Nothing feels better than seeing automated backups working properly.
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unrepentant australian // js + swift + sometims rust developer // shameful nintendo devotee // admin of social.extremely.online // socialist computer fella
I've probably got to find a new (S)FTP/S3/etc. app now that Transmit for iOS is in maintanence mode, but it's still working for me right now, and so much better than anything else on iOS that I'm going to try and stick with it as long as I can
Also I did most of that work from an iPad which was kind of neat. Turns out a good shell gets you a long way and http://www.blink.sh is a fantastic little app.
After being too busy / tired to work on my Masto instance for a while, I've this evening moved it over to a new server, set up regular backups, regular SSL cert renewal etc. to (hopefully) be able to let it run mostly unattended
Looks my SSL certs weren’t auto-renewing oops.
I loaded up Dragon Quest XI and watched the opening cinematic before I had to leave for work. It’s so beautiful and I’m so excited for that game ah man.
It’s nice to have side projects where you can just spend hours upon hours building nice abstractions, getting the architecture right, and taking the time to build everything just right.
It’s a terrible way to actually ship anything, but my goal with side projects usually isn’t to build a Product, but to learn new skills and try out ideas that just aren’t practical in most real-world projects.
I started to work on a side project iOS app tonight, but then got sidetracked and spent most of the evening writing abstractions on top of RxSwift to make building my app easier. Still, I had a lot of fun, learnt a whole bunch about memory management in Rx, and built some stuff I might be able to reuse on other projects.
Updated to 2.5.0 without any issue and barely any downtime yea boi
So far I’ve had basically zero downtime outside of upgrades, and I have a reliable, tested approach to backing up data periodically. I feel pretty confident about the technical side of running an instance. But I don’t have confidence in my ability to solely moderate an instance, and I think having good moderation is a bare minimum I should aim for.