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We finally made it to Oriole tonight...

Mastodon, an ActivityPub implementation picking up most of the slack from Twitter, can use any S3-compatible object store for user-uploaded images/videos and caching media from other servers.

Ayeron materialized from the mists of the Mournland on 20 Olarune 995 YK, exactly one year after the Day of Mourning. They emerged nearly as they are found today: fully grown, wearing the trench coat of a Cyrian officer, able to speak several languages, and without a single memory from before that moment...

I’m writing down some notes on the menu for Thanksgiving 2022. I know a couple people would like to see what I’m doing, so I figured I’d post it here!

As part of an effort to stop relying on a couple big platforms for Everything I do on the web, I’ve been returning to some tools from the era Before.

A couple weeks ago, I noticed I had gotten posting rights on Cohost.

In my Laravel app, I wrote an abstract class that has a fair bit of stand-alone behaviour. I wanted to test this directly instead of via the implementations...

This is a short story from our current Dungeons & Dragons campaign. This is the moment when my warlock greedily took up an artifact after passing its guardian’s trial.

When you’re using an RDS Aurora Serverless DB instance with Laravel Vapor, you have the option to scale it down to zero capacity units when it’s been idle. This is great for development environments — it only takes a few seconds to come back up, and while it’s hibernating, you’re saving loads of money.

One downside is that your migrations may fail during deployments. When Vapor goes to run the php artisan migrate command, RDS often won’t wake up before Laravel’s DB connection attempt times out...

Torghast, the Tower of the Damned, is a rouge-like (ish) set of dungeons in WoW: Shadowlands. I finished the “hard mode” last night and got my Maw horse, so I wanted to write up some of my thoughts on the feature.