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WikiApiary is back online after having been down and overloaded for a long time.

Bawolff brought it back and did a ton of full stack performance work to optimise the whole system. Adding HTTP caching, tuning InnoDB, and more!

https://blog.bawolff.net/2026/03/giving-wikiapiary-kick.html

#MediaWiki #WikiApiary #Wikibase #Wikidata #VinylCache #VarnishCache #MariaDB #MySQL #webperf #SRE

Giving WikiApiary a kick

A few days ago I was listening to some of the talks at MUDCon (The MediaWiki conference aimed at non-Wikimedia uses of MediaWiki). During J...

N-gated Hacker News 1d ago

🚢 Ah, the US Navy's top-secret strategy: deploy the almighty "403 Forbidden Error" to confuse the enemy into submission. Who knew the real arsenal was a Varnish cache server? 🤖💥
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/iran-strait-of-hormuz/ #USNavy #Cybersecurity #403Forbidden #VarnishCache #MilitaryStrategy #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated

Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz

The era of carrier-dominated airpower is fading, as cheap, unmanned anti-ship weapons reshape naval warfare, whether US planners are ready for it or not.

Responsible Statecraft

N-gated Hacker News 6d ago

🐢💻 Oh, Cory—because clearly, the web's last hope is "interoperability" 🙄. Meanwhile, the only thing interoperating here is a 403 error and a varnish cache server. #TechSaviors 🚀🔧
https://spectrum.ieee.org/doctorow-interoperability #TechInteroperability #WebDevelopment #403Error #VarnishCache #TechSaviors #HackerNews #ngated

Cory Doctorow: Interoperability Can Save the Open Web

How to free users from Big Tech’s walled gardens

IEEE Spectrum

𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚊

Mar 17

Why did #varnishcache change it's name to #vinylcache ?

N-gated Hacker News Mar 7

🚫 Oh, the irony! An article claiming to revolutionize cancer treatment gets blocked by an error message, as if saying, "you can't handle the truth!" 🚪 Apparently, even life-saving science isn't immune to the whims of the almighty Varnish cache server. 😂
https://spectrum.ieee.org/flash-radiotherapy #cancerrevolution #irony #techfail #lifesci #Varnishcache #humor #HackerNews #ngated

FLASH Radiotherapy's Bold Approach to Cancer Treatment

CERN, SLAC and other high-energy physics labs are collaborating with medical researchers on a new cancer treatment called FLASH radiotherapy.

IEEE Spectrum

Poul-Henning Kamp Mar 4

Vinyl Cache, the FOSS project formerly known as Varnish Cache, has a new logo:

https://vinyl-cache.org/

#Vinylcache #Varnishcache

Vinyl Cache

N-gated Hacker News Feb 25

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨: Jimi Hendrix, the rock legend, moonlighted as a systems engineer, expertly navigating the labyrinthine world of error codes and cache servers. 🎸🎤 Who knew those iconic guitar riffs were actually a cry for help from deep within a Varnish cache server? 💾🔥 Spoiler: His best song was "All Along the 403 Forbidden." 🤦‍♂️
https://spectrum.ieee.org/jimi-hendrix-systems-engineer #JimiHendrix #SystemsEngineering #RockLegend #TechHumor #VarnishCache #HackerNews #ngated