Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

Some highlights:
- Logs from spam logins filled up disk space
- Need to restart nginx after updating cert
- Systemd timer only triggering once: https://serverfault.com/q/1079993
- Timer accidentally activating the wrong trigger.

Hosting your own website on a small VPS is a great learning opportunity.

Every 3 months I learn a new way that an automated job to update your certificates can fail. 🙂

Moving on September 1st: Boston area achievement unlocked! 🏆

You completed the "drive a 26 foot moving truck through the streets of Cambridge and Somerville" side quest! 🚚

And while I would prefer permanent STD to permanent DST, for the latitude I'm at, I'm actually in favor of the status quo. I like a rule that's fairly simple to implement and keeps sunrise closer to the same time each day.

Though I've really been meaning to write an article about exactly why I think permanent DST is a bad idea.

I still need to get this plot looking nicer (it's a sun graph for New York, with DST):

Finally took the time to call my congressperson to register my opposition to the "Sunshine Protection Act" (H.R. 69). When the House votes it down by a single vote, you can thank me. 😉

Now that I've released this on a Friday afternoon, time to run off to go apartment hunting and make myself completely unavailable for a few days! Byyyyyeeeeeee!

Hot off the presses, we've just released the latest version of tzdata, bringing us in line with the upstream 2022b data: https://pypi.org/project/tzdata/

See release notes here: https://github.com/python/tzdata/releases/tag/2022.2

(Or upstream: https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/2022b/NEWS)

Definitely not worth $4000, but if I were on Jeopardy and got this clue, I would have been very sorely tempted to answer, "What is 01189998819991197253?"

The branding of this restaurant in Madrid is really sending mixed messages about its legitimacy.

Every day as a parent, explaining why your kids need to do not fun stuff that is good for them:

It inspires great trepidation and ambivalence when I find something new that belongs in my "What to do when the bug is in someone else's code" talk (https://ganssle.io/talks/#upstream-bugs), but I think `patchy` has earned a slide.

Or, as the kids say, "Thanks! I hate it!"

https://mobile.twitter.com/AdamChainz/status/1539747526567510016

@cnx In case you are willing / able to help: https://twitter.com/jugmac00/status/1534209238268104705?s=20&t=mwOtLNlkgfyQVaNjri4l0Q

D... does the Travel Town Museum have a (decommissioned?) nuclear powered train?

Also saw some Cedar Waxwings in a tree right across the street from the swallow. This isn't my first time seeing those, but they're still reasonably rare (and not to mention pretty).

Too bad it's such a dreary day…

#birds