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johnl

@johnl@mastodon.social

Programmer, sysadmin, guitarist, singer, climber, cyclist. haproxy fan boy. Co-founder Brightbox.

Currently faffing with #homeautomation, baking #sourdough and restoring an antique #pianola

#cats #dogs #yorkshire #guitar #singer #ruby #devops #diy #boardgames #cooking #curry #bouldering #climbing #cycling #kubernetes

#socialism #feminist #antiracist #lgbtqrights #transrights

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louisa_, to random
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Joined the Marsden Walkers are Welcome group for their Friday evening wind down walk.

They took us on a lovely route on some paths I hadn't explored before - and there were some big hairy cows with little fluffy cows 😍

A lovely walk, on a lovely evening.

We walked to and from from Slaithwaite on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal too. It's simply gorgeous at this time of year: all greenery and rolling hills.

A field of long Grasses and wild flowers, being grazed by Long horn cows and their calves. A brown cow stands central to the image and her calf is between her and the photographer, both looking at the camera. Two other calves stand a little way behind them, also looking over and standing close to each other as if they're talking. A second adult cow is visible in the distance, grazing and not caring at all.

louisa_, to random
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My new preferred title.

soulcutter, to random
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Life before rubocop:

Once in a while you’d come across some unusual formatting and it was possibly a small annoyance.

Life after rubocop:

Constant stream of “fix rubocop” commits, everyone finding their own bespoke workflow trying to automate rubocopping, CI failing valid ruby because of its format, magic comments sprinkled across code, new versions of rubocop continuing to change code that has no problems into a form that a few people (who call themselves the community) thought was better

brightbox, to random
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Learn how to use Restic to manage secure and efficient backups to Orbit our UK-based object store:
https://www.brightbox.com/docs/guides/orbit/restic/

louisa_, to random
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Saw the (always amazing) as part of the Lau-Land weekend at Opera North in .

It was a similar set to the last time we saw them in Saltaire about 18 months ago - but as that was one of the best gigs that I've been to, I didn't mind one bit. A mesmerising and innovative approach to Celtic folk.

(It feels rude to take pics during the concert so pic is from beforehand with their fab banner.)

Thoroughly recommend seeing Lau live - I like their recorded stuff but live is something else.

louisa_, to factorio
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Came across some real life the other day: a conveyor belt taking rubble from a quarry, under a dual carriageway road, then along a pier and onto a ship. We watched it running at full pelt for ages then the load started to get patchy. Someone needs to re-position their electric miners!

louisa_, to cymru
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Had a glorious weekend in North .

Cycling on the coast near Conwy, a dip in the sea, then fish'n'chips on Friday. Walking and more much-needed swimming at Llyn Melynllyn & Llyn Dulyn on Saturday. And more coastal cycling today from Persarn.

We stayed at Cefn Cae in Rowen - one of my favourite campsites and, of course, got to see the aurora too.

We nearly didn't go through inertia - I'm so glad we did! Wonderful memories.

A beach - golden sand with pebbles mixed in - and a bay. The water is flat and blue: a jetty stretches out from high on the beach into the water. In the distance, the bay is lined with some large buildings (hotels) and finishes with a rounded cliff.
A long distance landscape photo of some low level hills in Snowdonia, Wales. A well worn path curves around the terrain on the right of the picture, pointing to a barely visible reservoir in the distance. It's spring so the grass is vivid green but some of the other plant life is still dressed for winter.
A small, natural lake in the Welsh hills. It is contained on all sides by rough grey rock and cliffs, parts of which are coated in grass. The sky above is blue, a sunny day, which makes the water all the more alluring...

louisa_, to cymru
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phone pics from the Valley in .

Visible with the naked eye but much better on camera.

I've wanted to see it for years and by coincidence, we happen to be at one of my favourite campsites for stargazing. Lucky!

A gasp of hot pink light in the sky: aurora borealis.
Some trees in silhouette against a pink and green coloured sky - aurora borealis. Stars are visible in the light too.
A low tree covered hill at night. The landscape is in silhouette but above, the sky is bright with the aurora borealis. Nearest the hill, the light is green but above it's a streaky lilac pink

louisa_, to manchester
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Went to see in this evening.

Most of the gigs we go to are 12 people watching a folk singer in a pub backroom - so it was a little different 🤣 They're probably the only band that I could be bothered to go to an arena to see.

It was a huge amount of fun and great musical performances too. The support act (Dave Hill) was really funny too.

And I got a Totenacious D bag too 😁

A cream and red Tenacious D tote bag - cream fabric, red print and straps. The bag is styled after an old fashioned Italian restaurant: red & white check border, and two faces - sketches of Jack Black and Kyle Gass - wearing chefs hats.

status_updates, to random

The problem where unresolvable DNS records were still resolving has been resolved. Unresolvable records now remain unresolved so this is now solved.

louisa_, to animals
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Walked down to the village to vote. No dogs at the polling station unfortunately but we met a very friendly one on the lane on the way, which was nice.

Also, we walked down through our garden and (what is now) the cow field. Our cat Kaufman followed us through the garden then sat on the stile at the bottom and watched us cross the field.

As we returned an hour later, we joked about whether he'd still be waiting for us -- and he was 😍😍😍

(Very blurry shot from about 50m away)

A low quality photo of a grassy hill. About half way up, there is a wooden stile with wire stock fence on one side. A black cat is patiently sitting in loaf position at the base of the stile.

NWRUG, to random

Our May meeting is on Thursday, 16 May. The lovely folks at Chroma Recruitment will host at their offices on Booth Street.

Brandon Burton will tell us what to do when you’ve been hit by a tornado

You can find more about the meeting and secure your spot at https://buytickets.at/nwrug/1246250

scaramanga, to UKpolitics
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There is a chance of getting (well, keeping) a left-wing labour mayor of the north east.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Driscoll

https://mailchi.mp/dc7bc8cc25a4/we-have-48-hours-6711

johnl, (edited ) to Black_cats
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Trying to do a jigsaw puzzle but can't figure out where this big black hairy piece goes.

llewelly,
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@johnl
the place of a piece can be determined by its shape. But this piece has every shape and no shape. It goes everwhere and nowhere.

RustyBertrand, to random
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louisa_, to random
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Walked over to the Cuckoo Festival. Out over the hills, back along the canal for a 10mile round trip.

Saw a few different bands (folk/brass/drum) and Morris groups, then the procession through the village.

We couldn't stay for long as it had taken us longer than planned to walk there - like us, all our neighbours on the route are coming out of hibernation so we had to keep stopping to chat. It took near 45mins to walk half a mile 🤣

louisa_, to random
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One of the cats came in earlier mewing and chirping as usual - but this time, he ignored me and went straight to his brother. After a little more noise, they went back outside together.

We looked out of the window and saw a pheasant about 10m from the house, stalking around in the grass.

Pheasants are fairly common around here but it very much felt like Ren saw the bird and had to share his excitement.

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status_updates, to infosec

We've doubled our security measures to 50ml, so now our sysadmin's hands are steady.

louisa_, to random
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Just back from our annual spring trip to Scotland.

We're usually VERY lucky with the weather (I got sunburned on our trip to Shetland last year) but this year, the forecast was for rain every day so we decided to stay flexible: pottering around the western Highlands & Skye rather than having to rely on ferries.

That said, after a couple of days on the west coast, we did take one ferry - the tiny Skye ferry from Glenelg, because fun!

(Pics: Glenorchy/Glencoe/Ratagan/the Skye ferry)

Three mountains - or more accurately, two mountains and a round hilly bump inbetween then - on an overcast day. The tops of the mountains are speckled in the last of the winter snow, reflecting the grey and white clouds above. The ground in the foreground is flat and scrubby, and is in shadow, while the hills are more brightly lit. The texture of the clouds and scrubland is reminiscent of a painting.
A view across a glen in Scotland. A loch is surrounded by hills, which are topped with low cloud cover.
A small ferry - it can hold six cars maximum - has just pulled up alongside a concrete pier, which slopes down into the water. The ferry is an old "turn table" ferry (indeed, the last manual one still in use anywhere in the world) and the top of the boat has been turned at an angle from the lower part of the boat, to allow the cars to drive off.

techbear, to random

You don't have to be good at your hobbies to like them.

brightbox, to random
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Freshly baked @flatcar Container Linux images are now available in our cloud server image library 🥳

We're automatically importing the latest Stable, LTS and Beta releases and as with our other official Linux distro images, they’re provided unmodified from the upstream source – so you can be sure there are no hidden surprises and everything works as expected 🙂

https://www.brightbox.com/blog/2024/04/11/flatcar-images/

johnl, to vegan
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I'm not keen on making fun of food that helps people eat fewer animals but, no, it really isn't streaky bacon is it.

ghalfacree,
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@johnl Ah, I knew I had a picture somewhere!

Yeah, it wasn't great. The texture was weird and the flavour profile was "salt."

brightbox, to random
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Our simple database-as-a-service CloudSQL now supports live resizing database instances! 🚀

https://www.brightbox.com/blog/2024/04/09/resize-cloudsql/

StefanThinks, to random
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I'm cured and all my problems are solved! Thanks unsolicited advice!

status_updates, to infosec

Please extend a warm welcome to the newest member of our open source team: Jia Tan

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