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May 17, 2026A long, long time ago I had an idea for a silly joke. Exactly when it hard to pin down, but the seeds were planted in the mid 1990s, in a file called bands.txt. This was a collaborative list of random phrases uttered by people we knew, that had been taken out of context on … [Read more …] [...]
February 15, 2025For those who’re just joining us, I’ve dusted off a two-decade-old project idea and have actually started working on it. There’s a working prototype which I’m not going to link in this post, because this text will likely be around long after it’s been and gone, either shelved for another 20 years or thrown online in some kind of working form. [...]

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Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

Today at work I unplugged a thing that none of us previously dared to unplug, as it was held together with string and magic and hope.

Anyway, I untangled the mess a bit and it started up again just fine. I will not live in fear of the machines. They should fear me.

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

Once again hopefully buying a lottery ticket in the hopes that I can one day afford to hire a personal DBA and never have to think about databases ever again.

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

This morning I needed a simple S3-compatible object store to test something. I did some quick searches to see what was handy and useful in that space right now, eventually found SeaweedFS, and it did exactly what I needed ...

And *then* I opened today's issue of The Crux by @daedalus which would have given me this exact answer immediately and saved me a lot of time.

Don't repeat my mistake. Always read The Crux with your morning coffee before you attempt any other work.