noisy check: part one
This story begins from me wanting to be a good little sysadmin and make sure all our services are properly monitored…
Adventures with MTA-STS
As I am not a normal person, I run my own mail servers. These servers handle email for a couple of domains and are used by myself and a couple of family members. Here’s a look into an investigation of an unusual mail delivery problem.
Let’s Encrypt + Salt: cert+key distribution
Looking at how to use Salt to distribute certbot-generated SSL certificates and keys securely to the appropriate servers.
Vivaldi.net blogs update
We just released a minor update for the vivaldi.net blogs. Here’s some of what’s new.
