Christopher Horrell

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I do DevOps things 👨‍💻. Former @nylas, @nymiband, @joyent. Aortic dissection survivor.
Websitehttps://horrell.ca
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Christopher HorrellNov 24, 2022
@pborenstein OK, figured it out. mastodon.cloud is on 3.4.6; mastodon.social is on 4.0.2. The ability to automatically delete old posts was added in 3.5.0: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v3.5.0
Release v3.5.0 · mastodon/mastodon

Upgrade overview This release contains upgrade notes that deviate from the norm: ℹ️ Requires streaming API restart ℹ️ Requires two-step database migration process for zero-downtime deployment ℹ️ Sy...

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Christopher HorrellNov 23, 2022
@pborenstein Huh, I do not have that setting under mastodon.cloud. What server are you on?
Christopher HorrellNov 23, 2022
I read somewhere about a Mastodon setting that allows you to auto-delete posts. I can't find it. Is this server and/or version specific? Like, it's not available on mastodon.cloud afaict
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@jhendricks Yikes! Hope you're doing ok! Also: I feel like I've just learned an important travel tip
Christopher HorrellNov 21, 2022
Tim BrayNov 21, 2022
Wrote a blog on why AWS never dove seriously into blockchain. Features groovy pix from a trip to New York, which is part of the story: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/11/19/AWS-Blockchain
AWS and Blockchain

ongoing by Tim Bray
Christopher HorrellNov 20, 2022
This is probably a common first-time experience for people just starting with mastodon, but I keep wondering if I’m on the right server.
Christopher HorrellNov 19, 2022
Paul Haddad Nov 18, 2022
Bootstrapping stuff is fun!
Christopher HorrellNov 18, 2022
He walked into Twitter HQ carrying a sink. It should have been a toilet.
Christopher HorrellNov 18, 2022
I’ve been wondering: will we start to see the fail whale again, or will Twitter just stop working?
Christopher HorrellNov 16, 2022
Dan LuuNov 16, 2022

One of the things that I think is sad about the decimation of Twitter eng is that Twitter was doing a lot of interesting (and high ROI) eng work that, at younger companies, is mostly outsourced at great cost.

A few examples off the top of my head:

The now gutted HWENG group was so good at server design that, in a meeting with Intel, the Intel folks couldn't believe the power envelope Twitter achieved and Google thought we were lying about our costs during cloud price negotiations.