absc

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Sysadmin, or "DevOps" as they call it today.

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absc··on Prevent duplicate cron job running

If you need to save state across executions, you should write a daemon instead.

absc··on Ask HN: What do you self-host?

I have one OpenBSD VM running on vultr with:

- Mail server (OpenSMTPD)

- IMAP (Dovecot)

- CVS server for my projects.

- httpd(8) for my website.

I still need to add rspamd for spam check. But insofar, I received just one spam E-mail.

absc··on [dead]

Definitely just a routing hicup with my provider (I think). Sorry for the noise.

absc··on [dead]

Just an update. I can properly resolve the DNS of tarsnap.com. It smell like a routing problem as all the connections to a aws IP simply times out.

absc··on [dead]

If it's for you, it's maybe some hiccup in my zone (Italy)

absc··on [dead]

Oooook, so it seems to be something here in my zone (Italy). Need to check why then. Maybe it's the DNS I'm using (quad9)

absc··on Let’s Talk about Logging

I generally agree with the article. Personally, I don't log _that_ many informations in my applications.

Normally, my users will just dump the whole log in an e-mail with a "doesn't work" message attached.

IMHO, a logging facility should grow with the project and I think the standard logging package in go is the right size.

About bubbling up the errors: absolutely! Always let the caller handle it!

absc··on I Nearly Lost All of My Data

Forgot the link:

https://tarsnap.com

absc··on I Nearly Lost All of My Data

I use tarsnap for off-site backups. It has a reasonable price, even for some GB of data

absc··on I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in six days

Been there. At my actual job (a small IT firm in Europe), my boss spent almost half a year searching for somebody to hire. All the times it was like "they are too old", or "don't know enough", or just for a different POV.

In the meantime, collegues are leaving the gig, making my level of stress go up.