Today I added the rest of the urls for the services to the status page in uptime kuma which you can view at https://status.theheart.land anytime. Furthermore a telegram bot has been set up to send messages anytime things go down. Viewable at @heartlandsuptime_bot I also enhanced the main page for the heartlands with active information…
I was running an unofficial docker image for flarum forums and I decided it wasn’t worth struggling against after the PHP security scare of a week ago. So I’ve shut down the forums. I’ll post updates to the heartlands here instead! Will make me actually use this blog for something since I often don’t have…
By now many of you are aware that discord is planning on enforcing age verification policy on all of it’s users soon. I’ve been looking for discord alternatives for quite awhile now because I never quite felt comfortable with it. Unfortunately my search has left me quite frustrated because I can’t quite find that one…
Had an interesting little issue happen today. I have a VPS where I host this and several other wordpress instances for friends. All of it runs inside nice orderly docker containers dictated by a compose file. All of them share the same network to talk to the reverse proxy. The wordpress container talks to the…
This is going to be a bit of a ranty post, but engineers are good at that kind of thing. So here goes. A bit of Background I started my devops career learning about docker and docker-compose. I enjoyed the elegance of being able to write a file of what services I want in a…
What to do if your server gets attacked: First off, don’t panic. What’s happening cannot harm you or anyone else and is an inconvenience, nothing more. Your server wasn’t the first to be attacked and won’t be the last. Swift decisive action by you and your moderators can clean up a server in mere minutes….
What is FrankerFaceZ? If you’ve ever seen words in all caps when watching a twitch streamer, odds are you are seeing FrankerFaceZ (FFZ) emotes being used (or perhaps Better Twitch TV emotes, covered in a separate manual). FrankerFaceZ is a browser extension available for most major web browsers (chrome, firefox, safari, etc). It’s main feature…
I’ve mentioned in my blog previously about the black magic that is AV1 and how it saves so much disk space at comparable quality levels to more traditional video codecs. Unfortunately we live in an imperfect world and not everything is quite ready for AV1 just yet. I’ve noticed it extensively on our various Amazon…
Time to update the appearance of this blog. Nobody likes light mode! Navigation is streamlined and the search button has been added to the main navigation bar. Also included is a handy scroll to top button!
In one of my previous posts I discussed how useful it would be to have a partition with an ISO of your operating system on it that you could boot to and “Factory Reset” your Linux PC with. As it turns out I was greatly overthinking this process, as there’s something out there that can…
