Tag: post-mortem

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My game is illegal, so I released it for free

My game is illegal, so I released it for free

A post-mortem of a quick & dirty project

Jul 13, 2026

Know What You Control

If you’re stuck dealing with a bug that you can’t seem to fix, there’s nothing wrong with getting some white space from it. No harm in that.

Nov 6, 2024
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Update Adventures

In which I ramble about my troubleshooting process

Aug 25, 2021
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Mastodon PostgreSQL upgrade fun

Be careful with your postgres upgrades. Another downtime explainer.

Oct 28, 2020
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Networking nonsense

IPv6 seems to cause me lots of trouble

Feb 10, 2019
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RAID nonsense

A tale of another downtime when I messed up the disks on the server

Jan 13, 2019
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November 13 post mortem

Some details on a tilde.team outage in 2018 when Hetzner null-routed our dedi

Nov 13, 2018
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DNS shenanigans post-mortem

Let’s start by saying I probably should have done a bit more research before diving head-first into this endeavor. I’ve been thinking about transferring my domains off google domains for some time now, as part of my personal goal to self host and limit my dependence on google and other large third-party monstrosities. Along that line, I asked for registrar recommendations. ~tomasino responded with namesilo. I found that they had $3.99 registrations for .team and .zone domains, which is 1/10th the cost of the $40 registration on google domains. I started out by getting the list of domains from the […]

Aug 14, 2018