OCI: Don't Even Think About It
Back when Oracle announced their cloud offering, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), I was originally intrigued. I figure I’d give it a try, after all I’m not a big fan of AWS and I’m even less a fan of Azure. At the beginning I decided to forget about Oracle’s reputation, and, damn was that a mistake.
Nerdy Site Improvements
Let’s skip right over how long it’s been since I’ve written a blog post
and dive right into some recent changes I’ve made on this site. A lot of
it is behind the scenes in the scripts I use to manage creating new
posts, publishing drafts, deploying the site to my server and just today
I wrote a quick ruby script that adds the current commit hash to
_config.yml.
Status update, August 2020
August has been a month of revival. Six months of staying at home during the coronavirus pandemic has taken its toll on most aspects of my life. I’m fortunate enough to remain employed. Working from home had introduced its unique set of challenges. Things like staying motivated and focused were especially hard during the earlier months.
Black Lives Matter.
All lives don't matter until black lives do.
Mitigating Pi-hole ISE 500 Error on the "Long term data - Query Log"
When selecting a large date range on the long term data Query Log, say
last 30 or even last 7 days, I’d be greeted with the following error
message and some more information in Lighttpd’s logs.
