Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

I’m starting to wonder if I’m doing something wrong with the traffic stats on my blog, since one of my articles showed up on the front page of HN but I’m not seeing any spike in the traffic…

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?