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Happy Wednesday!

I'm taking search offline sometime today to upgrade the server to a new instance type. It should be down for a day or so -- sorry for the inconvenience. If you're curious, the existing search machine is over 10 years old and was starting to accumulate a decade of cruft...!

Also, apparently these older machines cost more than twice what the newer ones cost, on top of being slower. Trying to save a bit of maintenance and cost, and hopefully a Wednesday is okay!

Edited: The other cool thing is that this also means that the search index will be effectively realtime afterwards... no more waiting a few minutes for the indexer to catch new content.

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I think I was posting on tumblr when I had my music platforms crash out several months ago. To recap, I had to take an upgrade and iTunes was like 'hey, you can no longer access these songs you literally bought from us, so sorry' and then for streaming I was using Amazon Music which has been going through steady enshittification (inability to skip songs, constant shuffle mode so you can't even select the song you want, ads, etc). So I dropped Amazon and I have gone back to my roots with CDs (supplemented by Hoopla, shout out to the public library system). Huge personal win for me a couple weeks ago when I found the exact Third Eye Blind CD that I had the case for but lost the actual disc at a book sale for 50 cents! Also got a classic 3 Doors Down CD with iconic Kryptonite and it reminded me how partial I am to Duck and Run too.

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Anyway, I've been listening to some good albums and would love some new recs! These are ones I'd consider high energy that I've been listening to for motivation at the gym.
~EVERYONE'S A STAR! - 5 Seconds of Summer
~Chapter 1: Singles Collection - Peach PRC
~Give Me The Future - Bastille
~Love, Drugs & Misery - Eva Under Fire

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In TV this week, I watched The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins (season 1). As is typical of me, I saw some trailers for this and was like nah, but then I saw a gifset on tumblr and I was like okay, now I'm interested. It's a fun, low stakes mockumentary-type sitcom with a good ensemble and I enjoyed it a lot!

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As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann. Totally enthralled by this. It was ~600 pages and I read it in less than 4 days kind of enthralled. Extremely well written and gut-wrenching historical fiction set in 1600s England. Tortured, obsessive, unreliable narrator POV character Jacob has an okay life until he burns it to the fucking ground and then he does it all over again, like holy fuck. Described as 'erotic', which is very true, but manages to do it without being explicit. I am wrecked by ( spoilers ) I will be thinking about this one. (So many trigger warnings. Be fully prepared if you consider reading this book.)

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Watched another short series Agatha Christie adaptation Why Didn't They Ask Evans? This one definitely did not telegraph the twists like Seven Dials but almost to the opposite point where I'm like wait, did all the pieces fit together?

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I keep forgetting to post about this: we've been troubleshooting the "missing notifications" problem for the past few days. (Well, I say "we", really I mean Mark and Robby; I'm just the amanuensis.) It's been one of those annoying loops of "find a logical explanation for what could be causing the problem, fix that thing, observe that the problem gets better for some people but doesn't go away completely, go back to step one and start again", sigh.

Mark is hauling out the heavy debugging ordinance to try to find the root cause. Once he's done building all the extra logging tools he needs, he'll comment to this entry. After he does, if you find a comment that should have gone to your inbox and sent an email notification but didn't, leave him a link to the comment that should have sent the notification, as long as the comment itself was made after Mark says he's collecting them. (I'd wait and post this after he gets the debug code in but I need to go to sleep and he's not sure how long it will take!)

We're sorry about the hassle! Irregular/sporadic issues like this are really hard to troubleshoot because it's impossible to know if they're fixed or if they're just not happening while you're looking. With luck, this will give us enough information to figure out the root cause for real this time.

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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Damn, okay. Disturbingly recognizable dystopia.

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In TV, I finished Shrinking (season 3). Continues to be a solid, funny show. This would have been a good series ending but it sounds like they're already renewed for season 4 so will see where that goes. Fuck Parkinson's.

Also watched Seven Dials which I guess is considered a series despite being just 3 episodes. I think it was fine although none of the twists were surprising. Maybe I've read so much Agatha Christie that the general patterns are recognizable.

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