This is a repository for the thoughts, notes, and achievements of Mr. Jacob Hume. It contains posts on a large variety of subjects, technical and otherwise.
Posted on 2016-04-29 (Updated on 2016-04-29)
After running GNUsocial for years, I've chiseled my GNUsocial setup into something fairly fast and respectable (mostly through consistent experimentation and breakages. Sorry, users). Newer configuration changes require Debian 8, or "Jessie", so I thought I'd make a new post explaining things.
Posted on 2016-04-23 (Updated on 2016-04-23)
GNUsocial is the most demanding services I run, by far. The strain on the database from all of the different GNUsocial, Friendica, etc. instances retrieving their subscribed users' feeds is more than I anticipated. Luckily, this story has a happy ending!
Posted on 2016-02-19 (Updated on 2017-01-13)
With over 50 registered users, the FragDev GNUsocial instance is much larger than I ever expected it to grow. To be honest, I figured it would probably be my own personal instance and not much more.
Posted on 2016-02-03 (Updated on 2017-01-13)
After the migration to the new server, my old SysV init script for restarting the queue daemons needed to be updated to systemd.
Posted on 2016-01-21
Now that it is in beta, I decided that I should request HTTPS certificates through the new Let's Encrypt certificate authority. It is free, secure, and provides a unique way of requesting certificates.
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