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Re:Prevent duplicate cron job running on Saturday September 04, 2021 @03:44AM (#28412986)
If you need to save state across executions, you should write a daemon instead.
Re:Ask HN: What do you self-host? on Sunday October 13, 2019 @10:01AM (#21240378)
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.

Re:Amazon AWS seems to be down on Monday September 09, 2019 @09:39AM (#20918021)
Definitely just a routing hicup with my provider (I think). Sorry for the noise.
Re:Amazon AWS seems to be down on Monday September 09, 2019 @09:17AM (#20917812)
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.
Re:Amazon AWS seems to be down on Monday September 09, 2019 @09:11AM (#20917759)
If it's for you, it's maybe some hiccup in my zone (Italy)
Re:Amazon AWS seems to be down on Monday September 09, 2019 @09:10AM (#20917751)
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)
Re:Let’s Talk about Logging on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @11:53AM (#20393040)
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!

Re:I Nearly Lost All of My Data on Sunday January 20, 2019 @01:28PM (#18954607)
Forgot the link:

https://tarsnap.com

Re:I Nearly Lost All of My Data on Sunday January 20, 2019 @01:27PM (#18954600)
I use tarsnap for off-site backups. It has a reasonable price, even for some GB of data
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.