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What is truth?

2021-07-292021-09-24 — Posted inDatabases, Software, System Administration, Technology — 3 min read

Today a MariaDB database index corruption left me questioning reality itself.

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A noisy check: part two

2021-04-052021-04-19 — Posted inSoftware, System Administration — 15 min read

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.

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A noisy check: part one

2021-04-012021-04-05 — Posted inSoftware, System Administration — 9 min read

This story begins from me wanting to be a good little sysadmin and make sure all our services are properly monitored…

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Adventures with MTA-STS

2020-11-222020-11-23 — Posted inSoftware, System Administration — 11 min read

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.

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Let’s Encrypt + Salt: cert+key distribution

2020-10-252020-12-04 — Posted inConfiguration Management, Software, System Administration — 10 min read

Looking at how to use Salt to distribute certbot-generated SSL certificates and keys securely to the appropriate servers.

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Code blocks

2020-01-202020-10-25 — Posted inSoftware, Web technologies — 2 min read

Code blocks are now enabled and working on the vivaldi.net blogs. Here are some simple demonstrations of them in action.

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About me

Thomas is a UK citizen living as an immigrant in Norway. He works as a System Administrator and Backend Developer for Vivaldi Technologies. When not working, he indulges in his hobbies of gaming (video/table-top/role-playing), singing (opera), cycling in the Norwegian countryside, writing about himself in the third person, and more sysadmin/web-dev stuff.

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