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Ashton MacKenzie

Ashton MacKenzie

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Forensic Maintenance in SQL Server

November 6, 2023April 21, 2025 A MacKenzie

Querying metadata and knowing when to stop digging.

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Technology

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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Blog Technology

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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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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The Guild of the Magi – Pre Alpha

January 20, 2023April 21, 2025 A MacKenzie

My final project for Flatiron School, where we learn about project management, development hell, and browser games.

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Reference Technology

Reference Notes

January 9, 2023April 21, 2025 A MacKenzie

For all the reference notes that are too short for their own posts.

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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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Technology

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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Mac Technology

Launching a One-off Script on Mac

September 19, 2022April 21, 2025 A MacKenzie

One of the most frustrating things that has started happening to me since I’ve hopped into development is realizing how absolutely heavy modern apps are on endpoint devices.

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Technology

Switch to Magnet from Rectangle

September 11, 2022April 21, 2025 A MacKenzie

And how to close and uninstall Rectangle, because there weren’t any useful search results when I looked. I had an issue for the last week

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