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?
Author: Thomas Pike
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.
