Colin Dellow @[email protected]

I do stuff with computers and "big" data for money, but would rather be hiking or biking

[Colin Dellow @[email protected] @cldellow]

People always say cyclists need to be more afraid of cars, because in a collision, the car wins.

It doesn't have to be like that. We can _both_ lose.

[Colin Dellow @[email protected] @cldellow]

Is @render / @renderstatus having an outage? Two of my postgres databases seem to have gone AWOL.

[Colin Dellow @[email protected] @cldellow]

@BMO hey! I'm too dumb to learn how to use your website to send feedback. The past few months I have been helping my parents, who bank at BMO

Raegan in downtown Kitchener (operator 025, transit 0024) is consistently a joy to deal with, cheerful & competent.

[Colin Dellow @[email protected] @cldellow]

@rooke I appreciate the concern! I've long since given up on protecting my address, though. :)

[Colin Dellow @[email protected] @cldellow]

Jenn and I have an abandoned bank balance in the state of Washington.

Occasionally, I try to use the state's Unclaimed Property website to recover this money: https://t.co/xH7eRxfSrb

[Colin Dellow @[email protected] @cldellow]

A month ago, my brother reminded me of this again.

They have changed their website again.

It is now possible for foreigners to submit a claim by mail.

Good riddance, State of Washington.

[Colin Dellow @[email protected] @cldellow]

I admit defeat.

*clicks "Claim by mail" option*

"In order to claim this package by mail, please create an account in the Department of Revenue system so that we know where to send your cheque."

[Colin Dellow @[email protected] @cldellow]

@jasonbaumgartne Heh, I checked my notifications.

I see I have this follower request... From my wife. Who follows me.

[Colin Dellow @[email protected] @cldellow]

@MelissaKaulfuss https://t.co/DluszuEkC6 ?

[Colin Dellow @[email protected] @cldellow]

@radleybalko Oh, wild. I see it if I search for mentions of Bruce's handle, I don't see it in the tweet replies.

Another option: eventually consistent data stores and replication processes are struggling. What I see in Ontario may differ from what you see in Tennessee.

[Colin Dellow @[email protected] @cldellow]

@colmmacc Huh, I hadn't realized that 01:59:60 was a valid time.

Does that mean my snark about how Google Sheets parses 24:00 is potentially misplaced, too?

[Colin Dellow @[email protected] @cldellow]

@jasonbaumgartne @aurynn @krisnova (And disclaimer: I don't know either of these people, they just seemed like competent people when I was looking for an instance to join.)

[Colin Dellow @[email protected] @cldellow]

@jasonbaumgartne @aurynn @krisnova Hachyderm _does_ seem to be looking for a longer term/bigger host: https://t.co/v6RdiuFSJn

But I'm not sure if that's in line with what you're thinking

[Colin Dellow @[email protected] @cldellow]

@jasonbaumgartne @aurynn @krisnova Kris isn't on Twitter any longer, so you'd have to email her / find her on Mastodon.

The bandwidth seems surprising -- 750 GB/day for 6,000 users -- seems kinda high!

[Colin Dellow @[email protected] @cldellow]

@jasonbaumgartne @aurynn runs a small (~150 users) Mastodon in NZ and might have some ideas.

@krisnova runs a medium (~6K users) Mastodon in US. She wrote a bit about the infra here: https://t.co/LOyA674vlR

The stack seems a bit clunky - you might have to actually host an instance to help out.

[Sam Adler-Bell @SamAdlerBell]

Say what you will about Elon’s management style, but before he took over all you guys posted was “ugh another day on this hell site” and now you’re all like “ah twitter the extraordinary place where I met all my best friends, started my career, had sex for the first time”

[Colin Dellow @[email protected] @cldellow]

@ByrneHobart @JonathanShafter Other companies with fully-staffed teams have had long outages:

- Facebook: 7 hours
- Reddit: 15 hours
- Roblox: 72 hours
- Atlassian: 14 days (wtf)

It's unlikely Twitter goes down. But possible. And if it's an outage that results in a cold start problem, they're in a bad place

[Colin Dellow @[email protected] @cldellow]

@jasonbaumgartne What's your Mastodon info?

[Janel Comeau 🍁 @VeryBadLlama]

“please click yes on hardcore mode by 5pm”

[Colin Dellow @[email protected] @cldellow]

Amazing leadership.

[Colin Dellow @[email protected] @cldellow]

44 billion well spent.