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Mastodon Out Of Space Diagnostics with tootctl

July 3, 2023April 21, 2025 A MacKenzie

Tools I use to look for the underlying cause to see if it is something other than neglecting (optimistically) to turn on retention policies for remote content.

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How do you accidentally have a mastodon server?

June 2, 2023April 21, 2025 A MacKenzie

From 403s on every page to running my own mastodon instance, deploying is pretty hands off these days.

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Migrating from Standalone Email to Hosted Email on Name.com | Troubleshooting SPF and DKIM (Part 2)

March 5, 2023April 21, 2025 A MacKenzie

The Thrilling Conclusion you’ve been waiting for! Did he ever get DKIM configured properly? What email service did he migrate to? Was there any downtime??

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Deploying a React Ruby app on Fly.io if you’ve never deployed a thing in your life

February 14, 2023April 21, 2025 A MacKenzie

Yet another adventure in the lands of Heroku alternatives.

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Troubleshooting SPF and DKIM for Hosted Mail with Name.com (Part 1)

January 25, 2023April 21, 2025 A MacKenzie

Regularly reviewing what products and services are being paid for even if you’re sure you know everything is fine is, in part, meant to capture exactly this kind of situation so that a change plan can be put in place.

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Layer 2 – Link Layer (Part One)

January 12, 2023April 21, 2025 A MacKenzie

An introduction to the bane of infraops, and why you’re glad you’re a developer.

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Introduccion a los Redes para Ingenieros de Software

January 8, 2023April 21, 2025 A MacKenzie

Solamente Preguntas Estupidas Si especialista de tecnologia, en tiempo encuentras el fenómeno de otras especialistas piensan que conoces algo sobre redes de computadoras y tú

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Layer 1 – Media

December 28, 2022April 21, 2025 A MacKenzie

A quick reference to the very foundation layer – turning the lights on.

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Email Forwarding and DNS

December 12, 2022April 21, 2025 A MacKenzie

It’s always DNS, even when you don’t think DNS is part of this configuration In November, I rediscovered that my domain registrar and hosting provider

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the question is not "when does this effect run", the question is "with which state does this effect synchronize with" - Ryan Florence, 2019, Twitter
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If You Want Your State To Have Effects, You Need To Use useEffect

November 18, 2022April 21, 2025 A MacKenzie

Maybe they’re right, am I out of touch? No, it is the hooks who are wrong.

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