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Thomas Pike’s other blog

Tales from a system administrator

Category: Technology

What happened to Vivaldi Social?

2023-07-282023-08-01 — Posted inSoftware, System Administration, Technology — 25 min read

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?

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Updating the Vivaldi Themes website

2023-02-082023-02-09 — Posted inBrowser, CSS, Design, HTML, JavaScript, Technology, Web technologies — 4 min read

About a month ago, we started working on this little project, and as you can see, we launched the new UI today.

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Gmail has a spam problem

2022-12-292022-12-29 — Posted inSystem Administration, Technology — 3 min read

Or rather, the rest of us have a Gmail spam problem…

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What is truth?

2021-07-292023-02-09 — Posted inDatabases, Software, System Administration, Technology — 3 min read

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

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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.

Recent Posts

  • Combining WPML & ActivityPub

    2025-01-14

  • What happened to Vivaldi Social?

    2023-07-28

  • Updating the Vivaldi Themes website

    2023-02-08

  • Gmail has a spam problem

    2022-12-29

  • Apostrophes and being wrong

    2021-11-22

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